South Asia Citizens Web

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, a few short months after state violence curtailed the Tiananmen protests, and then the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Western observers began to assume that the Chinese Communist Party is living on borrowed time and will topple or implode any day now. Surely, according to this conventional wisdom, which is spelled out in high-profile books with titles such as China’s Democratic Future and The Coming Collapse of China, the Beijing regime cannot endure.What (…)

SIT’s closure report into the Godhra riots has left far too many questions unasked, and provided answers that are highly questionable

a one minute song in defence of the unions from the Canadian Labour Congress

Dr. A Gopalakrishnan, the former Chairman of India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, has raised some urgent issues in his article in the New Indian Express - 19 April 2013 that the government must address before commissioning Koodankulam.

Thousands of residents of ‘Indian enclaves’ in Bangladesh and ‘Bangladesh enclaves’ in India at Indo-Bangla borders have been suffering innumerable problems for the last about 65 years. Due to unjust demarcation of border areas, their life has become miserable; they are denied basic citizens rights, have no right to vote, suffer from various health problems, their children not able to avail educational facilities, - in effect they are not leading a normal life.