South Asia Citizens Web

[20 April 2015]
ALL INDIA UNION OF FOREST WORKING PEOPLE
The Fact Finding team led by Kavita Krishan CPI(ML), Priya Pillai – Green peace and activist Mahan Sangarsh Samiti, Singrauli, Abhishek Srivastava – Journalist, Purnima – Women activist from Delhi, Debadityo Sinha environmentalist and Rajnish Gambhir were detained by Sonbhdra Police yesterday night and were harassed. But released after intervention of various eminent activist like Union president Jarjum Ete, Arundhati (…)

Faris Shafi: The uncensored voice from Pakistan
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Faris-Shafi-The-uncensored-voice-from-Pakistan/articleshow/46974206.cms

The proposed Kanhar Dam is controversial and subjudiced in High Court. Without conducting any fresh cost benefit analysis and social and environmental impact assessments, and violating the order of the National Green Tribunal dated 24th December 2014 which mandated Environment Clearance and Forest Clearance for any construction by Irrigation department of UP, the government is illegally going ahead with the construction.

Many liberals seem to oppose a common civil code merely because the BJP claims to support it. This knee-jerk reaction is unfortunate. For a principled liberal position would be in favour of a common law to regulate the social practices of marriage, divorce, succession, inheritance, and adoption, this based on the best practices of all laws anywhere in the world, the judgment and selection done from the point of view of gender equality.

The moment of the end of the colonial regime and the birth of two nations, India and Pakistan, was also the moment of the Partition of the subcontinent in which millions were dislocated, displaced, and rendered homeless . . .