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[India’s] Central government’s professed commitment to human rights is worth nothing so long as it won’t allow the soldiers indicted for murdering innocent civilians in Kashmir to be prosecuted for their crimes.

Witnessing Partition is a big book, in that it deals with a very wide range of Partition literature in chapters that are arranged chronologically and attentive to trends in historical scholarship since 1947. Since there were no trials for the incredible violence that occurred, Tarun Saint sees Partition literature perform the work of testimony. For Saint, ‘the attempt to aspire to a form of proxy witnessing may be discerned as an ethical imperative’ in the best writing on the Partition (55): however, it is in characterizing writing as best or mediocre that the book raises important questions on the function of literature, especially the genre that is Partition literature.

A study by Zeenat Hisham. Published in December 2009 by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research and South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication

The Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2010, being proposed to bring about changes in the criminal laws with respect to protections against sexual assault, has been a subject of discussion and popular misinterpretation in the recent past. While the move by the government to re-examine the law on sexual assault is long overdue and the opening up of this subject a welcome step, it is necessary to underscore the concerns raised by rights advocates across the country.

Photos of the New Delhi Protest Rally of June 2, 2010 in Solidarity with Palestinians