South Asia Citizens Web

For immediate release: May 5, 2017
New Delhi: "From where the poor vendor will pay a penalty of Rs. 500 for selling their goods when they are there to sell goods worth less than 500 every day to early their daily bread," Anita Das, General Secretary of All India Women’s Hawkers Federation, angrily asks referring to the steps being taken by the local governments to implement Smart City and other city ‘beautification’ projects, which are being financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and (…)

A BBC reportage from Haryana

Today, activists of people’s movements, women’s organisations, trade unions, and others have protested in front of Bikaner House, demanding the justice to Pehlu Khan and other victims of the attack. A delegation of the people comprising Kavita Krishnan (AIPWA), Kavita Shrivastava (PUCL), Vimal Bhai (NAPM), Prem Singh (AIKM), Maimoona Mollah (AIDWA) and others met the resident commissioner after the protest and submitted the memorandum with demands for strict and quick action for justice to the victims.

It is generally agreed, by supporters and opponents alike, that the late 1960s were the time of the Naxalbari movement. . . . Praised and reviled alike, Naxalbari has come to occupy a singular place of significance in the annals of radical politics in post-independence India.

Political violence in South and Southeast Asia: Critical perspectives Edited by Itty Abraham, Edward Newman and Meredith L. Weiss