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Cries of war are once again vitiating the atmosphere in both India and Pakistan. The governments, the media and the opinion makers are contributing to the hype and increasing the hysteria by the day. There is also silence.
But this silence is from the peace activists on both sides of the border- an unfortunate silence and inaction from that very same section of society that should have been the most vocal and proactive in these times of madness and mayhem.
In fact, many people, (…)

On the events of December 1971

Dawn, 30 December 2008
The insanity of war
EUROPE has seen two major wars: the First World War (1914-1918) and the Second World War (1939-1945).
There has never been a nuclear war in any western country but the mind-boggling devastation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima has sunk into the western consciousness. That is probably why westerners do not talk glibly of nuclear war.
We in South Asia have never witnessed such lengthy mass killings in modern history. That is probably why Indian and (…)

India: An audio tape of feminist songs from the 1980’s