South Asia Citizens Web

A citizens’ convention on "Remembering Fukushima: Lessons for India” is being organised on March 11th 2013, marking the second year of the beginning of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. (We use ’beginning’ advisedly, because the accident has not ended and is still very much continuing.)

The Bhavnagar District Collector who chaired the Environment Public Hearing (EPH) for the 6,000 MW Nuclear Power Plant at Mithi Virdi to be set up by the ‘Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited’ and Mr A V Shah, the regional officer of the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) made vital procedural lapses during the hearing.

the role and place of the media in the Shahbag protests. Helping us to gain a deeper understanding are the photographer and writer Shahidul Alam, Sabir Mustafa of the BBC Bengali Service and Abbas Faiz from Amnesty International

Jamaat-Shibir and their devotees (their tamed mass-media and their whole network of supporters) have returned. Their terrorism keeps taking more extreme forms. In the old and familiar manner. From the country’s national flag to the Shaheed Minar and even the country’s map and the common people have all by now become targets of their ruthless attacks, just like their very visible target is the Shahbagh movement itself.

Many attacks on civilians by the Bodu Bala Sena have been reported, including attacks on the places of worship belonging to other religions. The Bodu Bala Sena has become the expression of the widespread lawlessness in the country.