South Asia Citizens Web

There is serious shortage of vaccines, testing facilities, hospital beds, ventilators, oxygen, medicines and above all trained personnel – doctors, nurses and other medical staff. The front line workers and employees are overworked and lack adequate protection. Instead of addressing these serious issues, BJP leaders including union ministers are engaged in shifting the responsibility to the state governments and indulging in blame games. In the midst of this, the vaccine policy announced by the government puts corporate profits above the precious lives of people.

The disaster at Chernobyl is still considered one of the worst nuclear accidents in history. It happened on April 26, 1986. Thirty-five years later, a group of survivors returns to the ghost city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine.

The outcome of the assembly elections in West Bengal, which will be declared on May 2, 2021, will have a profound impact on the political future of India. In March and April, we spoke to a cross-section of individuals – representatives of political parties, civil society organisations, scholars, journalists and creative artists – cutting across ideological lines, to put together this 22-minute documentary film. The main language of the film is Bengali (with English subtitles).

concerned citizens are alarmed at the arbitrary and sweeping decision of the Telangana Govt. to declare 16 democratic organizations as ‘unlawful’ . .

on December 10, 2008, Peter Robert Lamont Brown and Romila Thapar were awarded the 2008 Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity. | John W. Kluge Center: https://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/