Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Withdraw Operation Green Hunt: Letter from Jharkhand Indigenous People’s Forum

    by Jharkhand Indigenous People’s Forum, 19 March 2010

    JIPF Jharkhand Indigenous People’s Forum Mission Colony, Khorha Toli, Kokar, Ranchi – 834001 Tel. No. -(0651)3242752 Email: jipf2008(AT)gmail.com
    Ref: -gov/025/2010 -Date: 19/03/2010
    To,
    Mr. P. Chidambaram, Hon’ble Minister, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, North Block, Central Secretariat, New Delhi 110 001(India).
    Sub: For withdrawal of the Operation Green Hunt from Jharkhand. (…)

  • Permanent spring

    by Dilip Simeon, 19 March 2010

    A people’s army is an oxymoron, because all armies get absorbed into the age-old, self-regenerative structure of militarism. Armies tend to belong to themselves; political armies lean towards totalitarianism. There are no final solutions to anything. Yearnings for finality are best quenched in avowedly metaphysical speculation, rather than in the political domain, where they have had sinister results. It is not so ironical that politburos are the last refuge of dogmatic faith. It is time for them to discard their special knowledge of the End of History and return to ordinary life.

  • Hari Sharma: Obituary

    by South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD), 18 March 2010

    It is with deepest sorrow that we announce the death of our friend and comrade, Hari Prakash Sharma, on March 16 following a prolonged battle with cancer. Hari took his last breath in his home of 42 years at Burnaby (a suburb of Vancouver), British Columbia, surrounded by his comrades Harinder Mahil, Raj Chouhan, and Chin Banerjee. All of them had come together in 1976 to form the Vancouver Chapter of the Indian People’s Association in North America (IPANA), which had been founded by Hari and many others at a meeting in Montreal in 1975.

  • India: Policing morality at Aligah Muslim University - An independent fact finding report

    18 March 2010

    The following report was produced by a team of five lawyers and civil rights activists after newspapers widely reported the story of Dr. SR Siras who had been unknowingly filmed in his home having consensual sex with another adult male and subsequently suspended by the university he works at.
    Report dated 10.03.10
    Introduction
    Dr. SR Siras
    On 09.02.2010, newspapers widely reported the story of Dr. Mr. Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras a 64 year old Reader & Chairman, Department of (…)

  • A Letter to the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir re the Arrest of Five Right to Information Activists

    14 March 2010

    Letter to Omar Abdullah the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from Dr Muzaffar Bhat, Convener, J&K Right to Information Movementon the subject "5 RTI Activists Arrested (dacoity, loot) in Kashmir

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