South Asia Citizens Web

Undergraduates who have wrestled with the question, what is a historical fact, have got a break. A very high authority has said historical facts do not matter. One of the instructive episodes in the recent Ayodhya judgment of the Allahabad High Court has been the straightforward abandonment of the historical mode of reasoning on the issues before the court and the nation.

A HLRN press release on forced evictions and human rights violations due to the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in New Delhi

Though there are adequate laws to deal with the growing phenomenon of encounter killings all over the country, an obvious decline in social, political and institutional mores appear to create acceptance for it

This report by Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour contains the findings of a four-month investigation of the working conditions at the Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Hangzhou, where 17 workers killed themselves in early 2010, many of them by jumping out of factory windows.

The prospect of a peace deal with the Taliban is a hot topic, with the
establishment of a High Peace Council to support negotiations and reports of secret talks between the Afghan government and the insurgents.