Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Activists Object to passage of India Child Labour Act, "90 % of India’s Child labour legalized through the back door."

    2 August 2016

    Indian anti-sex trafficking organization, Apne Aap Women Worldwide and more than 1,000 activists including Malini Bhattacharya, who heads AIDWA (the women’s wing of CPIM, Harsh Mander of Aman Biradari, Colin Gonsalves of Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), Chitra Sarkar of the All India Women’s Conference, Ruchira Gupta and Tinku Khanna of Apne Aap Women Worldwide, Kirti Singh of AIDWA, Vimal Thorat of All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch, Gloria Steinam, Feminist campaigner, Bharti Ali of HAQ-Centre for Childrens Rights, P Joseph Victor Raj of Campaign Against Child Labour (CACL), Nandita Das, Indian Film Actress, Dr. John Dayal, and Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner, MPs Sharad Yadav of the JD(U) and Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo object to the passage of the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2016.

  • India: Gau Rakshaks – A Note

    by Mukul Dube, 2 August 2016

    Right and wrong are defined not by the laws of the land but by the gau rakshaks, whose actions are not whimsical but a calculated strategy to tell Muslims and Dalits that they are not equal citizens but subordinate species.

  • Announced: 3rd Nandita Prasad Sahai Memorial Lecture - Renouncers, Householders, and Others Reflections on Women in Early India by Prof. Romila Thapar

    2 August 2016

    Professor Romila Thapar is giving the third Nandita Prasad Sahai Memorial Lecture on 5 August in JNU

  • India: Interveiw with senior counsel Gayatri Singh

    29 July 2016

    One of the few women senior counsel in the Bombay High Court, Gayatri Singh is also the co-founder of the Human Rights Law Network. In this interview with Bar & Bench’s Anuj Agrawal, she talks about her journey in law, what got her into trade unions and much more.

  • On Partition and The Communalism of Common People (with special reference to Kashmir)

    by Sualeh Keen, 29 July 2016

    On the topic of Hindu-Muslim communal rivalry and the formation of the theocratic Pakistan state in 1947, the history of late colonial India has usually fixated on high-level politics of the late 1940’s and the political intrigue of leaders, officials, and British statesmen. This ’top-down’ perspective has meant that little attention has been paid to the popularity of the two-nation theory among the masses, thereby giving a misleading picture that Pakistan was created by fluke.

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