What Saadat Hasan Manto has to say about literature and freedom and the need to say things as they are, without dilution
South Asia Citizens Web
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In Defence Of Freedom – A Film By Nandita Das
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Right Wing Radicalism and a Reactionary Working Class?
by , 16 March 2017Large parts of the western working class now seem to gather around right populists, demagogues and racists. They vote for reactionary and fascist oid political parties. They helped to vote the UK out of the EU, to make Trump president of the world’s superpower number one, and they vote so massively for the far right political parties so that they have government power in sight in several of Europe’s most populous countries.
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India: State and Politics Structured by Nationalism
by , 16 March 2017This article appeared as an Op-Ed in The Times of India on 4 August 1993
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In Pakistan, a shrine to murder for ’blasphemy’ | Asad Hashim
15 March 2017(11 Feb. 2017) As a Senate committee mulls Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, thousands visit shrine to Mumtaz Qadri, killer of Salman Taseer
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Bangladesh: Moral policing has no place in universities | Maitreyi Islam
14 March 2017what exactly the authorities think as being the role of universities? To create new knowledge and critically analyse ideas, even if they may be uncomfortable? Or is intellectual thought subservient to dominant ideologies or pressure? If questioning and engaging in debate about the politics of sexuality is considered taboo or obscene, then why even keep any of the liberal arts subjects in our universities?
