South Asia Citizens Web

Acknowledge that - like rivers, languages, and history - terrorism ties India and Pakistan together. India cannot prosper while Pakistan festers. Pakistan cannot progress while standing in the way of India’s ascent. Only by cooperating can both countries hope to achieve security and make dreams of prosperity come true for more than a small minority.

Indigenous people have lived in the lush forests of Niyamgiri mountain, Orissa, India, for generations. Now, local tribal families are living in fear for their future due to the arrival of a combined bauxite mining and alumina refinery project in the heart of their ancestral domain by an Indian subsidiary of the UK mining and metals company, Vedanta Resources plc..

SAHMAT 8, Vithalbhai Patel House, Rafi Marg New Delhi-110001 Telephone-23711276/ 23351424 e-mail: sahmat@vsnl.com
29.11.2008
The SAHMAT family is deeply shocked and saddened by the news of the passing of Sabina Sehgal Saikia in the horrible attack on the Taj Hotel in Mumbai. While the scale of the loss of lives and injuries is numbing, Sabina’s loss is more personal for the arts community, of which she was such a vibrant member.
A steadfast supporter of SAHMAT, Sabina was a driving (…)

Things have been changing by the day on the issue of terrorism investigation since the proof of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur’s involvement in the Malegaon blast has come to the surface. So far the word Islamic terrorism has been in the air in the post 9/11 phase when the US administration ensured that media takes up this new word and propagates it. The social common sense that ’all terrorists are Muslims’ went to such a pass that many a lawyers taking up the cases of terror suspects were not (…)

The Guardian, November 28 2008
No war on terror for south Asia
To call the Mumbai attacks ’India’s 9/11’ creates a convenient myth that masks the real history of communal conflict
A growing narrative within India and outside emotively describes the recent terror strike in Mumbai as "India’s 9/11". On Thursday, the scion of Nehru-Gandhi dynasty called the Mumbai attacks assaults on the nation’s sovereignty, while the editorials in two of India’s largest newspapers, the Times of India (…)