South Asia Citizens Web

Gandhi Kathakar Narayan Desai, son of Mahatma Gandhi’s personal secretary and biographer Mahadev Desai passed away today morning at 4.00 am. His funeral procession will take place at 2.00 pm today in Vedchhi in south Gujarat.

I received the shocking news of Tahira Ali’s death on the morning of March 10 when her daughter, Yasmeen, called me from Thatta. Mohammad Ali Shah, the president of Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum and Tahira Ali, who ruled the hearts of the fishing communities like a queen, met an accident. Shah is under treatment at the Aga khan Hospital but Tahira has left us.

In the name of religious sentiments, an attempt is made to prevent the emergence of a society that can think and act for itself

Audio recording of the Govind Pansare Memorial Meeting of 10 March 2015 that was held at the Hindi Bhavan in New Delhi. The Speakers were: Dr Balachandra Kango, Secretary of the State Unit of the CPI Maharashtra, Praful Bidwai, well known journalist & commentator and peace activist in Delhi, Ram Puniyani, leading voice in the Anti-communalist circuit and former Professor at the IIT Bombay and Shameem Faizee the Editor of New Age. The event was organised by the Joshi Adhikari Institute of Social Studies and the All India Students’ Federation. [This audio recording is hosted here by the sacw.net document archive]

AIDWA condemns in the strongest possible terms the reported appeal by the Jammu and Kashmir State Government against the compensation ordered by the Jammu and Kashmir Human Rights Commission in 2012 to the victims of the infamous Kunan-Poshpora gang rape case in which almost a 100 women were gang-raped through the night by Army personnel