South Asia Citizens Web

Dear Sister,
We hope this letter finds you well. We write this to you in hope and anguish. Hope because we still believe that our country being one of the largest democracies in the world will listen to our voice of appeal and peace to con- tinue living in this coastal village of ours safely and securely. Anguish because we are afraid of the Police force surrounding us, of our men and sons being booked in false cases and taken away, of our surroundings being contaminated by the deadly nuclear radiation.

Exactly 65 years ago, today, on 17 August 1947, one of the most critical decisions on pre-partition Punjab, the Radcliffe Award, was made public. It also became one of the most controversial episodes in the drama of India’s and Punjab’s partitions. A special number of VIEWPOINT, the left wing (...)

While thanking the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) for the timely and comprehensive report entitled “Performance Audit on Activities of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (Department of Atomic Energy),” the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) calls for the immediate resignation of its Chairman Sri. S. S. Bajaj and for the complete disbanding of this ineffective and wasteful handmaiden-organization of the Indian nuclear establishment.

We the following people went on a peace and solidarity mission to the trouble torn areas of the Western Assam with the objective of assessing the situation, meeting the inmates of both the communities in the relief camps, ascertaining specific vulnerabilities which need urgent attention and promoting peace and solidarity among the strife torn people. We visited a few relief camps in the affected districts of Dhubri, Bongaingaon and Kokrajhar on August 7-8, 2012. We also met with members of the civil society organizations and officials of the administration.

The shooting dead of striking miners by armed police at Marikana exposes hard truths about post-apartheid South Africa that the country’s new elites have preferred to ignore South Africans are reeling in horror at a violent incident on 16 August 2012 which recalls the darkest days of the (...)