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AN OPEN LETTER TO MS. SONAL SHAH, MEMBER OF PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA’S TRANSITION ADVISORY BOARD
“Your recent statement on Hindu nationalist groups raises more questions than it answers.”
November 20, 2008
Dear Ms. Shah,
We are a coalition of Indian-American groups and individuals representing diverse faiths, interests, and political affiliations, who are looking forward to working with the administration of President Obama to ensure that the interests of all Indian-Americans have a (…)

[Amnesty International, 19 November 2008 >http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/sri-lankan-government-must-act-now-protect-300000-displaced-20081119]
The humanitarian crisis in the Wanni region of northern Sri Lanka is worsening as the government fails to provide shelter and protect over 300,000 displaced civilians.
Tens of thousands of families are now enduring the monsoon season with limited food, shelter, water or sanitation. They fled their homes to escape the fighting (…)

The Island, 15 November 2008
NOTEBOOK OF A NOBODY
The appalling silence of the good people
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
Martin Luther King, the author of the words quoted above, was as (…)