Religion it seems has the first claim on public spaces in India, but the secular rights of citizens – for example, to unimpeded and safe pavements – comes much further down the list.
South Asia Citizens Web
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Why do Indians tolerate religious rituals on the streets but frown on protest demonstrations?
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Rajya Sabha TV Discussion: Partition Historian Prof Venkat Dhulipala in conversation with Siddharth Varadarajan
18 August 2015 -
Pakistan: The Murder of Sabeen Mahmud - A media investigation
16 August 2015It was a 9mm gun, probably a Stoeger. Before Saad Aziz got this “samaan” through an associate, by his own admission, he had already plotted a murder. On the evening of Friday, April 24, 2015, he met four other young men, all well-educated like him, somewhere on Karachi’s Tariq Road to finalise and carry out the plot. As dusk deepened into night, they set off towards Defence Housing Society Phase II Extension on three motorcycles. Their destination: a café-cum-communal space – The Second Floor or T2F – where an event, Unsilencing Balochistan: take two, was under way. Their target: Sabeen Mahmud, 40, the founder and director of T2F.
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Sri Lanka: 1970 interview with Dr Colvin R De Silva on the Hartal of August 12th and 13th 1953
16 August 2015see: Whither The Old Left? by Sarath de Alwis (Colombo Telegraph,Opinion, August 12, 2015)
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What is the most blatant lie taught through Pakistan textbooks?
16 August 2015Nationalism and patriotism in Pakistan are contested subjects. What makes us Pakistanis and what is it that makes us love our land and nation?
