Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Resurgent Hindutva Terror in India

    by Subhash Gatade, 29 October 2009

    Panaji: Goa Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders like Manohar Parrikar have expressed support for the Sanatan Sanstha, the Hindu outfit blamed for the pre-Diwali blasts that killed two people said on Wednesday.
    Virendra Marathe, managing trustee of the Sanstha, named BJP state president Shripad Naik, leader of opposition Parrikar and party legislator Dayanand Mandrekar as politicians who stood by them in the aftermath of the blasts in Margao, 35 km from here.
    Police say the (…)

  • Why Everyone Speaks The Flowing Language of Blood

    by Nandini Sundar, 28 October 2009

    After a long tyranny of neglect, the State speaks in wartime euphemisms

  • Operation Saffron Hunt?

    by Satya Sagar, 26 October 2009

    As the UPA government embarks on its ‘Operation Green Hunt’ against the Maoists maybe what it should really be carrying out is an ‘Operation Saffron Hunt’ - against Hindu extremists who pose a far greater threat to the internal security of India.

  • India: Statement by women’s organizations on increasing state violence on people’s movements and sexual violence on women by police, paramilitary and army

    by sacw.net, 26 October 2009

    We, the undersigned representatives of women’s organizations and individuals, are deeply shocked and disturbed by the Indian government’s plans to launch an armed offensive by paramilitary and army forces in the adivasi-dominant forest areas of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. This attack is ostensibly to “liberate” these areas from the influence of Maoist rebels, and to undertake “development” activities there. There are reports of massive deployment of troops in these parts in preparation for this exercise. For the past half century, the Indian government has used various pretexts of insurgency to stifle the democratic aspirations of the people by giving a free hand to military, para and other security forces and the police.

  • India: A Feminist Pays Her Tribute To A Comrade — K Balagopal

    by Nandita Haksar, 25 October 2009

    My first introduction to Balagopal was as a brilliant mathematician with a doctorate from the Indian Statistical Institute. He was a lecturer at the Kakatiya University in Warangal, Andhra Pradesh. Balagopal had to leave his job at the Kakatiya University because there was a danger that he would be killed by the police because he had been taking up the cause of the Naxalites.
    I could not help smile when I remembered our first meeting as lawyer and client and he had looked at the petition (…)

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