Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • India: Full text of the Gujarat High Court’s order rejecting the bail application of Dr. Mayaben Kodnani

    27 March 2009

    (sacw.net, 28 March 2009)
    IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD CRIMINAL MISC.APPLICATION No. 1943 of 2009 With CRIMINAL MISC.APPLICATION No. 1959 of 2009 With CRIMINAL MISC.APPLICATION No. 1961 of 2009 With CRIMINAL MISC.APPLICATION No. 2015 of 2009 In CRIMINAL MISC.APPLICATION No. 1943 of 2009 With CRIMINAL MISC.APPLICATION No. 2109 of 2009 In CRIMINAL MISC.APPLICATION No. 1959 of 2009 With CRIMINAL MISC.APPLICATION No. 2018 of 2009 In CRIMINAL MISC.APPLICATION No. 1961 of 2009
    For (…)

  • A hawk dressed as a dove: The marketing of a repackaged L. K. Advani

    by Subhash Gatade, 27 March 2009

    [ It is for the first time in his nearly five year old tenure as PM that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a stinging attack on L. K. Advani - PM in waiting as far as the Sangh Parivar is concerned. Prime Minister was candid enough to remind about the "prominent role" played by Mr Advani in the Babri Masjid demolition, or how he presided over Gujarat riots and failed to prevent terror attacks on Parliament and Red Fort as Home Minister.]
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    L.K. Advani, the ’Swayamsevak’ from across (…)

  • Sri Lanka: Daily Massacre of Civilians, Can the Trade Union Movement Remain Silent?

    by Linus Jayatilake, 27 March 2009

    sacw.net
    Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009
    To All Peace Loving People of the World,
    An Appeal on behalf of the Unarmed People Trapped in the Civil War in Sri Lanka The war situation where direct confrontation between the Government and the LTTE, is taking place in the Pudukudiyiruppu in the Mullaitivu District, is daily deteriorating. The Government media gives only one-sided information of the 58th battalion moving slowly from the direction of Pudukudiyiruppu. Simple imagination would give us (…)

  • Sri Lanka: Submission to Police re murder of Lasantha Wickramatunge

    by groundviews.org, 26 March 2009

    groundviews.org

  • India: We must reclaim our city streets as social space

    by Sanjib Baruah, 26 March 2009

    Telegraph (Guwahati) March 26, 2009
    Time to reclaim the city streets for ’foot people’
    Crossing the street has become a nightmare in many busy parts of Guwahati today. For the old and the infirm, it is well nigh impossible. Sometimes it seems as if the ’car people’ are at war with the ’foot people.’ Even the simplest of daily chores is fraught with danger.
    Travelling back and forth between Guwahati and New York, I am struck by how cities in India and those in richer countries are on (…)

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