South Asia Citizens Web

• India: AB Bardhan’s Tribute to Satpal Dang

  19 June

  Ninety-three year old veteran Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Satpal Dang passed away in Amritsar after a prolonged illness last week. AB Bardhan, former General Secretary of the CPI reminisces about his friend and colleague of several decades

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  Sri Lanka: Government-enforced codes of conduct would further restrict media freedoms | HRW release

  19 June

  Government-enforced codes of conduct on the media are unnecessary and invariably infringe upon the right to free expression as established under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Human Rights Watch said.

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  Stop the violence and listen to the people in Turkey: Statements by feminist groups part of the Taksim Gezi park resistance movement

  18 June
  DECLARATION by WOMEN’S COALITION TURKEY WE ARE CALLING UPON THE GOVERNMENT: IMMEDIATELY STOP POLICE VIOLENCE AND THE AGGRESSIVE, THREATENING AND CONDENSCENDING ATTITUDE AGAINST THE PEOPLE
  The peaceful sit-in began to counter planned construction at the Taksim Gezi park, which would replace one of downtown Istanbul’s few green spaces with a shopping mall, has evolved into nationwide demonstrations and people’s resistance as a result of the brutal police violence and firing with tear gas  (...)

• Full Text of A K Ramanujan Memorial Lecture 2012 by Girish Karnad

  18 June

  Let me say what a great honour it is for me to be here to deliver the First A.K. Ramanujan Memorial Lecture. He was a distinguished poet, both in Kannada and English, a folklorist, an ethnographer. He was among the first of Indian thinkers to take a serious look at oral tales, lullabies, proverbs, songs, in fact, at the richness of the world of women. He was a much acclaimed translator from Tamil and Kannada. I have no expertise in any of these fields. My claim to fame ---and certainly the reason why I have accepted the invitation to deliver this lecture---is that I knew him closely from the days when he was still unknown. He worked as a Junior Lecturer in a town called Belgaum when he was 27 years old

• International civil society letter to US Congress on Internet and telecommunications surveillance

  18 June

  We write as a coalition of civil society organizations from around the world to express our serious alarm regarding revelations of Internet and telephone communications surveillance of US and non-US citizens by the US government. We also wish to express our grave concern that US authorities may have made the data resulting from those surveillance activities available to other States, including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada, Belgium, Australia and New Zealand. Many US-based Internet companies with global reach also seem to be participating in these practices.

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