Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Charles Correa (1930-2015): Tributes

    24 June 2015

    The Telegraph (24 June 2015)
    Architect of dreams - Charles Correa: 1930-2015 Malvika Singh
    Charles Correa in 2002 (top) and the LIC building in Delhi’s Connaught Place designed by him
    Charles Correa was a rare person, special and unusual. I was privileged to have known him and his wife, Monika, a textile master, from the time I was a young teenager, impressionable and curious, eager to reach out to men and women whose creativity, ideas and imaginative alternatives excited me to extend (…)

  • India’s World - Nepal grapples with Constitution drafting | A TV discussion

    24 June 2015

    Rajya Sabha TV discussion on Nepal (23 June 2015) Guests: Jayant Prasad (Former Ambassador of India to Nepal); Rakesh Sood (Former Ambassador of India to Nepal) and Shivshankar Mukherjee (Former Ambassador of India to Nepal
    Anchor: Bharat Bhushan

  • India: Apoorvanand, Ali Javed and Satish Deshpande report on Atali village - ‘Are you a Mulla or one of us?’

    by Dilip Simeon’s Blog, 22 June 2015

    All of us in civil society are in debt to the authors of this report, for visiting Atali and recording the views of the people who live there. It is sad to see the latest manifestation of a pattern - it is the least we can do to remember this and understand what it means. Violence against ethnically defined groups (ethnic cleansing); ghetto-fication and suspension of lawful governance for the benefit of politically motivated criminals; or controlled mobs - these have been the recurrent features of communal politics in India for decades. They conduce to a steady process of criminalisation of the state - a process that is ongoing.

  • India: Leading communist and veteran journalist Comrade Jagjit Singh Anand is no more - reports and tributes

    20 June 2015

    Veteran Journalist, Former MP and once a leading figure in communist movement in Punjab & Chief Editor of Nawa Zamana Newspaper Jagjit Singh Anand has passed away.

  • India: National Food Security Act Violated - Press release by Right to Food Campaign

    18 June 2015

    The Government of India has once again taken steps that violate the National Food Security Act. In spite of the Act stating that identification of beneficiaries must be completed within one year of commencement of the Act, through executive orders it allowed postponement of implementation three times. Now another provision of the Act is being violated through the new PDS Control Order through which it seeks to kill the Antodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) aimed at providing food security for the poorest of the poor.

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