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Our Mailing Lists: South Asia Citizens Wire Mailing List South Asians Against Nukes Mailing List   India Pakistan Arms Race and Militarisation Watch Mailing List              What the Governments of India and Pakistan could have done at their respective Official celebrations marking the 50th annivarsary  But wont do ?   "Azaadi was also Partition" by Vijay Prashad               From the Sound Archives  (the following files will open with Real Audio) Jinnah speaking on August 14 1947     Nehru's Speech of August 15 1947 [Tryst with destiny Speech]  RESOURCES Film:  - Garam Hawa ( An important film on the Partition of India -1947) - The Division of Hearts ( A documentary of Partition by Peter Chappel and Sati Khanna) - Mammo (A valuable film on Partition by Shyam Benegal) - Partition (A film by Tariq Ali and McMullen) - War Crimes File (3 War criminals from Bangaldesh War of 1971)  - In the Name of God, Father Son & Holy war and other documentary films by Anand Patwardhan  - Anand Patwardhan's Films - Song of Freedom / Muktir Gaan (A documentary on the Bangladesh liberation war of 1971)  - Films by Ali Kazimi - A Season Outside (A film by Amar Kanwar )   - Stop the Hatred (A 50 second spot for communal harmony in India) - Taxi-Vala (A film about South Asian taxi drivers in NY)  - BomGay (A film from the Gay Community in Bombay)  - Fire (An important film about women and sexuality in India)  - Earth (based on Pakistani novelist Bapsi Sidwa's Cracking India on the political dynamics of the India/Pakistan 1947 partition)  - My Son the Fanatic (A film on young south Asians meddling with fundamentalist politics in the UK.)  - East is East - Talking Peace (A documentary on the experience of Pakistan-India People Forum for Peace & Democracy) - South Asian Film and Video Association (SAFVA) - Film South Asia - New Delhi Video Forum - South Asia Film and TV The Mainstream Newsmedia: Magazines / Portals / E.News spaces  Dhaka Courier | Holiday | Weekly Robbar | The Friday Times | The Herald | Himal | Outlook | India Today | The Week | Tehelka.com | Rediff on the Net | The South Asian | Little India | Megaeast | Pakistan Observer | Pakistan Today | Samachar | The Hoot: Watching the Media in the Subcontinent Progressive Periodicals / Webzines / Portals - Akhbar - Bytes for All - Communalism Combat (India) - Chowk - Delhi Magazine (India) - Down to Earth (Indian fortnightly on Environmental issues) - Economic and Political Weekly (India) - Frontline (a popular Indian newsmagazine) - Gallerie (India) - Ghadhar (journal of the Forum of Indian Leftists) - Jaal (alternative, humorous take on Indian events) - Lines (Sri Lanka) - Mainstream (India) - Meghbarta (Bangladeshi Webzine) - Meghdutam Plus - People's Democracy (India) - Peacemonger.com - Refugee Watch - Sangat (An Electronic journal on Politics, Culture, Poetry & Fiction) - Seminar (India) Seminar Contents pages 1993 - SAMAR (South Asian Magazine for Action & Reflection, N.Y.) - Shobak: Alternative Asian Voices - Sanskriti (a South Asian journal) - South Asian Voice - Tamil Rights - Taraqqi - Trikone (A journal of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual South Asians)  - Weekly Ganashakti (India) - Kuknalim.Net (the site for Naga news, issues and views)  - The Little Magazine (India)   Journals / Projects / Scholars, intellectuals, artists & activists:  - Berkeley Journal of Asian Studies - Biblio: A review of Books - South Asia Bulletin - South Asian History - Studies in Nepali History and Society - People For Peace Between Pakistan and India - DialogNow.org : a forum to promote dialog between the peoples of India & Pakistan. - Aligarh Historians Society - Association for Communal Harmony in Asia - Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars [Contents Pages 1968-93] - Center for Advocacy in Mental Health (Pune, India) - Social Scientist [Contents Pages 1993-96] - Indian Economic and Social History Review [Contents Pages 1993-96] - Indian Journal of Gender Studies [Contents Pages 1996-97] - India Media Review (E-Zine) - Journalists Resource Centre (Pakistan) - Drik Picture Library (Dhaka) - Ekta : A South Asian Progressive Network - Sarai: The new media initiative in India - Anumukti: A Journal for a Nuclear Energy Free India - Indo Pakistan Jazz Coalition (IPJC) [web sites of IPJC members Rudresh Mahanthappa; Fareed Haque; Samir Chatterjee ] - Vijay Iyer's home page - Jazz Pianist - The Experiment. Bengali rock band. Music of India, Bangladesh - International Journal of Punjab Studies  - Lokayan Bulletin  - Pravada - Social Scientists Association (Sri Lanka) - Shanthi: An Online Journal Promoting Peace in Sri Lanka - Friends for Peace in Sri Lanka (FPSL), Australia - South Asia Solidarity Group - Progressive South Asia Network (Proxsa Net) - South Asians Against Nukes Mailing List - South Asia Nuclear Dialogue Weekly - Indian Progressive Study Group (at Columbia Univ, N.Y.) - Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), Bombay. | [Indian Journal of Secularism - International South Asia Forum (Montreal) - India Pakistan Arms Race and Militarisation Watch - Insaf International (India) - South Asia Watch - www.gaisecurity.com Taking On Telematic Surveillance - http://india.indymedia.org - The Atheist Centre Website (Vijayavada, India) - Ahimsa (London, UK) - South Asia Citizens Wire (Archive of SACW posts) - Tarksheel Bharat / Rationalist Society (India) - Community Development Library (Dhaka, Bangladesh) - Center for Legal Aid Assistance & Settlement - A Database on South Asian Scholars - A Directory of independent NGO's & activists in India - A Guide to Pakistani NGOs - Mangalbare Forum ( a weekly discussion forum of activists & intellectuals in Kathmandu) - Oral History project on the 1971 Bangladesh war of Independence - Bangaldesh's War Liberation Museum - Bangla Nuremberg: Raising Awareness About 1971 War Criminals - UBINIG Policy Research for Development Alternatives (Dhaka) - Asia Source by Asia Society, NY - Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka - International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo - Centre for Studies in Social (CSSS) Sciences, India - Goa Research Net (GRN) - Centre for Eductaion and Documentation (Bombay & Bangalore) - Ambedkar Centre for Justice and Peace - Amitav Ghosh - Shashi Tharoor - Asma Jahangir: Interviewed by Amitav Ghosh (lawyer and human rights activist, Lahore, August 29, 1998) - Praful Bidwai Interviewed by Amitav Ghosh - Some Writings of D D Kosambi - Political Writings of Hamza Alavi - Writings by Achin Vanaik - Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmed (A collections of his writings) - In Memory of Eqbal Ahmed (Obitutaries & tributes) - Akhtar Hamid Khan - Faiz Ahmad Faiz (The official website) Publishers and Bookstores:  - Kali for Women (New Delhi) | More on Kali for Women - Katha (New Delhi, India) - City Press (Karachi, Pakistan) - Mashaal Books (Lahore, Pakistan) - Vanguard Books (Lahore, Pakistan) - Narigrantha Prabartana [ The Feminist Bookstore ] (Dhaka, Bangladesh) - Narigrantha Prabartana (The Official Site) - Permanent Black (New Delhi, India) - Ram Advani Bookseller (Lucknow, India) - Seagull Books (Calcutta, India) - The Other India Bookstore (Goa, India) - Tulika Books (Madras) - Three Essays Press (New Delhi, India) - University Press Ltd. (Dhaka, Bangladesh) - Leftword Books ( New Delhi) - Streelekha Feminist Bookstore (Bangalore, India) - Suriya Bookshop (Colombo, Sri Lanka)  - Asian Rare Books

Citizens Action & Ideas for Peace in South Asia  South Asians Against Nukes: No to Nuclearisation of India & Pakistan [Petitions & Papers against the development & deployment of Nuclear Weapons in India and Pakistan] Citizens Against India-Pakistan Conflict in Kargil, Kashmir (May-July 1999)  - What Will They Do to Kashmir Now? by K Balagopal [June 21, 2003] - Peace Dividend, Development and the Distributional Problem in Sri Lanka by N. Shanmugaratnam [April 2003] - Citizens Against War : Joint Statement by Eminent Persons 26 Indians and 26 Pakistanis [3 June 2002] - Give Peace A Chance by Kalpana Sharma & Ayesha Khan - Citizens Vigil at the Pak-India Border - A Kashmiri People's Solution for Kashmir by Eqbal Ahmed - Kashmir is Bleeding by Surinder Singh Oberoi - Indian & Pakistani Women Connect across borders  by Amrita Chhachhi - Imagine... by Irfan Hussain - South Asia & the Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty: A discussion between Praful Bidwai, Zia Mian &Vijay Prashad  - India Pakistan: People Want to Scale Walls of Hatred  by Rita Manchanda [Nov.1998] - A People's Expedition across South Asian Borders - Pakistan Peace Coalition seminar "Prerequisites for peace in the 21st century and the role of Pakistan" (Karachi, 31 Dec 1999) - A Very Friendly Hostile Country  by students of Delhi university following their trip to Pakistan - Opening Borders, Welcoming Peace by Kalpana Sharma (9 April 2000) - Final Declaration - The Pakistan-India People's Solidarity Conference, New Delhi [July 12, 2001] - The website of the Pakistan-India People's Solidarity Conference coordination - Dear India and Pakistan by Baljit Malik (June 2001) - The Hour of the Hawk by Pamela Philipose (July 2001) - Global Vigil for Peace on 2 October 2001 (on Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday) - Splitting the Difference by Amitava Kumar - Peace in South Asia: Pipe-Dream or Real Possibility? by Rohini Hensman [March. 2002] - A report on the present condition of custody of Mohd. Yasin Malik, a POTO detainee by Committee for Initiative on Kashmir (New Delhi) [April 2002] - The Lost Generation: The story of the children of Kashmir - Which way now for India? The secular dream is under threat... by Luke Harding [June 9, 2002] - India and Pakistan are caught in a dangerous struggle over Kashmir. But what do its people want? by Isabel Hilton [March 11, 2002] Pakistan-India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy  The Pakistan India Peoples forum for Peace and Democracy is an independent platform of citizens from the two countries to help develop direct links to work together and to promote friendship between the people. PIPFPD has been active over the last few years despite the continuing cold war between the Pakistani and Indian states. - Lahore Statement & the Delhi Declaration (Sept.94 / Nov. 94) - Appeal for Peace by Indians and Pakistanis (Nov 1995) - Resolutions from the Lahore Convention (Nov 1995) - Press Communique and Declaration from the Calcutta Convention (Dec. 1996) - Declarations & Resolutions from Peshawar Convention (21-22 Nov. 1998) [ For more documents see web sites of the India Chapter & to the Pakistan Chapter ] In Defence of Secularism and Democracy  - Why I am An Atheist by Bhagat Singh (1930)    - The Complete Report of the Srikrishna Commission of Enquiry on the Riots in Bombay in Dec. 1992 - March 1993 - Cultural Pluralism, National Identity and Development: The Indian Case by A. R. Momin - "The Nature of Wrestling Nationalism", in: The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India by Joseph S. Alter (1992) - Secularism: Historical Perspective (The third Bashir Memorial Lecture delivered on 22nd May 1993 at Trivandrum, India) by Dr. Sarvepalli Gopal - India: Communal Violence and the Denial of Justice Human Rights Watch Report, April 1996 - New Wine, Old Skins: The Sangh Parivar and the Transformation of Hinduism by James Lochtefeld (1996) - Citizens Group demands Implementation of Srikrishna Commission Report from Chief Minister of Maharashtra, India [7 December 1999] - Ajoka Theatre (Lahore) - Indian Artists Meet the Indian President to Protest against attacks on the Arts community by Hindu Fundamentalists - Citizens Tribunal on Ayodhya (An Independent Public scrutiny of that massive fascist spectacle of 6 December 1992 where running hoards Hindu Fanatics rased to the ground the15th century Babari Mosque in the name of religion)  - Combatting Communalism in India (Bombay) - Sampradayikta Virodi Andolan / (Movement Against Communalism) Delhi  - India's Composite Culture and its Historiography  by Javed Alam (1999) - Ayodhya: Stop this Madness by Rajeev Dhavan - A History Course Syllabi on Communalism  (University of Texas) - A Delhi University course on Communalism  - Citizen's Report counters Hindu Fascist propaganda about Bangladeshi immigrants in Bombay Communalism & Religious Fundamentalism: A source list  by Harsh Kapoor (Extracts from an ongoing database)    - Contesting Communalism Digital Resources @ SACW Independent Media Collection Hindi / Urdu Leaflets, Posters - Graphics and Audio - Video (launch in late August 2003) - Fascism Alert #1: Defending Bangladeshi Immigrants  - Fascism Alert # 2: BJP Govt.'s "moral education" program for school children in Delhi - Hindutva Offensive: Social Roots & Characterisation by P.R. Ram - RSS - The "Sangh": What is it, and What it is not by Partha Banerjee - Hindu Extremists Seek Ties With Israel and Its U.S. Lobby by Faisal Kutty - India is Not BJP by Kuldeep Nayar - Viewing Schindler's list...lessons for India by Rohini Hensman -"...On Identity Politics" [A Real Audio Recording] Amartya Sen   - The Threats to Secular India by Amartya Sen (April 1993) - The Politics of Religious Identity  by Salma Sobhan  - The Communalisation of Muslims in Sri Lanka  by F. Zackariya and N. Shanmugaratnam -Urdu and its Contribution to Secular Values  by Asghar Ali Engineer  - Action Alert on War Criminals - Bangladesh 1971  - Alliance Against Discriminatory Laws (Pakistan) - Pakistani Citizens Condemn Communal Violence  - Fundamentalism and Civil Society in South Asia by Tanweer Akram - Making Enemies, Creating Conflict: Pakistan's Crises of State and Society (1997) Edited by Zia Mian and Iftikhar Ahmad - Eqbal Ahmed on Osama Bin Laden (A radio interview in 1999) [ An Audio file => open with real Audio] - Rising cases of religious persecution of the 'Bauls', wandering singers of Bengal (India) - Communal Riots in Coimbatore, India [December 1997] A news report from India - Hindu Fundamentalists cultivating the Indian Diaspora  by Shashi Tharoor - The Impact of Hindu Fundamentalism in Britain by Pragna Patel -The Furies of Indian Communalism: Religion, Modernity and Secularization  by Achin Vanaik  - The BJP and its project of Military Stability in India by Vijay Prashad - Les pièges de l'instrumentalisme... et de la répression : Note sur une crise indienne : l'affaire d'Ayodhya (décembre 1992 - janvier 1993). by Christophe Jaffrelot - Indian Court Charges the Ayodhya Demolishers A news report in Frontline (October 1997) Making India Hindu (pre-publication manuscript of Making India Hindu, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996) edited by David Ludden - A Secular Action Manual for Activists by Indian National Social Action Forum (INSAF, Dec. 1997) - The Science Wars in India by Meera Nanda (December 1997) - Nationalism Vs Rationalism: The Case of Hindu Fundamentalism By Johan Galtung and Dietrich Fischer, (July 1998) - Rape and the Minorities: BJP's Fascist Face by Ratna Kapur (1998) - Jan Sangh: The BJP's Predecessor by Bipin Chandra (1998) - Historical Wrongs by Harbans Mukhia  - Theocratic Threat by Yoginder Sikand - An Interview with Romila Thapar by Rediff (February 1999) - Hindu Rashtra or Secular State by Tanika Sarkar - On who is an Indian ? by Shashi Tharoor - Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History: The Ram Temple Drama by S.P. Udayakumar - Right-Wing Politics, and the Cultures of Cruelty by Aijaz Ahmad - State of Minorities in Bangladesh by Saleem Samad - Victims of Bhagalpur Communal Riots: 10 years on by Kanhaiah Bhelari - The Saffron Agenda by Harsh Sethi - Who's Afraid of the Saffron Agenda by S.S. Gill - Conversions and the Sangh Parivar by Sumit Sarkar - The Fascism of the Sangh Parivar by Sumit Sarkar - Remembering Rajani Thiranagama: 10 years after her assasination by Mothers and Daughters of Lanka & Others - A leaflet on the Anti Christian Offence of the Hindu Right Lokshahi Manch (Mumbai) [Nov.99] India Moving Toward Outright Fascism By Andrew Robinson [ 07-09-99] Constructiong "Indianness" In the United States and India: The Role of Hindu Muslim Immigrants by Prema Kurien - Exorcising the Demons of Pakistan's History: An appology owed to Bangladeshis by Shehzad Amjad - Silence on Srikrishna Report by Teesta Seetalvad - RSS... and the Christians: A love hate relationship by Frederick Noronha - The Deceit of the Right by Vijay Prashad and Biju Mathew - India: Darning a Patchwork Dream by Mushirul Hasan - Secularism Challenged in India by K.N. Panikkar - India had better head the lesson from Austria by Kanti Bajpai - Like it or Not, RSS is Political by D.R. Goyal - Falsification of History in India: Hindu Nationalists' Assault on ICHR by Parvathi Menon - Spot the Foreigner [anniversary of the death of Graham Stewart Staines] by Bhaswati Chakravorty - India: A Sangh Parivar Monopoly by Mukul Kesavan - Jihadi Islam: The last Straw on the Camel of Pakistan's National Unity by Hassan Gardezi - Jinnah: Making a myth by Mubarak Ali - Concept of Secularism by Irfan Husain -Whither are we? By Asma Jahangir - Exorcising the Demons of History: Dont we Pakistani's owe a national appology to the Bengalis by Shehzad Ahmed - Disturbing Aspects of Kerala Society by Gail Omvedt - Azad Jinnah and Partition [ A review article] by Ayesha Jalal (May 1989) - Exploding Communalism: The Politics of Muslim Identity in South Asia by Ayesha Jalal - History, Nation & Community: Reflections on Nationalist Historiography of India and Pakistan (This is a FDF file) by Rajeev Bhargava - Memory, History and Fictional Representations of the Partition by Alok Bhalla - Partition Memories,'Minorization'and discourses of rootedness in Jharkhand: A comparison of cross border displaced and 'invisible refugees'in Ranchi district by Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff - Interrogating Victimhood: East Bengali Refugee Narratives of Communal Violence by Nilanjana Chatterjee [PDF] - Sagas of Victory / Memories of Defeat?: The Long Afterlife of an Indo-Muslim Warrior Saint, c. 1033 ó 2000 by Shahid Amin [ A Real Video File] - The Persistence of Memory: The Search for Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation by Urvashi Butalia [ A Real Video File] - A Finer Balance by Dilip Simeon [ A Real Video File] - The 1947 Partition of India: A Paradigm for Pathological Politics in India and Pakistan by Ishtiaq Ahmed (March 2002) - Subcontinental Divide: A study of the effects of Partition on India's people. By Akash Kapur (December 10, 2000) - BJP and its twenty years by Asghar Ali Engineer - De Sanskritization of Names in Bangladesh by A.H. Jaffor Ullah - Fiji / India: What is common between George Fernandes & George Speight? by Amulay Ganguli - An Insight Into the Way Shiv Sena Functions by Harish Nambiar - RSS Forays into Punjab by Pravin Swami - Please do not try it again! CAVEAT by CR Irani - Epic Crimes and Hindutva by I.K. Shukla The Danger of Hindutva to Secular India by S. R. Welch - Distorting the truth: Media and communal groups manipulate reality to vilify Meo Muslims by Shail Mayaram - Talibanisation of India's Textbooks: Sangh Brand History Has Crass Communal Overtones - Science in the service of zealots (It is no surprise that Hindu chauvinists and Islamic fundamentalists are both votaries of atom bombs) by Dhirendra Shrama - Irfan Habib on Saffronisation of History - India Through its Calendars by Amartya Sen The right to one's identity by Amartya Sen - Soldiers of Hindutva: The New Indian Right by Achin Vanaik (May 2001) - Dhaka Declaration from 'South Asian Conference on Fundamentalism: Role of Civil Society', Dhaka June 1- 2 [2001] - 'The argument that Hinduisation is synonymous with Indianisation is insidious" by K N Panikkar - Historical Wrong By The Extreme Right by A G Noorani (Chapter, Demolition of the Babri Masjid, excerpted from his book 'The RSS and the BJP: A Division of Labour') - Protecting Heritage by Romila Thapar ( March 2001) - The Captive State: Corruption, Intelligence Agencies, and Ethnicity in Pakistan by Oskar Verkaaik (2001) - Bengali State, Nation and Religious Identity: Conflicting Identifications and Multiple Meanings by Shelly Feldman - A White Line and A Mosque by Dilip Simeon - Secularism, Modernity, Nation: Epistemology of the Dalit Critique by Aditya Nigam - On police role in Delhi riots A report in Frontline - India's right wing strikes back By Jawed Naqvi - Evolution of Public Sphere in India by Amir Ali - Breaking the Spell of Dharma: Case for Indian Enlightenment by Meera Nanda (July 2001) - Autonomy of Scholarship and the State by Itty Abraham & M.S.S. Pandian - There are no pure native Indians, or any pure native Indian culture by Abraham Early (August 2001) - Outsider as enemy: Politics of Rewriting History in India by K.N. Panikkar - Whither Indian Education by K.N. Panikkar (August 2001) - Vedic Mathematics - Neither Vedic nor Mathematics | Stop this Fraud on our Children! A statement by Indian scientists ( August 2001) - Gandhi and Godse: Conflicting Nationalism by Ram Puniyani (Nov 2001) - Venue for a Speech on Tamas: A Chronicle of an Event That Should Never Have Happened by Dilip Simeon (Nov 2001) - History As Told by Non-Historians Politicians and ideologues are trying to do battle with professional historians on issues they know nothing about, writes Anjali Mody. - An agenda for cultural action -> Part I & Part II by K. N. Panikkar (Jan 10 - Jan 11, 2002) - On the Hindutva version of Indian history - and how India was never a Hindu rashtra. An Interview with Professor Amartya Sen (January 2002) - How Does Culture Matter ? by Amartya Sen (Feb 2002) [PDF] - On the revival of secular sentiment in Pakistan, impressions from a fortnight-long visit by A.G. Noorani (Jan. 19, 2002) - Pakistan and Secularism by Yasser Latif - A Pacifist Uncovered by Amitabh Pal  (Feb 22, 2002) - Shivshahi in the Mohalla: How Shiv Sena Entrenched itself in Bombay by Julia Eckhert - The Charisma of Autocracy: Bal Thackerayís Dictatorship in Shiv Sena by Julia Eckert - Shivshahi in Limbo: The Violent Theatrics of Shivsena by Julia Eckert - The history project : The reconstitution of the Indian Council of Historical Research points to a continuing drive to project a certain ideological agenda. by Sukumar Muralidharan - Sunset of communal politics by Swami Agnivesh & Valson Thampu (March 5, 2002) - India's Past Becomes a Weapon by Shashi Tharoor (March 6, 2002) - Perils before the nation: The challenge by the VHP is to the basic feature and pride of our Constitution - namely secularism and rule of law. by Rajindar Sachar - Stop the Ayodhya blackmail by Praful Bidwai (7 March 2002) - Ruling by Riots by M.J. Akbar (March 11, 2002) - Slaughter in the Name of God by Salman Rushdie (March 8, 2002) - Blazing Gujarat: The Image of India's Future? by Radhika Desai - The Mark of Hindutva : Is Indian democracy a cover for brute majorityism? by Saba Naqvi Bhaumik - "Ram Mandir" | "Lahoo main doobe yeh haath kab tak ?" Two Poems by Gauhar Raza (March 2002) - Mutations of communalism by Jeremy Seabrook - Attacking the roots of South Asian communalism by M B Naqvi - Stepping-stones to barbarism? Reflections of an ashamed Indian by Aseem Shrivastava (March 2002) - Temple and the State: Gandhi's Dream and India's Latest Nightmare by Celia W. Dugger (March 2002) Ayodhya: They transformed Utopia into a dispute by Mahesh Dattani - The Gujarat Tragedy: A letter to India's Prime Minister by Admiral L Ramdas [Former Chief of the Indian Navy] (March 2002) - Gujarat: Hindu Rashtra In Action by Nalini Taneja - Of 'Token Punishment' and 'Symbolic Karsewa' by CPIML - The Gujarat carnage - I | The Gujarat carnage - II by Muchkund Dubey (20 & 21 March 2002) - The politics of stones and shilas by Supriya Roy Chowdhury - Holy lies by Pankaj Mishra - Call for a National Campaign For Defence of the Indian Constitution by Dilip Simeon, Dunu Roy, Harsh Kapoor, Jairus Banaji, Purushottam Agrawal, Rohini Hensman - Who are the guilty? By Dipankar Gupta and Romila Thapar [April 02, 2002] - Notes on Holocaustian Politics by Upendra Baxi [ April 17, 2002] - The Gujarat Carnage by Amitav Ghosh (April 26, 2002) - I am Ashamed and I Apologize by Hemendra K. Varma [April 30, 2002] - Gujarat Carnage - A Turning Point in India: Strategy for 'Pro-Active' Secularism by Gaurang Mehta [ May 2002] - Obituary of a culture by Ashis Nandy [May 2002] - I went to Gujarat as a riot tourist and all I got was this John Brown & a dog called Chum by Raj Kamal Jha - Gujarat Carnage - the NRI perspective by Gautam Appa [30 May 2002] - The Second Gujarat Catastrophe by Upendra Baxi [May 27, 2002] - The fires in Gujarat transformed into fire-power against Pakistan, as Hindu nationalism makes a bid for Indian nationalism by Jeremy Seabrook [June, 3, 2002] - Meaning of secularism by P.R. Dubhashi [June 11, 2002 ] - Carving a path to Hindu rashtra by Achin Vanaik [13 June] - Semiotics of Terror Muslim Children and Women in Hindu Rashtra by Tanika Sarkar [July 2002] - Tolerant and Secular? by Mukul Dube [July 2002] - Turn Tragedy Into Opportunity: An Open Letter to the People of Pakistan by Judea Pearl -  Wall St. Journal (July 17, 2002) - Institutionalized communalism in India's police force: The breakdown in the criminal justice system by Colin Gonsalves (15 August 2002) - Fascism's Firm Footprint in India by Arundhati Roy [ September 12, 2002] - An Agenda of Pseudo-Hindu Separatism by Siddharth Varadarajan (Sept.2002) [ Chapter from his book Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy ] - The Political Culture of Fascism by Jairus Banaji [Sept. 2002] - The Political Economy of The State and Market in Bangladesh by Rehman Sobhan [Sept 2002] - Question of Faith: Anti-Conversion Legislation in Tamil Nadu by Ram Puniyani [9 Oct 2002] - 'History and Contemporary Politics in India' a lecture by Romila Thapar's [Nov. 6, 2002] [ A Real Video File] - Investigating Hindu Nationalism' by Christian Karner (IAPS seminar series, 2002/3, Autumn) - India: Communal Riots 2002 by Asghar Ali Engineer [January 17, 2003] - On Rewriting History in India: The problem by Neeladri Bhattacharya [ Seminar, Feb. 2003] - 'Operation Pushback' Sangh Parivar, State, Slums, and Surreptitious Bangladeshis in New Delhi by Sujata Ramachandran [February 15, 2003] - [General Musharraf's Pakistan] The Colour Khaki by Tariq Ali [February 2003] - Genocide in Gujarat: The International Community Looks Away by Martha C. Nussbaum [Summer, 2003] Aman Ekta Manch : Documents and Letters Genocide in Gujarat : A backgrounder (April 2002) - Aman Ekta Manch Letter to industrialists and Business Associations in the aftermath of Gujarat riots (April 2002) - Aman Ekta Manch Letter to Allies of the BJP in the NDA coalition (April 2002) - Aman Ekta Manch Political Charter adopted by Aman Ekta Manch At the Convention for the Defence of Indian Democracy (April 21, 2002) Communalism & Indian Diasporaic Communities: Ethnicity and Development: The Case of Fiji by Ralph R. Premdas (October 1993) Hindu nationalism in the Mauritian state: Creole impurity and ancestral culture Patrick Eisenlohr (April 1999) An Observation of Fijian Society: The conflict between individuality and Communalism by Apryle Pickering (January 20, 2000) Communalism and Identity among South Asians in Diaspora by Crispin Bates (Sept.2000) Mediating diasporas across the Indian ocean: Conflicting projects of ethno-linguistic purification in Mauritius by Patrick Eisenlohr (April 2002) Victims of 'Development', 'Nation Building' and Conflict:   - Arundhati Roy discusses the Sardar Sarovar dam with host Mishal Husain (Programme Transcript for 'The Dammed', broadcast on September 18, 2003 | Wide Angle on PBS) - Troubled Waters: Residents have fought for decades against dams on India's Narmada River. Now they're almost out of options and the waters are rising by Meenakshi Ganguly - Sardar Sarovar Dam - Woes of the Displaced by Lyla Bavadam [August 30, 2003] - Death of a school by Jugnu Ramaswamy (June 24, 2002)  - Displaced Sri Lankans starve as politicians play by Renuka Senanayake (March, 2002) - India: Development Displacement : Whose Nation is it ? by Smitu Kothari - Refugees and Internaly Displaced People in India A report by U.S. Committee for Refugees - The Phenomenon of Displacement: A Photoessay by Preeti Singh - Press Release after Public Hearing on Hunger, New Delhi January 10, 2003 | Call for Action - 13th Anniversary of the Union Carbide Disaster in Bhopal - Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS, is the Organization of Bhopal Women-Worker Victims) - Bhopal Revisited: The View from Below by Aparna Basu (a paper on the 10th Anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, when the BJP govt. was in power in MP) - Interview with Jabbar Khan [Convener of The Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathana (the BGPMUS, the Organization of Bhopal Women-Worker Victims), an organization predominantly of Muslim women, has been at the forefront of struggles against UCC, the eviction of slum dwellers, and communal violence. For More on Bhopal => Bhopal Group for Information and Action | Sambhavna Trust ] Bhopal Express Human Rights in South Asia: - Human Rights Violations in India (A report by Amnesty International) - Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: India - Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Pakistan - Appeal to health professionals and human rights activists against the use of Electroconvulsive Therapy in India's Mental Health Institutions by Aparna Waikar, Bhargavi Davar, Chandra Karhadkar and others[April 3, 2003] - Who are the Guilty ? - Report of a joint inquiry into the causes and impact of the riots in Delhi from 31 October to 10 November 1984 by PUCL - PUDR - Civil Society under attack in Pakistan! - Over 100 Pakistani Journalists Demand Protection for Press Freedom Issued by Committee for a Free Press - The Government's Attack on Human Rights Organisations in Pakistan: May 5, 1998 - May 13, 1999 - Human Rights Commision of Pakistan [HRCP under attack from the Pakistan Govt. May 25, 1999] - Campaign for the liberation of Dr. Shaikh, sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy (2001) - The Military Coup in Pakistan October 1999 :Analysis and Reactions - University Teachers for Human Rights (Jafna - Sri Lanka) - Tamil Rights (Sri Lanka) - People Union for Democratic Rights (New Delhi, India) - Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (India) - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (official site) - Odhikar: A Coalition for Human Rights in Bangladesh - Bangladesh Human Rights Network - Human Rights in South Asia  - South Asia Forum for Human Rights (Kathmandu) - South Asia Human Rights Documentation Center (New Delhi) Notes from prison by Iftikhar Gilani [18 January 2003] THE PEDDLERS OF HATE IN THE NAME OF RELIGION: A Tour of the Religious Right in South Asia    I. The Hindu Fundamentalist Circuit  (The proponents of National - Hinduism: RSS, VHP, BJP) (This is a series of links to web sites maintained by Religious right wing organisations such as that of the Hindu Fascists from the RSS, VHP; You can find their propaganda materials here. Some of you may take strong objection to such links here, but we feel that it is very important to monitor and read what these guys are doing) Hindutva's Foreign Tie-Ups In The 1930's: Archival Evidence by Marzia Casolari A Foreign Exchange of Hate: IDRF and the American Funding of Hindutva by Sabrang Communications / SACW [20 November 2002] Et Tu, RSS? by Kuldip Nayar (6 June 2000) VHP in brief: The Sanghís right fist by Vandita Mishra (Feb 24, 2002) SS or Shivsena of Bombay [Bombay Fascists go electronic] Culture Cops of Hindutwa [What BJP and Shiv Sena are doing to art and artists...] Deepa Mehta speaks out against Hindu extremists campaign to stop her film Jai Sri Bomb ! (How some vendors of Hinduism are now planning to build a National Shrine at India's Nuclear Test Site and Planning another Nuclear Bomb Temple in Nepal. Hope these guys will glow at night.... ) How Hindu Holy men use muscle power in the name of god [Of Crime & Management of Hindu Religious Shrines and Religious properties in Northern India] Violence Against Christians and Muslims in Gujarat by members of the BJP, RSS, Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad - (A statement from Chairman of National Commission of Minorities, India ) [Sept.1998 onwards =>] Reports on Violence Against Christians in India India's Minorities Are Targets of Government-Abetted Violence (HRW Commentary, March 20, 2000) The Staines Killings: Religious Intolerance and Government Inaction - Human Rights Features (13 August 1999) Catholic priest killed in Mathura June 8, 2000 Bombs explode in Indian churches June 8, 2000 Anti-Christian, anti-Indian (The recent attacks on Christians & churches hurt the foundations of India) June 09, 2000 Extremist Hindus launch anti Christian attacks June 10, 2000 Conversion and the Assertive Margins: Hindu Nationalist Discource and the recent attacks on Christians by John Zavos (2001) Dangey Matram ! The Inferno of Hate, Horror in Gujarat, India ( 27 Feb 2002 on): A Record Courtesy: the deadly VHP, RSS, BJP and other operations of the 'Jang' Parivar (family of the Hindu right) Links:For latest information on Gujarat see: http://www.onlinevolunteers.org http://www.riotinfo.com/ http://www.insaniyat.org Shanti: An initiative for Justice, Peace and Communal Harnony *Gujarat : Hindutva's Laboratary [ Gujarat today, India tomorrow? ] RENT A MOB / RENT A BOMB Specialists in rioting, demolition, murder and maiming for free in the name of God [If you require services of hitmen call the nearest 'Jang Parivar' office] Free Rides to 'Theocracy' on Mad Cow driven Chariots (Opening soon in your nearest City)   Sponsored by Hindu Gobar Gas Chambers of India  Nuclear Rath Yatra Planned To Join Write to:  A[kand] B[harat] Vajpayee, New Delhi, India   ____________________________________________________________________ II. Muslim Fundamentalists in South Asia: A comment on the antics of the Jamaat-e-Islami (Bangladesh) Religious Extremism And Nationalism In Bangladesh by Bertil Lintner Plights of Ethnic and Religious Minorities & Rise of Islamic Extremism in Bangladesh by Bertil Lintner. [February 2003] Jamaat-e-Islami [Pakistan] claims that the Basant festival a plot against Pak culture Pakistan:Women Bus Conductors [under attack by the Mullas] by Harun ur Rashid The 'Jehad Factories' of Pakistan Pakistan's Jihad Culture Religion and Political Identity: Gathering storm in Pakistan by Zulfiqar Ahmad (October 15, 2002) Pakistani religious bloc exerts pressure on province (Jan 14, 2003) Taliban-type terror in Kashmir as the Islamic Right launches its burkha campaign by Praveen Swami (January 18, 2003) Links India: Communalism Watch [active blog with the recent News & Analysis] Coalition Against Communalism | Stopfundinghate.org BJP Government Watch | Secularindia.com | SecularIndian.com Alliance For A Secular and Democratic South Asia | Association for Communal Harmony in South Asia South Asia Women's Rights Initiatives  - South Asia Feminist Declaration 1989  > see more material on womens rights page @ SACW On sexual minorities of South Asia  - An Interview with Urvashi Vaid (Samar Magazine) - Aids Bhed Bhav Virodhi Andolan (ABVA) [AIDS Anti Discrimination Committee, India] - Sangama: A resource centre on sexuality & rights of sexual minorities - Call on India's National Human Rights Commission to End Psychiatric Abuse Against Homosexuals in India - Photo Essay on the Hijras of Pakistan - Humrahi: Forum for Gay Men in New Delhi, India - Sangini - Lesbian support project in Delhi, India - Transgenders South Asia Mailing List  Environmental Action in South Asia  - Centre for Science and Environment (New Delhi) - Peoples Movement Against Dams on the River Naramada [The Narmada Bachao Andolan - India] - The Greater Common Good (A critique of the Naramada Dam Project) by Arundhati Roy - The Cost of Living by Arundhati Roy - Sagarmatha Declaration {On water resource policies and projects relating to water and hydropower, rights of the people of South Asia over the resources of our lands} [December 2002] - Water Power and People: A South Asian Manifesto on the Politics and Knowledge of Water by Imtiaz Ahmed, Ajaya Dixit, Ashis Nandy - Free the Narmada Campaign - Anumukti: A Journal for a Non Nuclear India South Asia Labour Activists Library:  - Karachi Declaration at the South Asia Labour for Peace Conference (Sept. 1-2, 2003) - Draft South Asian Labour Rights Charter - Resolution on South Asian Labour Rights Charter - South Asian Labour Forum - Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) - India: Workers' Rights in a New Economic Order - by Jairus Banaji [November 2000] - The case of Indian and Pakistani fishermen, jailed for trespassing into each other country's territorial waters by Mukul - Responses to Globalisation: The Indian Experience by Rohini Hensman - A Study of Industrial Labour in Post-Colonial India by Jan Breman, Amsterdam, 1998. (PDF, 248 Kb) - Booking the Bourgeoisie: The Niyogi Murder Trial by C.N. Subramaniam (1999) - Battles for Bangalore: Reterritorialising the City [PDF] by Janaki Nair -The Mobilization of Women into the Garments Factories of Bangladesh by Nazli Kibria (Downloadable File in Microsoft Word 6.0 / 209kb) - Miracle Worker or Womanmachine?: Tracking (Trans)national Realities in Bangaldeshi Factories by Dina M Siddiqui - Travail ouvrier et consciences communautaires: l'évolution des mentalités des travailleurs de la mine en Inde contemporaine - by Gérard.Heuzé (Cahiers des Sciences Humaines, 1987, Vol. 23, Num. 2, p. 245-260) - New Social and New Political Unionism: Labour, Industry, and the State in India and Pakistan by Christopher Candland - Culture in Working Class History: A Discussion by Dipesh Chakrabarty (An edited transcript of a lecture at V.V. Giri National Labour Institute on 25, November 1998.) -Labour Legislation and Trade Unions in India and Pakistan by Ali Amjad (Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2001) - Women and Unions in India by Arun Kumar (from ciber discussion of ICFTU 2000.3.1) - Computerization and women's employment in India's banking sector by Sujata Gothoskar - Pakistan Institute for Labour Education and Research (Karachi) - Self Employed Women's Association (Ahmedabad) - Labour File from Centre for Education & Communication (Delhi) - Appeal for Solidarity Against Repression in the Dhaka Export Processing Zone by National Garment Workers Federation of Bangladesh - India: Bhima Sangha, a union of, by and for working children - New York Taxi Workers Alliance Home Page (60 percent of New York Cabbies are South Asian Immigrants) - South Asian Workers Rights Project (USA) | Workers Awaaz (USA) - Websites of some leading Indian Trade Unions: CITU | HMS | National Fish Workers Forum - Labour Movement News from India - Labour Notes South Asia (LNSA) Mailing List (+ Web Archive) The Left in South Asia:      - Left Perspectives in South Asia by Meena Dhanda & Pritam Singh - Farhad Mazhar: Towards a New Left in Bangladesh? by Naeem Mohaiemen Back to the top of this page Last update: 20 September, 2003 This site is sponsored & maintained by Social Change Communications Workshop since mid 1996 Click here -> to send a message to South Asia Citizens Web (SACW)  Join the SACW Mailing List Acknowledgement: Support from SINGH Foundation in April 2002 to obtain hardware has been valuable in continuing the efforts of SACW