Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • The Battle Over Culture : Fundamentalist threats and secular response in Bangladesh

    by Harsh Kapoor, 12 November 2008

    A compilation of reports and analysis
    sacw.net | 12 November 2008 Contents: 1. Shibir’s militancy: it’s a do-or-die challenge for all (New Age) 2. Shibir threatens RU cultural activists with death (Daily Star) 3. Smash Palace (Naeem Mohaiemen) 4. Cultural activists need to unite (New Age) 5. More protests against removal of sculptures 6. Protests go on against removal of sculptures 7. The sculpture row (A.B.M.S. Zahur) 8. Lalon and Terror (Rahnuma Ahmed) 9. Marchers for sculpture stopped (…)

  • Taking on the ’Developers’: A proposal for social transfomation

    by Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri, Meher Engineer , Rabin Chakraborty, Soumya Guha Thakurta, Subhasis Mukherjee, 11 November 2008

    Work for All: An Alternative Path of Development
    "Discussions with Prof Amit Bhaduri regarding his concept of “Development with Dignity” led some of us to think that the alternative path of development he was trying to chart could present before the resistance movement against the current onslaught of the big corporations a current programme of action which would also be relevant to the greater task of social transformation. A draft of such a programme of action is being hereby circulated (…)

  • LBOD project in Southern Pakistan is a social and ecological disaster - ’People’s Tribunals’ of 2008 and 2007

    by sacw.net, 11 November 2008

    The News, November 2, 2008
    Stakeholders raise voice against LBOD project in ‘People’s Tribunal’
    November 02, 2008 By Jan Khaskheli
    KARACHI: It was a unique event in which hundreds of women carrying babies, gathered under a wide area covered by tents to raise their voice against the project, which has almost destroyed their livelihood source for generations. Belonging to fishermen, farmers and herdsmen families, the ordinary stakeholders participated in the programme to show their anger (…)

  • The Work of Domestic Work

    by Sister Josephine Amala Valarmathi, 10 November 2008

    Domestic workers’ unions in India educate workers about their rights and advocate at the local, national, and international level for women pulled into this industry as a result of poverty, displacement or trafficking.

  • Manto, on murder

    by Khalid Hasan, 10 November 2008

    The Friday Times, 7 November 2008
    I have come upon a rare and forgotten piece of writing by Saadat Hasan Manto, sent to me by a friend some time ago. Written within days of the assassination in Rawalpindi of Pakistan’s first prime minister and the Quaid-I-Azam’s right-hand man and confidant, the piece titled "Murder, Murderer and the Murdered One - In one frame" was published in Afaq, Lahore on October 23 1951, exactly one week after the October 16 murder of Liaquat in the same cursed area (…)

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