South Asia Citizens Web

Neel Mukherjee’s very ambitious and very successful novel is set in Calcutta and the ricefields on the edge of the jungle in the west of West Bengal.

There is much to celebrate in the life of Rashid Rehman Khan and thus much reason to mourn his passing. But there is an even greater reason to feel sorry for the millions of the Pakistani people who consider themselves alive.

Indian Express Newspapers Workers Union has been sitting on an indefinite hunger strike from May 12, in front of the IE Building demanding implementation of the recommendations of the Majithia Wage Board.

India chapter of Pakistan-India Peoples Forum for Peace & Democracy (PIPFPD) urges Pakistan government to renew the visa of two Indian journalists Meena Menon of The Hindu and Snehesh Philip of PTI. They are based in Islamabad since August last year. They have been asked to leave Pakistan in a week’s time. Their visa expired in March and since then both have been trying hard to get them renewed. There has been no provocation on their part.

Com. Mukul Sinha was a collossal figure in the fight against communal fascism in Gujarat. He was a great trade union leader and was a genuine revolutionary. He lived his life according to rational thought bereft of the complexes of religion, caste, etc. Upto the very end, even his body was not cremated or buried but donated to the hospital. His great quality was not only that he was revolutionary to the end but that he was able to open the workers minds in a way that helped them to grasp this revolutionary thought.