South Asia Citizens Web

In 1965, at the height of the Cold War, a communist victory in Indonesia seemed plausible. At the time, the Indonesian Communist Party was the third-largest in the world with three million members. In that year, however, the systematic destruction of Indonesia’s Communist Party (PKI) began.

The lynching of man in Dadri in Sept 2015 strongly appeared to be the result of "pre-meditated planning" under which people were incited to using a temple, says a report of the National Minorities Commission team.

There was a dharna (Sit-in) outside Haryana Bhavan in New Delhi on 21 October 2015 to protest the burning to death of two small Dalit children in a Faridabad village by "high" caste people.

WAF Hyderabad is inducting women workers and activists onto its forum to fuse the ideological politics with the energy and skills of the millennial activists towards a stronger overarching women’s protest movement

I am thrilled to have been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015. I am even more thrilled that the Nobel Committee highlighted the work that my collaborators and I have done on India.