Asma Jilani Jahangir delivered the 2017 Amartya Sen Lecture on 17 January 2017 at the London School of Economics
Asma Jilani Jahangir delivered the 2017 Amartya Sen Lecture on 17 January 2017 at the London School of Economics
Published by: Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy
We, the delegates to the 10th National Convention of the PIPFPD, held at Bhubaneswar on February 10-11, 2018 under the overhang of the rapidly deteriorating relationship between Pakistan and India, renewed our commitment to the joint struggle for peace and democracy in the two countries.
Ambalavaner Sivanandan, who has died aged 94 in London on 3 January 2018, was an organic intellectual working at the interstices of race, class and imperialism.
. . . till today, communal organisations continue to trigger the brutalisation of social and political identities, creation of divides, exacerbation of hitherto muted schisms, and the creation of new ones. We have, it appears, not paid heed to these warnings. If we had, India would not re-enact the horrors of the Partition.