Journeys to Democracy

Articles

• Solidarity with pro-democracy activists #India #Bangladesh #SouthAsia #FreeShahidul

    
  29 August, by beenasarwar
  “…In a coordinated operation… several well known academics, lawyers, writers, poets, priests and journalists have been arrested and their homes raided by the police”… (Note, 31 August 2018: added video below) This extract from a statement titled ‘Fascism at our doorstep‘ by Women Against Sexual (...)

• Remembering Kuldip Nayar, journalist, activist, peacemonger

     
  27 August, by beenasarwar
  I was sad to hear about the passing away of veteran journalist and peacemonger Kuldip Nayar, 95, in Delhi. His passing in general evoked great sadness — as well as a resolve to keep working for his values — not only in India but the land of his birth, Pakistan. I had got to know (...)

• Bangladesh #FreeShahidul – my opinion piece in Washington Post yesterday

       
  21 August, by beenasarwar
  The Washington Post published my opinion piece about Shahidul yesterday. Below, a slightly earlier version of the final edited piece for those unable to access WP. Here’s why Bangladesh made a huge mistake by jailing Shahidul Alam Beena Sarwar The arrest in Bangladesh of the celebrated (...)

• Khan, Sidhu, Vajpayee, and India Pakistan relations

      
  17 August, by beenasarwar
  August 17 this year marks 30 years since the mid-air explosion that killed the military dictator General Ziaul Haq in 1988. This year, Zia’s death anniversary ironically took a back seat to the election of the country’s new prime minister. Today, the 342-seat National Assembly voted on the prime (...)

• Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy among writers, artists urging Bangladesh #FreeShahidul

   
  7 August, by beenasarwar
  Academics, writers, artists and journalists around the world , including Noam Chomsky, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Patrick Farrell, celebrated writer Bapsi Sidhwa, artist and daughter of poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz Salima Hashmi, historian Ayesha Jalal, Urvashi Butalia, and others from (...)

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