Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Remembering Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955)

    by Tariq Ali, 17 January 2012

    “Something terrible happened fifty years ago today when India was divided. It is time to recognize it and see if it can be understood and transcended. The survivors owe it to those who perished.”

  • Feet of clay

    by Jawed Naqvi, 17 January 2012

    to many other curious people who are genuinely interested in pursuing Anna Hazare’s vision of probity and public morality, I recommend Mukul Sharma’s book Green and Saffron: Hindu Nationalism and Indian Environmental Politics. Sharma, a former journalist turned academic with wide-ranging interests in human rights and social change, has dug out a compelling range of source material to establish the underlying nexus between environmental campaigns and right-wing politics.

  • A documentary film on Homai Vyarawalla

    16 January 2012

    Director: Anik Gosh | Producer: C. S. Lakshmi

    Synopsis: Homai Vyarawalla, born in 1913 into a priestly family in Navsari, Gujarat, was the first woman photo journalist in the country. Beginning her career as a photographer with the Bombay Chronicle and later the Far Eastern Bureau of the British Information Services, she soon came to be known for her compelling photographic images taken both before and after independence. She has a rare collection of interesting picture of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Radhakrishnan and Mahatma Ghandhi. She freelanced for SPAN, life and many international publications and finally gave up photography in 1970.

  • Dont Try to Play Big Brother

    by Rajeev Dhavan, 16 January 2012

    King Canute’s attempt to command the waves seems less demanding than the threats of the Delhi High Court to Google, Facebook and others to pre censor objectionable material and eliminate them from circulation.

  • Reject the Bribery Scheme on Koodankulam nuclear power project

    by People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy, 15 January 2012

    Former President Dr. Abdul Kalam has written to the Prime Minister that 1,000 MW power from the first Koodankulam plant and the unspent amount of Rs. 16,000 crore from the 11th Plan may be given to Tamil Nadu along with his previously announced 200 crore PURA incentives in order to make the people accept the Koodankulam nuclear power project. The people of Tamil Nadu should understand the truths behind this bribery scheme and rally around our demand for scrapping the Koodankulam nuclear power project.

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