South Asia Citizens Web

IF the NA-120 by-election is a barometer for next year’s general elections, we should worry about female enfranchisement in Pakistan.

Ana Monteiro by Jazz Goa

A documentary film on the life and work of Gauri Lankesh, the journalist and secular activist who was assassinated in Bangalore in September 2017. The was directed by Deepu and produced by Pedestrian Pictures

’Digging into Adani - Four Corners’, Full Documentary on the dubious dealings of India’s corporate colossus. When Four Corners travelled to India to investigate the activities of the giant Adani group, they soon discovered the power of the company. The program analyses the Adani Group’s opaque financial operations and investigates the ramifications for their Australian operations.

Noor Fatima, a 2-year-old girl from Lahore, had several holes in her heart. The surgery was prohibitively expensive in Pakistan. Nadeem Sajjad, her father, a marketing executive, traveled with his ailing child and wife across several thousand miles, a difficult history and a toxic politics, to Narayana Hrudayalaya, a hospital in Bangalore, in southern India. The girl’s visit to Bangalore became a major media event. Ordinary Indians offered financial support; celebrations followed her successful surgery. Gauri Lankesh, the Indian editor who was assassinated this month, wrote about Noor’s surgery, India and Pakistan in the Kannada-language paper Lankesh Patrike. Her original essay was published on July 24, 2003.