Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Rape, Justice and Compromise

    by Beena Sarwar, 6 October 2008

    The News on sunday, 5 October 2008
    Displacement and its related matters aside, the real issue remains the rape of the girls, and the fact that they are not getting justice. If they and their families were to agree to a ’compromise’, their troubles would be over in a flash
    "The most difficult thing is to ask for something," said Tasleem, sudden tears in her eyes overshadowing her determined cheerfulness.
    On Jan 10, 2007, local thugs gang raped Tasleem’s sister-in-law Kainat Soomro, then (…)

  • The Indo US Nuclear Deal, ’Nationalism’ and the left

    by Aniket Alam, 5 October 2008

    The real danger of the Indo-US nuclear deal is that it formally recognises India as a legal nuclear weapons state and provides the platform for a closer integration of the Indian state and the economy with the global economy and power structure. This simple truth is evident to almost all leftists outside India who have pitched their opposition to the deal on issues of non-proliferation and denuclearisation. By opposing this nuclear deal on the grounds of national interest, the Left in India (…)

  • A conscience encountered

    by Sandeep Pandey, 5 October 2008

    I’ve often been blamed by friends and colleagues for not keeping secrets to myself. It has been my practice to share information with people whenever I feel my conscience burdened. From my experience I can say that whenever I’ve, under such circumstances, shared the truth, it may have put some people in inconvenient positions but in the long run it proved to be right thing to do. But, I must confess, I’ve never encountered something as big as this. Till now it has been only very personal (…)

  • Orissa-like terror stalks Christians in Karnataka interiors

    by John Dayal, 5 October 2008

    All India Christian Council
    – Head Office: Hyderabad Camp: Mangalore
    – Dr John Dayal
    – Secretary General
    – (Member, National Integration Council, Government of India)
    – Mobile: 09811021072 Email:catholicunion@gmail.com
    PRESS RELEASE
    – 5th October 2008
    Orissa-like terror stalks Christians in Karnataka interiors
    Police ordering village churches not to hold Sunday worship, submit
    `Licences’ to hold prayers; State home minister VS Acharya, senior
    Police officers must be sacked (…)

  • Rally and Public Meeting to Save Secularism and Democracy, Bangalore 6 October 2008

    by karnataka komu souharda vedike, 5 October 2008

    Dear Friends, • 25th November, 2007: In Balupette village, Hassan district three Christians severely beaten by Hindu fundamentalists. About twenty Hindu extremists stormed a worship service at Christ Vision Church in Balupette village. They threatened the congregants and chased them away. After burning the Bibles, the extremists then dragged out two pastors, C.J. Joemon and C.J. Jojo, and another congregant, G. Anil, to the junction half a kilometer away. They stripped them, tied them to (…)

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