Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • The perversions of writers

    by Samina Choonara, 25 September 2008

    The News, September 26, 2008
    The amazing quantity and the virulence of the writing over the death of fashion designer Sheikh Amer Hassan makes an average reader wonder what is at stake here. Why are some members of the fashion industry, and some journalists supporting them, so bent on vilifying his name in his death, calling him a pretender, and not really part of the club, and moreover, a "pervert" in reference to his sexuality.
    If these detractors (for example, article by Muniba Kamal (…)

  • Appeal to Defend Jamia Millia Islamia’s Secular Character

    by Sahmat, 25 September 2008

    SAHMAT 8, Vithalbhai Patel House, Rafi Marg,New Delhi-110001 Telephone- 23711276/ 23351424 e-mail: sahmat @ vsnl.com
    25.9.2008
    We applaud the Vice Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia, Professor Mushirul Hasan and the entire academic community of the university for their calmness and courage in what is proving to be a testing and traumatic time.
    We fully endorse the decision by the Vice Chancellor, to provide the university students who have been swept up in the terrorism dragnet, (…)

  • When the state shirks its responsibility other secular institutions help

    25 September 2008

    In the aftermath of an attack by the Hindu right on a exhibit of works of the famous painter MF Hussain, the Jamia Milia Islamia University in Delhi offered to host the exhibition on its campus. The exhibit prepared by SAHMAT - the secular platform of artists, now has plans to take this other campuses in India

  • Jamia Teachers Condemn Communal Witch Hunt and Demand Independent Impartial Enquiry

    by Jamia Teachers Solidarity Group, 25 September 2008

    25th September 2008
    Press Statement
    Jamia Teachers Solidarity Group
    Jamia Teachers Condemn Communal Witch Hunt and Demand Independent Impartial Enquiry
    At the very outset we, the members of Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Group would like to state that we strongly condemn terrorism of all kinds, including State terrorism.
    The events of 19th September and subsequent days have left the Jamia community shocked, aggrieved and fearful. In particular the manner and the suspicious (…)

  • India’s nuclear hawks peddle great power delusions over the NSG waiver

    by Praful Bidwai, 24 September 2008

    Frontline, September 27 - October 10, 2008
    Nationalist euphoria over the NSG waiver will breed monumental arrogance, great-power delusions, and contempt for peace among our social-Darwinist elite.
    THE headlines reporting the waiver granted to India by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) from its nuclear trade rules could not have been more breathless or gung-ho – to the point of hysteria: “Nuclear apartheid ends”, “Nuclear dawn”, “India N-abled”, and so on. Even more excessive were the (…)

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