South Asia Citizens Web

two years after more-secular textbooks arrived here in northwestern Pakistan, politicians and religious scholars are rolling back some of the revisions by limiting students’ exposure to Western theories, academics, scientists and authors — including Helen Keller.

International Crimes Tribunal-2, Misc. Case No.04 of 2014, Order No.08, Dated 11.02.2015

This is an eleven part video interview with the eminent historian Prof.Romila Thapar done by Teesta Setalvad the editor of Communalism Combat. The wide ranging interview spans the role of public intellectuals, Historical accuracy of texts from ancient times, Colonial Historiography and communalism, Desecration of Religious Monuments in World History, History and the Aryans, on Greeks, Chinese, Megasthenes, Brahmans, Shramans, Patanjali & Albereni, on Ashoka, on Somnath Temple on Nationalism, on on Archaeology etc.

Public statements by diverse groups and a sign on online petition in solidarity appeared on 12 February 2015 to protest the threat of arrests of prominent journalists and secular activists in India

Shirin Dalvi, the editor of the Mumbai edition of Urdu newspaper Avadhnama, has become the latest victim of the running saga over cartoons. Since mid-January, when she unwittingly published a Charlie Hebdo cover, she has been slapped with criminal charges, her newspaper shut down, its employees rendered jobless, and she herself forced underground.