Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • India and Pakistan: Talking ’CBM’, making ’ICBM’

    by M B Naqvi, 3 November 2008

    Whither India and Pakistan: Rethink relations
    by M B Naqvi
    Indians and Pakistanis have, some day, to think of the future of South Asia in a fast changing world.
    There is much optimism over India and Pakistan implementing the America-recommended Confidence Building Measures over Kashmir bearing fruit. The first Indian goods consignment has arrived in Azad Kashmir across the Line of Control and similarly some Pakistani goods have gone to India. Good.
    Like the bus service between the (…)

  • Concern about violence and shrinking democratic space in Chhattisgarh

    3 November 2008

    Oct 31st 2008
    We, the undersigned groups concerned about issues of justice in Chhattisgarh, are dismayed to learn that Vanvasi Chetna Ashram (VCA) members were driven out of Nendra village in Dantewada district, under threats of violence by the Naxalites.
    We are deeply concerned about this drastic shrinking of democratic space in Chhattisgarh. Nendra has already faced the brunt of state sponsored violence in the past three years, when Salwa Judum cadres and security forces attacked it (…)

  • Statement from International Press Freedom Mission to Sri Lanka

    by sacw.net, 3 November 2008

    25 to 29 October 2008 International Federation of Journalists International Media Support International News Safety Institute International Press Institute Reporters Without Borders
    The International Press Freedom Mission to Sri Lanka on its visit between October 25 and 29 found deterioration in the press freedom situation since its last visit in June 2007, marked by a continuation in murders, attacks, abductions, intimidation and harassment of the media. In the recent World Press Freedom (…)

  • Impartial judicial monitoring of all terror investigations by the apex court the need of the hour

    by Citizens for Justice and Peace, 3 November 2008

    Citizens For Justice and Peace
    Monday November 3, At 3.30 pm Press Club Mumbai.
    Mr. Javed Akhtar, Mr Mahesh Bhat, Mr Nandan Maluste, Mr. Anil Dharker, Mr. Javed Anand and Ms. Teesta Setalvad address the media.
    Stop the Politicisation of Bomb Terror
    CJP demands that the Central Government appoint a Sitting Three-Member Tribunal of Supreme Court Judges to oversee the Investigations into all Terror Related Crime Investigations. Only such a transparent process will help trace the (…)

  • English Literary Studies, Women’s Studies and Feminism in India

    by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, 3 November 2008

    English literature has been a unique site for politicisation by feminism. Drawing on the author’s involvement as a teacher in Delhi University, the essay examines the trajectories of teaching literature in the classroom, the kinds of contestations and transgressions that the women’s movement and women’s studies initiated, and the influence of English studies across and beyond the disciplines.

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