South Asia Citizens Web

The issues of bread and butter, social tensions and environmental degradation that have been pushed out of the public eye because our legendary club of strategic affairs experts is once more ruling the air waves and pouring ink all over the newspapers on the potency of India’s "hydrogen (H)-bomb".

In the light of recent revelations from Gujarat in the case of Ishrat Jehan we believe that it is only appropriate, ethical, and legally incumbent upon the UPA government to re-open the Batla House ‘encounter’ case. We strongly feel that the truth must come out in the Batla House ‘encounter’ in the interests of justice and as a deterrent to the politics of murder indulged in by sections of the Indian police. We urge you, therefore, to immediately institute a Judicial Probe, under a sitting judge of the Supreme Court to verify the truth about the Batla House ‘encounter’.

Colonial India’s partition was not Jinnah’s idea; he was left with no options by the Congress.

7 August 2009
Following is the transcript of an interview of Prachanda, Chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).
Q: There has been a sudden stop in the political process of the country which was witnessed after 12 point agreement of November 2005 till announcement of republic. Confusion has gripped both the countries, Nepal and India and it appears that the process of development has been caught in a bind. Who is responsible for it and what is the road to come out of (…)

We the undersigned individuals and organisations, strongly condemn the arrest of Chatradhar Mahato on 26 September 2009 by the CID and we demand his unconditional release.