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.
South Asia Citizens Web
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India: Portents of a religious autocracy | Pushpa M. Bhargava
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Prominent Nepali Citizens Appeal to U.N. to Help Lift Economic Blockade
3 November 2015A 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.
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BBC Report: Publisher, blogger discuss attacks on free speech in Bangladesh
3 November 2015On 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.
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Indian Christians Condemn Growing Intolerance in the Country
2 November 2015We the undersigned Indian Christians as citizens of our country India and as Christians in unequivocal terms denounce the growing intolerance in the country.
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Pakistan: Fundamentalist Islami Jamiat-e-Talba are a menace across the universities of the country
2 November 2015For decades activists of the notoriously thuggish fundamentalist Islami Jamiat-e-Talba (IJT), the student wing of the Jamat-e-Islami has carried out its hooliganism with impunity, terrorising students who are legal adults and not beholden to have their behaviour policed according to the precepts of some moralising band of roving fanatical vigilantes.
