South Asia Citizens Web

We, the following organizations and individuals are deeply shocked at the dubious methods used by the Intelligence Bureau of the Home Ministry of India, to discredit many important social activists in this country who have committed their lives in social action for years. For a long time, these activists have consistently questioned the destructive path of development India is following and have demanded a model of sustainable and equitable development which does not harm the environment, local communities, culture and the future generations.

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Histories cannot be erased. Areas cannot be ‘cleansed’ of ethnic and religious populations by inflamed rhetoric and brutal massacres of the kind that Narayanguri witnessed. These diverse peoples cannot be barred under India’s constitutional guarantees from settling, farming, earning their living and indeed participating in governance in any part of the country. They cannot be reduced as they are today to dread and insecurity.

The Dina Nath Batra episodes show that self-censorship is an issue that publishers, writers and readers need to address seriously and urgently.

India Pakistan relations have always been mired with in various controversies, which have been preventing the friendly relations with our neighbor, who in ‘popular perception’ is seen as an enemy. It is due to this that while all the members of SAARC countries have been invited, the one to draw maximum popular attention has been the coming of Nawaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan. In a deft move India’s the then Prime Minister designate sent an invite to all the heads of SAARC countries for his swearing in ceremony, (16 May 2014) which was held with great pomp and show.