South Asia Citizens Web

It is with a heavy heart, that I write this open letter to you at a time when our beloved country and people are facing severe challenges and threats to our shared heritage.

Pakistan’s nuclear planners have sought to develop and plan deployment of the short-range Nasr tactical missile to deliver nuclear weapons against advancing Indian armoured forces. This article explores the limited utility of the use of tactical nuclear weapons which could still prove to be catastrophic by triggering the escalation of a conventional conflict into nuclear war. An alternative could be that Pakistan and India revive the idea first proposed by India in 1949 and 1950 of a No-War Agreement.

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.

’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]

Asian women also played a role in the Suffragette movement, with little being told about their involvement