South Asia Citizens Web

We are deeply shocked and dismayed to hear that you have agreed to participate at the Jaipur Literature Festival claiming to be “The Greatest Literary Show on Earth” which has ’the world’s most hated company’ Vedanta as its key sponsor. Are you aware that Vedanta’s activities are destroying the lives of thousands of people in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Punjab and also in Zambia, South Africa and Australia?

A collection of some 48 articles written by Praful Bidwai between the early 1980s upto 2014 on military and civil nuclear matters have been assembled in a book form. The volume is published by Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) in India should be available soon.

May 11th and May 13th, 2016 mark the anniversaries of nuclear tests that India conducted in 1998.After 18 years of the nuclear tests, the security that the atomic weapons were supposed to bestow on us is conspicuously missing and South Asia is becoming more dangerous with each passing day.

Secularism implies freedom from prejudice.

Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, for better or worse, was a large presence on the political landscape of India for fifty years. In a fragmented sociopolitical and religious ethos, he represented the pluralism that would bind the people of Jammu and Kashmir together for a long time. Such personages leave indelible marks of their work and contributions on societies for which they have tirelessly worked, and their work, for the most part, traverses religious, class, and party fault lines.