A hard-working young mother is harassed by a government social security officer over her involvement in a Maoist group. The woman defends herself, and then her young daughter raises a fist and starts singing The Internationale. The story concludes: "Faced with this militant solidarity, the welfare woman ran out like a rat."
South Asia Citizens Web
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London ’slave’ group went from figures of fun to tiny underground commune
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Glimpses from Meeto Memorial Award 2013 and First Sunila Abeyasekara Memorial Lecture on 30 November 2013 in Dhaka
30 November 2013A short message and photo from Dhaka by
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Video of book launch discussion: ’New Urdu Writings from India and Pakistan’ edited by Rakshanda Jalil
30 November 2013At the book release event in Delhi in November 2013 poet and film script writer Javed Akhtar gave a opening lecture on language, literature and urdu. Followed by a question and answer with the book editor Rakshanda Jalil and Javed Akhtar
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Claudio Pavone’s A Civil War reviewed by Mark Mazower | Financial Times
30 November 2013In Italy, they were known as the partisans, though the Germans called them bandits. To the military mind, the partisan represents a kind of pathology, a deviation into irregularity and a force of disorder and unlawful violence. But he (or she) can also be seen as the proud embodiment of self-assertion in the midst of social and institutional collapse.
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India: A dissertation on Flying sex workers of Calcutta
30 November 2013Satarupa Dasgupta’s review of ‘Flying’ Female Sex Workers in Kolkata, India: Using ‘Cultural Biography’ to Understand HIV Risk Perception, by Sunny Sinha
