It’s fair to say that more than one religion deserves scrutiny. Christian extremists in the United States today attack women’s liberties and gay rights in language they claim comes from God. Hindu extremists in India today are launching an assault on free expression and trying, literally, to rewrite history, proposing the alteration of school textbooks to serve their narrow saffron dogmatism.
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Salman Rushdie: Islamic State and the killing of a culture
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Balraj Puri: Selected articles on Kashmir from sacw dispatches
21 October 2014posted below are selected articles on Kashmir by Balraj Puri that were circulated in 2000, 2004 and in 2006 on the south asia citizens wire
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Nepal Must Accept Some Terrible Truths | Meenakshi Ganguly
21 October 2014Nepal’s political establishment appears more committed to ensuring impunity.
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Hype over the Mars mission: India Neglects Real Science and Technology Priorities
by , 20 October 2014The contrast between India’s two recent science and technology (S&T) projects couldn’t have been starker. One, by delivering accurate early warnings about Cyclone Hudhud, saved thousands of human lives, and prevented destruction of property on a monstrous scale. The other put India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) Mangalyaan spacecraft successfully into a distant orbit around the planet-a technological achievement, but without much scientific, leave alone social, consequence.
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Review of Pathways of the Left in Sri Lanka by Devaka Gunawardena (Sunday Island, Colombo, 19 October 2014)
20 October 2014The "golden age" of the Left from the 1930s to the early 1970s has provided a legacy in which all Sri Lankans have participated and enjoyed in the form of various welfare measures and social protections.
