South Asia Citizens Web

It’s been four years since the Delhi High Court made the historic ruling decriminalizing homosexuality, by which Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was found to violate the fundamental right to life and liberty and the right to equality as guaranteed by the Constitution of India (Articles 14, 15 and 21). But it appears that the law is still being used against members of the community, as 14 people (suspected of being homosexuals) were arrested by the Hassan police under Section 377 on November 4. The incident has sparked outrage in the community and raises questions as to how arrests could be made under a Section of the IPC that the court has struck down, and why the arrests were allegedly made in the dead of night.

Prachanda faces an uphill battle to not just repeat his party’s unexpected 2008 election victory but also win a majority of seats so as to draft a new constitution.

Audio recording of NMML Public Lecture by Yale Librarian Ms. Susan Gibbons at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in Delhi on 5 November 2013

An article on the abduction and killing of 18 professionals in December 1971, and the making of the film which investigated the role of UK based Chowdhury Mueen Uddin

Burmese Buddhists attacked and killed Rohingya Muslims in race riots in June 2012, just as Aung San Suu Kyi was beginning her charm offensive in the West. Everywhere she went, the priority of governments was to make her welcome, so it passed with little comment that she had failed to condemn the anti-Rohingya pogrom. The violence has continued sporadically ever since, while Ms Suu Kyi has yet to denounce it convincingly.