South Asia Citizens Web

The PM blames Khaleda, the BNP chief blames Hasina, the killers continue to kill, the victims’ families live in fear, people remain confused and angry, friends of Bangladesh watch in disbelief and the smile of our enemies grow wider. So what more needs to happen to wake us up to the challenges we now face in our ’Sonar Bangla’?

Cultural intolerance is a dominant element in the functioning of the present government, which wants to decide what we eat, wear, read, watch, and who we love.

A coalition of independent Nepali citizens – including diplomats, journalists, women’s rights leaders, medical doctors and former U.N. officials – is calling on the international community and the United Nations to take “effective steps” to help remove an “economic blockade” imposed on Nepal.

On BBC World News TV, Mahrukh Mohiuddin, director of Dhaka-based University Press Limited and Arif Rahman, a blogger from Bangladesh currently living in London, discuss the attacks on free speech, including the hacking to death in Dhaka of Faisal Arefin (Dipan), who published writings by the Bangladeshi-American secular blogger/writer Avijit Roy, also hacked to death in Dhaka this February. Faisal Arefin’s father gives his reaction too.

We the undersigned Indian Christians as citizens of our country India and as Christians in unequivocal terms denounce the growing intolerance in the country.