South Asia Citizens Web

Message from an Indian girl whose father died in the Kargil war

Beyond the Government’s role in ensuring that workers are able to form trade unions, the global brands have a key role to play here. When asked what brands could do, workers consistently said that brands should only source from factories where there exists a trade union or give preference to companies who have a worker formed trade union in place.

Editorial commentary from newspapers in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan on the continued target killings by fundamentalist groups in Bangladesh.

India has a lasting infrastructure of public support that can, in principle, be expanded in drought years to provide relief. But business as usual seems to be the motto

The Islamists in Pakistan are not impressed by sympathetic scholars’ defence of their politics over the last decade. These religious groups refuse to comply with the scholarly renditions of them as moderate, reformist and rational.