Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • India: Dadri Beef Rumour Lynching - Observations after a visit to Bisara village on 3rd October, 2015

    5 October 2015

    Six independent observers visited Bisada village on 3 Oct 2015. Team members: Bonojit Hussain (New Socialist Initiative), Deepti Sharma (Saheli), Kiran Shaheen (writer and activist), Naveen Chander (New Socialist Initiative), Sanjay Kumar (People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism and New Socialist Initiative) and Sanjeev Kumar (Delhi Solidarity Group). Here are their observations

  • Stop Interfering in Nepal - A statement from concerned citizens in India

    4 October 2015

    New Delhi, 4 October.

    More than 100 prominent persons from different sections of the society have expressed their anguish on the interference by India in Nepal’s internal affairs. They have welcomed the promulgation of the Constitution on 20 September. Mentioning the displeasure shown by the government of India on the promulgation of the constitution the statement underlines the fact that ’this has further embittered the relation between the two which is already not satisfactory due to the big-brotherly attitude of the consecutive Indian governments which the Nepalese people see as an expansionist policy.’ The statement says that ‘It is the right of the sovereign people of Nepal to elect their representatives, to decide what ruling system they should have, to frame the Constitution and to make any changes in it. The Indian government has violated this principle of peaceful co-existence between neighbouring countries.’

  • India: January 1981 leaflet from Delhi in support for Polish Workers

    by sacw.net, 4 October 2015

    a scanned version of of 1981 leaflet from Committee for Solidarity with Polish Workers (in English and Hindi)

  • India: What is behind Jharkhand witch hunts ? Ashok Kumar Behera

    4 October 2015

    Jharkhand is among the few states in the country to have a specific law against witch hunts. But the mild Prevention of Witch Practices Act, 2001 has not done much to stop the victimisation of women branded as daayan, or witches.

  • India’s Attack on Free Speech | Sonia Faleiro

    3 October 2015

    It’s hard to accept what is happening in India. It is easier to ignore or dismiss the attacks and the threats as a liberal persecution complex or a phase that will last only as long as the B.J.P. is in power. But the country is undergoing a tectonic shift that will have long-term repercussions. The attacks in India should not be seen as a problem limited to secular writers or liberal thinkers. They should be recognized as an attack on the heart of what constitutes a democracy

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