South Asia Citizens Web

With Modi Sarkar coming to power in the centre (May 2014), the picture of the country has changed drastically for the worse. (1) On one hand nation is witnessing the increasing unrestricted control of Corporate on our economy and on the other the sectarian divides are on the rise. This government had come to power standing on two pillars; one was the corporate world and other the solid support of RSS. Modi promised Acche din and danga mukt bharat (violence free society). The things have been totally in the opposite direction to the promises.

a recording of demo in Oslo

Ultimately the roaring voice of the FTII students reached the IFFI (International Film Festival of India) inaugural held at Panaji, Goa.

A meeting was held in Karachi to discuss the issue of detained fishermen on Thursday, and following this, the chairman of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) - Mohammad Ali Shah, the general secretary of Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) - Jatin Desai, as well as Shujauddin Qureshi of Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) and Mustafa Gurgez of PFF released a joint statement

Too many on the left, though, are stuck with equating Europe with colonialism and neo-imperialism, identifying Muslims as victims, and dismissing as Islamophobia any critique of Muslim beliefs and customs. It is a short-sighted and simplistic posture from a group whose core beliefs are close to those represented by the statue in the centre of the Place de la République.