South Asia Citizens Web

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Ask for a piece on Pakistan and Bangladesh during December and you’re likely to get something about the 1971 wars — note the plural, because the eastern part of the subcontinent simultaneously experienced an inter-ethnic civil war and ethno-communal cleansing, genocide, inter-state conventional war and a war of national liberation, all climaxing in the crisp Bengali winter of 1971. Naeem Mohaiemen’s seven part series is an example, covering many aspects of that fateful (…)

More than 500 people of the Right to Food Campaign sitting at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi rejected the National Food Security Bill 2013 which was passed by the cabinet of the UPA Government today evening and will now be placed in the Parliament in this session.

The (Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor) DMIC Virodhi Sangharsh Yatra culminated today with the National Convention on the DMIC – Facts and Myths to share new information gathered enroute the Yatra, analyse outcomes and devise a strategy for further action, and was attended by activists, supporters and experts.

KARACHI: Intellectuals from a number of fields came together to point out the horrifying prejudices found in text books in Pakistan at a talk on ‘Biases in Textbooks and Education Policy’ organised by the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) [on 18 March 2013]

Fifth Walter Sisulu Memorial Lecture - ’Trajectories of Fascism: The Extreme-Right Movements in India and Elsewhere’ was delivered by Professor Jairus Banaji at the Edward Said Hall, in Jamia Milia Islamia University, Delhi on 18 March 2013. The lecture was organised by the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace & Conflict Resolution at the Jamia Milia Islamia University.