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• “Peace Caravan” to leave Karachi for Peshawar by Khyber Mail
• "War in Sri Lanka threatens peace in all of South Asia" - A Statement by Concerned South Asians
• ’Amchi Mumbai’ - Many questions, some lessons
• ’Dialogue of Civilisations’ begins in Afghanistan
• ’Good Cop, Bad Cop’ Approach to Pakistan
• ’It is the poor who always suffer’
• ’Official’ peace process noise between India and Pakistan
• A Conversation on Kashmir with Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian
• A Just Peace in Kashmir? Reflections on Dynamics of Change
• A Path for Peace in South Asia
• A peace delegation from India needs to visit Pakistan now
• Acrimonious Indo-Pak Exchange: Correcting a false start
• Admiral L Ramdas: This Madness of Nuclear Weaponisation Must End in India - Pakistan
• Aijaz Ahmed: "If the Americans Left Afghanistan and Pakistan, Things Would’nt be Any Worse"
• Aman Karwan - A Peace Mission From Pakistan
• Aman Kay Badhtay Qadam - A peace caravan marches across Pakistan and India (August 2010)
• An Independent Situationer and Roadmap for Dignified Resettlement, Reconcilliation in Sri Lanka
• Anti nuclear platform seeks parliamentary review before Indo US deal is signed
• Appeal to India’s Prime Minister to Intervene in Manipur to Defuse Tensions
• Armed Conflict, Small Arms Proliferation, Women’s Responses to Violence in North East India
• As India-Pakistan Tensions Rise - Extremists stand to gain
• Backgrounders on the Sri Lankan Conflict
• Beyond Borders : The road not yet taken [by India and Pakistan]
• Call for Negotiated Ceasefire in Sri Lanka: A Petition to Indian Mission to U.N.
• Calling Media To Observe Restraint: South Asian Editors
• Civil Society Pleads for Peace between Pakistan and India
• CNDP Press Release on Obama’s Call for a "world without nuclear weapons"
• CNDP Statement on Obama Administration Scrapping European Missile Defence Plan
• Concern for Kashmir - Demand for a Permanent Solution
• Conflict in the Indian Kashmir Valley II: psychosocial impact
• Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan and India
• De-militarizing Democracy and Governance in Sri Lanka
• Delhi Declaration from the People’s SAARC Assembly 23 April 2010
• Demilitarise and Democratise : The Way Forward in Sri Lanka
• Democracy in the US and Sri Lanka
• Detained fishermen - A political catch
• Deweaponise and address causes of violence in Karachi
• Doing the Right Thing in Sri Lanka
• Dont Let Hawks Hijack Foreign Policy
• Editorial - Peace Now, March 2009
• European Parliament resolution on Sri Lanka
• Even If The War Ends, There is No Solution Till There is Reconciliation, Dialogue and A Reform of the Sri Lankan State
• Final Declaration at India Pakistan Conference – A Road map towards Peace
• Has the bomb helped us?
• Honour in citizens well being not in chauvinistic nationalism
• If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Ask the peace caravan
• In the cross-fire of militarisation and Sinhalisation
• In the Shadow of Hiroshima
• India - Pakistan: Civil Society Mounts Peace Offensive
• India - Pakistan: Prisoner Repatriations Bring Hope For Now
• India - Pakistan: Let the talks continue
• India - Pakistan: Move to Resolve The IPL Controversy Over Exclusion of Pakistani Cricketers
• India - Pakistan: Pursue peace instead of sabre-rattling
• India - Pakistan: Some new some old unanswered questions
• India - Pakistan: Unending War Over The Siachen Glacier
• India and Pakistan are in it together
• India and Pakistan: Cold Start for the Hottest War?
• India and Pakistan: Talking ’CBM’, making ’ICBM’
• India in Kashmir: Winning a battle only to lose the war?
• India must turn away from the bomb
• India’s 15th Parliamentary Elections and South Asian Peace
• India’s inability to make the Kashmiris feel at home
• India’s Nuclear Fizzle: What Should Pakistan Do?
• India’s nuclear hawks peddle great power delusions over the NSG waiver
• India’s tragedy
• India, Pakistan in an insecurity trap
• India-Pakistan: Media in Jingoistic Nationalism Mode
• India: Dont take the road taken by Bush
• India: Shameless squabble about the deadliness of a nuclear bomb
• Indian and Pakistani media fan flames of competitive ’partiotism’
• Indian Citizens Delegation to Pakistan - 22 to 26 February 2009
• Indian Nationalism, Hindutva and the Bomb
• Indo-Pak Peace Talks and Taliban Provocations
• Indo-US Nuclear Deal: The Continuing Drift in India’s Foreign Policy
• Islamabad, Delhi and Kabul busy are in destructive game
• Its Time To Settle The Kashmir Dispute
• Jailed Fishermen Await Thaw in India-Pakistan Relations
• Japanese Peace Groups Say No To Nuclear Cooperation with India
• Joint Signature Campaign by Citizens of India and Pakistan Against Terrorism, War Posturing
• Kashmir: Pacification at Gunpoint
• Kashmir’s Kan-i-jung: Cry for Freedom
• Let’s say no to war
• Loosing of Their Hold on Kashmir Bad for Business of India’s Military Industrial Complex
• Making Karachi gun-free
• Militarisation or Demilitarisation in Nepal?
• Militarization With Impunity: A Brief on Rape and Murder in Shopian, Kashmir
• Mumbai bloodbath: A statement by concerned citizens of India and Pakistan
• Mumbai terror attacks should be the turning point
• Mumbai Terror Attacks, Kashmir and Islamism: A public conversation at the New York Public Library
• Nationalisms, Militarization and War Politics in Sri Lanka
• Need for Continuous dialogue between India and Pakistan underlined
• Nepal: No Peace till we tackle ’impunity’ and ’accountability’
• Next Terror Strike: Endgame for India and Pakistan
• Not At Peace in South Asia
• Nuclear Exhibitionism - Footfall of "Hindu" Fascism
• Nuclear nationalism - Indian elites short cut to glory
• Nuts in India and Pakistan claim nuclear weapons prevent war
• One Year After the War in Sri Lanka - Newspaper Ad. by Civil Society Groups
• Out of the Nuclear Shadow
• Pakistan - India Peace Activists Push for Peace
• Pakistan - India: Citizens groups speak up for Peace
• Pakistan - India: Fishermen in troubled waters
• Pakistan - India: The Cost of War
• Pakistan and India Civil Society Organizations Demand release of 900 fishermen
• Pakistan and India: Common Threat Needs Common Defence
• Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum hold protest rally to demand release of fishermen detained by India and Pakistan
• Pakistan Obsession of India’s Hawks and the Media
• Pakistan Peace Coalition condemns beheading of Sikhs, demands protection to all minorities
• Pakistan Presidents Call for Nuclear Weapons-free South Asia Should be Welcomed
• Pakistan: Access to health care difficult due to growing violence in NWFP and FATA
• Pakistani and Indian Fishermen’s arrests - A story of pain and hunger
• Pakistani Liberals and Progressives Wake up, Before the Fundamentalists Run Riot
• Pakistani Peace delegation in India from 1 to 9 March 2009
• Pakistanis share the anger and grief of terror struck Bombay
• Peace Activists Welcome the Joint Indo-Pak Statement
• Peace in Lanka?
• Peace in Sri Lanka: Negotiating with the Northern "Separatists"
• Peace is the only option
• People’s SAARC Conference held in New Delhi on 21-23 April 2010
• Petition Submitted to Indian President Regarding the Fast Deteriorating Situation in Northern Sri Lanka
• Petition to Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan on behalf of the divided families of the two countries
• Pleas For Sanity as Sabres Rattle Over Mumbai Attacks
• Postfrontier Blues: Toward a New Policy Framework for Northeast India
• Procrastinate for ever and call it ’Composite Dialogue’
• Pushing South Asia Toward the Brink
• Reflections on Demilitarising the Sri Lankan Society
• Reflections on the terrorisms of our time
• Restraint by media will aid peace process
• Resume dialogue between India and Pakistan
• Routes to Pursue for Nuclear Disarmament
• SAPA Statement: "Protect the Human Rights of Sri Lankan Civilians Now!"
• Say No To Terror And War! Say No To Violence!
• Secret diplomacy on Kashmir
• Silence is complicity
• South Asia Foundation Festival for Peace 2009 (Amritsar - Wagah - Preet Nagar, 10th to 23rd October 2009)
• Sri Lanka Panel - South Asian People’s Forum: Rohini Hensman, Ahilan Kadirgamar and Rajan Philips
• Sri Lanka’s Peace Activists Find It Hard to Identify With Anti War Big Noise in the Diaspora
• Sri Lanka: "Tamils caught between the devil and deep blue sea"
• Sri Lanka: A long, slow descent into hell
• Sri Lanka: A Tragedy Foretold
• Sri Lanka: Humanitarian Crisis, Democratization, Political Solution
• Sri Lanka: Losing the larger picture
• Sri Lanka: LTTE Is No Excuse For Killing Vanni Civilians
• Sri Lanka: Needed reality checks among the do-gooders
• Sri Lanka: Protect the 300,000 war displaced
• Sri Lanka: Silence Over the Horrors of the War
• Sri Lanka: Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council - Urgent Appeal to Indian Govt. and members of Parliament
• Sri Lanka: The aftermaths of the war
• Sri Lanka: The Threat to National Security and Unity Within
• Sri Lanka: What victory or liberation when no resolution of the ethnic conflict ?
• Sri Lanka: Who is Responsible for the Slaughter of Civilians in the Vanni?
• Sri Lanka: Will a military victory really solve the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict?
• Sri Lankan Government Should Halt Offensive Immediately and LTTE Should Surrender
• Stand up for equality, justice and democracy in Sri Lanka
• Supreme Court of Pakistan issues notices to Federal, Sindh governments on petition for detained Indian fishermen
• Taking Forward the Struggle for Equality, Justice and Democracy in Sri Lanka
• Talk Peace, Confront Terrorism: statement by concerned Pakistani citizens
• Talk to the people not to the Taliban
• Tamilar Samadana Aayvagam TASA (Tamils’ Peace Research Institute)
• Telling the truth about war
• Terrorism in Mumbai: A Challenge for Democracy
• Terrorist Attack On Mumbai - What Should Be Done
• The Attacks in Bombay and India’s Terror Dossier: Further evidence of a conspiracy
• The Bi-Polar Perspective and the Sri Lankan Crisis
• The Case Against Further N-tests by India
• The challenge in Afghanistan isn’t about resources but principles
• The Deepest Division in Sri Lanka
• The governments of India and Pakistan owe it to their citizens to engage in talks and to act substantively
• The Indian nation is alienated from Kashmir
• The Indo US Nuclear Deal, ’Nationalism’ and the left
• The Intolerable Militarization of India Administered Kashmir
• The Kanyakumari Declaration
• The medical profession must stand up against the India-US nuclear deal
• The Mumbai Massacre and Pakistan’s New Nightmares: An Interview of Pervez Hoodbhoy
• They Have Sold The Homeland of Frontier Gandhi To Assassins!
• Towards a No-war pact between India and Pakistan
• Trapped in hysteria
• Turn Pakistan from national security state to a people’s welfare state
• US incursions into Pakistan: Is a policy shift underway?
• Violence by custodians of ’authentic culture’
• War or peace on the Indus?
• We Apologise to the Bangladeshis for the Atrocities of 1971
• We can do without the march of folly
• We dont need a Bush style war on terror in South Asia
• What have we gained from the bomb?
• What is behind the reciprocal restrictions on visas by India and Pakistan ?
• Why is India going along with the undemocratic machinations of the Nepal army brass?
• Will the hawks and the intelligence agencies allow Pakistan India dialogue?
• Working For An India-Pakistan Breakthrough

Articles

• "These are concentration camps, not refugee camps”
• "Well ! Well . . . ! Mr. Advani !" Well "spoken" indeed !
• ’Adivasi’ - A Contentious Term to denote Tribes as Indigenous Peoples of India
• ’Good Boys’, Character Making and The Nation
• A hawk dressed as a dove: The marketing of a repackaged L. K. Advani
• A Saffron Terror Network Surfaces
• An Open Letter on L’Affaire Antulay - Karkare To The Members of Indian Parliament
• An Open Letter to Ms Sonal Shah
• Anatomy of India’s Taliban
• Anatomy of Sangh Parivar
• And Now Hindu Terrorists?
• Appeal to Defend Jamia Millia Islamia’s Secular Character
• Ascent of Communalism in Malegaon
• BAN the RSS
• Baseless reports in the Indian media alleging that social activist Teesta Setalvad and CPJ exaggerated the violence during Gujarat pogrom of 2002
• Behind the Recent Communal Violence in Assam
• Beyond Religious Boundaries
• BJP’s idea of a theocratic India gives heart to the religious caboodle in Pakistan
• BJP’s Real Agenda
• Blasts and the State of Terror
• Bomb Blasts in Nepal: Global Dimensions of Hindutva Terror
• Bombay Riots of 1992-93: Akhtar Hasan Wagle’s Long Struggle for Justice
• Book Extract: ’Offence - The Hindu Case’
• Can the election on April 16 in the Kandhmals ever be free and fair?
• Citizens Online Petition to Oman to Disallow Narendra Modi’s visit
• Citizens Statement Against Planned Violence Against North Indians and Breakdown of Rule of Law
• Combating Contending Fundamentalisms
• Communal Menace in Goa is Alive and Kicking
• Communal Violence in Dhule: A Report by Independent Citizens’ Intitiative
• Communalisation and the Retrieval of the Secular
• Communalism and the News Media in India
• Communalism: An ignored malady
• Condemn the vandalism of ABVP and RSS in Delhi University!
• CSFH statement on Sonal Shah
• Cultural logic of communalism
• Cultural Luddites Who Preach Hate
• Dalits in Hindutva: Cooption or resistance
• Dangerous liaisons
• Defining Indigeneity: Situating Transnational Knowledge
• Democracy, Elections and Minorities in India
• Dhol Ki Pol: an audio programme on communal politics in India
• Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement
• Dont wait to oppose fascist politics
• Fascism in its liberal womb
• Fighting Fascism
• Film Review: ’A Wednesday’
• From Orissa to Karnataka - The attacks on minorties by the Hindu Right: A report
• From Secularism to Sectarianism: Political activism among Bengalis in the East End of London
• Full Text of the Report by Commission of Enquiry Consisting of Justice Nanavati and Justice Mehta
• Fully Investigate Hindutva Terrorists Role: From Nanded To Malegaon and Beyond
• Give saffron hooligans a pink trim
• Gujarat Carnage: Seven Years On . . . Seven Major Concerns and More
• Gujarat: the Ghosts of the Past and the Future
• Handling Queries: Democratic Responses
• Happy Valentine’s Day, Mr. Bal Thackeray
• Hate And Anger Won’t Bring Votes; People Always See Through Divisive Politics
• Hate speech is the route to upward mobility in the Hindu Right circuit
• Hindu Nationalism: origins, ideologies and modern myths
• Hindu Taliban Assaulting Freedom, Militarising Society
• Hindu Terrorism: The Shock of Recognition
• Hindutva Fundamentalists Mirroring Thier Counterparts
• Hindutva Groups Use Adivasis To Attack Muslims and Their Homes
• Hindutva Mix of Biceps and the Bhagvad Gita
• Hindutva Muscle Flexing in Karnataka
• Hindutva Tradition of Terror
• Hindutva’s orchestrated violence as elections approach
• Hindutva’s Propaganda on Conversions
• Hindutva-inspired terrorism goes back a long way
• Hindutvawadis in American politics
• How Hindutva Terrorists Operate in Karnataka
• How Secular is India Today?
• Ideology of Gandhi’s Killers is Alive and Influential
• Impartial judicial monitoring of all terror investigations by the apex court the need of the hour
• India allows the murderers of thousands of Sikhs to roam scot-free
• India Must Delink Religious Pilgrimage Management from Secular State Apparatus
• India needs a discourse on citizenship that takes its communities out of the prevalent majority-minority mindset
• India Needs A Law To Check Hate Speech
• India’s Competing Communalism’s
• India’s Far Right is Out To Violently Divide
• India’s OM Made Taliban
• India: "Love Jihad" Was No Farce
• India: 2002 pogrom in Gujarat has left a bitterly divided society
• India: A pogrom is the first step in the Gujarat model
• India: Ajmer Blasts - Revisiting Hindutva Terror
• India: Babri Masjid Demolition and Liberhan Commission Report
• India: Bhagat Singh’s writings against communalism and untouchability
• India: BJP is playing with fire
• India: Calcutta Murder for Inter Religious Marriage - Commentary in the Media
• India: Call for Cellular Silence Day on 61st death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi
• India: Can we stop the carnage carnivals?
• India: Citizens’ Statement on The Mangalore Assault
• India: Communal Riots 2009
• India: Communal Violence Bill - How useful to victims?
• India: Convention Against Fascism - Defending the Idea of India, Oct 25-26, 2008, Delhi
• India: Cultural Aggression in The Name of Hindutva
• India: Did the Hindu Right Organise the Bomb Blasts in Ajmer?
• India: Discrimination on the grounds of religion and caste
• India: Fanatic Dalits, Empowered Dalits ?
• India: Far Right in War Against Minorities in Orissa
• India: Full text of the Gujarat High Court’s order rejecting the bail application of Dr. Mayaben Kodnani
• India: Full text of the Liberhan Ayodhya Commission of Enquiry Commission Report
• India: Fundamentalists curbing young people’s rights and freedom
• India: Go for secular education, think beyond religious lobbies
• India: Gujarat Government Continues With Communal Agenda
• India: Hindu nationalism and the Congress Party in the 1940s and 1950s
• India: Hindutva far right and the anti-Tehri dam movement
• India: How Government Funded Educational Institutions Are Promoting Religion in India
• India: Its time to bury the 1996 judicial sanction to Hindutva
• India: Justice delayed is justice denied - A comment on the Liberhan commission report
• India: Letter to Chief Election Commissioner to regarding violence by BJP and Hindutva goons in Gujarat
• India: National Convention Against Fascism is Planned
• India: Produce the Liberhan Commission Report in Parliament and Take swift action
• India: Prosecute the Architects of Babri Mosque Demolition
• India: PUCL report on cultural vigilantism against women and minorities in Karnataka
• India: Republic of Silence
• India: Sitting Ducks - A Beemapalli reflection
• India: Special Courts fail to give justice to the victims of the communal violence in Orissa
• India: Stop These Sangh Parivar Outfits, Before Its Too Late
• India: The continuing after-effects of anti Christian violence (2007)in Orissa
• India: The cycle of violence
• India: The end of impunity
• India: The State Has No Religion
• India: What are the secular credentials of different political parties?
• India: Will perpetrators of heinous crime be punished?
• Indian state’s dual policy, target dissenters and ignore Hindu religious extremists
• INSAF Fact-finding team to Orissa (October 21-24, 2008): Press Release
• Interim Report on Orissa-Concerned Citizens’ Independent Fact-Finding Mission, Sept 25, 2008
• Invoking India’s Fuhrer
• Is Religion Above Criticism?
• Justice Delayed Should not be Justice Denied
• Karnataka’s Hindu Taliban
• Kerala: The Rise of Saffronshirts
• Les reseau de Hindutva dans le diaspora - Royaume-Uni, États-Unis et Canada
• Let Us Not Be Naive About Naveen Patnaik
• Let us stand with Sister Meena and other victims of the Hindutva in Orissa
• Letter to Justice Panigrahi Commission of Enquiry in the Kandhamal, Orissa violence
• Letter To President-Elect Barack Obama from Coalition of Concerned Indian Americans
• Leveling crowds
• Like we have Islamists, are there Brahminists too?
• Mainstreaming the Hindutva agenda - The subtle work of hindukaran
• Malegaon Bomb Blasts and Hindutva Extremists
• Malegaon, Modasa and Mehrauli Blasts : The Hindutva Connection ?
• Manufacturing consent for a ’Hinduised’ nation
• Many Forks of the Devil’s Tongue: Whitewashing Crimes a la The Pracharak Way
• Memorandum to Indian Prime Minister on Assam Bomb Blasts
• Mumbai rekindles debate about Muslims, their beard and so on
• Mumbai’s Cloistered Hearth
• Muslim Party Should or Should Not Be
• Nanavati Commission has forgotten the real story of the Gujarat Carnage
• Nanavati Commission Report - Manufacturing A Conspiracy
• Nanavati Report on Godhra Tragedy
• Never Again in Sri Lanka
• New Delhi citizens march against violence and attacks on minorities
• Normalcy Far from Returning to Kandhamal
• Of cities and bomb making
• One, Two, Unbuckle My Shoe
• Operation Saffron Hunt?
• Orissa-like terror stalks Christians in Karnataka interiors
• Orissa: What’s the point of Commissions of Inquiries headed by pliant persons
• Pakistan: Parking lot or drive-in-madrassa
• Permanent Target
• Perverse patriotism
• Petition From Women’s Rights Activists to the Chief Minister of Orissa
• Phoney Jihadis, Real Culprits !
• Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of Public in India
• Populism, Religion and Nation in Contemporary India
• Pracharak as Terrorist
• Preliminary Findings & Recommendations - The National People’s Tribunal on Kandhamal
• Presenting the Past: Anxious History and Ancient Future in Hindutva India
• Press Release by U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on Denial of Visas by India
• Producing the Hindu Nation and Its "Others" Through Gender and Sexuality
• Professional ’natives’ vs ’outsiders’ in Bombay
• Protect India’s Ancient Monuments From Encroachment
• Protest in Delhi University against threats to democratic voices
• Punish Parochial Hate-Mongering
• Pursue the truth, not myths, and protect civil rights
• Rally and Public Meeting to Save Secularism and Democracy, Bangalore 6 October 2008
• Recommendations to The Congressional Task Force on International Religious Freedom
• Report of AIDWA Delegation’s visit to Orissa, November 2008
• Resist Fascism, Defend Humanist Solidarity and Freedom of Religion
• Resurgent Hindutva Terror in India
• RSS - BJP: Father, Son and Unholy Mission
• RSS Stance Against The Floodgate of Startling Revelations: Prevarication
• Sahmat statement condemning violence in Delhi, Orissa and Karnataka
• Sampradayikta Virodhi Geet
• Sangh parivar - the multi headed hydra of the Hindu right
• Slaughter in Trilokpuri: An eyewitness account on the 1984 Anti Sikh Pogrom in New Delhi
• Sources and Politics of Hindu Nationalist Theology
• Sri Ram Sena should be strongly disciplined; its origins thoroughly investigated
• Support and Resistance to the Hindu Far Right Among the Middle Classes in Delhi
• Terrorism, Police and Minorities in India
• Text of resolution adopted at national meet for countering fascist forces in India
• The Case for Banning the VHP, Bajrang Dal and RSS
• The forgotten Nellie massacres
• The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics
• The Ideological and institutional Incorporation of Dalits Into Hindutva maelstorm
• The imminent arrival of religious fascism in India?
• The Kalinga Effect
• The Missing Orissa Police
• The Political Culture of Fascism
• The President-Elect and India
• The Sangh Parivar’s plans for Orissa are on track
• The US based Islamist organizations and expatriate Bangladeshis
• The winter of our discontent: provincialism and terrorism
• The xenophobia circuit in Maharashtra
• Time to re-investigate the foreign funding of Hindu fundamentalists
• Tolerating Terrorism of the Hindu Right
• Tommaso Bobbio on Economic and Social Change and Violence in Ahmedabad 1950-2000
• Trouble with the retrograde forces defining culture?
• Truth Does Not Die When A File is Closed
• Understanding Hindutva
• Urgent Measures for Peace in Kandhamal - Letter to the Prime Minister
• VHP and Deoband share the same vision for the respective religions they claim to represent
• Voices of Protest Against The Move By Financial Times Group To Confer An Award on Narendra Modi
• Waiting for the bootsteps at my door any time
• What collapsed on December 6, 1992 was the idea of India as inclusive, pluralistic
• What do ’Hindu’ spiritual leaders talk when they meet?
• What Scope for Justice in Gujarat ?
• Where The Far Right Crucifies the Poor
• Who Says Hindu nationalism is on the decline?
• Why ’Sanatan Sanstha’ and ’Hindu Janajagruti Samity’ should be Banned
• Why India Is Not A Secular State
• Will Indian democracy survive against Hindutva cancer ?
• Will the Indian state ever take on Hindutva fascism?

Articles

• A Dirty War Between The Maoists and the State in India
• Alternatives in Industrialization
• An Ancient Sickness
• An Open Letter to the Revolutionaries
• Condemn the State Terror in Lalgarh, West Bangal
• Gandhi’s Final Fast
• Heart of darkness
• Maoism’s other side
• Marxism and The Economic Crisis
• Permanent spring
• Professor Patnaik and the Aftermath of Nandigram
• Pulp Fiction from the Red Corridor
• Reflections in the Aftermath of Nandigram - A CPI(M) Supporter
• The Left needs rethinking, not abject apologia
• The Left: Rethink or Perish
• The Maoist insurgency in India: An interview with Jairus Banaji
• The role of socialists in the civil war in Sri Lanka
• Violence on the Left : Nandigram and the Communists of West Bengal

Articles

• 25th Anniversary Bhopal Gas Tragedy 1984, 3 December 2009
• Atmospheric Brown Clouds: Regional Assessment Report with Focus on Asia
• Bangladesh: Statement by Environmentalists on the Controversy Around India’s Tipaimukh Dam Project
• Bhopal’s long injustice
• Citizens Groups Memo to Indian Prime Minister on Cochabama Conference
• Concerned Citizens Letter to The US President Regarding the Bhopal Gas Disaster
• Dams, Rivers & People - April May 2010
• Do we need an agriculture that destroys and contaminates the environment?
• Ecologists file law suits agianst illegal acquisition of lands and privatisation of lakes
• Environmental cost of conflict in Kashmir
• Goldman Prize - 2009 for Syeda Rizwana Hasan from Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA)
• Greenpeace campaign for turtles bodes well the future of enviromental activism in India
• Hydropower in Uttarakhand: Is ’Development’ the Real Objective?
• Impact of Mining and Industries in Jharkhand
• India - Nepal: Whither Koshi River?
• India has learnt nothing from the Bhopal tragedy
• India’s Asbestos Time Bomb
• India’s worst terrorist attack occurred not in Mumbai last month, but in Bhopal 24 years ago
• India: A Citizen’s Manifesto for the Ecological Protection Western Ghats
• India: Breathing, Eating and Drinking Radiation in Jadugoda
• India: Bt Brinjal - On the need for securing biosafety
• India: Child Labour and Illegal Encroachment of Parks For Bangalore Metro Construction
• India: Citizens Groups in the North East Demand That The Tipaimukh Dam Project Be Stopped
• India: Contamination of land and water continues in Bhopal
• India: Environment Ministry Releases Huge Funds for Extra-Legal, Environmentally Destructive Programs
• India: Environmental Activists Sabotage Award to Vedanta Alumina Ltd
• India: Move To Scuttle Proper Assessment of the Environmental Risks
• India: NAAM Opposes the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill
• India: People who live on the burning Jharia coal fields in Jharkhand
• India: Shadow of Bhopal on the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010 (Nuclear Bill)
• India: Some Questions Raised by the Contamination Incident at Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant
• India: The Collapse of Srinagar Coffer Dam in Uttrakhand Not Surprising
• India: UPA’s Second Great Nuclear Folly - Scrap Nuclear Liability Bill!
• India: We must reclaim our city streets as social space
• Is India courting nuclear disaster?
• Joint response of organizations for survivors’ rights to the recommendations of India’s Group of Ministers on Bhopal
• Lessons from Bhopal: What Was Done - What Should Have Been Done
• Memo to Government of India by Climate Justice Activists
• Mountains of Concrete: Dam Building in the Himalayas
• No Dissent at the Corporate Barrons World Water Forum
• Not floods but criminal design failure
• Nuclear option is not for future generations!
• Nuclear Power: An Open Letter to India’s Left Parties
• Online Petition : Protest to India’s Prime Minister against ‘The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2009’
• Online Petition Against the Petrochemical Hub near the Sunderban Biosphere Reserve
• Open Statement by CSOs from South Asia on IFC Policy and Performance Standards on Social and Environmental Sustainability
• Peace Movement’s Submission to India’s Parliament on ’Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010’
• Phulbari coal project poses socio-environmental dangers
• Reading the Looming Ecological Crisis Politically
• Rich Lands Poor People: Unregulated Mining in Rajasthan
• Severe accident risk at India’s fast breeder nuclear reactor
• South Asia’s rivers must be seen as a sources for nourishing and uniting peoples, not dividing them!
• System change - not climate change : Copenhagen People’s Declaration (Klimaforum09)
• The 1984 Bhopal accident: Consequence of life-price difference in two low life-value countries
• The Engineering Failures Behind the Floods in Pakistan
• The orphan of development
• The Politics of Dams: Curbs on Rivers and People
• Tipaimukh Dam, a potential seismic bomb for South Asia
• What Bhopal Started: From Union Carbide to Exxon to BP
• Wrong call on nuclear liability
• Yes to public transport, No to cars!

Articles

• "All those who want a dialogue with the Taliban should go to hell"
• "B’EAU-PAL" Water Scares Dow Management Into Hiding
• "What is obtained by fear can be retained only as long as the fear lasts"
• ’Child Goddess’ Sambhavi has to go to School! Andhra Pradesh Human Rights Commission Orders!
• 21st Century Conflict between Science and Religion
• A Bit About Bangalore’s Land Mafia
• A forgotten episode
• A Free Open Source Software Manifesto for India
• A Hollywood Blockbuster With Relevance For India
• A military coup in Pakistan?
• A mortal blow to panchayat raj
• A nightmare
• A radio discussion on the November 2008 attack in Bombay
• After The State Made ’Peace’ with Fascists in Swat Valley: this is what followed
• Amend the Constitution - Say No To State Religion
• Amnesty’s smoke and mirrors
• An Account of the Calcutta Court hearing of 34 Burmese freedom fighters held in India
• An Appeal for Conducting Public Enquiry into the Affairs of Bhonsala Military College
• An interview with Prachanda, Chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
• Appeal for donations to the Pakistan Peace Coalition Flood Relief Fund
• Appeal To The Indian Left From A Progressive Pakistani: Evolve Alternative Paradigm of Economic Growth
• Arundhati Roy corrects The Economist
• At the heart of Pakistan’s crisis is arbitrary power
• Attack on Cricketers in Lahore Strikes at Pakistan’s Heart and Soul
• Attacks on Minorities in Pakistan: Growing power of fundamentalists in Punjab
• Avarna program for diversity in publishing
• Bangladesh : Uncover Truth on BDR Mutiny and Ensure Justice - A Statement by Concerned Citizens
• Bangladesh: Daring to dream
• Bangladesh: Failure of secular forces created a vacuum through which extremism emerged
• Bangladesh: Lessons from Historic judgement in the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Assasination Case
• Bangladesh: Secular Education A Must For Realising The Ekushey Spirit
• Bangladesh: The BDR mutiny and questions of democratization of state and society
• Bangladesh: The border guards’ mutiny and the language of violence
• Bangladesh: The Long Wait For A War Crimes Trial
• Bangladesh: Vote to separate religion from politics
• Barack Obama, terrorism and "cultural" nationalism
• Beyond conspiracy theories on the Mumbai massacre
• Bomb-hunters of Surat
• Book Review: Across Time and Continents - A Tribute to Victor G. Kiernan
• Book Review: Scanning P.C. Joshi’s Biography
• Caste and the Census in India
• Changing picture of caste in urban India
• Channel 4 News Video on the Taliban in Pakistan’s Swat Valley
• Charter of International Bureau for Laicite
• Chhattisgarh: Where Journalists get paid to keep their mouths shut
• Citizens, Not Enemies of Bangladesh
• Clinical trials sustain Ahmedabad’s riot victims
• Colonial Construction of Adivasi society
• Conference Declaration - 7th World Atheist Conference 2009
• Contemporary Global Capitalism: Multi-pronged crises
• Cowboy VC Goes Berserk on Delhi University Campus : Teachers Trying To Rein Him In
• Credibility and corruption in officialdom
• Crisis of ideology or war for fear from freedom
• Dangers of Selective Memory
• Debates in Colonial and Early Nationalist Anthropology of Castes and Tribes in India
• Declaration from Social Movements/NGOs Parallel Forum to the World Food Summit on Food Security Rome, November 13-17, 2009
• Democracy Is Unfinished Business in South Asia
• Digital Politics of Hindu Nationalism
• Disclaimer
• Dont be misled by France’s Nuclear Energy Salesmen (Sortir du nucleaire - Press Release)
• Dress, Difference and Dissent in Darjeeling Hills
• Electoral contest between Mallika Sarabhai and LK Advani is like Gandhi vs Godse
• Facing the truth in Pakistan
• False Press Reports To Intimidate Sri Lankans Who Speak for Peace and Justice
• Fatwa internalised
• Fear and silence
• Feeling sated?
• Fighting fundamentalists is key to Pakistan’s Survival
• Film Review: Slumdogs and Millionaires
• Food security — of APL, BPL and IPL
• Formation of Progressive Nepali Forum in the Americas
• Freedom of expression in slow death : U.N. gets cosy to legitimising curbs on criticism of religion
• From Murder Mystery To Spy Thriller: The Continuing Saga of The Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
• Games Intelligence Agencies Play in India and Pakistan
• Gaza and India: A view from Pakistan
• Halt the EU India FTA Negotiations
• Has Mahinda Rajapaksa Been A Traitor To Sri Lanka?
• Hasan Nasir: A Story of McCarthyism in Pakistan
• Hasrat Mohani’s hypothesis
• Highlights - Report on the State of Food Insecurity in Rural India
• Holocaust in Gaza?
• How not to tackle flu crisis: India must rethink strategy
• How to tackle India’s hunger
• Identity and Inheritance - Talking about revolution
• In Defence of Professor Lotika Sarkar
• India - Pakistan: Religious right on both sides feeds on each other
• India and its Northeast: A new politics of race
• India State Hunger Index
• India’s "Om" Made Secularism
• India’s Budget 2009-10: A Preliminary Note
• India’s Temple Sex Workers: The story of a devadasi
• India: "Paid News" Undermines the Media - Press Release by the Editors Guild
• India: A campaigner judicial reform responds to contempt of court notice by India’s supreme court
• India: A progressive court ruling accords the right live with or marry anyone of choice
• India: An Independent Review of Democracy and Governance in Karnataka (June 2008-November 2009)
• India: Bhopal’s Children - Generation II
• India: Count Infants the Food Security Law
• India: Crime and Politics
• India: Gay but not quite happy
• India: In Gujarat, Classrooms for Peace
• India: Its a War on the People - CNN IBN Interview with Arundhati Roy
• India: Legislation against hunger, is a great idea
• India: May 16 Forenoon - "Demons" Remain Bottled Up
• India: Menace of kangaroo courts in rural and urban Tamil Nadu
• India: Ostrich on the Bench
• India: Story of a Humanist Campaign in Andhra Pradesh Against Religious Exploitation of a Child
• India: Talks between the Government and the Maoists, the only way forward
• India: Text of Resolution adopted at the 3rd National Convention of Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms, 6 - 7 February 2010
• India: The age of the aam crorepati
• India: The Art and Science of Lying, Cheating and Hiding
• India: The National Public Meeting on Software Patents
• India: The Reservation Imbroglio
• India: The Trend of Appointing Former Spooks as Governors
• India: Undermining equal opportunities to all citizens
• India: Unnithan Episode and the Moralistic Mobocracy in Kerala
• Indo French Nuclear Accord is irresponsible and aggravates nuclear proliferation
• Internet and 2007 Protests in Burma
• Invading the Secular Space in India
• Is solidarity with the Gazans same as solidarity with Hamas?
• Islamabad’s Margala Towers Tragedy
• Israel’s devastating attack on Gaza
• It is Darwin Time: Will We Accept It?
• It is the Swatis today, tomorrow it could be your turn
• It’s Not Class Struggle in Swat
• Jamia Teachers Condemn Communal Witch Hunt and Demand Independent Impartial Enquiry
• Judiciary – Need For Introspection
• Killing Bombay
• Lalon and Terror
• Language Rights in Sri Lanka
• Letter from a Doctor to the Indian Medical Association Not to Endorse Pepsi food products
• Limitless violence and Pakistan’s future
• M F Hussain at 94: Artists Tributes and an Exibit by Sahmat in Delhi
• Mahatma Gandhi and India’s National Independence Movement
• Make labouring poor the center of economic policy
• Manto, on murder
• Meeto Memorial Award for Young South Asians
• Morality Militias At Your Doorstep
• Mumbai 2008, India’s 9/11?
• Mumbai is Not India’s 9/11
• Mumbai massacres may be a harbinger of more violence to come
• Mumbai terror attacks and India’s response
• Mumbaivoices.com : Testimonies and Response
• Myths about Urdu
• Nano in Gujarat: Make Believe Stature of Modi
• NAPM on one year of Delhi High Court Judgement on Section 377
• NAPM Statement On Mumbai Terror Attack
• National ID Cards: In the Interest of Surveillance?
• Nationalise, Dont Bailout Fraud and Crisis Ridden Private Firms
• Nepal and the Prachanda Path
• Nepal: Prachanda’s Talk at the New School
• Nepal: Shrinking space for compromise; India should’nt flame tensions
• Nepal: The peace process must be allowed to work to its logical end of full democracy
• Ninjas: Photo commentary by Q. Isa Daudpota
• Nirupama’s Murder: The Violence of India’s High-Born
• No to impunity for crimes of non-State actors
• Obama’s Indian
• On Democracy and Democratisation in Pakistan
• On Social Movements: An Interview with Smitu Kothari
• On the Road to Attractive Authoritarianism
• Open Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
• Pakistan and elsewhere: Dismantling the myths about fundamentalism(s)
• Pakistan Lawyers’ Movement: A critical view
• Pakistan media needs for a code of professional ethics
• Pakistan Peace Coalition Concerned at Growing Violence Against People by Taliban and allies in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
• Pakistan Peace Coalition demands free trade among all SAARC countries according to commitments
• Pakistan Social Forum 2009 - Karachi, 7 February 2009
• Pakistan will have to undo the Maududian infiltration of its state and society
• Pakistan’s Universities: The New War Within
• Pakistan: Ban the ban on Basant
• Pakistan: Can religious extremism be countered with out secular alternatives ?
• Pakistan: Citizens Letter / Petition Seeking Separation of Religion and State
• Pakistan: Citizens Petition To Separate Religion from the State
• Pakistan: Concessions to religious extremists defies all logic
• Pakistan: Fascists at the doorstep
• Pakistan: If we dont fight back the Taliban today, we may not even live to regret it
• Pakistan: If we persist with fire-fighting, the fire will only spread further
• Pakistan: Lal Masjid is Not The Only Threat
• Pakistan: Life of Afzal Khan Lala is under threat
• Pakistan: Needed A United Front Against Talibanization
• Pakistan: PDSN condemns attack on Christian village in Punjab and demand justice for victims
• Pakistan: Punjab Govt Should Stop Official Patronage to Fundamentalist Outfits!
• Pakistan: The conspiracy to keep the majority disenfranchised
• Pakistan: The Exclusion of the Poor and The Unregulated Maulvi
• Pakistan: The nightmare must end
• Pakistan: Triumph of Taliban in Swat Likely to Stimulate Other Bigots in the Region
• Pakistan: Who should the state talk to in FATA and what about ?
• Pakistani’s Against Talibanisation: Citizen’s Letter to be sent to the President, PM, CJ and COAS
• Pakistanis Need to Reflect on the Elections in India
• Peddling a bygone culture and patriarchy as Islam
• Peddling Hate in the Name of Culture
• Petition Against continuing violence in Swat and Taliban’s closure of girls’ schools
• Petition To Government of Pakistan To End Religious Violence
• Petition to: Stop the Carnage in Swat and FATA / Stop the Taliban from Ending Girls Education
• Photos of Delhi Protest Demo of 2 June 2010 Against Israeli Raid on The Gaza Freedom Flotilla
• Pilgrimage to nowhere: A year on from Benazir Bhutto’s assassination
• Plea for a Secular Education Policy in Bangladesh
• Political Decay and Ethnocentrism in Sri Lanka
• Progressive forces are under threat from extremists in Pakistan
• Quake Survivors Await Relief in Pakistan
• Rajani Thiranagama’s Vision for Sri Lanka
• Real Security Should Accompany Real Justice
• Recycling violence & unrest in Kashmir
• Reflections on violence and non-violence in political movements in India
• Refutation of Invented Claims Regarding Indus Script
• Religious Right Rules the Roost At Top University in Pakistan
• Saudiisation of Pakistan where all discourse seems increasingly legitimised only through religious inferences
• Secularism is the key to peace and security for all in Pakistan and South Asia
• Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: Inside a school for suicide bombers
• Shining India/Mumbai: Through the Prism of Slumdog Millionaire
• Silencing the Moderate Voice in Balochistan
• Slumdog Millionaire uses poverty as a prop
• Some Reminiscences of India and the CPI
• Some Thoughts on Developments in Nepal
• South Africa: Call for Papers for Yusuf Dadoo Conference
• Sri Lanka: Sinhala Ultranationalists Threaten Progressive Think Tank
• Sri Lanka: The ’Old Left’ writing itself out of contention
• Sri Lanka: The Price of Truth-Telling, The Price of Lying . . .
• State of the Urdu Press in India
• Statement by Jamia Teachers Forum
• Stemming the Rot
• Stop Big Business From Funding Political Parties in India
• Strengths and Pitfalls of Constitutional Reforms in Pakistan
• Surviving on the Faultline: 3 years after the earthquake . . .realities of people’s lives
• Take Secularism Route To Free Bangladesh from Extremism
• Take the crisis head-on: reshape Pakistan’s economic policy
• Ten myths about Pakistan
• Test Petition to d and o S J
• Text of Pakistan Supreme Court Ruling against amnesty under the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO)
• The answer’s blowing in the wind
• The BJP Dreamland
• The Challenge of Fundamentalism and Imperialism
• The crisis of institutions in Pakistan
• The dead two nation theory remains an obsession for some
• The embrace of insanity
• The gravity of the challenge in Pakistan
• The Hurriyat must unite for Azadi in Kashmir
• The India Lobby in America’s Corridors of Power
• The India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement - Ten Years On
• The Millions and the Foolish Few: A speech delivered by Gita Sahgal
• The Mothers of The Lashkar
• The Mumbai Terror Attacks: Need For A Thorough Investigation
• The Pakhtun, the Taliban and ignorant outsiders
• The Politics of Deal Making With the Taliban in Swat
• The Production of Difference
• The Saudi-isation of a once-vibrant Pakistani culture
• The Story Behind The Common High Court For Punjab & Haryana
• The Swat Offensive in Pakistan
• The three big problems of India’s biggest minority
• These self styled economists
• They Bid To Keep India Locked in the Past
• Time to answer vital questions on November 2008 attack on Bombay
• To Say No to Indo US Nuclear Deals
• Towards a Secular Nepal
• Triangular Phenomenon in India
• UK: Rise in the market for fatwas and book burning and decline of secular space
• University Community for Democracy Challenges Eviction of Students
• Uphold the parliament’s authority in Pakistan
• Use and Abuse of Gandhi
• Victor Kiernan: A Tribute
• Violence and its victims
• Walking hand in hand into the smog of mistrust
• Was 26/11 related to Bombay or India?
• We have failed Gandhi: Fascist communal forces gaining ground
• What about “Never again”?
• What should minorities do
• Whither Pakistan?
• Who needs moral policing, how much and why?
• Who rules Pakistan?
• Why Faisal Shahzad Bombed Times Square?
• Why Pakistan chose to honor Charlie Wilson is beyond everyone, even the Texans
• Why the Story of Bhagat Singh Remains on the Margins?
• Writ Petition in Supreme Court of Pakistan for Nationalization of Sugar Mills
• Zionism, exterminism, and the Times of India

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• Caught in historical cliches
• Hindutva Fundamentalists Loose California Textbook Court Case: Text of Summary Judgment (February 25, 2009)
• Hindutvadis Lose California Textbook Fight . . . Again
• Ideology clashing with history
• Interpreting the past: A conversation with Prof. Romila Thapar
• Romila Thapar: Don’t impose religious beliefs onto history
• Romila Thapar: History and Contemporary Politics in India
• Romila Thapar: Katz Lecture 2005
• The Battle Over Ramayana in Delhi University History Course

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• ’Encounter Killings’ and the Question of Justice in India
• ’Encounter’ at Batla House: Unanswered Questions
• ’India Must Prosecute Those Responsible for 1984 Massacre of Sikhs’ - asks Human Rights Watch
• A conscience encountered
• A Flood of Draconian Laws in India’s North East
• A Letter from Nagpur Central Jail
• A Letter to the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir re the Arrest of Five Right to Information Activists
• A Memorandum to Governer of Gujarat submitted by rights activists
• A peoples campaign against India’s UID project
• A Singer’s Tribute To Dr. Binayak Sen
• A Statement by Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (22 July 2009)
• A Unique Identity Bill
• Abuses Against Civilians in areas under LTTE control
• Acts of Terror and Terrorising Act: Unfolding Indian Tragedy
• An open letter to Obama & McCain
• ANHAD Statement on the recent killings of civilians in Jammu and Kashmir
• Appeal for the Release of Pakistani Human Rights Activist, Tariq Mehmood
• Arundhati Roy: Introspect before calling for sweeping anti terror laws
• As the Fires Die: The Terror of the Aftermath
• Authorities in India should avoid excessive use of force, investigate killings in Kashmir valley
• Bangladesh and human rights: An interview with Sultana Kamal
• Bangladesh: CHT Commission seeks investigation into arson attack on Jumma village in Sajek
• Bangladesh: Concerned citizens seek probe into custodial deaths of BDR men
• Bangladesh: Emergency Treatment
• Bangladesh: Unfinished Justice for the crimes of 1971
• Bangladesh: Whose Ekushey, Whose Blood?
• Breaking the mistrust in Chhattisgarh
• Call For Judicial Probe into the Batla House ’Encounter’ Now!
• Calling for a judicial enquiry into the Batla House encounter is a not a travesty
• Calls for a Citizens’ March to Parliament for Judicial Enquiry into Jamia Nagar Encounter
• Challenging Police Use of Pseudo Scientific Technologies in India: Selected Resources
• Citizen’s statement against terrorism and communal violence in India
• Citizens Appeal on Kashmir (9 July, 2010)
• Citizens resistance to sectarian hatred in Gujarat in India
• Concern at Orissa Govt Setting up a ’Sulwa Judam’ Type Militia
• Concerned Citizens Letter To India’s Prime Minister Regarding the Situation in Sri Lanka
• Courage Craft and Contention: Human Rights and the Judicial Imagination
• CPJC Statement on NHRC Report on Salwa Judum
• Cruelty let loose in Kashmir unlikely to subdue popular resistance
• Curb fresh wave of violence against religious minorities in Pakistan
• Dark Times for Human Rights With Amnesty International Getting into Bed With the Jihadis
• Dead Hence Guilty ?
• Delhi ’encounter’ raises tough questions
• Dont Stiffle Democratic Dissent in Orissa !
• Dr Sen’s case has put Indian democracy on trial. Will it prove itself or fail?
• Draconian laws are no answer
• End the use of children in the conflict in Chhattisgarh state
• Equality before the law?
• EU-India summit 2008: Amnesty International’s Letter to Sarkozy
• Excerpts from the UTHR(J) Special Report on Third Anniversary of the ACF Massacre in Sri Lanka
• Fact finding report on Shahbaz accused in Jaipur Bomb blasts
• Fake Encounters in Kashmir: Dangerous for the Integrity of the Country
• Fear for Safety of Human Rights Activist in Uttar Pradesh
• Guilt by Association
• HRCP seeks abolition of death penalty, moratorium on executions
• Human Rights and Humanitarian Issues in Northern Sri Lanka
• Human Rights Watch Letter to the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
• Human Rights Watch Report on Police Brutality and Abuse in India
• Hundreds march to demand Judicial Enquiry into the Batla House ’Encounter’
• Illegal Detentions and Torture Continue in Gujarat
• In Mayaland, human rights activists are targets of anti terrorism agencies
• Independent commission should probe the allegations of human rights violations in Kashmir
• Independent Report on Mass Graves in Indian-administered Kashmir
• India Administered Kashmir: Shopian Cover Up - Investigating agencies stand exposed
• India citizens voices in solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka
• India Must Ensure A Fair Trial To Qasab
• India’s AFSPA: Emergency lite?
• India: The Narayanpatna Police Firing on Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangha in Orissa - A Citizens Report
• India: "Replace 26/11 Trial Judge" - Press Release from International Association of People’s Lawyers
• India: ’Encounters’ as Murders
• India: A Citzens Fact Finding Report on the Demolition of Vanvasi Chetna Ashram, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh
• India: A Tale of Two Encounters - Dehradun and Batla House
• India: Act with restraint during elections in Jammu & Kashmir
• India: An Open Letter to Hon’ble Prime Minister re Ishrat Jahan’s killing in Gujarat
• India: Attacks on Schools by Maoists and Occupation of Educational Facilities by Government Security Forces
• India: “Is it a crime to work in a democratic and peaceful way for the empowerment and development of Adivasis”?
• India: Binayak Sen’s Continued Incarceration is Meant to Silence Dissent
• India: Call for Action in Support of Irom sharmila
• India: Caste Panchayats Getting Away With Murder
• India: Compel government to implement police reforms ordered by Supreme Court
• India: Concerned Citizens Statement on Maoist attack on police camp in West Bengal
• India: Concerned Citizens Statement on the NHRC report on the alleged encounter at Batla house
• India: Counter-terrorism must not kill democracy
• India: Criticism and Opposition Being Stifled - Baseless allegations against legitimate democratic rights organisations
• India: Dr Binayak Sen Under Threat from Chhattisgarh Police
• India: End Manipur Killings Repeal Law That Gives the Military License for Violence
• India: Facts about the arrest and mistreatment of Kobad Ghandy
• India: Growing threats to human rights activists on eve of protest march and public hearing in Chhattisgarh
• India: Haryana Government witch hunt and negative profiling of the political activists
• India: Jamia Teachers reiterate demand for a Judicial Probe into the Batla House ‘encounter’
• India: Kasab and His Trial
• India: Malicious propaganda against the Lalagarh movement and the urban intellectuals who supported it
• India: Narmada Bachao Andolan Khandwa Office Sealed and all Key activists of NBA arrested
• India: New anti-terror laws would violate international human rights standards
• India: No to Farcical Enquiries; Shame on the NHRC for its Partisanship
• India: Open Letter to the Ministry of Minority Affairs on the Equal Opportunities Commission
• India: Press Release of Independent Citizens Fact Finding Mission to Manipur
• India: Price of Honour - Caste Panchayats as Instruments of Terror
• India: Produce Mr. Kobad Ghandy, Senior Maoist Leader Immediately Before The Court!
• India: PUCL Press Statement on Detention of Himanshu in Chhattisgarh
• India: Resolution by Citizens Campaign for the Repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act
• India: Saffron cheerleaders dance to a different terror tune
• India: Section 69 of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 Violates The Constitution
• India: Shopian - Case Watch of a Cover Up
• India: Slanderous accusations against People’s Union for Civil Liberties
• India: Social Boycott of Dalits in Madhya Pradesh - Uncivil Society, Apathetic Administration
• India: Statement on the arrest of respected rights activists on way to Lalgarh
• India: Stop torture and arbitrary arrests of peace activists and human rights defenders in Chhattisgarh
• India: Suppression of Civil and Political Rights in Chhattisgarh
• India: Supreme Court Judgement on Batla House ’Encounter’ will set a dangerous precedent
• India: Text of Ahmedabad Metropolitan Magistrate’s Inquiry Report on The Death of Ishrat Jehan and others in Gujarat
• India: The Right to Fair Trial and Ajmal Kasab
• India: The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act 2008 - Repeating Past Mistakes
• India: Use ordinary criminal laws not Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA)
• India: Verdict of the ’Jan Sunwai’ Jury
• India: Whether Human Rights of Prisoners Stand Suspended ?
• India: Why dissent matters in a democracy - The Case of Dr Binayak Sen
• Indian Democracy Under Threat If Unquestioned Powers To the Armed Forces Not Curbed
• International Bar Association deeply concerned at targeting of lawyers in Sri Lanka as ’Traitors in black coats’
• Intimidation undermining the credibility of upcoming elections in Kashmir
• Irom Sharmila Released and Rearrested: 9th Year of Struggle Against AFSPA
• Jan Sunwai and Public Meeting on the Batla House ’Encounter’
• Join hands to end Karachi mayhem - Press release by HRCP
• Judicial Indifference to Deaths in Custody or ’Disapearances’
• Kabul Conference raises fears of sacrificing rights for short-term peace
• Kandhamal, Orissa - Press release by human rights activists
• Kashmir Diary: Where do We Go from Here?
• Kashmir Tribunal Memorandum to CM Omar Abdullah
• Kashmir: A Militarist Mindset and Lack of Accountability Continue to Prevail
• Kashmir: Will The Pain Never End?
• Kashmiris Cannot Be Won Over or Suppressed at Gun point : A statement from Anhad & concerned citizens
• Letter from university faculty to the Police Chief of Chhattissgarh
• Media war in Sri Lanka: A Television report on AlJazeera English
• Military Governance in Indian-administered Kashmir
• Move For A Draconian Law, Has To Be Resisted
• Mumbai Attack leads to a one-dimensional debate on Islamic fundamentalism
• Murdered for Love
• New Delhi’s infinite tolerance to human rights abuses in Kashmir
• NHRC’s Most Friendly Inquiry on Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh
• No more denials, please
• Non-state actors and the rule of law in Chhattisgarh
• Not Crushed, Merely Ignored
• Open letter to Election Commission to Restrain BJP targeting the Muslim community in Jamia and Batla House area
• Open Letter to the Chief Justice of India, Chairpersons of NCW and NHRC
• Operation Green Hunt’s Urban Avatar
• Pakistan - India: A long wait for prisoners
• Pakistan - India: When Border Lines Are Drawn on Water - The story of detained fishermen
• Pakistan Governement Deal with the Taliban undermines rights of women and other basic rights for all
• Pakistan: Marginalisation and discrimination against the minorities - An interview with Dr Charles Amjad-Ali
• Pakistan: Religion cannot be used or allowed to justify murder
• Peaceful citizen protest against chauvinist politics, brutalised by Bombay police
• Preliminary Findings of People’s Tribunal on State action in the name of countering terror
• Press Release on Jamianagar ’Encounter’
• PUCL, Singhbhum Statement on the Killing of Subhash Mahato of Bonta (Jharkhand) by alleged Maoists
• Religious right pushing a retrograde and anti human rights agenda in Maldives
• Report of 2008 Mission to India by Asma Jahangir, UN Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
• Restoring the integrity of human rights: A Petition to Amnesty International
• Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh: Criminalisation of the State
• Shocking endorsement of ’Defensive Jihad’ by Amnesty international: Human rights advocates respond
• Solidarity in the US with campaign for the release of Binayak Sen in India
• Some Questions for the Delhi Police and Embedded ’Journalists’
• Southern Chhattisgarh: Human Rights Watch Letter to India’s Prime Minister
• Sri Lanka’s Election Aftermath - Media Under Attack
• Sri Lanka’s Final Offensive and India’s Deafening Silence
• Sri Lanka: As aid workers withdraw, thousands of war displaced persons at further risk
• Sri Lanka: Breakdown of Law and Order
• Sri Lanka: Deportation of Bob Rae - Some Fundamental Questions for the future of Minorities and the Erasure of Democracy
• Sri Lanka: Ethnic Strife, Fratricide, and the Peace vs. Human Rights Dilemma
• Sri Lanka: Execution Video Shows Need for International Inquiry
• Sri Lanka: Normalising The Exception - The Emergency Continues
• Sri Lanka: Press release from Centre for Policy Alternatives Regarding Death Threats To its Director
• Sri Lanka: Submission to Police re murder of Lasantha Wickramatunge
• State action in the name of countering Terrorism & Conversions
• State repression on political and social activists in Uttarakhand
• Statement from International Press Freedom Mission to Sri Lanka
• Statement on Bhutanese Refugees’ Right to Repatriation
• Statement on the Treatment of Rohingya and Bangladeshi ’Boat People’ in Asia
• Statement Released by Women and Mothers on Killings in Kashmir Valley
• Stop the Undeclared Emergency and Witch-hunt of Social activists & Human Rights Defenders [in India] – Statement by Civil Society groups and concerned citizens
• Terror, Batla House and the Indian Police
• Terrorism and Human Rights
• Terrorism, Justice and Human Rights in India
• Text of Statement on India by Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
• The Chin People of Burma: Unsafe in Burma, Unprotected in India
• The Crisis in Manipur: A Joint Statement issued by Human Rights Alert and the Asian Human Rights Commission
• The last option : A stone in her hand
• The Return of POTA & TADA
• The story of Binayak Sen is a wake-up call for India
• They, the people
• This is not zero tolerance, Mr. Prime Minister
• Trail of the Terror Cops
• U.S. military frees Afghan journalist after 11 months
• UN Report on Conflict-related Disappearances in Bardiya District, Nepal
• Universal Periodic Review(UPR), Bangladesh: A Report by Human Rights Forum
• Urgent Action Required: Crossfire exhibit regarding extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh, provokes death threats
• Victims of a quick fix war on terror in India
• What Future for Democracy and Dissent in Sri Lanka?
• When soldiers turn murderers
• Why Afzal Must Not Be Hanged

Articles

• A Pretext to Impose Brutal Repression: The Government’s "Offensive" Is a Formula for Bloodshed and Injustice
• Comprehensive Report on Commonwealth Games Launched in Delhi: Panel of Experts Questions Secrecy and Undemocratic Nature of CWG Process
• ’Objections to the proposed civil nuclear liability [cap] bill’ - CNDP letter to India’s Prime Minister
• ’You cannot eat coal’: resistance in Phulbari, Bangladesh
• A National Call For Democracy In The Forests of India
• A Staged Election
• A Thought for the Civilians of Vanni in Sri Lanka
• Action Alert: Police firing against peaceful adivasis protestors in Jharkhand : Write to CM & NHRC
• Action Alert: Act Now for Survival and Justice in the Narmada Valley (India)
• Adivasi Sangama 2008 - Announcement
• An Appeal for Peace in South Bastar
• An Unconscionable Judgement
• Arundhati Roy on Democracy in the Shadow of Profit Making
• Arundhati Roy: at the Independent Tribunal on the World Bank in India
• Bangladesh: Letter of Concern to the Prime Minister About Tourism Development in Chittagong Hill Tracts
• Bangladesh: Teardrops of Karnaphuli (CHT) A documentary by Tanvir Mokammel
• Bauxite Mine and Refinery Devastate Lives in India
• Big Dams, Big Floods: On Predatory Development
• Border Security Complex: India - Bangladesh ’security’ fence
• Busting The Myths About Vedanta’s Mining Project in Orissa, India
• Call For A Moratorium on Mega-Resorts
• Call for Justice on the 24th Anniversary of The Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster
• Challenging commodification of nature - Dehradun declaration by forest workers in India
• Chhattisgarh March for Peace and Justice Talks - from May 5 to 8, 2010
• Children Against Dow-Carbide Formed
• Citizens groups stand up in defence of peaceful resistance against anti-people steel project in Orissa
• Civil Disobedience Action for the Release of Dr. Binayak Sen
• Combating displacement
• Commonwealth Games: The Pettiness of Eminence
• Competing missionaries and the tribal market
• Concern about violence and shrinking democratic space in Chhattisgarh
• Condemnation of Chhatradhar Mahato’s arrest by organizations and individuals in India
• Conspiracy, politics and betrayal
• Counter-insurgency industry, mysterious militia’s and parochial politics
• Daily Indifference
• Dam(n)ed in Kashmir
• Defend Sebastian Rodrigues and defend Goa’s environment from the Fomento
• Defining Migrants, Foreigners and Citizens in Assam
• Detained in India, arrested in Bangladesh
• Development Via State Terror in Jharkhand
• Displacement and Political Parties
• Does post 9/11 America explain Binayak Sen?
• Dont undermine Bangladesh
• Ethno-nationalism in Pakistan: beyond economics and politics
• Fantasies of Development and The Democracy Deficit in North East India
• Gaon Chodab Nahi - A song
• Give up arms and join the democratic struggle
• Government of India should Honour Commitment to the Parliament Regarding Tribal Lands
• Gravest Displacement - Bravest Resistance
• Green Revolution And After
• Gujarat Voters Awareness Campaign Press Release / Factsheet (15 April 2009)
• Gujarat’s Development Masks Other Realities
• Halt the Offensive Against People and End Militarisation of the Forests - Joint Statement of Forest People’s Movements in India
• How lobbyists are poisoning democracy in India
• India : Harassment of the peasants and adivasis of Narmada valley struggling for their just rights and implementation of court orders and the rule of law
• India must change the discourse from violence to democracy
• India’s Armed Safari
• India’s democratic institutions are rotting from within
• India’s Ruling Elites, Mineral Resources and Jharkhand
• India’s Uneven Democracy: The cry from Chhattisgarh
• India: Intellectuals, Maoists and the State
• India: PUCL, Gujarat & Sahiyar (Stree Sangathan) condemn the mass detention of 5500 people of Mahuva, Gujarat.
• India: Statement at VIBGYOR International Film Festival Demands Release of Dr. Binayak Sen
• India: A Citizens March for Peace is Blocked by the Chhattisgarh Government
• India: Alarming Notes from the Underground
• India: An account of a visit to the police state of Chhattisgarh
• India: Anthropology of a Genocide
• India: Appeal against genocide of adivasis in Bastar
• India: Appeal by concerned citizens for a ceasefire and peace talks between Govt. and maoists
• India: Appeal for talks with broader section of people’s struggles in the forest and mineral belt
• India: Before the storm broke [in Lalgarh]
• India: Challenges for Government-Maoist Talks
• India: Citizens Initiative for Peace and the Maoist Challenge
• India: Citizens March Against Predatory Corporations in Orissa
• India: Citizens Report Card on SEZs
• India: Confronting ’Guns of Peace’ - Bastar faces its worst crisis
• India: Corporate Crimes and Environmental plunder
• India: Corporate take over of democracy
• India: Democracy vs Economy
• India: Demolition of Vanvasi Chetna Ashram and the continuing violence in Chhattisgarh
• India: Deployment of Special Police Officers undermining justice and human rights
• India: Dial M for moral crisis
• India: Dr Binyak Sen on shrinking space for dissent in Chhattisgarh
• India: End Hostilities, Start Dialogue
• India: Failure of governance . . . Chronic hunger in villages and on city streets
• India: Forest Rights Act - Lost in the wilderness
• India: Government should respond to Maoist offer - Press Statement by Concerned Citizens
• India: Hemant Morparia’s Cartoon Maovadi Vs MOU vadi
• India: How many soldiers will it take to contain the mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people?
• India: Interim Observations of the Jury - Independent People’s Tribunal on Land Acquisition, Resource Grab and Operation Green Hunt
• India: Irom Sharmila’s 10-year-fast is ignored
• India: Join the Citizens Initiative for Peace Public meeting on 20 October 2009
• India: Keep the Bauxite in the Mountains
• India: Memorandum on The State of Affairs Twenty-Five Years After The Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster
• India: Mining Multinational Vedanta’s Scare Tactics Against international NGOs highligting tribal’s rights in Orissa
• India: National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movements (NAAM) Launched
• India: Notes on a Dying People [in Lalgarh]
• India: PUCL statement on the fight between State and Maoists in Chhattisgarh
• India: Quashing the voiceless with state ruthlessness
• India: Recognize Adivasi’s fleeing to Andhra Pradesh as Internally displaced persons (IDPs) and provide them rehabilitation
• India: Scrap LAA & R&R Bills - Enact NAC approved People’s Development Policy
• India: Slum Dwellers Protest No Say On Mumbai Metro Phase II
• India: Special Economic Zones, Path to Massive Land Grab
• India: Statement by Rights Activists Who Were Attacked And Refused Access Tribal Zone in Orissa
• India: Statement on the Lalgarh Operation
• India: Stop Offensive, Hold Unconditional Dialogue - Call From National Convention Of Citizens Initiative For Peace
• India: Take steps for the extradition of Warren Anderson, from the United States of America
• India: Terror of poverty and strife in the countryside
• India: The Biggest Grab of Tribal Lands After Columbus
• India: The Conflict Over Tribal Rights and State Response To The Activities of The Shramik Adivasi Sanghathana In Harda And Betul Districts, M.P.
• India: The Doctor Whom The State Fears
• India: The Influence of Big Business Lobby on Government and its Implications
• India: The New Face of Capitalist War and Duty of the Left
• India: The State of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples 2009
• India: Thwarting Social Unrest in the Name of Security - Chhatisgarh administration, industry and the security agencies
• India: Violence on the Left
• India: When The State Declares War on The People - Excerpts from Gopal Menon’s documentary film
• India: Will My Fast Against Violence and Dispossesion Help the Adivasis?
• Into thin air
• Jha Commission begins inquiry into fake registries at Alirajpur
• Jharkhand’s Villagers Face the Wrath of India’s Atomic Bureaucrats
• Justice and The Adivasi
• Kalpakkam’s forgotten people
• Kashipur’s struggle against the bauxite mining companies: An Appeal (30 December 2003)
• Kashmir where children dont know life without a militarised environment
• Kashmir’s Kangaroo Elections
• Kashmir: ’Democracy’ Through Repression and Intimidation
• Kashmir: Replacing the troops by a dreaded state police is no solution
• Kashmir: The routinisation of fake encounters
• Land must be acquired fairly
• Law and behold: Flagrant double standards in India’s legal and political system
• LBOD project in Southern Pakistan is a social and ecological disaster - ’People’s Tribunals’ of 2008 and 2007
• Legitimation of Terror and Erosion of Democratic Space in India: A Radio Conversation with Arundhati Roy
• Letter to India’s Prime Minister on the 25th Anniversary of Bhopal Gas Tragedy
• Manufacturing compulsions of national security
• More Militarisation Will Not Ensure Safety
• New Delhi: The commercialisation and dehumanisation of the city
• Northwest by northeast: a tale of two frontiers
• Notes from a contested history of National Identity Card in India:1999-2007
• Notes on Indian Vietnam
• Old fears and bitterness now resurface in Assam
• Online Petition Against Witch Hunt of Activists by Jindal Corporation
• Open Letter: International Oil Companies in Bangladesh and State Violence against Bangladeshi Activists
• Pakistan: Plight of Displaced Balochs
• Pakistan: The Tenants’ Struggle on Okara Military Farms
• People’s Tribunal on WB, IMF, ADB in Bangladesh
• Peter Popham: Vedanta’s very embarrassing silence
• Petition from the Affected Citizens of Teesta to the Government of India
• Protest for Peace
• Raipur Satyagraha Campaign for the Release of Dr Binayak Sen
• Relay Hunger Strike at Delhi University Against Commonwealth Games
• Repressive Indian State vs. Brutal Maoist Insurgency: Call for Peace and Sanity
• Rethink Corporate Farming in Pakistan
• Reverie of quick-fix industrialization
• SEZ: The Indian Experience
• Singrauli’s Discarded people
• Slums as self-confrontation
• South Koreans in Solidarity with Anti POSCO protests in Orissa, India
• Speak up for the people of Bhopal
• Speaking Out of Turn
• Sri Lanka: Civil Society Organisations Deeply Concerned at the Situation in Vanni
• Sri Lanka: Diaspora Organizations Demand GOSL and LTTE Act Immediately to Prevent Humanitarian Catastrophe
• Sri Lanka: SOS - Agonising Cry of the People of Wanni
• Sri Lanka: Why are the Vanni civilians still being held hostage?
• Stop destructive development and restore the faith of the adivasis in the Indian Constitution
• Stop! Militarization of Democratic Processes and Space in India
• Stories from the Baloch resistance movement in Pakistan: Interview with Chakar Khan
• Sweeping dissent under the carpet of ’normalcy’ in Kashmir
• Taking on the ’Developers’: A proposal for social transfomation
• Taking the State to Court
• The Bhopal Disaster, 25 years on - A Dossier
• The Bhopal Verdict : A Tragedy for National Dignity and Justice
• The Borderland and Its Zero People
• The Class Bias of India’s Higher Judiciary
• The ghost projects in Pakistan
• The Indian State in a Liberalising Landscape
• The Kosi Disaster: Dont Forget the Survivors
• The Mega Development Projects Money Machine in Pakistan
• The naive song and dance around KRRS: A critique of gatekeepers of global solidarity
• The Neo-liberal Urban Development Paradigm in Asia
• The poor cannot be left to fend for themselves while the elites party
• U.S. Tour of Bhopal Gas Disaster Survivors and Campaigners
• US Lawsuit Wins Appeal Against Union Carbide Corporation and Dow
• Vibrant Gujarat: Lies, Half Truths and Illusions
• War and the Displaced Civilians in Sri Lanka’s Vanni Region
• We Say ‘NO’ to Nuclear! New Delhi Rally Against India’s Nuclearisation, 2 October 2009
• We the citizens of Pakistan must express solidarity with the people of Balochistan
• What happens when democracy is hollowed out and emptied of meaning?
• What has Driven the Tribals of Central India to Political Extremism?
• Withdraw Operation Green Hunt: Letter from Jharkhand Indigenous People’s Forum

Articles

• Nuclear Free India, February, 2009
• Nuclear Free India, June 15, 2009
• Nuclear Free India, Volume 1, Issue 1, December 2008
• Nuclear Free India, Volume 1, Issue 2, December 15, 2008
• Nuclear Free India, Volume 1, Issue 3, January, 2009

Articles

• "Ik Aur Jahan Mumkin Hai"
• Amartya Sen on the Illusion of Identity and Violence
• Arundhati Roy Interview on Media and Police Complicty
• Arundhati Roy Interviewed on Fault Lines / Aljazeera (May 2010)
• Arundhati Roy: "We are neither with you nor with the terrorists"
• Bangladesh: Corruption, Politicians and Extremist Groups
• Children Of The Taliban
• Class Dismissed in Swat Valley: The Death of Female Education
• Cultural Relativism, Fear and Censorship: Salman Rushdie in conversation with Irshad Manji
• Encountered on Saffron Agenda: A documentary film on staged encounter killings in Gujarat
• How education intersects with violence in Pakistan
• Hunting the Corporate Killers: Excerpt from a documentary film on the Bhopal gas disaster
• I for India by Sandhya Suri
• Image, Music, Text: 20 Years of Sahmat
• In God’s name
• India: A Television Debate on Naxal Violence Versus State Violence
• India: PV Indiresan Committee Report on Electronic Voting Machines (September 2006)
• Little Terrorist
• Opium and Empire: Amitav Ghosh speaking to Kwame Anthony Appiah
• Politics, Ethnicity and Popular Culture in Karachi
• Prof. Vinay Lal and Prof. Shiv Bajpai on Revisionist History in California Textbooks (audio, 20 min). Air Talk, KPCC 89.3 FM Los Angeles, Mar 1, 2006
• Religion and Argument: Salman Rushdie in conversation with Gauri Viswanathan
• Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Connected Histories - Notes towards a Reconfiguration of Early Modern Eurasia
• Sita Sings the Blues: an animation film by Nina Paley
• Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community in India
• Tariq Ali on Pakistan and US Policy
• The Auction - a film by Zakir Hossain
• The Bhopal Gas Tragedy - A three minute documentary film
• When Jewish women were the leading ladies of Indian cinema

Articles

• "Coming out" of sexuality in India
• 377 Judgment, One Year On. Celebrations on July 2, 2010!
• Accepting the love that does not speak its name
• Bangalore Police assault on trangenders and sexual minorities rights defenders
• Bangalore Queer Pride March’09: A Report
• Call for contributions to SCRIPTS, the queer zine
• Decriminalize Homosexuality
• Erotic justice: law and the new politics of postcolonialism
• Gay sex among adults ’not criminal’ in India - Full Text of Delhi High Court Ruling of 2 July 2009
• India: End to unnatural exclusion
• India: From ’perversion’ to right to life with dignity
• India: Justice for Professor Siras
• India: Landmark Judgment on Gay Rights: Litmus Test for Tolerance
• India: Policing morality at Aligah Muslim University - An independent fact finding report
• India: Regulating ’perversion’ and the role of tolerance in de-radicalising the rights claims of sexual subalterns
• India: Statement by teachers, researchers and academics welcomes the Delhi High Court judgement reading down Section 377
• India: The Regressive Attitude of State on Homosexuality
• India: Whose morality is this?
• India: Why gay rights should matter to the rest of us
• India: Why no neta will talk straight on 377
• India: Women’s groups and feminists should be particularly encouraged by the Delhi court decision on section 377
• Law like love
• Love in a Different Climate: men who have sex with men in India
• Moral Policing and the threats to Indian culture from ‘bad’ sexuality
• Open letter for the overturning of section 377 of the Indian penal code
• Out of the closet and into the courts in India
• Queer Thoughts: Call for Papers
• Queering India: same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society
• Representing same-sex politics and positions in the media
• Section 377 - where crime and ’sin’ are inseparable
• Section 377 and Denial of Rights to Sexual Minorities
• Section 377 and Moral policing by the Indian State
• Sexual Minorities, Homophobia and Bangalore Police
• Sri Lanka: Threats to ’Equal Ground’
• Stop Abuse of Sexual Rights Activists
• The Origins of "Sodomy" Laws in British Colonialism
• The perversions of writers
• The Politics of Sex
• The revolution will not be funded
• Why India’s Section 377 ruling is not Stonewall

Articles

• A Critique of India’s Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008
• Anti-Labour Violence Isn’t Random
• Bail Application of Graziano Workers Rejected by Sessions Court
• Bangladesh: Failure of the Trade Unions To Defend Workers Rights
• Bangladesh: The Trade Union Movement is in Doldrums for Years
• Beyond Safety Nets: Provision of Comprehensive Social Security in Pakistan
• Celebrating Najma Akhtar, and her associates who built Bangladesh’s women garment workers trade union
• Citizens Groups demand ban on mining, manufacturing and use of asbestos in India
• Coal and Colonialism: Production Relations in a Indian Coalfield
• Coca-Cola Pakistan’s Death Threats, Abduction, Extortion and Dismissals
• Denied, deprived, deceived and deserted
• Do the workers vanish into the blue?
• Does emigration reduce poverty?
• For a ’New Deal’ for labour
• Garment workers one day Karnataka state wide strike
• Graziano Worker’s Solidarity Forum
• India of Domestic Workers
• India’s hidden epidemic
• India: A Report on Living and Working Conditions of Private Security Workers
• India: Arrest of activist Shamim Modi
• India: Chhattisgarh Special Public Safety Act Used To Target a Labour Organiser and His Family
• India: Delhi’s Almond Workers’ Strike - Press Release on Day 6
• India: Delhi’s auto-rickshaw drivers are caught in a hard grind
• India: Gross Denial of Workers Rights at New Delhi’s Commonwealth Games Construction Site
• India: Imperatives on the job front
• India: NREGA promises transformation of rural livelihoods
• India: Online Petition In Defence of Labour and Tribal Rights Activist Shamim Modi
• India: Playing games with the construction workers
• India: Poverty estimates vs food entitlements
• India: Right to work and rights at work
• India: The extra-legal treatment of street vending
• India: Why is it that the government wants to substitute the labour inspector by the company secretary?
• Joint India-Pakistan Trade Unions’ Statement on Terrorism in South Asia: A Challenge for Democracy
• Killing of CEO of Graziano Trasmissioni, India: Inaccuracies, and anti-labour bias in media coverage
• Labour in Global Value Chains: A Study of the Leather and Footwear Manufacturing Cluster of Kanpur
• Labour’s fair demands in Pakistan
• Lifeworld of Delhi’s Ragpickers
• Like Leaves in a Storm
• National Forum of Forest People and Forest Workers of India Open letter to President, Peru
• Networking and grassroots organizing among women workers in conflict-ridden Sri Lanka
• New Delhi’s war on beggars
• No More Rhetoric on Social Responsibility: Tata’s legitimise Modi’s communal - authoritarian ways
• NREGA: From accounts to accountability
• Pakistan: A Paradigm Shift Needed in Labour policy and industrial relations
• Pakistan: Hazardous conditions for workers at Gadani ship breaking yard
• Pakistan: Labour Policy and Rights
• Pakistan: PILER Welcomes Amendment in Services Tribunal Act and Repeal of Removal from Services Order
• Pakistan: The State Should Not Turn a Blind Eye To Workers Rights Violations
• Primitive Accumulation and India’s Special Economic Zones: Implications for democracy and citizenship
• Radiation Incident in Mayapuri: Disquieting Signals to Labour
• Repulsing The Employers’ Offensive in India: Honda is a turning point
• Rethink Privatization - An open letter to the president of Pakistan
• SAAPE Labour Group condemns Garib & Garib Sweater Factory Fire Case that Killed 21 Workers in Bangladesh
• Saying Good Morning in the Night
• Sex work and the misguided anti-trafficking development industry
• Sri Lanka: Daily Massacre of Civilians, Can the Trade Union Movement Remain Silent?
• Statement Adopted by Trade Unions from South Asia, 21 April 2010
• Tata India – Are its Tea Estates Above the Law?
• Teachers cant be cogs in a machine
• The Economy, Poverty and Bonded Labour in Pakistan
• The Grameen Bank, Micro-credit and the NGO Paradigm in Bangladesh
• The Power to Choose
• The Social Impact of East Asian Crisis and Lessons for Pakistan
• The Social Justice Mirage in Market Driven Fairtrade: a case study from India
• The social question, who cares?
• The Work of Domestic Work
• Vietnam’s Suppression of the Independent Workers’ Movement
• Who’s On the Line?
• Women Workers in Textile / Readmade Garments Sector in Pakistan and Bangladesh
• Women Workers in the Global Economy: A Feminist Critique of the Core Labour Standards
• Workers Movement : New Challenges, New Possibilities
• Zones of Exploitation Compared: Labour and Gender in EPZ’s / FTZ’s of South Korea, Bangladesh and India

• Educating to Hate: fundamentalisms in school books
  • Black fell the day
  • Book Review: Schools Or Hate-Labs?
  • Educated To Hate: Thanks to The Ekal Vidyalaya Schools of the Hindu Right
  • Hate as a history lesson
  • India: RSS Schools and the Hindu Nationalist Education Project
  • Keeping faith in make-believe history
  • Pakistan: Do school texts fuel bias?
  • Pakistani textbooks build hate culture against India
  • RSS, School Texts and the Murder of Mahatma Gandhi
  • Will Pakistan’s schools get a curriculum that weed’s out hate?
• In Defence of Freedom of Expression, Public Space in / on South Asia
  • Afghanistan Government’s Organised Move to Scuttle Freedom of Expression
  • Afghanistan’s War on Books
  • And Then They Came For Me
  • Bangladesh High Court Show Cause on Government re Constitutionality of ICT Act Powers to Block Websites
  • CIP statement on Maharashtra government’s move to gag freedom of expression
  • Constitutional challenge to Bangladesh’s Facebook ban and sections of the Information Technology Act 2006
  • Defend free speech as defined in the constitiution, not as defined by the mullahs
  • Do Not Punish Taslima Nasrin - An Open Letter to the Indian Authorities
  • Fear of ’fundos’ in Lahore
  • Frightened by the mirror
  • Full text of Judgement by India’s Supreme Court Lifting the ban of the book by James Laine
  • Fundamentalist clamp down on freedom of artistic expression in the NWFP
  • Fundamentalists – of all stripes – stripping away the right to freely discuss their faiths
  • Fundamentalists Threaten the Friday Times in Pakistan
  • Harassment of film crew and confiscation of footage in Bombay
  • In Full Support of Shah Rukh Khan
  • India’s Censor Board and our freedom of expression
  • India’s Supreme Court Judgement of April 2010 on S. Khushboo vs Kannaiammal - 2008
  • India: SAHMAT Press Release condemning ban on the play Charandas Chor by BJP government of Chhattisgarh
  • India: Censorship and Law
  • India: Chauvinists of the Hindu Right and Film Censorship Board
  • India: Eminent persons condemn the voices emanating from Chhatisgarh Police to book Arundhati Roy for her article, Walking With The Comrades
  • India: For Islamist fundamentalists, the target is much bigger than Ms Nasreen
  • India: Harassement and intimidation of Mallika Sarabhai because she speak out against the Gujarat riots
  • India: Police must enforce rule of law and curb hooligans
  • India: Speak, freedom
  • India: We Artists, Academics and Citizens Condemn the Attack on Sundarayya Vignana Kendram
  • India: Why The Shiv Sena Gets Away With Intimidation and Violence?
  • Investigate Hindutva groups and websites spreading hate against artists and communities
  • Kowtowing to the Super-Censors
  • Law suit against recent regulations re TV broadcasts in Sri Lanka
  • Letter of protest against cancelling the screening of documentary made by MF Husain
  • Media under assault in Sri Lanka
  • MF Husain’s Exile Tests India
  • Obliterating a Rich Past in the Swat Valley
  • Outrage at 20 years prison sentence to journalism student in Afghanistan
  • Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists to observe November 3 as "Black Day"
  • Pakistan: "If you give the Taliban an inch - they will take a mile"
  • Pakistan: Art Lovers Defy Taliban
  • Pakistan: Artistes Caught in Crossfire
  • Pakistan: Dont yield space to the extremists
  • Pakistan: Media in Chains
  • Prophets and prohibitions [Ban on Facebook in Pakistan]
  • Publish and Be Damned in India
  • Rally secular forces and resist the bigots
  • Self-censorship in post-Zia Pakistan
  • Shahshi Tharoor: Indians concerned about freedom of expression should applaud the judgement by Justice Kaul
  • Sri Lanka’s slow descent into dictatorship has mostly gone unnoticed
  • Sri Lanka: Death threats against journalists Frederica Jansz and Munza Mushataq
  • The Ban on Pakistani Writers by Bombay’s Rightwing Has Dangerous Ramifications
  • The Battle Over Culture : Fundamentalist threats and secular response in Bangladesh
  • The beginning of the Talibanization of Lahore?
  • The blasphemy case against Afghan journalist Parwiz Kambakhsh
  • The campaign by the Hindu right against MF Hussain
  • The collective conscience of the silent majority in Sri Lanka
  • The fist is mightier than pen in India
  • The human spirit cannot be subdued by violence
  • The storks are still standing
  • Vandalism Unlimited
  • When the State Panders to Parochial Politics Freedom of Expression is Threatened - Select Editorials
  • When the state shirks its responsibility other secular institutions help
  • Why is India’s Censor Board Refusing To Certify ’Flames of the Snow’, a documentary on Nepal ?
  • Zardari Bans My Books
• Partition of 1947 - India - Pakistan
  • A reploughing of Jinnah’s life, but shorn of balance
  • “It is a mistake to equate the demand for Pakistan with the partition of India”
  • Book Review of ’Witnessing Partition by Tarun Saint’
  • Book Review: Partition and its inhumanity
  • Book review: Partition of 1947 and its reproduction - Histories
  • Book Review: Partition retrospect
  • Inheritance of loss
  • New Directions in Partition Studies
  • Partition and Bengal: A book review of Joya Chatterji’s ’The Spoils of Partition’
  • Partition and The Fantasy of A Masculine State
  • Partition Still Casts Shadow On India-Pakistan Ties
  • Partition: Stories of arrival
  • Refugees, boundaries and histories
  • Remembering Partition
  • Revisiting 1947 through Popular Cinema: A Comparative Study of India and Pakistan
  • Sylhet in the Partition of India
  • What Partition did to her mother and her family
• Religion and Obscurantism
  • A Miracle in Chakwal?
  • Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life
  • From state to non-state actors
  • Jammu and Kashmir: Pilgrim’s Progress Causes Regression
  • Obscurantism in the Law School
  • Prayer in the Pakistan Parliament?
  • Rationalists Seek To Prove Holy Men’s Power Not So ’Divine’ After All
  • Religion, Religiosity and Secular Concerns
  • When Faith Eclipses Reason
  • Why Pakistan’s Ahmadi community is officially detested

Articles

• A Tribute to Maharaj Kaul (1940-2009)
• A Tribute to Ram Narayan Kumar
• A Tribute to Upali Cooray (1939-2009)
• Adieu to an activist
• Faheem Hussain - As I Knew Him
• Faheem Hussain - Lal Salam
• Habib Tanvir (1923-2009) : A Tribute
• Hari Sharma: Obituary
• Hari: My Comrade
• In Memory of Jyoti Babu!
• In memory of Sudarshan Punhani (1933-2009)
• Keeping memories alive: 20th anniversary of Rajani’s assassination in Sri Lanka
• Mansoor Saeed (1 November 1942 - 24 May 2010)
• Neera Desai (1925-2009): Pioneer of Women’s Studies in India
• Not enough tears: Remembering Rajani Thiranagama
• Rajani Thiranagama: Making of a new revolutionary
• Ram Narayan Kumar: An Obituary
• Remembering Ahilya Rangnekar
• Remembering Victor Gordon Kiernan
• Remembering Victor Kiernan
• Sabina Sehgal Saikia : A Tribute
• Saneeya Hussain (1954 -2005)
• Smitu Kothari - A salute to his life-long contribution
• Sudesh Vaid: A feminist public intellectual
• Tea and Consequences with Qurratulain Hyder
• Victor Kiernan (1913-2009): historian and India’s friend

• Remembering Alice Thorner
  • A tribute to Alice Thorner
  • Alice Thorner
  • Alice Thorner (1918–2005)
  • Alice Thorner: An Appreciation
  • Alice Thorner: Memorial meeting held at India International Centre, New Delhi
  • The Alice I knew — and her Indian commitment
• Remembering K Balagopal
  • A Tribute to K. Balagopal
  • APDR’s Tribute to Dr. K. Balagopal
  • Balagopal’s Legacy Will Live Forever
  • India: A Feminist Pays Her Tribute To A Comrade — K Balagopal
  • K. Balagopal: A Memory to be cherished
  • K. Balagopal: Obituary by the PUCL

Articles

• "Fundamentalists of all religions don’t like women"
• "The Womens Movement is a larger thing" - Interview with Kamla Bhasin
• "We Refuse to Be Held to Ransom By Terrorism" - Pakistan’s Women Swimmers
• ’Aurat Kay Haq Main Utai Jani Wali Awaaz’ - An audio tape by Womens Action Forum
• 8 March 2009 Statement by Civil Society Organisations Against Violence Against Women in Sri Lanka
• A Journey Across India In Support of the Women’s Reservation Bill
• Afghanistan: Extremist Threat to Women Increasing, Government Failing to Protect
• Backlash Against Feminist Writing in India
• Bangalore Demo Against Moral Policing
• Bangladesh feminists demand state action against fatwas by obscurantist clerics
• Bangladesh: Crime in the Name of Belief
• Bangladesh: Fighting back against daily sexual harassment
• Bangladesh: High Court Directs Government to Immediately Implement Sexual Harassment Guidelines in all Educational Institutions, and ensure that Women Not Forced to Veil or Cover their Heads
• Bangladesh: Stop Parallel Justice System Issuing Religious Edicts to Punish Women
• Bangladesh: The era of women empowerment and 39 lashes
• Bangladesh: Where is the promised change for women?
• Beneath the veneer of protecting public morality in Sri Lanka
• Business As Usual - Sexual harassment on Gujarat campus
• Carry Forward the Struggle against Patriarchy and oppression based on Class, Caste, Nationality, and Religion
• Compromise and surrender of principle: A response to the article by Ramachandra Guha, ’The Beauty of Compromise’
• Conference Statement - Afghan Women’s Movement from First Women’s Council to Kabul Conference
• Controversies Over Women Writing Their Lives In Kerala
• Cultural and Body Politics of Patriarchy
• Custom of Honour Killings, Business As Usual
• Cycle Fatwa Rides into My Re-Cycle Bin
• Debunking the Women’s Movement in Nepal
• Delhi Declaration on 100 years of International Women’s Day
• English Literary Studies, Women’s Studies and Feminism in India
• Family Honour That Kills Women
• Fight Back the Hindu Taliban Join the Pink Underwear Campaign
• Freedom from violence in the family still remains a distant dream for women
• Fundamentalists agenda of subjugation of women
• Fundamentalists and Their Mythical Notions of Womanhood
• Gender Profile of the Conflict in Sri Lanka: A report by UNIFEM
• German Afghan Women’s Rights Activist Killed in Kandahar
• Governments Must Stop Condoning ‘Honour Killings’
• Highly Inflammable
• In solidarity with Rayana R. Khasi under threat from Muslim fundamentalists in Kerala
• India: Anti-woman resolutions of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind are condemnable
• India: Bombay Feminists Protest Sexist and Unetheical Reportage
• India: Celebrating Dayamani Barla
• India: Murders In the Name of Honour and Tradition
• India: No reservations about women’s reservations
• India: Open Letter on Sexuality Education
• India: Panchayats turn into kangaroo courts
• India: Rape, blame and the tourism industry in Goa
• India: Sexual Violence Against Women in Chhattisgarh
• India: Statement by women’s organizations on increasing state violence on people’s movements and sexual violence on women by police, paramilitary and army
• India: Statement in Protest Against Muslim Right Wing Attack on Women’s Reservation Bill
• India: Too many women dying in childbirth
• India: Video Interview with Subhashini Ali on Women’s Reservation Bill
• India: What honour? It’s cruel murder with sanction from parallel judicial systems.
• India: Womens Groups and Health Activists Appeal Against the Parliamentary Committee Report on Sex Education
• Is molesting and beating women part of our culture?
• Law reform in response to sexual harassment in India
• Legislative Brief: Women’s Reservation Bill
• Letter to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Re.: Gender Justice in Kashmir
• Making Peace With the Taliban Will Come at a Steep Price — Further suppression of women’s rights in Afghanistan
• Nepal: Women human rights activists continue to face violent attacks despite promises of govt protection
• On the Patriarchy Highway - honour killing defenders get a prize
• Online Petition Agianst Attacks on Women in Karnataka
• Pakistan Appeal Re Mukhtar Mai: write letters and emails to the authorities
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