South Asia Citizens Web

WHO exactly targets and shoots Ahmadis dead we don’t know. Who targets and kills Shias, we kind of know, or their organisational association in any case. Who targets and kills women suspected of sexual transgressions we precisely know, right down to the address. It is usually the same as the victim’s. But the effect is the same. The entire system is tilted against them.

More than 150 writers, including Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh, call on the Bangladeshi authorities to take urgent action for bloggers

Aside from the attacking and killing of vaccinators, the extremist propaganda that the polio vaccine is a western conspiracy against the Muslim world that will render those who are vaccinated infertile is preventing some parents from allowing their children to be vaccinated. This narrative has taken hold in certain communities because there is not a strong enough counter-narrative to educate the people about the fact that the polio vaccine saves lives and does not have adverse effects on the health of the recipients.

Two court rulings from India which raise the issue of curtailing and regulating use of loudspeakers in religious places such as temples, mosque, churches, gurudwaras and other places.

A dominant feature of the first year of Narendra Modi’s leadership is the quiet dismantling of India’s imperfectly realised framework of welfare and rights, covertly, by stealth.