South Asia Citizens Web

GKS and advocates of domestic workers’ rights are dismayed by the Indian government’s pursuit and the ultimate granting of diplomatic immunity to Devyani Khobragade, a move that only serves to protect Indian employers who violate labour rights and human rights. GKS condemns the humiliating treatment of Ms. Khobragade during her arrest – however, the immunity conveniently sought later highlights only the continuing denial of domestic workers’ human rights by the Indian government everywhere. However, the indictment and the qualified immunity that Ms. Khobragade has been given show that immunity does not equal impunity.

“But in the last Awami period, from Ramu to Sathia, during the various attacks on Buddhish and Hindu community, alongside BNP-Jamaat, we have also seen local Awami League members. This has put into crisis the entire basis for this party to claim itself as “secular.” Last Friday, during the attacks in Barisal, the leadership was […]

The Statistical Future of Bangladeshi Hindus by Dipen Bhattacharya for AlalODulal.org In 2051, the Hindu population could fall to the level of 1974. One thing that every Bangladeshi possibly knows is that the Hindu population as a percentage of the total is shrinking monotonically. This is the legacy of the partition of India in 1947 […]

The Gujarat government is trying to intimidate Citizens for Justice and Peace activists fighting the Zakia Jafri case, by filing an FIR based on trumped-up charges against them. Some eminent citizens led by historian Romila Thapar have issued a brief statement deploring this. "Indian citizens have just got a disturbing glimpse of how the state would deal with dissidents and human-rights defenders should Narendra Modi come to power nationally...."

New Socialist Initiative condemns the attack on the headquarters of AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) office at Kaushambi, Ghaziabad by vigilantes of the Hindutva Brigade and demands stern action against the culprits. Given the inordinate delay by the police in reaching the place and nabbing the hooligans in the case of an emergent political party and high-profile politicians, one can only imagine the safety and security of common citizen under such dispensation.