Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Hindutva Fundamentalists Loose California Textbook Court Case: Text of Summary Judgment (February 25, 2009)

    by sacw.net, 1 March 2009

    In an important court ruling by the US Federal judge on 25 february 2009, Hindutva’s politically motivated efforts to change the contents of school textbooks in California are scuttled.

  • Pakistani Peace delegation in India from 1 to 9 March 2009

    by sacw.net, 1 March 2009

    Invitation for interaction with Pakistani Peace delegation March 2nd 2009
    – 12.00 noon to 2.30 pm
    – Chelmsford Club, Rafi Marg, New Delhi
    Dear
    South Asian Network for Social & Agricultural Development (SANSAD) and Confederation Of Voluntary Agencies (COVA) cordially invite you to an Interaction Session between Media Leaders and a Peace Delegation from Pakistan followed by lunch. The Pakistani Peace Delegation is visiting India from 28th February to 9 March 2009 and to New Delhi (…)

  • Pakistan and elsewhere: Dismantling the myths about fundamentalism(s)

    by Rubina Saigol, 28 February 2009

    Religious fundamentalist movements of all shades and hues have gripped large parts of the world and have posed a threat to the prevalent political, economic and social systems. While "fundamentalism" is a term that is used in varying contexts to denote differing realities, its origins lie in 1920s America where it was used to refer to puritanical evangelist movements. The term is sometimes used to deny history by suggesting a return to some imagined early purity or "golden period" that (…)

  • Highlights - Report on the State of Food Insecurity in Rural India

    28 February 2009

    The document is based on analysis of the data from the National Family Health Survey of 2005-2006 (NFHS-3), and the 61st round of the National Sample Survey and Census 2001.
    – A report by World Food Programme-India and M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation

  • India: Online Petition In Defence of Labour and Tribal Rights Activist Shamim Modi

    by Rajani Konantambigi, 28 February 2009

    [http://www.petitiononline.com/Shamim/petition.html >http://www.petitiononline.com/Shamim/petition.html]
    To: Concerned citizens and civil rights groups
    Ex-TISSIAN Activist Working for Rights of Tribal People Arrested
    Ms Shamim (nee Meghani) Modi ex-TISSIAN, law graduate, has had to pay a heavy price for taking up the cause of tribal people and other industrial workers, exposing the corrupt nexus between the politician and the mining mafia and for working towards bringing (…)

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