How the a far left group characterised the 1984 anti sikh communal violence in India? A leaflet from that time part of the sacw.net archive.
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India: Krantikari Mazdoor Samiti’s 1984 leaflet on communal violence
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Audio recording of ’Dastan Jai Ram Ji Ki’ by Mahmood Farooqui and Danish Hussain (2012)
25 October 2015’Dastaan Jai Ram Ji Ki’ Dastangoi performance (in Hindustani) by Mahmood Farooqui and Danish Hussain at Ramjas College on 21 March 2012. This performance was held on the occasion of the First Ramanujan Lecture organised by the History Society of Ramjas College at Delhi University. [This recording was made for the sacw.net audio archive]
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On Asian Suffragettes
25 October 2015Asian women also played a role in the Suffragette movement, with little being told about their involvement
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Sri Lanka: Full report of Maxwell Paranagama Commission report as tabled in the parliament on 20 Oct 2015
24 October 2015On 15 August 2013, the former President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, established the Presidential Commission to Investigate into Complaints regarding Missing Persons comprised of three members former Judge Maxwell P. Paranagama (Chairman), Mrs. Mano Ramanathan and Mrs. Suranjana Vidyaratne (‘Paranagama Commission’ or ‘PCICMP’).
Maxwell Paranagama Commission report, officially known as the Presidential Commission of Inquiry Into Complaints of Abductions and Disappearances has been (…) -
To reclaim its public spaces, Pakistan must first reinvigorate its public culture
by , 24 October 2015There is a connection between people throwing trash outside their homes and women being groped on buses, and between low turnouts at civic protests and men using roadsides as toilets. And that is that no one takes ownership of public places in Pakistan.
