Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • India: Hinduism is Not Hindutva | Gujarat Shining Illustrated Card Series

    28 March 2014

  • India: Sangharsh 2014 - Movements and Trade Unions to Corner Modi in Benares;

    28 March 2014

    General Elections 2014 poses a plethora of possibilities as well as challenges. While it holds the fortunes of the people of the country with regard to who could become the next Prime Minister and under what rule you might have to spend the next five years of your life, it equally holds forth the threat of a ‘Modi regime’, which could unsettle and dismantle a lot of achievements of progressive politics and movements in the country – and push the country back by several decades, in our battles against global capitalism/ imperialism, feudalism, communalism, caste discrimination, patriarchy, jingoistic nationalism and Brahmanism. This is indeed the most challenging elections for these very reasons for all those progressive forces, which have mobilised people in the country under the Red, Blue and Green flags!

  • India: Text of 26 March 2014 Judgment by the Supreme Court in the writ petition on Muzaffarnagar Riots

    27 March 2014

    IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
    CRIMINAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) NO. 155 OF 2013
    Mohd. Haroon & Ors. Versus
    Union of India & Anr.
    .... Petitioner (s)
    .... Respondent(s)
    WITH
    WRIT PETITION (CRL.) NOS. 158, 165, 170, 171, 179, 181 196, 206 OF 2013,
    WRIT PETITION (CRL.) NO. 11 OF 2014 CONTEMPT PETITION (CRL.) NO..............OF 2014
    (D1372) IN
    WRIT PETITION (CRL.) NO. 155 OF 2013
    TRANSFERRED CASE (CIVIL) NOS. 123, 124 AND 125 OF 2013,
    TRANSFER PETITION (…)

  • India: Press Statement in Support of Teesta Setalvad and others [released by Sahmat 26 March 2014]

    27 March 2014

    We are shocked and outraged by the continuing attempt of the highly vindictive Modi government and the Gujarat police to somehow implicate activists Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand, along with three victim-survivors of the state-sponsored Gujarat carnage in 2002 on patently trumped-up charges.

  • Press Statement: In Solidarity with Teesta Setalvad and her comrades; Condemn the Vengeful Actions of the Gujarat Government

    27 March 2014

    We, the undersigned express our deep shock at the rejection of the anticipatory bail application of Teesta Setalvad and four others in what is being called the Gulberg Embezzlement Case, by the City sessions court of Ahmedabad. From its beginning, the so-called embezzlement has been the concoction of elements instigated by the state government of Gujarat, including the Gujarat Crime Branch. In January 2014, an FIR was registered against the five accused for defrauding the members of the Gulberg Society of funds meant for the building of the Gulberg Memorial commemorating the state sponsored carnage.

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