Three sane voices speak for the continuation of peace talks
South Asia Citizens Web
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India - Pakistan: After the Pathankot attack act with prudence to save the agenda of entente
11 January 2016 -
Teatime at Peggy’s - a portrait of Jhansi’s Anglo-Indian community made for BBC Radio 4
11 January 2016The Alice in Wonderland world of the Anglo-Indians, a marginalised community in India, focussing around an extraordinary nonagenarian widow, Peggy Cantem. Over tea and seed cake, Clare Jenkins talks to "Auntie Peggy" at her home in Jhansi, an important railway town nearly 300 miles south of Delhi. She hears tales of moonlight picnics, pet mongooses, Mulligatawny soup - and Monsoon Toad Balls.
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Bangladesh 2015: A Year of Bloggers, Writer, Publishers murder in the hands of Islamism and its beneficiaries | Arif Rahman
8 January 2016Year 2015 was the darkest of times in Bangladesh’s history. Like 1975 murder of the founding president Sheikh Mujib, which wiped off all the secular achievements of the 1971 Independence war against Pakistan, 2015 will be remembered by the world as the year of Atheist bloggers, authors, publishers killing.
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Video of Dhaka Book Launch: The Spectral Wound - Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971 | Nayanika Mookherjee
7 January 2016 -
Jan 7, 2017 CNDP Statement on Nuclear test by North Korea
by , 7 January 2016The Coalition of Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) strongly condemns the nuclear weapons test by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The North Korean regime, which is highly authoritarian and militarist, has tried to consolidate itself internally through such aggressive moves.
