Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Electoral contest between Mallika Sarabhai and LK Advani is like Gandhi vs Godse

    by K G Kannabiran, 26 March 2009

    sacw.net, 26 March 2009
    Friends ,
    I am the President of PUCL and. I feel this election calls for intervention by all people who desire that the country’s integrity should survive democratic norms are preserved and promoted. I am not against politics and I do not consider politics a bad word. I have no such contumacious attitude towards politics. Every society needs to be informed by politics in the absence of which society wouldend up in the wilderness of arbitrariness. The coalitions of (…)

  • Digital Politics of Hindu Nationalism

    by Binu Karunakaran, 25 March 2009

    Cheeky Zero
    BJP’s IT Vision: The discreet charm of techno-Hindutva
    In June 2007 the Indian Express reported that the Shiv Sena (SS) is planning to build a software to monitor abusive communities on the popular social networking site Orkut. One doesn’t know whether the Shiv Sainiks made use of any web technology when they singled out and slapped a criminal suit on a teenaged computer science student from Kerala for letting anonymous users post defamatory comments against Shiv Sena in a (…)

  • Labour in Global Value Chains: A Study of the Leather and Footwear Manufacturing Cluster of Kanpur

    by Manali Chakrabarti, Rahul Varman, 24 March 2009

  • BJP’s Real Agenda

    by Sukla Sen, 24 March 2009

    WITH the dissolution of the 11 th Lok Sabha on December 4, 1997. the Indian media, almost as a body, have launched a concerted propaganda barrage to overwhelm the public with three meticulously manufactured Impressions. One, now the only issue before the Indian electorate is the stability of the next government, no matter what policies this government might try to follow (in any case, everybody would pursue much the same policies). Two, the BJP’s politics has taken a decisive turn towards moderation, no matter how weak, contradictory and confusing the evidence of this is. Three, the inevitability of Atal Behari Vajpayee becoming the next prime minister, no matter how he conjures up the required majority.

  • Text of Statement on India by Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

    23 March 2009

    [United Nations - Office of High Commissioner of Human Rights >http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/0A3A151662B82F2AC1257582005B0EC4?opendocument]
    Statement by Navanethem Pillay, High Commissioner for Human Rights
    National Human Rights Commission New Delhi, 23 March 2009 Distinguished Members of the National Human Rights Commission and State Commissions,
    Dear Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to sincerely thank the Government of India for its kind (…)

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