Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Cultural Relativism, Fear and Censorship: Salman Rushdie in conversation with Irshad Manji

    by sacw.net, 5 February 2009

    The Moral Courage Conversations premiere with Manji’s guest, Salman Rushdie, on the 20th anniversary of Irans fatwa against him

  • India: Fundamentalists curbing young people’s rights and freedom

    by Kashmir Times, 5 February 2009

    Editorial, Kashmir Times, 5 February 2009
    Menace of moral policing
    Fundamentalists of various hues curbing young people’s rights and freedom
    Moral policing by right wing organizations, in the name of cultural ethos or religion, has become a problem to reckon with throughout the length and breadth of South Asia. If the various Senas are at work carrying on their hate soaked agenda against Valentines Day, dating and pubs or enforcing dress codes in various parts of India, Jammu and (…)

  • Pakistan Appeal Re Mukhtar Mai: write letters and emails to the authorities

    by sacw.net, 5 February 2009

    Political interference in Mukhtar’s case should be checked
    Special Urgent Appeal
    Please react before 10th February 2009
    Summary:
    The Supreme Court of Pakistan has listed Mukhtar Mai’s case for hearing in the 2nd week of February 2009 (hearing is expected on 10th or 11th February).
    Mukhtar Mai of Meerwala village, Tehsil Jatoi, District Muzaffargarh in the South Punjab Region of Pakistan was gang-raped in 2002 on the order of a council of elders (panchayat) as punishment for her (…)

  • Dont be misled by France’s Nuclear Energy Salesmen (Sortir du nucleaire - Press Release)

    by South Asians Against Nukes, 5 February 2009

    South Asians Against Nukes Mailing List
    [Unofficial translation of the French Press Release]
    Réseau "Sortir du Nucleaire "/ (Network phasing out the nuclear age ) http://www.sortirdunucleaire.org
    Press Release
    04 February 2009
    Announcement of the sale of 2 to 6 EPR reactors to India: le Réseau "Sortir du nucléaire" denounces the bloated claims meant to bluff A simple "Memorandum of Understanding" signed by Areva in New Delhi Big talk but in fact only one EPR exported Bluff to (…)

  • India: Undermining equal opportunities to all citizens

    by Subhash Gatade, 5 February 2009

    Viva ’Academic Untouchability’ ? Jantar Mantar, a unique historical place in the capital, which today acts as a ’sanctioned abode of protest’ under a liberal bourgeois regime, witnessed a protest dharna in the first week of February. Looking at the participation level, one could easily say that, it was indistinguishable from similar protest actions held on the same date. But it is incontestable that the raison detre for the dharna carried very large import which pertained to the (…)

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