South Asia Citizens Web

www.sacw.net, 29 October 2008
MOST URGENT / by SPEEDPOST 28 October 2008
FROM DR JOHN DAYAL Plaintiff in Person Justice Panigrahi Commission of Enquiry in the Kandhamal, Orissa violence of December 2007
To The Honourable Commission
1. I, John Dayal, Plaintiff in Person, state as follows;
2. I have been summoned by the Honourable Justice Basudeo Panigrahi Commission to appear before it in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar on 1st November 2008.
3. I have just heard that my close friend Father (…)

When there is such a disconnect between what the people want and what their governments are willing to deliver, then it ceases to matter after a while whether they are making any progress in the clutch of eight or ten issues that go by the sobriquet of Composite Dialogue

Bangalore Police assault on sexual rights activists

The Telegraph, October 27, 2008
The Fault Line Nano’s exit should give the state administration cause to reflect
Post-Singur West Bengal is even a gloomier picture. Following the decision of Tata Motors to walk away, the mood amongst a few stalwarts in the state administration is reportedly one of stop-the-world-I-want-to-get-off. They do not feel like living any more in West Bengal in the company of those who have spoilt the Nano broth.
Before holding the people of West Bengal (…)

Indian Express, October 27, 2008
Lahore: Cultural capital to Taliban territory?
: Lahore was the scene of at least three massive bomb attacks on security establishments earlier this year, but people in Pakistan’s second largest city, routinely hailed as the nation’s ‘cultural capital’, appear far more anxious about two relatively minor incidents which occurred earlier this month.
The first was on the evening of October 7, when a cluster of fruit juice parlours — which also serve as (…)