South Asia Citizens Web

. . . a transformation where powerful counter-movements resist commodification of land and labour, and also groups that are set up precisely to divide society.
Economic and Political Weekly, November 15, 2008

Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalises homosexual relations, has no jurisprudential justification

Audiotape in Hindi produced in 1990 by the movement against communalism still remains a valuable resource for activists trying to raise their voice against communalism and Hindu fundamentalism in India [digitised by sacw.net]

Earthrights International (Rick Herz, 4 November 2008)
Victory Against Union Carbide Corp.: Court Reverses Dismissal of Pollution
On November 3, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reinstated plaintiffs’ claims against Union Carbide Corporation for ongoing, massive water pollution at its infamous plant in Bhopal, India, reversing a lower court’s dismissal of the case. A poisonous gas leak from this same plant killed thousands of people in 1984.
After the 1984 (…)

Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life
– 6 November 2008, New York Opening Remarks by Lee C. BollingerIntroduction by Orhan Pamuk
– Salman Rushdie in conversation with Gauri Viswanathan