South Asia Citizens Web

Sirisena’s government has begun returning land to families whose property is still being used by the military, as well as resettling those remaining in displacement camps or living with relatives — officially about 13,000 families, although civil society activists say the number is higher.

Many of Mr Modi’s supporters are toxically projecting the June 21 mobilisation for the worldwide yoga day through the filters of narrow Hindu nationalism. They have also reportedly told those Indians who do not wish to follow the official fiat to go away to Pakistan.

Requesting participation in the planned event on 16 June 2015 at 6:30-7:30 pm at the Parliament chowk, in memory of, and to honour and pay tribute to the victims and survivors of the APS/Peshawar tragedy of 16 Dec.2014.

In his new book, Midnight’s Furies, Nisid Hajari explores the partition that created Pakistan as a separate state, the violence surrounding the partition and why those tensions persist to this day.

The RSS thrives on animosity. They would have been truly upset had Muslims not objected to compulsory yoga. Popular sovereignty has been perverted in South Asia. It refers not to the People but to the Emperor’s Moustache. The people may not define their nation - it is the Nation that defines the People. The people are seen as a biomass of zombies – hamara maal, as the sarsangchaalak once said. Our imperial metaphors symbolize the inner world of communalists. The RSS are no different from the maulanas they love to hate.