South Asia Citizens Web

We the Civil Society Groups and citizens of India would like to draw your kind attention before your upcoming landmark visit to Burma on the following crucial issues that urgently need your kind intervention and action.

Reforming school textbooks will enable India and Pakistan to build a larger South Asian identity that does not threaten national identities.

KARACHI - The People’s Tribunal organised by the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) on Tuesday urged the government departments like Fisheries, Irrigation, Wildlife, Tourism and Environment to look into the pouring of highly-contaminated industrial pollution in Keenjhar Lake.

Curfew orders have just been promulgated in our area once again right after our planning meetings with the youth, women, community elders and the Idinthakarai village committee on May 8, 2012. Thousands of police personnel are being posted in and around Koodankulam in haste. We get reliable tips that the authorities are planning to clamp down our protest and arrest all of us, possibly tonight. Such a pre-dawn operation that the government usually does could be bloody as thousands of men, women and children from several villages are sleeping around the Church at Idinthakarai.

It is an honour, comrades and friends, to be given an opportunity to participate as more than an observer in the unfolding histories of JANAM and LEFTWORD, histories that have been rich and complex, and which continue to be inspired by, even as they take forward the legacy of, among others, Safdar Hashmi’s progressive leftwing open-mindedness, non-sectarianism, compassion, boundless energy and creativity.