South Asia Citizens Web

Press Note
University Community, Delhi University
6th November 2008
Dear media persons and journalists,
We wish to bring to your notice the latest incident of vandalism by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad goons (ABVP, student wing of the RSS) in Delhi University, in which members of the press community were also made victims.
The University Community, an independent group of students and teachers of Delhi University, had organised a meeting on "Communalism, Fascism and Democracy: (…)

Economic and Political Weekly, November 1, 2008
Eyewitness reports in the first fortnight of October from Kandhamal describe the miserable conditions in which the victims of the recent riots in this district of Orissa continue to live. It is clear that the government’s claims of a return to normalcy in the area are false and that much needs to be done. People are leaving the camps to live in towns and even to other states. There is a palpable fear of insecurity among the survivors. __3__ (…)

The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA)
CPA challenges validity of recent regulations concerning TV broadcasting in Sri Lanka
5th November 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) this week filed action in the Supreme Court by way of a fundamental rights petition, challenging the validity of recent regulations concerning television broadcasting.
The Minister of Mass Media and Information promulgated a new set of regulations on 10th October 2008, cited as the (…)

Economic & Political Weekly, October 25, 2008
The present situation in South Bastar is characterised by an infinitude of chronic deprivation, along with a complete absence of political discourse. Instead, we have, on the one hand, the Salwa Judum, which the government dishonestly tries to characterise as a "people’s response to Maoism", and on the other, a purely military engagement between the state-based forces and the Maoists, which acts as a proxy to a political discourse. Both (…)