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[The Guardian, 4 March 2009 >http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/04/pakistan-cricket-terror-attack-srilankanteam]
This attack struck Pakistan’s last redoubt of national pride
In a country accustomed to horror, we cling to a different narrative, where cricket is heart and soul. Today, that lies in tatters
On a bright morning in March 2004 I heard a cheer so loud it drowned out all conversation in the stands of Karachi’s National Stadium. I looked immediately to the field, (…)

sacw.net
March 3, 2009
We believe that the resumption of dialogue process between Indian and Pakistani governments is crucial in resolving issues that threaten peace.
To maintain peace between the two nations, it is important to strengthen democracy in Pakistan and support the democratically elected government so that it can effectively control terrorist forces.
It is vital to take proper action against terrorist forces in both nations. Pakistan should take stern action against the (…)

The Gujarat Earthquake in the year 2001 and the consequent relief and rehabilitation programme was an eyeopener to the outside world regarding the deep seated caste bias in the Gujarati community apart from the much talked about bias against the minorities. There were reports that at places the relief and rehabilitation work bypassed the dalits and the Muslims.
The organised genocide of Muslims in the year 2002 at the behest of the Sangh Parivar organisations which was aided and (…)

Making Contact from National Radio Project
February 4, 2009
Transcript #05-09 Conversation on Kashmir with Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian
Program description, guest contact information and audio files at [http://www.radioproject.org/archive/2009/0509.html >http://www.radioproject.org/archive/2009/0509.html]
Arundhati Roy is the celebrated author of “The God of Small Things” and winner of the prestigious Booker Prize. “The New York Times” calls her, "India’s most impassioned critic (…)

’there’s a lot of money in poverty’. Politically, the film de-contextualises poverty – by making poverty an epic prop, it disassociates poverty from the poor. It makes India’s poverty a landscape, like a desert or a mountain range, an exotic beach, god-given, not man-made.