Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • India: Ghulam Ali’s forced absence is a blow to Mumbai’s capacious cultural space | S Gopalakrishnan

    16 October 2015

    The unruly and unpredictable forms of collective violence that the Shiv Sena threatens against visiting artistes from Pakistan go against the very ethos of Mumbai and its cultural past.

  • Afghanistan: Brief takeover of Kunduz leaves a trail of destruction

    15 October 2015

    As they overran the city, the Taliban occupied government buildings and the headquarters of several news media, including Roshani Radio and TV, an independent broadcaster, where they torched and destroyed much of the equipment.

  • 2015 Rebellion by India’s literati against intolerance and growing assault on free speech

    14 October 2015

    More than 40 authors have handed back major honours in a stand against ‘vicious assaults’ on cultural diversity

  • Report to the UN Human Rights Council on Sri Lanka: An Evaluation

    by Rohini Hensman, 14 October 2015

    One of the most striking features of the report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Investigation on Sri Lanka, 2015 is its consistent effort to be even-handed in its view of Government of Sri Lanka and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam responsibility for atrocities. Significantly, it does not find evidence that the government or its armed forces engaged in genocide, instead, the crimes are described by the report as consistent with war crimes and crimes against humanity. This analysis finds the report of OISL as contributing to a process of securing the rights of victims and their families, reforming institutions so that similar bloodbaths do not recur in the future, and bringing about reconciliation.

  • India: Shiv Sena Chauvinists Blacken the face of book release organiser in Bombay: Editorial commentary

    14 October 2015

    The Indian Express - 13 October 2015
    Editorial: A black mark Shiv Sena’s attack on Sudheendra Kulkarni is part of a pattern of intolerance that is spreading on the BJP government’s watch.
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