South Asia Citizens Web

We the peasants, workers, fisher folk, indigenous communities, Dalit, landless people, women groups, human rights groups youth and representatives of other smallholder food producers of South Asia, representing NGOs/CSOs, peoples movements from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka have met at Kolkata from December 10-12, 2011 for Regional Peoples’ Convention and we also took part in a mass rally of small food producers at Kolkata. The Peoples Convention intensively discussed status of food security in South Asia, highlighting emerging challenges and demanding food sovereignty . . .
We resolve to launch a campaign against Land Grabbing in South Asia and we would resist all efforts of land grabbing in this sub-region. We further resolve to struggle against all forces that create poverty, conflict and violence.

The l’affaire ’Bhagwadgita As It Is’ and the way it unfolded here raises many uncomfortable questions about our polity as well as society and the way secularism is understood and practised by us. It also denotes the impetuosity with which the articulate sections of our society get agitated when matters of faith are debated.

Greetings! We, hundreds of thousands of “Koodankulam Children” who will be the worst victims of a natural or human error or manmade disaster at the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), would like to appeal to you to scrap the KKNPP project immediately.

Upcoming Convention of the Pakistan India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy is all set to happen in Allahabad from 29 to 31 December 2011. See invitation card and blurb on Pakistan India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy.

Now the RSS-BJP politics is entering the new phase. Having reached the acme of anti minority polarization, it has found the Anna Hazare movement as the new vehicle for its politics of undermining democratic institutions to
bring in a parallel authoritarian structure where the Lok Pal plays the big
brother.