Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Full Audio: Remembering the Communist leader Govind Pansare

    by sacw.net, 12 March 2015

    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]

  • India: AIDWA Opposes The State And Union Government’s Appeal Against Ex-Gratia Payment To Rape Survivors In The Kunan-Poshpora Case, Kashmir

    12 March 2015

    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

  • India’s World Television Discussion on Pakistan Today (March 2015)

    11 March 2015

    Published on Mar 10, 2015
    Guests: Dr. Yaqoob Bangash (Chairman, Department of History, Foreman Christian College, Lahore) ; Dr. A H Nayyar (Senior Fellow Researcher, SPDI, Pakistan) ; Ms. Uzma Noorani (Human Rights Activist, Pakistan)
    Anchor: Bharat Bhushan

  • ज़िंदगी जिस धुन में जी, मौत से भी पानसरे ने वही काम लिया पानसरे की शहादत को जाया न जाने देंगे: दिल्ली में श्रद्धांजलि सभा

    11 March 2015

    विनीत और सोनू
    नई दिल्ली । महाराष्‍ट्र के कोल्‍हापुर में हाल में 16 फरवरी को अज्ञात हमलावरों की गोलियों का शिकार हुए कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी ऑफ इंडिया के वरिष्‍ठ नेता कॉमरेड गोविंद पानसारे की याद में दिल्ली में श्रद्धांजलि सभा आयोजित की गई। आईटीओ स्थित हिंदी भवन में जोशी-अधिकारी इंस्टिट्यूट ऑफ सोशल स्टडीज़ और ऑल इंडिया स्‍टूडेंट्स फेडरेशन की ओर से आयोजित इस स्‍मृति सभा में महाराष्‍ट्र सीपीआई के सचिव डॉ. भालचंद्र कानगो, दिल्‍ली से वरिष्‍ठ पत्रकार प्रफुल्‍ल बिडवई, सांप्रदायिकता और फासीवाद के खिलाफ (…)

  • India: Who Killed Govind Pansare?

    by Ram Puniyani, 11 March 2015

    It’s been nearly a month since senior CPI leader Govind Pansare was shot. But police remain clueless about the murder. Following pressure from the opposition, the Maharashtra assembly on Tuesday adopted a condolence motion for Pansare. A rally has been planned in Mumbai today to protest the tardy progress in the investigation. There is a widespread belief that the authorities haven’t done enough to trace the assailants or unearth the motive behind the murder.

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