Journeys to Democracy

Articles

• Reflections: Baba Bujha Singh, revolution, poetry, and democracy

         
  27 July, by beenasarwar
  Sharing below an informative, moving and insightful piece by friend Jaspal Singh in Cambridge commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Baba Bujha Singh’s extrajudicial murder in Punjab, India. The story is reflected in other instances of police brutality elsewhere too. And so is his comment on (...)

• Pakistan’s ‘best kept secret’ (not The Samosa)

      
  25 July, by beenasarwar
  On another level, the film also illuminates “a body of thought, a concept of society, an ecumenical vision and a long view that risks being erased by many forces in the contemporary world”

• Give peace a chance: Activists urge India, Pakistan, to step up for #SouthAsia

           
  15 July, by beenasarwar
  The Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) has begun a series of online discussions aimed at reclaiming the people’s narrative. The PIPFPD The page has several video excerpts from these and other discussions. Below reports on both discussions by Neel Kamal, published in (...)

• MSR’s ongoing incarceration: “There still remain journalists in this country determined to hold their ground”

         
  7 July, by beenasarwar
  The March 12 arrest of Mir Shakilur Rahman sent shockwaves through journalist and human rights communities, Here’s a link to my piece about this issue in The Washington Post today: In Pakistan, a bizarre arrest shows how media freedom is being squeezed. But even if he is granted bail now – after (...)

• The need for ‘radical love’ – Cornel West, Dalit and Sheedi solidarity, and a #WC4BL Boston report

          
  2 July, by beenasarwar
  This is a follow up to my earlier post about physicians of Pakistani and Indian origin, already in the frontlines of the Covid19 battle in the US, stepping up in the war against a longer-running pandemic, racism. We know that racism is not limited to the US. In our home countries in South Asia, (...)

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