Journeys to Democracy

Articles

• Floods and landslides Nepal: Urgent appeal

    
  27 August, by beenasarwar
  Sharing an email from my friend and fellow peacemonger Dr. Ramu Kharel, an emergency physician at Brown University who loves Urdu poetry, and founded Health Advancement Programs to Serve All (HAPSA), Nepal, after the 2015 earthquake

• ‘Sapan News’ > ‘Global Southasia’ – beyond the headlines, and the thought behind the dream

            
  12 August, by beenasarwar
  Five years ago, I wrote an article that I would normally have sent to one or two media outlets: "Undaunted by temple attack, 'Pakistani Hindu stuck in India with three children yearns to return home" (though I’m not a fan of highlighting religious identity).

• In humanity’s name

        
  11 August, by beenasarwar
  Despite ongoing tensions, India and Pakistan have regularly exchanged prisoner lists twice a year since the practice began in 2008, following the constitution of a Joint Judicial Commission on Prisoners in 2007. However the Commission has not met since 2013.

• Finding a retired fighter pilot and how his vision for peace links with Gulzar and Mehdi Hasan

       
  24 June, by beenasarwar
  In response to my thoughts, he shared an article with me that he had been working on. I loved his vision of identity and a homeland at peace with its neighbours, reflecting on a future for Southasia defined not by divisions, but by regional cooperation and shared opportunities.

• Peace, like democracy, is a process, not an event

              
  15 April, by beenasarwar
  My video interview with an Indian journalist about the Islamabad peace talks - before they collapsed - and a visit to ancient archaelogical sites in Sindh.