South Asia Citizens Web

Narendra Modi’s instant prescriptions to cure India’s chronic troubles are vacuous or easy or both.

1991 documentary film by Deepa Dhanraj on India’s family planning programme and on women’s reproductive rights

Civil society is once again facing the awkward question as to whether it must always support an elected civilian government, regardless of its performance, to avoid the collapse of the democratic system.

War has returned to European soil, and it seems that Europeans are not capable, or not willing, to apply the lessons they try to teach in other parts of the planet. The European Union, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, put Ukraine in an impossible position when it asked it to choose between a political pact with the EU or a close economic relationship with Russia.

Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lecture was held on14 May 2014 at the India International Centre in New Delhi. Three part video recording of the main event i.e. Public lecture by Prof. Mushirul Hasan titled ’Meaning, Metaphor and Martyrdom in Colonial India’ (part 1, part 2, part 3). The Lecture was organised under the aegis of the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism and Dr Asghar Ali Memorial Committee. The recording of the lecture was made via South Asia Citizens Web Archive initiative (sacw.net).