Journeys to Democracy

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• India/Pakistan upcoming peace events August 3-9, 2017

       
  2 August, by beenasarwar
  As Pakistan and India commemorate 70 years of their existence as independent nation states, what is striking is the people’s desire for peace and how those who govern them continue to thwart these aspirations. As media highlight the tensions what goes largely unreported is people on the ground (...)

• Want peace between India and Pakistan? Will you push for it?

   
  1 August, by beenasarwar
  I wrote this piece last week for The Wire about the ongoing campaign for peace between India and Pakistan. I argued that while the move is unlikely to lead to any great policy change, it is time the citizens of both countries came together to encourage the resolution of all bilateral issues (...)

• The fisherman’s tragedy

       
  20 July, by beenasarwar
  Something I wrote in anguish yesterday, published in The Citizen, The Wire and Aman Ki Asha… Not only are fishermen punished harshly for crossing a border they cannot see, once detained they are treated like prisoners of war by the other country. The India-Pakistan Fisherman’s Story: Caught, (...)

• #NotInMyName and expanding ‘islands of sanity’

    
  5 July, by beenasarwar
  Talking about the #NotInMyName campaign in India against lynch mobs that forced PM Modi to break his near-silence on the vigilante violence, my friend Jaspal Singh in an email also discusses the model of citizens’ “defence committees” against communal violence, as seen in Canada and in India. He (...)

• Why #NotInMyName protests against vigilante violence, mob lynchings in India resonate elsewhere too

      
  27 June, by beenasarwar
  My piece published in The Wire today. Also posted below. Catalysed by the mob murder of a teenager in India on June 24, followed by a Facebook post on June 24 by filmmaker Saba Dewan, a #NotInMyName campaign is taking off across India with simultaneous protests in several cities on Wednesday, (...)

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