Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • HRCP seeks abolition of death penalty, moratorium on executions

    by HRCP, 15 October 2008

    Press Release, October 10
    Lahore: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has called upon the government to end the death penalty in the country, and place an immediate moratorium on executions until the punishment is abolished.
    In a statement issued on World Day against the Death Penalty on Friday, the Commission said: The government of Pakistan should seriously consider moving towards the abolition of death penalty. While the government’s announcement in June to commute death sentences (…)

  • Some Questions for the Delhi Police and Embedded ’Journalists’

    by Jamia Teachers Solidarity Group, 14 October 2008

    The last few days have seen the Delhi Police "returning fire" at the critics of the Jamia Nagar encounter. Pressured by the mounting skepticism about police claims, the Delhi Police have now responded with a new round of theories and stories, which nevertheless remain as riddled with holes, as their earlier version(s). Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Group responds to the latest Police claims.
    1) The police was caught by surprise. Or was it?
    In its response to the questions being raised by (…)

  • Colonial Construction of Adivasi society

    by Bhangya Bhukya, 14 October 2008

    The Economic and Political Weekly, Sept - October 2008 The Mapping of the Adivasi Social: Colonial Anthropology and Adivasis
    The construction of textual knowledge about Indian communities in the colonial milieu resulted in an extensive literature on almost all communities that was not only used as a source of legal and general administration but also to establish colonial domination. In this process the adivasis of India were constructed apposite to civilised society, therefore a distinct (…)

  • Jan Sunwai and Public Meeting on the Batla House ’Encounter’

    by Jamia Teachers Solidarity Group, 11 October 2008

    Public Hearing on the Batla House fake encounter in Jamia Nagar, New Delhi. Organised by Jamia Teachers Solidarity Group

  • India’s Competing Communalism’s

    by Harbans Mukhia, 9 October 2008

    The Times of India
    Two Sides Of The Same Coin
    On the communalism front, two divergent yet complementary strategies seem to be under way in India, both inspired by utter contempt for the nation’s democratic polity as well as for the country’s historical and cultural traditions: one envisioned and undertaken by the sangh parivar, the other by the various arms of minority communalism.
    On the one hand, the sangh parivar, working through its myriad branches, has learnt its lesson well (…)

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