South Asia Citizens Web

PRESS RELEASE DATE: 24TH NOVEMBER 2008
We condemn the use of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) against the ten accused including Dayanand Purohit, Sadhvi Pragya and Lt Col Shrikant Prasad Purohit and Sameer Kulkarni arrested so far in the September 29 Malegaon blast case. We strongly feel that the Government should prosecute them under ordinary present Indian Criminal Laws.
The debate about POTA, MCOCA and now of GUJCOC is centered (…)

open letter to Election Commission to Demand to Restrain Bhartiya Janta Party targeting the Muslim community in Jamia and Batla House area

Spiked review of books, November 2008
Twenty years on: internalising the fatwa
Kenan Malik, author of the forthcoming From Fatwa to Jihad, discusses the multiculturalism, political conflict and liberal cowardice that defined the Rushdie Affair and its legacy.
When The Satanic Verses was published in September 1988, it had been expected to set the world alight, though not quite in the way that it did. Salman Rushdie was then perhaps the most celebrated British novelist of his (…)

Ethno-nationalism in Pakistan extends beyond simply a modernist urge to secure economic and political resources