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The
Mainstream Newsmedia:
Magazines / Portals / E.News spaces
Dhaka Courier | Daily Times |
Holiday | Weekly
Robbar | The Friday Times | The Herald | Himal | Outlook | India
Today | The
Week | Tehelka.com | Rediff
on the
Net | The
South Asian
|
Little
India | Megaeast | Pakistan Observer | Pakistan
Today
| Samachar | The
Hoot: Watching the Media in the Subcontinent
Progressive
Periodicals / Webzines / Portals
- Akhbar
- Bytes
for All
- Combat
Law
(India)
- Communalism
Combat
(India)
- Chowk
- Delhi Magazine
(India)
- Down to Earth
(Indian fortnightly on Environmental issues)
- Economic
and Political Weekly
(India)
- Frontline (a popular Indian newsmagazine)
- Gallerie (India)
- Ghadhar
(journal of the Forum of Indian Leftists)
- Hans
(India)
- Hard News
(India)
- Jaal (alternative, humorous take on Indian
events)
- Lines (Sri
Lanka)
- Mainstream (India)
- Meghbarta (Bangladeshi Webzine)
- Meghdutam
Plus
- People's Democracy (India)
- Peacemonger.com
- Pratlipi
(India)
- Refugee Watch
(India)
- Sangat (An
Electronic journal on Politics, Culture, Poetry & Fiction)
- Seminar
(India) Seminar
Contents pages 1993
- SAMAR (South
Asian Magazine for Action & Reflection, N.Y.)
- Shobak: Alternative Asian Voices
- Sanskriti (a
South Asian journal)
- South Asian Voice
- Tamil Rights
- Taraqqi
-
The
Progressive Bangladesh
-
Trikone (A journal of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual
South
Asians)
- Weekly Ganashakti (India)
- Kuknalim.Net (the site for Naga news, issues and
views)
- The
Little Magazine
(India)
- Insaf Bulletin
(Canada)
Selected
Journals / Projects / Groups / Scholars,
intellectuals, artists & activists, blogs:
- A Database on South Asian Scholars
- A Directory of independent NGO's
& activists
in India
- A
Guide to Pakistani NGOs
- Agha
Shahid Ali Prize (USA)
-
Akhtar
Hamid Khan
- Anhad
- Arvind Gupta
- Alternative Law Forum (India)
- Ahimsa
(London, UK)
- Aman Biradari
(New Delhi)
- Amanpanchayat
(India)
- Anumukti: A Journal for a Nuclear Energy
Free India
- Asian
American Network Against Abuse of Women (ANAA)
- Aligarh Historians Society
- Association for Communal Harmony in Asia
- Asia
Source by
Asia Society, NY
-
Ambedkar
Centre for Justice and Peace
- Amitav
Ghosh
- Asma Jahangir: Interviewed by Amitav Ghosh (lawyer and human rights
activist,
Lahore, August 29, 1998)
- Awaaz South Asia
- Barefoot College
(India)
- Bangaldesh's War Liberation Museum
- Bangla Nuremberg: Raising Awareness
About 1971 War
Criminals
- Bapsi Sidhwa
-
Bulletin
of Concerned Asian Scholars
[Contents Pages 1968-93]
- Berkeley Journal of Asian Studies
- Biblio: A review of Books
- Bina Aggarwal
- Campaign for Peace
and Justice in Chhattisgarh
- Coalition of Tamils
and Muslims for Peace and Coexistence (Sri Lanka)
- Center
for Advocacy in Mental Health
(Pune, India)
- Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka
- Community
Development Library
(Dhaka,
Bangladesh)
- Center for Legal Aid Assistance
& Settlement
- Centre
for the Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), Bombay. | [Indian
Journal of Secularism]
- Centre for Studies in Social (CSSS)
Sciences, India
- Centre
for Education and Documentation
(Bombay & Bangalore)
- D.D. Kosambi:
The Marxist Historian
- Delhi
Solidarity Group
- DialogNow.org : a forum to promote dialog between the
peoples
of India & Pakistan.
- Dionne
Bunsha
- Drik
Picture Library
(Dhaka)
- Dristipat
- DRISHTI
- Media, Arts & Human Rights
- Eqbal Ahmed: Selected Writings: (A collections of his writings) | In Memory of Eqbal Ahmed (Obitutaries & tributes)
- Ekta
: A South Asian Progressive Network
- Environment Support
Group (Bangalore)
- Faiz
Ahmad Faiz
(The official website)
- Friends
for Peace in Sri Lanka (FPSL), Australia
- Greenpeace India
- Goa Research Net (GRN)
- www.gaisecurity.com Taking On Telematic Surveillance
- http://india.indymedia.org
- Indian
Economic and Social History Review
[Contents Pages 1993-96]
- Indian
Journal of Gender Studies
[Contents Pages 1996-97]
- India Media Review (E-Zine)
- Indo
Pakistan Jazz
Coalition (IPJC)
[web sites of IPJC
members Rudresh Mahanthappa; Fareed
Haque; Samir Chatterjee]
- International Journal of Punjab Studies
-
Indian Progressive Study Group (at Columbia Univ, N.Y.)
- International
South Asia Forum
(Montreal)
- India Pakistan Arms Race and
Militarisation Watch
- Insaf International (India)
- Insight
a
journal of the Ambedkar Study Circle, JNU
(India)
- Indian Rationalist
Association
- Intercultural
Resources (India)
-
International
Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo
- Jagori (India)
- Journalists Resource Centre (Pakistan)
- Justice for
Afzal Guru
- Kafila
- Karnataka
Komu Souharda Vedike / Communal Harmony Forum
(India)
- Khalid Hasan
Online
- Kashmir Lit
-
Lokayan Bulletin
- Mangalbare Forum ( a weekly discussion forum of
activists &
intellectuals in Kathmandu)
- Manipur freedom
| Irome Sharmila's hunger strike to repeal AFSPA
- Mahanirban Calcutta Research
Group
(India)
- Moju (Sri Lanka)
- Mushirul Hasan:
An Historian's Life in India (Spring 2000)
- Nepal
Democracy
Alliance
- Oral History project on the 1971
Bangladesh war of
Independence
- Pablo
Bartholomew (India)
- PC
Joshi archives at JNU
- People's
Commission on Environment and Development (India)
- People For Peace Between Pakistan and
India
- Progressive
South Asia Network (Proxsa Net)
- Praful Bidwai
- Praful Bidwai Interviewed by Amitav Ghosh
- Pravada (Sri Lanka)
- Political Writings of Hamza Alavi
- PUCL
- PUDR
- Sabrang
Communications
- South Asia Alliance
for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE)
- Right to
Food Campaign
- Red, White and
Black
- SAHMAT
- Shah AMS Kibria
(Bangladesh)
- Social
Scientist
[Contents Pages 1993-96]
-
Science and
Rationalists Association of India
- Shazia Mirza
(UK)
- Social Scientists Association (Sri Lanka)
- South
Asia Bulletin
- South Asian History
- Studies in Nepali History and Society
- Shanthi: An Online Journal Promoting
Peace in Sri
Lanka
- Shirkat Gah
(Pakistan)
- Simorgh
(Pakistan)
- Siddharth Vardarajan
- South Asia Solidarity Group
- Southall Black Sisters
- Sarai:
The new media initiative in India
- South Asians For Human
Rights
- South Asia Network on
Dams Rivers and People
- South Asians Against Nukes Mailing List
- South
Asia Nuclear Dialogue Weekly
- Sakhi (USA)
- South Asia Citizens Wire (Archive
of SACW posts)
-
South Asia Watch
- Some
Writings of D D Kosambi
- Shashi Tharoor
- The Experiment. Bengali rock band. Music of India, Bangladesh
- The Atheist Centre Website (Vijayavada, India)
- Tarksheel Bharat / Rationalist
Society
(India)
-
Teachers' Resource
Centre (Karachi)
- The Book
Review (India)
- The Other Media (India)
- The People's
Commission on Environment and Development (India)
- Vijay Iyer's home page -
Jazz Pianist
- Update Collective
- UBINIG Policy Research for Development
Alternatives
(Dhaka)
- Watandost
(Pakistan)
- Writings by Achin Vanaik
Publishers and
Bookstores:
- Kali
for Women
(New Delhi) | More on Kali for Women
- Katha (New Delhi, India)
- City Press
(Karachi, Pakistan)
- Mashaal
Books
(Lahore, Pakistan)
- Vanguard Books
(Lahore, Pakistan)
- Narigrantha
Prabartana [ The Feminist Bookstore ] (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
- Narigrantha Prabartana (The
Official Site)
- Permanent Black
(New Delhi, India)
- Ram Advani Bookseller (Lucknow, India)
- Seagull Books
(Calcutta, India)
- The Other India Bookstore (Goa, India)
- Tulika
Books
(Madras)
- Three
Essays Press
(New Delhi, India)
- University
Press Ltd.
(Dhaka, Bangladesh)
- Leftword
Books (
New Delhi)
- Streelekha Feminist Bookstore (Bangalore, India)
- Stree
(Calcutta)
- Suriya Bookshop
(Colombo, Sri Lanka)
- Asian
Rare Books
-
Women Unlimited
(India)
- Zubaan Books
(India)
- National Book
Trust (India)
Films :
-
Garam Hawa ( An important
film on the
Partition of India
-1947)
-
The Division of Hearts ( A documentary of Partition by Peter
Chappel and
Sati Khanna)
- Mammo
(A valuable film on Partition by Shyam Benegal)
- Partition (A
film by Tariq Ali and McMullen)
- War
Crimes File
(3 War criminals from
Bangaldesh War of 1971)
- In the
Name of God, Father Son & Holy war and other documentary films
by
Anand Patwardhan
- Anand
Patwardhan's Films
- Song of Freedom / Muktir Gaan (A documentary on the Bangladesh
liberation war
of 1971)
- Jashn-e-Azadi
(A film by Sanjay Kak)
- Films by Ali Kazimi
- A
Season Outside
(A film by Amar Kanwar )
- Stop the Hatred
(A 50 second spot for communal harmony in India)
- Taxi-Vala (A film about South Asian taxi drivers
in
NY)
- BomGay (A film from the Gay Community in
Bombay)
- Fire (An
important film about women and sexuality in India)
- Earth (based
on Pakistani novelist Bapsi Sidwa's Cracking India on the political
dynamics of the India/Pakistan 1947 partition)
-
Born Into Brothels (A documentary
on Calcutta's red light district,
and the children who grow up there) [March 2nd 2004]
- My Son the Fanatic (A film on young south Asians meddling
with
fundamentalist politics in the UK)
- The Men in the Tree by Lalit Vachani (2002 Digital Video; 98 min.
Hindi/English/Marathi/Sanskrit with English subtitles) [Review: Growing into their knickers]
- The Boy in the Branch by Lalit Vachani [1993] (Interviews four young
militants of the RSS in the months just prior to the destruction of the
Babri mosque in Ayodhya)
- Gujarat: A Laboratory of Hindu Rashtra or Fascism by Suma
Josson (2003
/ 50 min. / English subtitles)
- Evil
Stalks the
Land by Gauhar Raza (17 min, 2002)
- Junun Ke Badhte Qadam by Gauhar Raza (On 2002 Gujarat carnage) (2002-
English subtitles - 30 minutes)
- Final
Solution by Rakesh Sharma
- East
is East
- Talking Peace (A documentary on the experience of Pakistan-India
People Forum for Peace & Democracy)
- No
More Tears Sister by Helene Klodawsky (On Rajani Thiranagama)
- Pure Chutney
by Sanjeev Chatterjee, Amitava Kumar and AJ Dickerson
- Chutney Popcorn
by Nisha Ganatra
- Khamosh
Pani by Sabhia Sumar
- Comrade
Sak by Chris Mitchell / produced by Tartan TV (1990)
- Brothers
in Trouble (1995) by Udayan Prasad
- A Drop of Life (2008) by K. Shalini
- The Sky Below by Sarah Singh
- I for India by Sandhya Suri
- We (2005) by Anon
Film Related Resources:
-
Chromosome
Film Festival
- Delhi Film
Archive
- Film South Asia
- Karafilm
- New
Delhi Video Forum
- Queer
readings of Bollywood
-
South Asia Film and TV
Some important non South Asia Links:www.protest.net
www.irr.org.uk/
www.zmag.org/
www.ibka.org/en/
www.icannwatch.org/
www.indymedia.org
www.iglhrc.org/
www.rabble.ca/
www.therealnews.com/
http://www.yomango.net/
www.iheu.org
www.timeanddate.com/
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