Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • The Mothers of The Lashkar

    by sacw.net, 16 December 2008

    Outlook Dec 15, 2008
    A Review Essay
    Lashkar’s jihad is claimed to be almost exclusively on behalf of Kashmiri mothers and daughters. For they know they must have the mothers in Punjab and Sindh on their side in order to succeed in their recruiting efforts, as we learn from these propaganda books
    by C.M. Naim
    The book is titled Ham Ma’en Lashkar-e-Taiba Ki (‘We, the Mothers of Lashkar-e-Taiba’); its compiler styles herself Umm-e-Hammad; and it is published by Dar-al-Andulus, Lahore. (…)

  • Dont Stiffle Democratic Dissent in Orissa !

    by Committee For The Release of Political Prisoners , 16 December 2008

    COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS 185/3, Fourth Floor, Zakir Nagar, New Delhi
    13/12/2008
    Press Statement
    Condemn strongly the authoritarian attitude of the Orissa state government to stifle democratic voices!
    Release Lenin Kumar the people’s writer and Abhaya Sahoo the people’s leader unconditionally!
    The Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) strongly condemns the authoritarian attitude of the Orissa state government to stifle all democratic voices (…)

  • Honour in citizens well being not in chauvinistic nationalism

    by Naeem Sadiq, 16 December 2008

    60 years of militarisation has made the people of India and Pakistan more unsafe and more vulnerable. If one’s child is killed, it does not matter if the bullet has come from another country or from the barrel of the local terrorist. We have paid a heavy price for our capacity-building to kill others and doing little to protect our own citizens. The oxymoronic ‘arms for peace’ pursuit has made people of both countries poorer in every sense of the term.

  • Changing picture of caste in urban India

    by sacw.net, 16 December 2008

  • Let us stand with Sister Meena and other victims of the Hindutva in Orissa

    by Vidya Bhushan Rawat, 16 December 2008

    manukshi.blogspot.com
    Salute to a brave soul who fought for her honor in Orissa
    A story for serious follow up and not for big TRPs of the channels.
    They came in large number with their OB vans, photographers and anchor persons. Much before she could come and join the press, the hall at the Indian Social Institute in Delhi was fully overcrowded. Every body present thought that for that day there was enough ‘news’ to spread the TRPs. I had never seen such a ‘concern’ from the commercial (…)

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