South Asia Citizens Web

Contents:
1. Bangladesh: Attacks on non-Muslims must stop now, forever
2. Hindu minority become target of Bangladesh violence by Victor Mallet
3. No impunity for violence - Dhaka Tribune Editorial
4. Bangladesh: Challenge Before Third Hasina Govt by Gautam Das
5. Time for the BNP to cut Jamaat loose - Dhaka Tribune Editorial
6. Bangladesh’s Radical Islamists Get U.S. Backing - Daily Beast
7. Bangladesh’s Predicament - Economic and Political Weekly, Editorial
8. Deplorable attacks on religious minority communities - New Age, Editorial
9. Odhikar indictment a worrisome sign - Dhaka Tribune Editorial
10. Obhoynagar reminds of ’71 horrors by Emran Hossain
11. The ugliest face of the opposition - Tribune Editorial
12. ATTACKS ON RELIGIOUS MINORITIES - Fresh attacks take place in Satkhira, Panchagarh (New Age)
13. Politics is done best with lathis in Bangladesh by Afsan Chowdhury

The bomb hurler and why he is burning Bangladesh by Nadine Shaanta Murshid for AlalODulal.org Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. If you look too deeply into the abyss, the abyss will look into you. -Nietzsche The elections are over. But not a […]

. . .the militant threat in the fight against polio must be thwarted and the health workers facilitated in every way possible

ON January 3, 2014, it was reported that the United States ( U. S.) granted asylum to a gay couple, Jagdish Kumar and Sukwinder who fled India in June 2012 because of pressure on Jagdish to marry a girl. They did not try and sneak into the U. S. but surrendered to the U. S. immigration authorities asking for asylum at the Mexican border. The case was supported by an NGO called Immigration Equality which specialises in gay and lesbian cases. The U. S. judge was doubly convinced following India’s Supreme Court judgement re- criminalizing same- sex behaviour which was brought to the attention of the U. S. judge.

In 1835, Macaulay famously stated that the British education system in India should create ‘a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect’.