Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • India: Malicious propaganda against the Lalagarh movement and the urban intellectuals who supported it

    by Committee For The Release of Political Prisoners , 6 October 2009

    The Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners notes with great concern that the government of West Bengal has started unleashing a vivcious character assassination campaign against Chhatradhar Mahato, the leader of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities, that have been
    spearheading the Lalgarh movement. It is this vicious media trial indulged in by sections of the media and the administration.

  • Faheem Hussain - Lal Salam

    by Rinku Dutta

, 6 October 2009

    sacw.net
    To the profound sorrow of his world-wide circle of friends and family, Faheem Hussain breathed his last in Trieste, a seaside port-city in north-eastern Italy, on September 29. He succumbed to prostrate cancer. He was 67.


    Faheem’s journey had begun on July 23, 1942, at Yavatmal (earlier spelled as Yeotmal), in the Indian state of Maharashtra, an aspect of his composite identity that he would later often assert: a Hyderabadi Dakhani. At the time of the Partition his family (…)

  • Tipaimukh Dam, a potential seismic bomb for South Asia

    by Arshad H Abbasi, 3 October 2009

    In the light of findings of Sichuan earthquake, seismic vulnerability, tectonic plate formation and the presence of geological faults, the Tipaimukh Dam is technically and financially not viable. In this scenario, pursuing a project blindly would be not only sheer waste of public money but also a potential seismic bomb for the region.

  • India: The Influence of Big Business Lobby on Government and its Implications

    by sacw.net, 3 October 2009

    A compilation on private corporate lobbying, in the form of intensive briefings and presentations to ministers and senior civil servants and the expanding influence of private corporations in the Government of India

  • Doing the Right Thing in Sri Lanka

    by Rohini Hensman, 1 October 2009

    The only way to reverse the degradation of Sri Lanka’s economy and polity is to acknowledge that the war is over and take the appropriate measures: release all the Vanni IDPs immediately, slash military spending, dismantle the paramilitaries, redeploy demobilised soldiers to civilian reconstruction tasks, replace military and ex-military administrators with civilian ones, dismantle the HSZs, resettle all displaced civilians including those displaced by HSZs, repeal the PTA and Emergency Regulations, restore democratic rights, especially to freedom of expression, and release J.S. Tissainayagam and others incarcerated for exercising this right.

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