South Asia Citizens Web

Mrs Perin Chandra, a veteran Communist and peace activist, passed
away this evening at her residence in Colaba. She was 95. She is
survived by her husband Romesh Chandra, a former chairman of the World
Peace Council for several years

Films like Garm Hawa, with a unique perspective on Partition are of particular relevance today, given the current Indian regime that is characterised by a communal and fundamentalist outlook, noted film director MS Sathyu told Teesta Setalvad in this week’s special interview.

After the massacre in Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, 2015, expressing indignation, as so many are doing, is not enough.

12 Killed in Attack on French Satirical Magazine Charlie Hebdo. Well known cartoonists from around the world respond by drawing cartoons expressing solidarity with Charlie Hebo. Wonderful report in the Washington Post.

This is a 52-min documentary on the assassination, A Death For Peace - Mahatma Gandhi and The Impossible Quest (2005), by Arnaud Mandagaran. A student of philosophy at Nanterre during the ’May 68’ revolt in France, Arnaud (b.1949) travelled across South Asia in the early 1970s.