South Asia Citizens Web

Globally, the focus of the left has shifted from regime change to searching out political spaces and networks, and bringing people together to make normative claims about freedom, justice and equality. Is the left in Pakistan, particularly the younger lot, committed to similar goals? Do they see the ‘party’ as one channel for what they are trying to do?

Full transcript of a talk by the prominent Indian journalist, Praful Bidwai on ’Spotlight’, broadcast by All India Radio in 19 January 1991 at 21 16 hours

India’s celebrated historian Professor Romila Thapar speaking of her new book THE PAST BEFORE US: Historical Traditions of Early North India. This a full public recording of her talk at the India International Centre, New Delhi on the 23rd Sept 2013

Few incidents of terrorism have caused such large-scale outpouring of grief, anger and shame as the massacre in the Peshawar church last Sunday. But will this outrage awaken the Pakistani people to the urgency of dealing with the cancerous growth in their body politic of which the attack on the old church was only a symptom?

Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. Gordon makes it clear that the terrifying outflow of contaminated water pouring through the Fukushima site is a clear and present threat to all living things in the Pacific Ocean and to human life in general.