Making Sense of the Meeting of RSS and Jamaat-e-Islami Leaders in Varanasi
South Asia Citizens Web
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Indian Islamism at the crossroads
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Statement by the Aligarh Historians Society on the killing of the Syrian archaeologist Khaled al Asaad by ISIL (DAISH) at Palmyra
20 August 2015The Aligarh Historians Society joins archaeologists and historians all over the world in denouncing as a most barbarous crime the gruesome murder of the eminent Syrian archaeologist, Khaled al-Asaad, an expert on Palmyra, one of the great World Heritage sites.
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’Bangladesh Islamists threatened by secular bloggers - minorities hit as govt woos Islamists’ | Imran H Sarker
19 August 2015Bangladesh is being roiled by gruesome murders targeting its secular blogger ommunity. Imran H Sarker is spokesperson for Bangladesh’s Shahbag movement which demanded maximum puni hment for 1971’s war criminals. Speaking with Rudroneel Ghosh, Sarker discussed why bloggers are being killed, the knowing apathy of political parties and how this inks to attacks on religious minorities
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India: Statement by teachers and scholars in solidarity with the students of Film & Television Institute of India (FTII)
18 August 2015We, the undersigned teachers, scholars and researchers within and outside the university system in India, are disturbed by the repeated and systematic attempts to undermine the academic autonomy of universities and other institutions of teaching and learning, such as the FTII (Pune), by the government.
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India: Release of radioactive water into the sea from the BARC - call for a transparent enquiry
by , 18 August 2015We are reproducing an open letter that has been sent by the former Union Power Secretary Dr. EAS Sarma to the senior officials of the Department of Atomic Energy and the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board after the revelation of regular disposal of contaminated waste water into the Ocean from the Mumbai-based Bhabha Atomic Research. Centre (BARC)
