South Asia Citizens Web

Comment by Bharat Bhushan and by Jawed Naqvi on the restarting of India-Pakistan dialogue in December 2015

Over 500 people associated with different social movements, democratic struggles and Trade Unions from different states of the country gathered at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi today, on the historic day of enactment of Schedule Tribe and other Forest Dwellers, Recognition of Forest Rights Act in 2006. We collectively pledge to continue our struggle against the NDA government’s proposed illegal move to dilute the Forest Rights Act bypassing the Parliament of India.

Today on Dec 13, as we American and Pakistani Muslims and friends gather to commemorate the massacre of schoolchildren in Peshawar a year ago, another bomb blast claimed over 22 lives (and counting) in the town of Parachinar, Pakistan, on the border with Afghanistan.

Rajasthan government decided to drop her stories from school textbooks. It also removed poems and short stories by the late theatre activist and writer Safdar Hashmi.

Indian and Japanese scientists have found that Indian citizens living downstream from the country’s enormous uranium mining and processing complex are routinely exposed to exceptionally high levels of radiation.

The Indian government has either rebuffed or suppressed some of these findings, insisting that any illnesses are caused by poverty, not radiation.