South Asia Citizens Web

Three audio recordings with Akshaya Mukul speaking on the story of the Gita Press and the Hindu Right; followed by Comments by Siddharth Varadarajan and Urvashi Butalia

Numerous representatives of people’s movements, political groups, social organizations, intellectuals, artists, activists passed the “Rajghat Resovle” in the middle of Narmada, in the presence of thousands of adivasis-farmers, fish workers, landless workers, potters etc, who have embarked on an indefinite struggle against the Sardar Sardar Project, with renewed strength as “owners” of their acquired lands and houses.

"We went to Pune on 20 August, 2015 to attend the second anniverary commemoration of the murder of anti-superstition crusader, Dr. Narendra Dabholkar. Later that day we went to the Film and Television Institute of India where a student strike had just entered its 70th day. The students are protesting the appointment of unqualified administrators whose only distinction is their saffron allegiance." ... Anand Patwardhan

two cards / posters by hk for the left leaning Democratic Teachers Front (DTF) for the August 27, 2015 elections of officials of the Delhi University Teachers Trade Union (DUTA)

We, the undersigned teachers, scholars and researchers, signatories to different statements issued in Solidarity with the Students of the Film &Television Institute of India (FTII), while reiterating our firm support to this historic strike by students, stand with the FTII Teachers’ Association, in unequivocally protesting ‘the manner in which students were picked up by the police in the dead of night (August 18/19) in the absence of senior members of the administration’.