Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Modi Phenomenon: an attack on Indian Democracy

    by Ram Puniyani, 5 April 2014

    Currently (March 2014) Narendra Modi is trying to dominate the media, print social and TV through his carefully constructed propaganda machinery and his potential of being nominated as the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate by RSS-BJP. Modi has openly used the words like puppies dying under the car wheel, while referring to the victims of Gujarat carnage of 2002. He has also asserted that he is a ‘Hindu nationalist’. While most of the older allies of NDA, are deserting NDA, RSS-BJP hope that he will be able to win the 2014 elections due to his image of a non corrupt, efficient administrator who has taken Gujarat to the heights of development. In social media and other platforms the polarized section of Hindus and the section of middle class are very appreciative of Modi and are creating a delusion of his becoming the next prime minister.

  • India: Press Statement by Academics, Artists and Concerned Citizens | 5 April 2014

    5 April 2014

    We urge all responsible individuals and political formations to ponder over the situation and urgently take whatever steps are necessary for defending our secular democracy. We appeal to the electorate to foil this corporate-communal alliance’s bid for power by voting against the BJP-led NDA.

  • India: ’Abki Bar Atyachar’ posters by un-named artists

    4 April 2014

    ’Abki Bar Atyachar’ a set of four posters in Hindi released in India by un-named artists on 4 April 2014

  • India: Singrauli Killings - An Independent Fact-Finding Report Finds Inquiry Commission hides the Truth

    4 April 2014

    An independent Fact Finding team led by Justice PC Jain (Retd Judge, Jaipur High Court) which investigated in the matter strongly protests against the Inquiry led by Mr. R S Tripathi (Retd District and Sessions Judge) into the matter of custodial torture and death of Akhilesh Sahu, and death of Naqeeb Ahmad Siddiqui in Singrauli during 5th to 13th Dec 2013.

  • Pakistan: Sindh Assembly passes a resolution to do away with the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII)

    3 April 2014

    The Sindh Assembly has passed a resolution to do away with the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII). The recent recommendations given by the CII, all related to women, have caused hackles to rise in many people concerned with the protection of women in a society that still holds primitive views about them. A country where women are treated like dumb driven cattle, and their presence deliberately kept subdued, any law that reinforces their status as second-class citizens is adding more agony to their existence.

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