Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • 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

  • State action in the name of countering Terrorism & Conversions

    by sacw.net, 25 October 2008

    PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL
    on
    "State action in the name of countering Terrorism & Conversions"
    Experiences of Rajasthan
    7-8 November, 2008
    Jaipur,
    24 October, 2008
    Dear friends,
    We would like to invite you for a People’s Tribunal on "State action in the name of Countering Terrorism & Conversion- Experiences ofRajasthan ", being organised in Jaipur on 7-8 November, 2008 at Rajasthan Samgra Sewa Sangh, Durgapura, Jaipur.
    As you are aware, the Muslim community is being (…)

  • The three big problems of India’s biggest minority

    by Ramachandra Guha, 24 October 2008

    The Telegraph, October 25 , 2008
    A Triple Tragedy: Muslims in India have to contend with three major problems
    An influential editor from Delhi, visiting Bangalore, hosted a dinner for some local politicians, and invited me along. Among the netas present was the Karnataka Youth Congress president, the spokesman for H.D. Deve Gowda’s Janata Dal (Secular), and an office-bearer of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The conversation turned to the history of communal violence in Karnataka. Someone (…)

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