Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • 21st Century Conflict between Science and Religion

    by Dhirendra Sharma, 26 October 2008

    According to science, a citizen’s identity is determined by the Blood Group. Not by individual’s caste, race, region or religion. There is no specific blood group that separates Tamils from Sinhlas, Marathas and Biharis, Muslims and Hindus, Jews and the Palestinians. Concerned scientists in 21st Century Space Age Manifesto had, therefore, observed that no race, region, religion, or, caste, class or creed is free from wrong doings against humanity. To argue that ‘terrorism is the (…)

  • The Missing Orissa Police

    by Maxwell Pereira, 25 October 2008

    The Times of India, 21 Oct 2008
    Missing In Action
    Kandhamal is a failure on many fronts. But from the policing point of view, the performance of Orissa police is reminiscent of the wanton inaction as happened during the 1984 Sikh riots and tacit collusion in the 1993 Mumbai riots and the Gujarat riots of 2002. Despite worldwide condemnation of the police handling of these incidents and repeated indictments at the hands of various state-appointed commissions, the Indian police, it (…)

  • Hindutva’s orchestrated violence as elections approach

    by Shabnam Hashmi, 25 October 2008

    Combat Law
    Well-timed horrors?
    There is telling evidence of the involvement of the Sangh Parivar in acts of terror across the country. Now that elections are around the corner, there has been a renewed spate of direct attacks on Christians and terrorist acts whose legal victims are Muslims. Is this just a coincidence, asks activist Shabnam Hashmi
    February 27, 1933 Reichstag building, the assembly location of the German Parliament was set ablaze. "You are now witnessing the beginning of (…)

  • These self styled economists

    by S. Akbar Zaidi, 25 October 2008

    Dawn, 25 October 2008
    Everyone is an economist
    PAKISTAN’S economic crisis and confusion, exacerbated primarily on account of unforgivable delayed responses by the incumbent government, has also revealed the rather sad state of Pakistan’s media and of its economists.
    The huge media explosion, particularly in the electronic media but also the English newspapers, has revealed how bare Pakistan’s scholarly cupboard is, and how charlatans have been crowned kings. These days, given the (…)

  • Hindutva Muscle Flexing in Karnataka

    by Gauri Lankesh, 25 October 2008

    Laws are being readied in Karnataka targetting Christians and Muslims

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