Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Mumbai terror attacks and India’s response

    by Arundhati Roy, 12 December 2008

    The Guardian, 12 December 2008
    Mumbai was not our 9/11
    We’ve forfeited the rights to our own tragedies. As the carnage in Mumbai raged on, day after horrible day, our 24-hour news channels informed us that we were watching "India’s 9/11". Like actors in a Bollywood rip-off of an old Hollywood film, we’re expected to play our parts and say our lines, even though we know it’s all been said and done before.
    As tension in the region builds, US Senator John McCain has warned Pakistan that (…)

  • Mumbai is Not India’s 9/11

    by CERAS, 12 December 2008

    For immediate release
    Montréal, Wednesday 4th December
    We at CERAS (South Asia Centre/Centre sur l’asie du sud) have been deeply shocked and saddened by the inhuman carnage and mayhem inflicted on Mumbai in the past week. We are angered that human life was trifled with in a cold, calculating and callous fashion. We offer our condolences to the many families in India and abroad who have suffered sudden and tragic loss. Whoever the perpetrators were and whatever their aims or motivation (…)

  • Family Honour That Kills Women

    by Tariq Ali, 11 December 2008

    London Review of Books, 18 December 2008
    Diary
    If cheating in bed was always settled by the bullet, many of us would be dead. Gerald Martin’s new biography of Gabriel García Márquez reveals that Chronicle of a Death Foretold was based on the murder of the novelist’s friend Cayetano Gentile in Sucre in 1951. He had seduced, deflowered and abandoned Margarita Chica Salas. On her wedding day Margarita’s husband was told that she was no longer a virgin. The bride was sent back to her family (…)

  • A Singer’s Tribute To Dr. Binayak Sen

    by Susmit Bose, 11 December 2008

    The song is a tribute to Dr. Binayak Sen’s resistence to anti people’s politics. The song is in solidarity with his struggle. It was written on May 14 ’08

  • Language Rights in Sri Lanka

    by Law & Society Trust (LST) , 11 December 2008

    (2008, 188pp Price SLR 350/ US$ 7) ISBN: 978-955-1302-14-6
    Contents Part I: Tamil as an Official Language Opening Remarks Hon. D. E. W. Gunasekera, M. P. Reality Check and Recommendations on Language Rights Mr. N. Selvakkumaran Bilingualisation of the Public Service Mr. Raja Collure Civil Society’s Role in Enforcing Language Rights Dr. Kumar Rupesinghe Opening the Door to Tamil/s? Linguistic Minority Policy and Rights Mr. B. Skanthakumar Part II: Annexes Ceylon (Constitution) (…)

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