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In the death of the Sunday Leader editor, Lasantha Wickrematunge , Sri Lanka lost a very courageous and visionary journalist who strived to expose corruption, human rights abuses and supported the rights of minorities in the face of great personal danger. He had obviously anticipated his own demise and the manner of it as is evident from his last editorial.

The failure of Pakistan’s Natural History Museum to recognize Darwin’s Theory of Evolution as fundamental to Biology and Medical Sciences needs to be corrected. Public awareness through TV programs is essential in this year of Darwin.

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The horror and the massacres continue in Gaza. The scenes of carnage being broadcast by Al-Jazeera are unbearably painful. Police stations, schools, universities, ministries, houses, crowded mosques, ambulances, paramedics, etc. were and are being targeted by the Israeli air force and now ground troops have entered to “finish the job” as the Israelis call it. Hundreds of innocents have been killed and thousands injured and there seems to be no end in sight. This is not a (…)

Radio Netherlands International
The legacy of separation
by Dheera Sujan
09-01-2009
Sarla Sujan was born into a Hindu family in the city of Hyderabad Sindh in 1931. She’d always taken it for granted that she was Indian - yet suddenly, on the stroke of midnight in August 1947, the Muslim state of Pakistan was created - and she became Pakistani overnight.
In the chaos following Partition, more than ten million people migrated over the new border. In some places, Partition was (…)

The cycle of killings in Kannur in Kerala can be viewed as a violent symptom of the deep-rooted irreconcilability of two political forces in India-the secular Left and the communal Hindu Right. Although the media seek to depoliticize the CPI(M)-RSS conflict there by projecting it as a simple gang warfare between two contending electoral foes, each seeking to retain and extend its territory, one cannot overlook the fundamental ideologies that sharply divide the two. The fact that soon after (…)