Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Workers Movement : New Challenges, New Possibilities

    by New Socialist Initiative, 22 April 2009

    You are cordially invited to a seminar on "Workers Movement : New Challenges, New Possibilities’’ to be held on Saturday, 25 th April, 2009 at Hindi Bhavan, Delhi at 4 p.m.. The idea behind this programme is to listen to trade union activists / intellectuals-activists connected /concerned with the workers movement and hopefully generate a discussion.
    Com P.K Shahi (AIFTU), Prabhu Mahapatra ( scholar-activist /labour historian) and Sanjay Kumar ( St Stephen’s College) have agreed to share (…)

  • India: RSS Schools and the Hindu Nationalist Education Project

    by Akshay Bakaya, 21 April 2009

    [An edited version of this paper was published under the title The RSS Educationist as Mahabharata Charioteer in the volume Education and Democracy in India, New Delhi, 2003]
    Teaching is central to the whole Hindu nationalist enterprise. At its core, the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, lit. ‘National Volunteers Organization’) itself, with its own shikshaks and bauddhiks (teachers, intellectual sessions) in neighborhood shakhas (branches) defines its noiseless but assiduous method as a (…)

  • Goldman Prize - 2009 for Syeda Rizwana Hasan from Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA)

    by sacw.net, 21 April 2009

    The Goldman Environmental Prize 2009
    2009 Recipient for Asia APRIL 19, 2009
    RIZWANA HASAN Dhaka, Bangladesh
    Video
    Working to reduce the impact of Bangladesh’s exploitative and environmentally-devastating ship breaking industry, leading environmental attorney Rizwana Hasan spearheaded a legal battle resulting in increased government regulation and heightened public awareness about the dangers of ship breaking.
    Toxic Industry
    Bangladesh is one of only a few countries in the world (…)

  • Children Of The Taliban

    21 April 2009

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    See also:
    Pakistan’s Taliban Generation
    – by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  • India - Pakistan: Unending War Over The Siachen Glacier

    by Jawed Naqvi, 20 April 2009

    Dawn
    Was Indira Gandhi low on oxygen in Leh to have ordered Siachen fiasco?
    A seemingly intractable problem stalking India and Pakistan is their inability to say sorry, mea culpa, and move on. The mulish tendency has led to absurd levels of crises, including nuclear close calls, which would be considered anathema in most cases even among very hostile neighbours.
    Conciliatory efforts are discouraged. I remember the bemused face of a Pakistani delegate at a Track III peace conference in (…)

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