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- “Peace Caravan” to leave Karachi for Peshawar by Khyber Mail
- "War in Sri Lanka threatens peace in all of South Asia" - A Statement by Concerned South Asians
- ’Amchi Mumbai’ - Many questions, some lessons
- ’Dialogue of Civilisations’ begins in Afghanistan
- ’Good Cop, Bad Cop’ Approach to Pakistan
- ’It is the poor who always suffer’
- ’Official’ peace process noise between India and Pakistan
- 11 May 1998 When India shot itself in the head (Praful Bidwai)
- 57th UN Commission on the Status of Women: Voices from Afghanistan
- A Canadian radio programme on Nepal’s Maoist Rebels
- A Conversation on Kashmir with Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian
- A Just Peace in Kashmir? Reflections on Dynamics of Change
- A Path for Peace in South Asia
- A peace delegation from India needs to visit Pakistan now
- Acrimonious Indo-Pak Exchange: Correcting a false start
- Admiral L Ramdas: This Madness of Nuclear Weaponisation Must End in India - Pakistan
- Afghanistan: Dialogue with the Taliban will be fruitless
- Afghanistan: the blind pursuit of peace and reconciliation - Massouda Jalal
- Afghanistan’s Peace and Reconciliation Plan: Can it Work?
- Aijaz Ahmed: "If the Americans Left Afghanistan and Pakistan, Things Would’nt be Any Worse"
- Allahabad Declaration - from Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy, December 2011
- Aman Karwan - A Peace Mission From Pakistan
- Aman Kay Badhtay Qadam - A peace caravan marches across Pakistan and India (August 2010)
- Americans and Saudis: hands off Pakistan’s pipeline please!
- An Independent Situationer and Roadmap for Dignified Resettlement, Reconcilliation in Sri Lanka
- Anti nuclear platform seeks parliamentary review before Indo US deal is signed
- Appeal to India to send Dr. Chishty and Pakistani fishermen back home
- Appeal to India’s Prime Minister to Intervene in Manipur to Defuse Tensions
- Armed Conflict, Small Arms Proliferation, Women’s Responses to Violence in North East India
- Armed to the Teeth
- As India-Pakistan Tensions Rise - Extremists stand to gain
- Backgrounders on the Sri Lankan Conflict
- Beyond Borders : The road not yet taken [by India and Pakistan]
- Border paranoia: Deepening the Pak-India divide
- Burma: Women Should be Part of Peace Process - Group
- Caging hawks post-Osama
- Call for Negotiated Ceasefire in Sri Lanka: A Petition to Indian Mission to U.N.
- Calling Media To Observe Restraint: South Asian Editors
- Celebrating "Mohali Magic" - India - Pakistan Should Pad Up for Peace and Prosperity
- Civil Society Pleads for Peace between Pakistan and India
- Civilian Harm and Conflict in Northwest Pakistan - a report by CIVIC
- CNDP 10th Anniversary National Convention in Delhi from Dec. 9-12 2010
- CNDP Press Release on Obama’s Call for a "world without nuclear weapons"
- CNDP Statement on Nuclear Advisory in Kashmir amid War Hysteria in India-Pakistan
- CNDP Statement on Obama Administration Scrapping European Missile Defence Plan
- Compulsory training of university entrants by the military risks perpetuating the troubles of divided Sri Lanka
- Concern for Kashmir - Demand for a Permanent Solution
- Condemn Not Just North Korea; Deal with Global Nuclear Hypocrisy
- Conflict in the Indian Kashmir Valley II: psychosocial impact
- Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan and India
- De-militarizing Democracy and Governance in Sri Lanka
- Declaration from People’s SAARC India Assembly 2011
- Delhi celebrates Pakistani play ’Kaun Hai Yeh Gustakh’
- Delhi Declaration from the People’s SAARC Assembly 23 April 2010
- Demilitarise and Democratise : The Way Forward in Sri Lanka
- Democracy in the US and Sri Lanka
- Detained fishermen - A political catch
- Deweaponise and address causes of violence in Karachi
- Doing the Right Thing in Sri Lanka
- Dont Let Hawks Hijack Foreign Policy
- Editorial - Peace Now, March 2009
- Editorial, Peace Now - December 2010
- End Hostilities at the Line of Control: Citizens petition to India’s Prime Minister and to the President of Pakistan
- European Parliament resolution on Sri Lanka
- Even If The War Ends, There is No Solution Till There is Reconciliation, Dialogue and A Reform of the Sri Lankan State
- Final Declaration at India Pakistan Conference – A Road map towards Peace
- Full Steam Ahead for a Pakistan India Peace Encounter
- Global Day of Action against Military Spending Observed in Karachi
- Has the bomb helped us?
- Honour in citizens well being not in chauvinistic nationalism
- If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Ask the peace caravan
- In Pakistan, there’s no answer to terror
- In the cross-fire of militarisation and Sinhalisation
- In the Shadow of Hiroshima
- India - Bangladesh: Teesta waters muddy relations
- India - Pakistan: Civil Society Mounts Peace Offensive
- India - Pakistan: Prisoner Repatriations Bring Hope For Now
- India - Pakistan: Let the talks continue
- India - Pakistan: Move to Resolve The IPL Controversy Over Exclusion of Pakistani Cricketers
- India - Pakistan: Play Sport Not War
- India - Pakistan: Pursue peace instead of sabre-rattling
- India - Pakistan: Some new some old unanswered questions
- India - Pakistan: Talk from here
- India - Pakistan: Unending War Over The Siachen Glacier
- India and Pakistan are in it together
- India and Pakistan are stronger together
- India and Pakistan’s hope after Osama
- India and Pakistan: Cold Start for the Hottest War?
- India and Pakistan: Need to demilitarise Siachen glacier
- India and Pakistan: Talking ’CBM’, making ’ICBM’
- India and Pakistan: tit for tat detentions of fishermen
- India in Kashmir: Winning a battle only to lose the war?
- India must turn away from the bomb
- India Pakistan Talks and relaxed visa regime : A Joint Statement by Pakistani and Indian peace and human rights activists
- India’s 15th Parliamentary Elections and South Asian Peace
- India’s inability to make the Kashmiris feel at home
- India’s Nuclear Fizzle: What Should Pakistan Do?
- India’s nuclear hawks peddle great power delusions over the NSG waiver
- India’s tragedy
- India, Pakistan in an insecurity trap
- India-Pakistan Peace Now - Global Vigil on Sunday, 27 January 2013 - Press Statement
- India-Pakistan: Media in Jingoistic Nationalism Mode
- India: A dangerous high
- India: Appeal To All Political Parties To Pass Constitutional Amendment Bill Regarding Indo-Bangla Land-Boundary Agreement
- India: Bhopal Gas victims stand up in solidarity with Malala Yousafzai who was attacked by the Taliban
- India: Dont take the road taken by Bush
- India: Kicking UNMOGIP in the teeth not the best way to secure a permanent seat on its Security Council (A G Noorani)
- India: Shameless squabble about the deadliness of a nuclear bomb
- India: Statement adopted at National Seminar on the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958
- Indian and Pakistan Citizens Condemn Serial July 2011 Blasts in Mumbai
- Indian and Pakistani media fan flames of competitive ’partiotism’
- Indian Citizens Delegation to Pakistan - 22 to 26 February 2009
- Indian Nationalism, Hindutva and the Bomb
- Indian Peace Delegation meets Pakistan Prime Minister, Policy Makers and people in successful visit
- Indians and Pakistanis Condemn Exchange of Fire and Killings on Line of Control (LoC)
- Indo - Pakistan relations: Politics even in the tragedy of death
- Indo-Pak Peace Talks and Taliban Provocations
- Indo-US Nuclear Deal: The Continuing Drift in India’s Foreign Policy
- Islamabad, Delhi and Kabul busy are in destructive game
- Its Time To Settle The Kashmir Dispute
- Jailed Fishermen Await Thaw in India-Pakistan Relations
- Japanese Citizens Send Letter to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Opposing Nuclear Cooperation
- Japanese Peace Groups Say No To Nuclear Cooperation with India
- Jayantha Dhanapala on CTBT - Debate in The Hindu
- Joint Signature Campaign by Citizens of India and Pakistan Against Terrorism, War Posturing
- Joint Statement by Indians and Pakistanis on the Demise of Sarabjit Singh
- Kashmir: A Time for Freedom
- Kashmir: Pacification at Gunpoint
- Kashmir’s Kan-i-jung: Cry for Freedom
- Kathmandu Declaration on Challenges and Way Forward for Democracy and Peace in South Asia
- Let’s say no to war
- Letter from Japanese Anti Nuclear Activists and their experience of being deported from India
- Letter to Australian Prime Minister re Uranium Exports to India
- Lies about the nukes: Interview with Pervez Hoodbhoy
- Loosing of Their Hold on Kashmir Bad for Business of India’s Military Industrial Complex
- Make Indo-Pak Relations Mutually Beneficial
- Making Karachi gun-free
- Militarisation of Sri Lanka and its infiltration into Higher Education
- Militarisation or Demilitarisation in Nepal?
- Militarism in South Asia
- Militarization With Impunity: A Brief on Rape and Murder in Shopian, Kashmir
- Mumbai bloodbath: A statement by concerned citizens of India and Pakistan
- Mumbai terror attacks should be the turning point
- Mumbai Terror Attacks, Kashmir and Islamism: A public conversation at the New York Public Library
- Nationalisms, Militarization and War Politics in Sri Lanka
- Need for Continuous dialogue between India and Pakistan underlined
- Negotiate with the TTP?
- Nepal: No Peace till we tackle ’impunity’ and ’accountability’
- Next Terror Strike: Endgame for India and Pakistan
- Not At Peace in South Asia
- Nuclear Exhibitionism - Footfall of "Hindu" Fascism
- Nuclear Lobbyists of India and Pakistan Are More Dangerous Than Religion Driven Suicide Bombers
- Nuclear nationalism - Indian elites short cut to glory
- Nuts in India and Pakistan claim nuclear weapons prevent war
- On Nuclear Modernisation in Pakistan - 2012
- One Year After the War in Sri Lanka - Newspaper Ad. by Civil Society Groups
- Out of the Nuclear Shadow
- Pak citizens pitch for peace
- Pakistan - India Peace Activists Push for Peace
- Pakistan - India: Activists demand release all the fishermen jailed in both countries
- Pakistan - India: Citizens groups speak up for Peace
- Pakistan - India: Fishermen in troubled waters
- Pakistan - India: In search of a few heroes
- Pakistan - India: Many more Chishtys
- Pakistan - India: The Cost of War
- Pakistan and India Civil Society Organizations Demand release of 900 fishermen
- Pakistan and India should break ice and go for uninterrupted dialogue
- Pakistan and India: Common Threat Needs Common Defence
- Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum hold protest rally to demand release of fishermen detained by India and Pakistan
- Pakistan Obsession of India’s Hawks and the Media
- Pakistan Peace Coalition comments on the Siachen tragedy
- Pakistan Peace Coalition condemns beheading of Sikhs, demands protection to all minorities
- Pakistan Peace Coalition Press Release on Terrorist Attacks in Mumbai
- Pakistan Peace Coalition welcomes prospect of improving ties between India and Pakistan
- Pakistan Presidents Call for Nuclear Weapons-free South Asia Should be Welcomed
- Pakistan: Access to health care difficult due to growing violence in NWFP and FATA
- Pakistan: Feeding the bomb, starving the nation
- Pakistan’s nuclear bayonet
- Pakistan’s nukes: How many are enough?
- Pakistan’s rush for more bombs — why?
- Pakistani and India Bands Jointly Sing Against The Bomb
- Pakistani and Indian Fishermen’s arrests - A story of pain and hunger
- Pakistani Liberals and Progressives Wake up, Before the Fundamentalists Run Riot
- Pakistani Peace delegation in India from 1 to 9 March 2009
- Pakistanis share the anger and grief of terror struck Bombay
- Peace activists in Pakistan and India warn of nuclear danger on 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident
- Peace Activists Welcome the Joint Indo-Pak Statement
- Peace demands an educated imagination
- Peace in Lanka?
- Peace in Sri Lanka: Negotiating with the Northern "Separatists"
- Peace is the only option
- People for peace
- People’s SAARC Memorandum to 17th official SAARC summit
- People’s SAARC Conference held in New Delhi on 21-23 April 2010
- Pervez Hoodbhoy on Pakistan after Osama
- Pervez Hoodbhoy: Killing without passion, war without valour
- Pervez Hoodhboy and Zia Mian: Pakistan, the Army and the Conflict Within
- Petition Submitted to Indian President Regarding the Fast Deteriorating Situation in Northern Sri Lanka
- Petition to Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan on behalf of the divided families of the two countries
- Pleas For Sanity as Sabres Rattle Over Mumbai Attacks
- Post war Sri Lanka is militarising the administrative and diplomatic services
- Postfrontier Blues: Toward a New Policy Framework for Northeast India
- PPC welcomes Pakistan-India trade accords after commerce ministers’ talks
- Press Release 4 Dec 2011 - Australian uranium will Fuel South Asian Arms Race
- Procrastinate for ever and call it ’Composite Dialogue’
- Programme for Tenth Anniversary National Convention of CNDP
- Prominent Indian and Pakistani Activists Welcome Mohali Spirit And Partners in Victory Campaign
- Pushing South Asia Toward the Brink
- Quelling border clashes with Pakistan
- Reconciliation in Sri Lanka
- Reflections on Demilitarising the Sri Lankan Society
- Reflections on the terrorisms of our time
- Release all fishermen and their boats - An appeal to India and Pakistan
- Restraint by media will aid peace process
- Resume dialogue between India and Pakistan
- Rising ethnic nationalism in Sri Lanka targets minorities - a report by Minority Rights Group
- Routes to Pursue for Nuclear Disarmament
- SAHMAT Statement on Cultural and Sports contacts with Pakistan
- SAPA Statement: "Protect the Human Rights of Sri Lankan Civilians Now!"
- Say No To Terror And War! Say No To Violence!
- Scientists and an atomic subcontinent
- Secret diplomacy on Kashmir
- Security, minorities and the Lankan polity
- Silence is complicity
- South Asia Foundation Festival for Peace 2009 (Amritsar - Wagah - Preet Nagar, 10th to 23rd October 2009)
- Sri Lanka morphing into a militarised state ?
- Sri Lanka Panel - South Asian People’s Forum: Rohini Hensman, Ahilan Kadirgamar and Rajan Philips
- Sri Lanka takes the wrong road to peace - Meenakshi Ganguly
- Sri Lanka’s Peace Activists Find It Hard to Identify With Anti War Big Noise in the Diaspora
- Sri Lanka: "Tamils caught between the devil and deep blue sea"
- Sri Lanka: A long, slow descent into hell
- Sri Lanka: A Tragedy Foretold
- Sri Lanka: Humanitarian Crisis, Democratization, Political Solution
- Sri Lanka: Losing the larger picture
- Sri Lanka: LTTE Is No Excuse For Killing Vanni Civilians
- Sri Lanka: Militarisation has become normalised and entrenched
- Sri Lanka: Needed reality checks among the do-gooders
- Sri Lanka: Practical steps to meaningful reconciliation - Joint statement by concerned citizens
- Sri Lanka: Protect the 300,000 war displaced
- Sri Lanka: Protests, devolution and solidarity - A Discussion with Jayampathy Wickramaratne
- Sri Lanka: Silence Over the Horrors of the War
- Sri Lanka: Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council - Urgent Appeal to Indian Govt. and members of Parliament
- Sri Lanka: The aftermaths of the war
- Sri Lanka: The Threat to National Security and Unity Within
- Sri Lanka: What victory or liberation when no resolution of the ethnic conflict ?
- Sri Lanka: Who is Responsible for the Slaughter of Civilians in the Vanni?
- Sri Lanka: Will a military victory really solve the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict?
- Sri Lanka’s 18th Amendment: A Charter for Dictatorship
- Sri Lankan Government Should Halt Offensive Immediately and LTTE Should Surrender
- Stand up for equality, justice and democracy in Sri Lanka
- Statement by Concerned Christians on UN Panel on Accountability in Sri Lanka
- Summary of Delhi Declaration 2010 adopted at the 10th Anniversary Conference of CNDP
- Supreme Court of Pakistan issues notices to Federal, Sindh governments on petition for detained Indian fishermen
- Taking Forward the Struggle for Equality, Justice and Democracy in Sri Lanka
- Talk Peace, Confront Terrorism: statement by concerned Pakistani citizens
- Talk to the people not to the Taliban
- Tamilar Samadana Aayvagam TASA (Tamils’ Peace Research Institute)
- Telling the truth about war
- Terrorism in Mumbai: A Challenge for Democracy
- Terrorist Attack On Mumbai - What Should Be Done
- Text of Statement by Malaysian NGOs on Military Spending, 12 April 2011
- Text of ’Kathmandu Declaration’ adopted at conference on Peace building in South Asia
- Text of Joint Statement at a Civil Society Round Table on India Pakistan Peace Process
- The Attacks in Bombay and India’s Terror Dossier: Further evidence of a conspiracy
- The Bi-Polar Perspective and the Sri Lankan Crisis
- The Bomb: Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan
- The Case Against Further N-tests by India
- The challenge in Afghanistan isn’t about resources but principles
- The Deepest Division in Sri Lanka
- The Emerging Japan-India Relationship: Nuclear Anachronism, Militarism and Growth Fetish
- The governments of India and Pakistan owe it to their citizens to engage in talks and to act substantively
- The Hawks of South Asia
- The Indian nation is alienated from Kashmir
- The Indo US Nuclear Deal, ’Nationalism’ and the left
- The Intolerable Militarization of India Administered Kashmir
- The Kanyakumari Declaration
- The Limited Military Utility of Pakistan’s Battlefield Use of Nuclear Weapons in Response to Large Scale Indian Conventional Attack
- The medical profession must stand up against the India-US nuclear deal
- The Mumbai Massacre and Pakistan’s New Nightmares: An Interview of Pervez Hoodbhoy
- The Practicality of Nuclear Civil Defence in South Asia
- They Have Sold The Homeland of Frontier Gandhi To Assassins!
- Towards a No-war pact between India and Pakistan
- Trapped in hysteria
- Turn Pakistan from national security state to a people’s welfare state
- US defeat won’t be Afghan victory
- US incursions into Pakistan: Is a policy shift underway?
- Violence by custodians of ’authentic culture’
- War and Peace at the Wagah Border
- War or peace on the Indus?
- We Apologise to the Bangladeshis for the Atrocities of 1971
- We can do without the march of folly
- We dont need a Bush style war on terror in South Asia
- What have we gained from the bomb?
- What if Pakistan did not have the bomb?
- What is behind the reciprocal restrictions on visas by India and Pakistan ?
- WHO’s report on health risks following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan is a cover up job
- Why is India going along with the undemocratic machinations of the Nepal army brass?
- Will the hawks and the intelligence agencies allow Pakistan India dialogue?
- Working For An India-Pakistan Breakthrough
- Yes, demonstrate goodwill and friendship, not pointless jingoism
- Zahra Shah and Debanshu Mukherjee: War is not cricket!
Web sites
- Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons
- Ban Land Mines Campaign Nepal
- Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace
- Coalition of Muslims and Tamils for Peace and Coexistence (CMTPC)
- Delhi to Multan : Citizens Peace March, 2005
- India Pakistan Arms Race and Militarisation Watch
- Indian Doctors for Peace and Development
- Indo-Pak Joint Signature Campaign Against War & Terrorism
- Mumbai Citizens Initiative For Peace
- National Peace Council - Sri Lanka
- Pakistan Peace Coalition
- People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian Administered Kashmir
- South Asia Peace Wire
- South Asians Against Nukes
- The Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace & Justice
Communalism Repository
Articles
- "These are concentration camps, not refugee camps”
- "Well ! Well . . . ! Mr. Advani !" Well "spoken" indeed !
- ’Adivasi’ - A Contentious Term to denote Tribes as Indigenous Peoples of India
- ’Amongst factors creating communal hatred is doctored history’ - Interview with Asghar Ali Engineer
- ’Good Boys’, Character Making and The Nation
- ’Shastra Pujas’: What is Religious About Worshipping Weapons ?
- 1969 Report of Jeevan Lal Kapur Commission of Inquiry in to Conspiracy to Murder Mahatma Gandhi (Part 1 and Part 2)
- A ’Thappad’ (Slap) for Mr Subramaniam Swamy !
- A bill to settle a terrible debt
- A clumsy verdict of doubtful legality
- A Five Point Formula For Riot-Free India
- A hawk dressed as a dove: The marketing of a repackaged L. K. Advani
- A Saffron Terror Network Surfaces
- A skewed secularism?
- A voyage into the intolerant mind
- Action against Communal Politics: Call for Impartial and Appropriate Action
- All India Christian Council concern at Srinagar Sharia court statement against Christian pastors
- Amhedabad, built environment, segregation and infrastructure for violence
- Amish Raj Mulmi: Nepali Hindutva
- An independent report on Government of India’s response to Sachar Committee recommendations
- An Open Letter on L’Affaire Antulay - Karkare To The Members of Indian Parliament
- An Open Letter to Ms Sonal Shah
- Anatomy of India’s Taliban
- Anatomy of Sangh Parivar
- And Now Hindu Terrorists?
- Anna lauds Modi: Communalism Bad, Development Good
- Appeal to Defend Jamia Millia Islamia’s Secular Character
- Appeasing The Hindu Right
- Ascent of Communalism in Malegaon
- Aseemananda’s Confession
- Audio: Romila Thapar Speaking on communalism and secularism 18 April 2013
- Ayodhya Verdict - Citizens Appeal to Chief Justice of India and Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court
- Ayodhya verdict [of 30 Sept. 2010]
- Ayodhya Verdict: Affirmation of Hindu Majoritarianism
- B R Ambedkar’s ’transfer of population as solution’ to minority issues - extract from his book on Pakistan
- Bal Thackeray’s genius was giving shape to an authentically Indian Fascism
- BAN the RSS
- Bangladesh: A Question of Identity
- Bangladesh: Bad moon rising
- Bangladesh: If you come to kill, I will say, I too am Hindu, I too am Minority, this burning land is my country
- Bangladesh: Jamaat continues attacking Hindus
- Bangladesh: Mob attack in Ramu on Buddhist shrines: media commentary and citizen groups response, statements
- Bangladesh: Punishing the innocent | Govt response to communal attack in Ramu
- Bangladesh: Resurgence of Communalism
- Baseless reports in the Indian media alleging that social activist Teesta Setalvad and CPJ exaggerated the violence during Gujarat pogrom of 2002
- Basharat Peer: The Shiite Murders - Pakistan’s Army of Jhangvi
- Battle for the idea of India
- Behind the Recent Communal Violence in Assam
- Beyond Religious Boundaries
- BJP’s idea of a theocratic India gives heart to the religious caboodle in Pakistan
- BJP’s Real Agenda
- Blasts and the State of Terror
- Bomb Blasts in Nepal: Global Dimensions of Hindutva Terror
- Bombay Riots of 1992-93: Akhtar Hasan Wagle’s Long Struggle for Justice
- Book Extract: ’Offence - The Hindu Case’
- Book Review: ’Green and Saffron’ on environmental politics and Hindu nationalism
- Book Review: Interpreting fascism, one fascist at a time
- Brief History of India - A secular republic founded on a religious metaphor
- Bringing Hindutva terrorism to book
- Britain’s odious rapprochement with Narendra Modi
- Can the election on April 16 in the Kandhmals ever be free and fair?
- Can We Ever Unravel the Samjhauta Express Bomb Blast Conspiracy?
- Casteism versus Communalism in India
- Citizens for Justice and Peace, Mumbai condemns the attack on Hindus in Bangladesh and Christians in Pakistan
- Citizens Online Petition to Oman to Disallow Narendra Modi’s visit
- Citizens Statement Against Planned Violence Against North Indians and Breakdown of Rule of Law
- Combating Contending Fundamentalisms
- Communal and targeted Violence Bill in India: A step in right direction
- Communal Challenge to Free India - Some Reminiscences and Reflections
- Communal Menace in Goa is Alive and Kicking
- Communal Violence in Dhule: A Report by Independent Citizens’ Intitiative
- Communalisation and the Retrieval of the Secular
- Communalism and the News Media in India
- Communalism here, fascism there
- Communalism in Modern India: A Theoretical Examination
- Communalism: An ignored malady
- Condemn the vandalism of ABVP and RSS in Delhi University!
- Conflict and Suffering: Survivors of Carnages in 1984 and 2002
- Converging agendas: Team Anna and the Indian Right
- Criminals for Hindutva ? The Hidden Hand
- CSFH statement on Sonal Shah
- Cultural logic of communalism
- Cultural Luddites Who Preach Hate
- Dalits in Hindutva: Cooption or resistance
- Dangerous liaisons
- December 6, 1992 - Lest we forget
- Decision of British Govt is Morally Flawed - Letter to Sir James Bevan, UK High Commissioner to India
- Defining Indigeneity: Situating Transnational Knowledge
- Delhi’s Noor Masjid: Tales of a Martyred Mosque
- Democracy, Elections and Minorities in India
- Dhol Ki Pol: an audio programme on communal politics in India
- Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement
- Dont wait to oppose fascist politics
- Ethnic conflict in India
- Exposing Prejudices, Breaking Myths
- Fact and Faith : Democracy After The Ayodhya Verdict - A Symposium (Full Programme)
- Fascism in its liberal womb
- Fighting Fascism
- Film Review: ’A Wednesday’
- Formation of Committee for the Defence of Teesta Setalvad and Justice in Gujarat - Press Release
- From Babri Demolition to supporting Anna Hazare - Changing Strategies of RSS politics
- From Orissa to Karnataka - The attacks on minorties by the Hindu Right: A report
- From Secularism to Sectarianism: Political activism among Bengalis in the East End of London
- Full Text of the Report by Commission of Enquiry Consisting of Justice Nanavati and Justice Mehta
- Fully Investigate Hindutva Terrorists Role: From Nanded To Malegaon and Beyond
- Girish Karnad: What Statement Is Being Made By The Award To Naipaul?
- Give saffron hooligans a pink trim
- Gujarat 2002 must be remembered and understood so it never happens again
- Gujarat Carnage: Narendra Modi and Special Investigation Team Report
- Gujarat Carnage: Seven Years On . . . Seven Major Concerns and More
- Gujarat: the Ghosts of the Past and the Future
- Gurukul for Explosives ?
- Handling Queries: Democratic Responses
- Happy Valentine’s Day, Mr. Bal Thackeray
- Hate And Anger Won’t Bring Votes; People Always See Through Divisive Politics
- Hate poisons the Narmada
- Hate speech is the route to upward mobility in the Hindu Right circuit
- Hindu Nationalism: origins, ideologies and modern myths
- Hindu Taliban Assaulting Freedom, Militarising Society
- Hindu Terrorism: The Shock of Recognition
- Hindutva Fundamentalists Mirroring Thier Counterparts
- Hindutva Groups Use Adivasis To Attack Muslims and Their Homes
- Hindutva Mix of Biceps and the Bhagvad Gita
- Hindutva Muscle Flexing in Karnataka
- Hindutva Tradition of Terror
- Hindutva’s orchestrated violence as elections approach
- Hindutva’s Politics of Denial
- Hindutva’s Propaganda on Conversions
- Hindutva-inspired terrorism goes back a long way
- Hindutvawadis in American politics
- How Hindutva Terrorists Operate in Karnataka
- How Secular is India Today?
- Human Rights Commission of Pakistan report on sectarian political violence Karachi
- Ideological Convergences: Shared world view of Hindutva, and the anti-Islamic European right
- Ideology of Gandhi’s Killers is Alive and Influential
- Impartial judicial monitoring of all terror investigations by the apex court the need of the hour
- In Defence of The Proposed Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill, 2011
- In India multi-communalisms pass as secularism
- Incredible impunity
- India - Hindutva terrorism in Karnataka: Malleswaram or Hubli 2 ?
- India - Madhya Pradesh: Path Way to Hindu Rashtra
- India allows the murderers of thousands of Sikhs to roam scot-free
- India and Secular Democracy
- India desperately needs a new modernist project — not the backward-looking search for authenticity
- India must abandon ethnic homeland model or face more communal polarisation
- India Must Delink Religious Pilgrimage Management from Secular State Apparatus
- India must face up to Hindu terrorism
- India needs a discourse on citizenship that takes its communities out of the prevalent majority-minority mindset
- India Needs A Law To Check Hate Speech
- India’s Competing Communalism’s
- India’s Far Right is Out To Violently Divide
- India’s OM Made Taliban
- India: Patriotic Criminals, Nationalist Terrorists
- India: The Importance of Zakia Jafri’s Protest Petition
- India: "Ghar Wapsi" [a Return Home] and the Not-so-veiled Threat of the Sangh
- India: "Love Jihad" Was No Farce
- India: ’Foreigners’, Hindutva and Bodoland Politics
- India: ’Police Can’t Arrest Togadia’
- India: 10 years after Gujarat riots - Narendra Modi, the BJP and democracy
- India: 1984 and the violence of memory
- India: 2002 pogrom in Gujarat has left a bitterly divided society
- India: A pogrom is the first step in the Gujarat model
- India: Ajmer Blasts - Revisiting Hindutva Terror
- India: An Appeal from Concerned Citizens of Assam
- India: Anna is the icon of banal Hindutva
- India: Another closure report, another cover-up?
- India: Assam’s Tragedy
- India: Attack on Media - Assam violence protests in Bombay
- India: Babri Masjid Demolition and Liberhan Commission Report
- India: Bal Thackeray - A Politics of Violence
- India: Bhagat Singh’s writings against communalism and untouchability
- India: BJP is playing with fire
- India: Blood and Belonging
- India: Calcutta Murder for Inter Religious Marriage - Commentary in the Media
- India: Call for Cellular Silence Day on 61st death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi
- India: Can we stop the carnage carnivals?
- India: Caste and Honor
- India: Citizens for Justice and Peace Rebuts Viscious Propaganda Campaign by Right Wing Newspaper
- India: Citizens’ Statement on The Mangalore Assault
- India: Civil Society Groups Reject NAC Communal Violence Bill Draft, Lay Down Key Features For A New Bill
- India: Communal Riots 2009
- India: Communal Violence (Prevention) Bill - urgent need for debate and passage in parliament
- India: Communal Violence Bill - How useful to victims?
- India: Communal Violence in Akot - A pre-planned conspiracy
- India: Communalism in Coastal Karnataka - A Chronicle and Record of Incidents in 2012
- India: Concern at growing intolerance against minorties - PUCL press release
- India: Connivance of Gujarat State Funtionaries in Protecting Impresarios of Naroda Patiya Massacre
- India: Contrast in reactions to two court rulings about mass murder
- India: Convention Against Fascism - Defending the Idea of India, Oct 25-26, 2008, Delhi
- India: Cultural Aggression in The Name of Hindutva
- India: Custom-built communal riots
- India: Declassify report on the 1948 Hyderabad massacre - SA Aiyar
- India: Dhule Violence - Changing Anatomy of Communal Violence
- India: Did the Hindu Right Organise the Bomb Blasts in Ajmer?
- India: Discrimination on the grounds of religion and caste
- India: Ending the silence
- India: Fanatic Dalits, Empowered Dalits ?
- India: Far Right in War Against Minorities in Orissa
- India: Fascist acrobat Ramdev’s anti corruption spectacle busted by cops
- India: Full text of the Gujarat High Court’s order rejecting the bail application of Dr. Mayaben Kodnani
- India: Full text of the Liberhan Ayodhya Commission of Enquiry Commission Report
- India: Fundamentalists curbing young people’s rights and freedom
- India: Fundamentalists mobilise in Calcutta in Solidarity with Bangladeshi War Criminals
- India: Gatade’s books uncover realities of caste and communalism - Anand Teltumbde’s Book review
- India: Go for secular education, think beyond religious lobbies
- India: Gujarat Government Continues With Communal Agenda
- India: Hindu nationalism and the Congress Party in the 1940s and 1950s
- India: Hindutva far right and the anti-Tehri dam movement
- India: Hindutva in Karnataka - Experiments in Terror
- India: Hindutva offensive against the proposed communal violence bill
- India: How Government Funded Educational Institutions Are Promoting Religion in India
- India: How Savarkar escaped the gallows
- India: How to observe the fourth anniversary of Kandhamal
- India: Impending Threat by Corporate Sector, Middle Class and Communalism to Our Political System
- India: Is the Raghavan SIT in Undue Haste for a Closure? - Open letter
- India: Is there a communal angle to Anna Hazare Upsurge?
- India: Its time to bury the 1996 judicial sanction to Hindutva
- India: Joint Public Statement on Hindutva Terror
- India: Justice delayed is justice denied - A comment on the Liberhan commission report
- India: Kandhamal Communal Violence - Four Years Later - A Fact Finding Report
- India: Launch of Report Assessing the Damage during the Anti-Christian pogrom in Kandhamal in 2007 2008
- India: Let the healing begin
- India: Letter by former police chief warns about moves to file closure report in complaint filed by Zakia Jafri / Teesta Setalvad
- India: Letter to Chief Election Commissioner to regarding violence by BJP and Hindutva goons in Gujarat
- India: Memorial to a Genocide - Insist on justice
- India: Milk the faith, worship the cow
- India: National Convention Against Fascism is Planned
- India: National Integration Council (NIC) Debate on Communal Violence Bill and Recent Riots
- India: Of Bal Thackeray, His admirers and His victims’
- India: Parliamentary democracy under threat from BJP
- India: Pawns In, Patrons Still Out!!
- India: Persistence of a Sore - Communal Violence Today
- India: Police records show Gujarat riots weren’t a sudden backlash
- India: Produce the Liberhan Commission Report in Parliament and Take swift action
- India: Progressive writers & artists in solidarity with Girish Karnad re his stance on Tata festival Award to V. S Naipaul
- India: Prosecute the Architects of Babri Mosque Demolition
- India: Public against Democracy - the case of the Gujarat Pogrom 2002
- India: PUCL report on cultural vigilantism against women and minorities in Karnataka
- India: Raj ki aag or Aag ka raj?
- India: Reluctant Democrats - Jamaat e Islami Hind (JIH)
- India: Report of a Citizens Convention to mark 10 years of Gujarat Carnage – 2002
- India: Report on Kokrajhar Riot in Assam
- India: Republic of Silence
- India: Riots & the bogey of Bangladeshis
- India: Rohit Chopra on Bal Thackeray’s Poisonous Legacies
- India: RSS Wary of Terrorist Tag
- India: Sahmat Statement in support of Citizens for Justice and Peace
- India: Sarsanghchalaks have never projected themselves the way Modi is being projected
- India: Shadows of Trident - Modi as Prime Ministerial Candidate
- India: Shri Sri Ravishankar and art of politics
- India: Sitting Ducks - A Beemapalli reflection
- India: Special Courts fail to give justice to the victims of the communal violence in Orissa
- India: Special Investigation Team Implicates Modi
- India: Spew Venom, Enjoy Life - Who Scripted Mr Varun Gandhi’s Acquittal !
- India: Statement by Citizens for Justice & Peace and Sabrang Trust re malicious campaign by powerful interests in Gujarat and the oppostion party at the national level
- India: Statement from National Meet on ’Tracing Sangh Terror Links And Stories of Innocent Muslim Boys’
- India: Statement of Justice Hosbet Suresh at Gulberg Memorial 2002-2012
- India: Statement on Home Minister’s Apology: Cowardly Capitulation to the RSS and BJP
- India: Stop These Sangh Parivar Outfits, Before Its Too Late
- India: Talk Hindutva, Sell Narcotics ?
- India: Ten years after the 2002 violence - Gujarat state machinery under the firm grip of Hindu nationalism
- India: Ten Years of Gujarat Carnage
- India: Text of Letter by Police Officer Sanjiv Bhatt to Gujarat Chief Minister Modi
- India: Text of statement by Eduardo Faleiro re. nomination of Narendra Modi as the Chairman of the National Election Campaign Committee of the BJP
- India: Text of Supreme Court Order in SLP 1088/2011 in Zakia Ahsan Jafri & Citizens for Justice and Peace
- India: The Communal Character of Anna Hazare’s Movement
- India: The continuing after-effects of anti Christian violence (2007)in Orissa
- India: The cycle of violence
- India: The end of impunity
- India: The idiocy of identity politics
- India: The Naroda Patia verdict has renewed public faith in the judicial system
- India: The Shiv Sena - Semi-Fascism in Action
- India: The Spectre of Fascism
- India: The State Has No Religion
- India: This time it’s different, Mr Modi - justice will speak in elections
- India: Those Who Do Not Want to Bury Modi
- India: Through all the tears for Bal Thackeray
- India: Understanding the anger and frustration of Muslim Youths in Uttar-Pradesh
- India: Urban Segregation and the Special Political Zone in Ahmedabad - An Emerging Paradigm for Religio-Political Violence
- India: Victim Survivors and CJP welcome the verdict in the Naroda Patiya mass murder case
- India: What are the secular credentials of different political parties?
- India: Who Is Afraid of Tipu Sultan ?
- India: Why Hyderabad Investigations are doomed to fail - JTSA release
- India: Why I didn’t go to Jantar Mantar
- India: Why I didn’t join Anna Hazare
- India: Why the Communal and Targeted Violence Bill must be codified into law
- India: Will perpetrators of heinous crime be punished?
- Indian state’s dual policy, target dissenters and ignore Hindu religious extremists
- INSAF Fact-finding team to Orissa (October 21-24, 2008): Press Release
- Interim Report on Orissa-Concerned Citizens’ Independent Fact-Finding Mission, Sept 25, 2008
- Investigate the Hindutva Terror Network! Online Petition To India’s Home Minister
- Invoking India’s Fuhrer
- Is Religion Above Criticism?
- Justice Delayed Should not be Justice Denied
- Kandhamal: The law must change course
- Karnataka’s Hindu Taliban
- Kerala: The Rise of Saffronshirts
- Kolkata Muslim groups plan pro-Jamaat bandh, want Sheikh Haseena to quit
- Lately, Hindus in America have started flying the saffron flag over American-style yoga
- Les reseau de Hindutva dans le diaspora - Royaume-Uni, États-Unis et Canada
- Lessons from Malegaon: Punish those guilty of misleading probes; Compensate the victims NOW!
- Let Us Not Be Naive About Naveen Patnaik
- Let us stand with Sister Meena and other victims of the Hindutva in Orissa
- Letter to Justice Panigrahi Commission of Enquiry in the Kandhamal, Orissa violence
- Letter To President-Elect Barack Obama from Coalition of Concerned Indian Americans
- Leveling crowds
- Like we have Islamists, are there Brahminists too?
- Madhu Limaye: What is the RSS?
- Madhya Pradesh: Shadows of Hindu Rashtra
- Mainstreaming the Hindutva agenda - The subtle work of hindukaran
- Malegaon - Mecca Masjid - Ajmer Sharif: Evidence implicating Hindutva groups in terrorist activity gathers dust
- Malegaon Bomb Blasts and Hindutva Extremists
- Malegaon, Modasa and Mehrauli Blasts : The Hindutva Connection ?
- Manufacturing consent for a ’Hinduised’ nation
- Many Forks of the Devil’s Tongue: Whitewashing Crimes a la The Pracharak Way
- Marketing Victimhood
- Meet "good Taliban" the Pakistani state nurtured in the last three decades
- Memorandum to Indian Prime Minister on Assam Bomb Blasts
- Militarising Minds, Hindutvaising the Nation
- Modi and the Wharton affair - Human rights and economy are linked
- Moditva and Gujarat’s decade of authoritarian rule
- Mohan Rao on Saffron Demography
- Mr Bhagwat, It’s Time For An Apology !
- Mr. Modi Wants to Come to America
- Mumbai Matters: Locals versus migrants
- Mumbai rekindles debate about Muslims, their beard and so on
- Mumbai’s Cloistered Hearth
- Muslim Party Should or Should Not Be
- Myanmar: Authorities must protect communities at risk of violence - Amnesty International
- Nanavati Commission has forgotten the real story of the Gujarat Carnage
- Nanavati Commission Report - Manufacturing A Conspiracy
- Nanavati Report on Godhra Tragedy
- Narendra Modi in Delhi — Biased Reporting
- Neena Vyas: The State dumps secularism, as bigoted groups call the shots
- Never Again in Sri Lanka
- New Delhi citizens march against violence and attacks on minorities
- New Friends of Iskcon ?
- Normalcy Far from Returning to Kandhamal
- Of cities and bomb making
- Of Figures And Indian Fascists
- Old Tale, Modern Hate: The Ramayan returns to haunt the Indian polity
- On Buddhist Fundamentalism in Sri Lanka
- Once There Was Hindutva Terror ...?
- One, Two, Unbuckle My Shoe
- Online Petition to Demand that Harvard end its association with religious extremist Subramanian Swamy
- Operation Saffron Hunt?
- Orissa-like terror stalks Christians in Karnataka interiors
- Orissa: What’s the point of Commissions of Inquiries headed by pliant persons
- Pakistan 2013 National Elections: Minority Seats Bought and Sold by Political Parties
- Pakistan awaiting the clerical tsunami: Pervez Hoodbhoy interviewed
- Pakistan: Ahmadiyas under attack need protection - statements by Amnesty International and AHRC
- Pakistan: Jamaat-e-Islami and its the fascist ways - interview with Farooq Haider Maududi son of the founder of the party
- Pakistan: Joint Action Committee for People’s Rights Statement Against Christian Persecution in Lahore and Call for Protest Rally
- Pakistan: Letter by Citizens for Free and Responsible Media re Hateful comments by Abdul Qadeer Khan on Geo TV
- Pakistan: Parking lot or drive-in-madrassa
- Pakistan: Prevent Targeted Killings of Shia Muslims - Statement by Human Rights Watch
- Pakistan: Women Action Forum (WAF) Statement Following The Attack On Shia Residents Of Abbas Colony, Karachi
- Pankaj Karmakar and Nurul Amin: Attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh
- Permanent Target
- Perverse patriotism
- Petition From Women’s Rights Activists to the Chief Minister of Orissa
- Petition: Not In Our Name - Against religious extremism in Sri Lanka
- Phoney Jihadis, Real Culprits !
- Playing ball with the Jamaat
- Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of Public in India
- Politics, History, Religion and The Law: The Ayodhya Verdict
- Populism, Religion and Nation in Contemporary India
- Pracharak as Terrorist
- Preliminary Findings & Recommendations - The National People’s Tribunal on Kandhamal
- Presenting the Past: Anxious History and Ancient Future in Hindutva India
- Press Release by U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on Denial of Visas by India
- Producing the Hindu Nation and Its "Others" Through Gender and Sexuality
- Professional ’natives’ vs ’outsiders’ in Bombay
- Protect India’s Ancient Monuments From Encroachment
- Protest in Delhi University against threats to democratic voices
- PUDR Statement on Ayodhya Judgement
- Punish Parochial Hate-Mongering
- Pursue the truth, not myths, and protect civil rights
- Rally and Public Meeting to Save Secularism and Democracy, Bangalore 6 October 2008
- Recommendations to The Congressional Task Force on International Religious Freedom
- Reimagining History
- Religion in Politics: Impact on Human Rights
- Report of AIDWA Delegation’s visit to Orissa, November 2008
- Report of the symposium on ’Faith & Fact: Democracy After the Ayodhya Verdict’
- Report on Attacks on Religious Places in Post–War Sri Lanka
- Resist Fascism, Defend Humanist Solidarity and Freedom of Religion
- Resolution at People’s SAARC Condemns The Murder of Salman Taseer
- Resurgent Hindutva Terror in India
- Rise of Buddhist Extremism in Sri Lanka and Response of Sri Lankan Muslims
- Rise of fascism in Indian politics
- Rohini Hensman speaking on the identity politics and secular space in India and Sri Lanka
- RSS - BJP: Father, Son and Unholy Mission
- RSS and The Murder of Mahatma Gandhi on January 30, 1948: What The Contemporary Documents Tell?
- RSS Declared Unlawful - Text of Government communique dated February 4, 1948
- RSS Stance Against The Floodgate of Startling Revelations: Prevarication
- Saffron robed saviour
- Sahmat Statement : Ayodhya verdict yet another blow to secularism
- Sahmat statement condemning violence in Delhi, Orissa and Karnataka
- Sampradayikta Virodhi Geet
- Sangh parivar - the multi headed hydra of the Hindu right
- Secular India faltering
- Seeking unlimited happiness
- Sikh massacre victims await justice in India, 25 years on - Amnesty International
- Slaughter in Trilokpuri: An eyewitness account on the 1984 Anti Sikh Pogrom in New Delhi
- Solidarity Vigil for Bangladesh’s Shahbagh Movement held in Delhi - report and memo
- Sources and Politics of Hindu Nationalist Theology
- Sri Lanka: Concerned Citizens’ Statement Against Religious Intolerance (Dambulla Mosque attack)
- Sri Lanka: Friday Forum, citizen’s group calls for halt to anti-Muslim nationalism
- Sri Lanka: The Political Economy of Anti-Muslim Attacks
- Sri Ram Sena should be strongly disciplined; its origins thoroughly investigated
- Statement by Forum for Secular Pakistan re Attack on Christians in Badami Bagh, Lahore
- Statement in condemnation of the ongoing ethnic violence in Assam
- Support and Resistance to the Hindu Far Right Among the Middle Classes in Delhi
- Swadhin Sen: Re-thinking communalism
- Swami Aseemanand’s Confessions: Its time for an apology
- Swamy’s ’strategies’
- Terrorism, Police and Minorities in India
- Text of resolution adopted at AIDWA Convention on communal conflict, Constitution Club, New Delhi, 16 November 2011
- Text of resolution adopted at national meet for countering fascist forces in India
- The case against Sajjan
- The Case for Banning the VHP, Bajrang Dal and RSS
- The dangerous slide of Bangladesh
- The forgotten Nellie massacres
- The Gujarat massacre - New India’s blood rite
- The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics
- The Hollow Myth of ’Vibrant Gujarat’ - A compilation
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- The Jamaatis’ new robes
- The Kalinga Effect
- The Missing Orissa Police
- The Norway massacre and the Indian connection
- The Political Culture of Fascism
- The President-Elect and India
- The Sangh Parivar’s plans for Orissa are on track
- The Savarkarist syntax
- The US based Islamist organizations and expatriate Bangladeshis
- The winter of our discontent: provincialism and terrorism
- The xenophobia circuit in Maharashtra
- Time to re-investigate the foreign funding of Hindu fundamentalists
- Tolerating Terrorism of the Hindu Right
- Tommaso Bobbio on Economic and Social Change and Violence in Ahmedabad 1950-2000
- Trouble with the retrograde forces defining culture?
- Truth Does Not Die When A File is Closed
- Understanding Hindutva
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- Using the cow
- V.D. Savarkar and Gandhi’s murder
- Venue for a Speech on Tamas - A Chronicle of an Event That Should Never Have Happened
- VHP and Deoband share the same vision for the respective religions they claim to represent
- Video Clip: Remembering Asghar Bhai (1939 - 2013)
- Villain in Life, Hero in Death !
- Voices of Protest Against The Move By Financial Times Group To Confer An Award on Narendra Modi
- Waiting for the bootsteps at my door any time
- What about the murdered kids?
- What collapsed on December 6, 1992 was the idea of India as inclusive, pluralistic
- What do ’Hindu’ spiritual leaders talk when they meet?
- What is the Real Goal of the Anna Movement?
- What Scope for Justice in Gujarat ?
- What’s love got to do with it?
- When equal protection matters most
- Where The Far Right Crucifies the Poor
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- Who Says Hindu nationalism is on the decline?
- Who speaks for India — Gandhi or Modi?
- Whose side are you on?
- Why are judges and officials hostile to love marriages in secular India?
- Why are secular and civil liberty activists disappointed with the NAC Draft Bill on Communal Violence
- Why ’Sanatan Sanstha’ and ’Hindu Janajagruti Samity’ should be Banned
- Why India Is Not A Secular State
- Will Indian democracy survive against Hindutva cancer ?
- Will the Indian state ever take on Hindutva fascism?
- Zakia Jaafri and the Jersey widows
- Zakia Jafri’s fight for the truth is the interests of all Indians
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- All dissidents now: Russia’s protests and the mirror of history
- Alternatives in Industrialization
- An Ancient Sickness
- An Open Letter to Nepali democrats
- An Open Letter to the Revolutionaries
- Anti-heroes of Pakistani liberalism
- Armies of the Pure: the question of Indian fascism
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- Bangladesh: Shahbagh - Its international significance
- Book review: Moscow Under Terror
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- Call for Papers: "New Cultures of the Left" - first South Asian Historical Materialism Conference (New Delhi, 3-5 April 2013)
- Cast Away Caste: Breaking New Grounds …
- Challenges for the Left in India
- China - Fast Change and Its Discontents (Dissent magazine)
- Closing the Circle - Reflections on the revolution
- Condemn the State Terror in Lalgarh, West Bangal
- Congratulations and Best Wishes to Bookstore - Cafe Mayday in New Delhi
- Dilip Simeon talking about his novel ’Revolution Highway’
- Disentangling the Delhi HM Conference from the SWP Crisis
- Drones: theirs and ours
- End of the Left in India?
- English Translation of Arthur Rosenberg on Fascism as a Mass-Movement
- Fascism, Maoism and the Democratic Left
- Fascism: Essays on Europe and India Edited by Jairus Banaji
- For Chinese workers the right to strike is an academic issue
- Fred Halliday on The Left and the Jihad
- Full Audio: ’Trajectories of Fascism: The Extreme-Right Movements in India and Elsewhere’ a lecture by Jairus Banaji
- Full Programme: The Delhi Historical Materialism Conference - "New Cultures of the Left" (JNU, 3-5 April 2013)
- Future Perspectives for the Mainstream Indian Left
- Gandhi’s Final Fast
- Glory Days
- Harris Khalique: Extremism in Pakistan - a snapshot from history
- Heart of darkness
- How Can The Pakistani Left Become Relevant?
- Identities and Borders in South Asia: A View From The Left
- Independent Judiciary and Rule of Law: Demolished in Sri Lanka
- India: A future for the left - reflections
- India: Open Letter from a CPI(ML) Dissident in 1972
- India: Rabindra Ray on Class Hatred and the Far Left Naxalite Movement
- Iranian feminists on "Solidarity and Its Discontents"
- Is the World Social Forum of Use for Popular Struggles?
- K Damodaran: An Unfinished Chapter
- Kashmir: Moral and Political Dilemmas of ’The Right of Nations To Self-Determination’
- Let’s Avoid Television Wars, or How the Indian establishment succumbed to jingoistic hysteria during the LoC crisis - former Indian Navy Chief
- Maoism’s other side
- Marxism and The Economic Crisis
- Meredith Tax: Double Bind - tied up in knots on the left
- Michael Rectenwald: Postmodernism, the Academic Left, and the Crisis of Capitalism
- Mobarak Haider: A society at war with itself
- My Friend
- On Post-Fascism: How citizenship is becoming an exclusive privilege by G. M. Tamás
- Our operaismo - Mario Tronti
- Pakistan: Revisiting the Baloch Resistance Movement with Asad Rahman
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- Permanent spring
- Peter Linebaugh on Perry Anderson’s histmat
- Posters for Historical Materialism Conference Delhi, 3-5 April 2013
- Praveen Swamy: The rapist in the mirror
- Professor Patnaik and the Aftermath of Nandigram
- Pulp Fiction from the Red Corridor
- Rastko Mocnik: Inside the identity state - Two types of fascist politics
- Reflections in the Aftermath of Nandigram - A CPI(M) Supporter
- Rethinking Secularism
- Sami Zubaida: Women, democracy and dictatorship
- Sartre and Terror
- Stooping to Conquer: The Indian Left avoids seeing caste as a political category
- The Brains of the Living: A discussion on political violence
- The crisis in Mali: Interview with Prof. Horace Campbell
- The European Left and Its Trouble With Jews
- The ironies of Indian Maoism
- The Kafkaesque reality of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws
- The Left and Political Islam
- The Left is in a Blind Alley
- The Left needs rethinking, not abject apologia
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- The Maoist insurgency in India: An interview with Jairus Banaji
- The Miracles of Mao - A bizarre anthology of devotional literature
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- Courting nuclear disaster?
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- Diverting the real issues
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- Environmental, labour & health groups denounce India-Canada Trade Agreement
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- India: CNDP Statement on the precarious situation in Koodankulam and apprehensions of police repression
- India: CNDP statement regarding developments pertaining to anti nuclear struggle in Koodankulam
- India: CNDP statement regarding the Govt of India announcement on an independent and autonomous Nuclear Regulatory Authority
- India: Contamination of land and water continues in Bhopal
- India: Don’t Impose The Koodankulam Reactors - Nuking protests mocks democracy
- India: Eminent citizens condemn the state suppression of democratic rights at Koodankulam, on the eve of Independence Day
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- India: Environmental Activists Sabotage Award to Vedanta Alumina Ltd
- India: Flunking Atomic Audits - CAG Reports and Nuclear Power
- India: From Rags to Penury
- India: Governments Conspiring Against Us? asks People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy
- India: Information request under Right to Information Act 2005 to Atomic Energy Regulatory Board
- India: Kalpakkam Nuclear Reactors and the Submarine Volcano
- India: KKNPP 3 & 4 Announcement - a Cruel Joke on Indians and Our Democracy
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- India: Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) Leaks and Repairs - More Questions and No Answers
- India: Koodankulam senior citizens’ letter to Japanese PM
- India: Kudankulam - the unsettled queries
- India: Letter to Hon’ble Prime Minister on Radioactive Contamination & Fate of Workers
- India: Letter to Ministry of Environment and Forests re serious anomalies in the EIA report for the Mithi Virdi Nuclear Power Plant
- India: Letter to PM & Mrs Gandhi on why white chrysotile asbestos is a hazardous substance
- India: Letter to the Prime Minister from the "Koodankulam Children"
- India: Low-level nuclear deception
- India: Mega Nuclear Power Plant Raises Fear of Fukushima Type Disaster in India
- India: Move To Scuttle Proper Assessment of the Environmental Risks
- India: NAAM Opposes the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill
- India: NAPM Press Release on the Granting of Environmental Clearance to POSCO Plant in Orissa
- India: Needed Financial Audit of Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project
- India: No clear reason in the Kudankulam judgment
- India: No power to the people
- India: NPCIL, AERB, and KKNPP Dodge the Substandard Equipment Issue
- India: Nuclear Power Corporation Sued at Delhi High Court
- India: On Industrial pollution in Vapi, Gujarat
- India: Peaceful Anti-nuke Protest near Kalpakkam Turned Nasty by TN Cops
- India: People want concrete safety measures at Koodankulam
- India: People who live on the burning Jharia coal fields in Jharkhand
- India: People’s power vs. nuclear power
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- India: Petition by Concerned Scientists Regarding Safety at Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant
- India: Petition to Atomic Energy Regulatory Board regarding Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project
- India: PMANE Calls for the Resignation of Sri. S. S. Bajaj and the Disbanding of AERB
- India: PMANE Condemns the Dinamalam Viewspaper for Anti-Christian Innuendos, Lies and Propaganda
- India: PMANE Expert Committee On Safety, Feasibility And Alternatives To Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP)
- India: PMANE Letter to Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project Employees
- India: PMANE welcomes talks with govt’s expert panel
- India: PMANE’s Letter to Rahul Gandhi
- India: PMANE’s Open Letter to the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
- India: Police violence on peaceful protesters in Koodankulam - An update (11 sept 2012, 10 am)
- India: Press Release - People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy - 10 February 2012
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- India: Set Up Enquiry into Koodankulam Scam - Letter to the PM from Admiral Ramdas
- India: Sexual intimidation of women activists in Tamil Nadu
- India: Shadow of Bhopal on the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010 (Nuclear Bill)
- India: Site Evaluation Report of Koodankulam Nulcear Power Plant - Analysis
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- India: Statement from Eminent Citizens on Harassment of Anti Nuclear Activists in Koodankulam
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- India: The march of folly
- India: Time for You to Move on, Mr. Narayanasamy!
- India: Towards a nuclear police state?
- India: Travesty of Justice, as US court absolves Union Carbide of Bhopal contamination
- India: UPA’s Second Great Nuclear Folly - Scrap Nuclear Liability Bill!
- India: Update on protest against Koodankulam nuclear plant - Day 7
- India: We must reclaim our city streets as social space
- India: Whose River is it Anyway? The Political Economy of Hydropower in the Eastern Himalayas
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- India’s Nuclear Neros
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- Letter to International Olympic Committee from Bhopal Victims
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- Misinformation campaign by the nuclear establishment: Citizen’s Statement on Koodankulam
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- National Consultation on Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Feb 25-26, 2012, New Delhi - Programme schedule
- No Dissent at the Corporate Barrons World Water Forum
- No margin for error
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- Nuclear option is not for future generations!
- Nuclear Power: An Open Letter to India’s Left Parties
- Nuclear power: in whose interest?
- Nuclear Power: Myths about low cost, safety and emission
- Online Petition : Protest to India’s Prime Minister against ‘The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2009’
- Online Petition Against the Petrochemical Hub near the Sunderban Biosphere Reserve
- Online Petition To Support Japanese Mothers Campaign To Stop the Burning of Fukushima Daiichi’s Radioactive Rubble
- Open Statement by CSOs from South Asia on IFC Policy and Performance Standards on Social and Environmental Sustainability
- Our Atom State
- Pakistan can’t handle Fukushima
- Pakistan Peace Coalition Press Release on Japanese Nuclear Plant Disaster and Lessons for Pakistan and South Asia
- Pakistan: Some learned from Fukushima. Did we?
- Peace Movement’s Submission to India’s Parliament on ’Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010’
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- People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy Expert Team’s Letter to Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
- Photos from Delhi protest on repression against anti nuclear activists 25 April 2011
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- Praful Bidwai: US Focus on China, India Emissions Burdens Global Poor
- Press release by PMANE - May 10 2012
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- Questions to Mr Narendra Modi regarding environmental degradation in the state of Gujarat
- Questions, Questions, No Answers (Part I)
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- Radioactive Cloud over Nuclear Renaissance: Prabir Purkayastha
- React on reactors
- Reading the Looming Ecological Crisis Politically
- Reject the Bribery Scheme on Koodankulam nuclear power project
- Report on Global day of action against multinational firm Vedanta in UK and India!
- Reseau Sortir du Nucleaire Condemns India’s Purchase of French Nuclear Reactors on 26th anniversary of Bhopal
- Rethink Nuclear - Shut Down the Reactors: A Letter to Pakistan’s Atomic Energy Commission by Citizen’s Groups
- Revoke the illegal clearance to the POSCO project
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- Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development: Sri Lankan Civil Society Organisations statement
- Securing the right to health for all in India - Binayak Sen
- Severe accident risk at India’s fast breeder nuclear reactor
- South Asia’s rivers must be seen as a sources for nourishing and uniting peoples, not dividing them!
- State repression of people’s agitation against Jaitapur nuclear project
- Stop dumping industrial waste in Keenjhar Lake - People’s Tribunal by the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum
- Stop Nuclear Energy Pursuit Demands Pakistan Peace Coalition, On First Anniversary of Fukushima
- Supreme Court Overturns High Court Order re Bhopal Gas Disaster Settlement (1989) Claims
- System change - not climate change : Copenhagen People’s Declaration (Klimaforum09)
- Tamil Nadu Authorities Mislead, Confuse and Harass the Local People Resisting Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant
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- The 1984 Bhopal accident: Consequence of life-price difference in two low life-value countries
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- The Politics of Dams: Curbs on Rivers and People
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- Those Thirty Five Conditions
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- What Bhopal Started: From Union Carbide to Exxon to BP
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- India: The age of the aam crorepati
- India: The Art and Science of Lying, Cheating and Hiding
- India: The continuing tragedy of the adivasis
- India: The Mongolian Fringe
- India: The National Public Meeting on Software Patents
- India: The Nirbhaya rape and ‘bare branches’
- India: The poverty trap
- India: The quiet grip of caste
- India: The Reservation Imbroglio
- India: The Trend of Appointing Former Spooks as Governors
- India: The ugly truth - Kancha Ilaiah’s Open letter to Ashis Nandy
- India: Undermining equal opportunities to all citizens
- India: Unnithan Episode and the Moralistic Mobocracy in Kerala
- India: We are caught between extremes of traditional and western perspectives on women
- India: Why is Delhi’s Univiversity Introducing the Four year Degree course at such reckless speed ?
- India: Why the court disbanded Chhattisgarh’s SPOs
- India: Why we are withdrawing as counsels of Afzal Guru’s family - Press Statement
- Indo French Nuclear Accord is irresponsible and aggravates nuclear proliferation
- Inge Fryklund: Afghan poll cash goes to waste
- International civil society letter to US Congress on Internet and telecommunications surveillance
- Internet and 2007 Protests in Burma
- interview in Down to Earth with Ashish Kothari and Aseem Shrivastava
- Interview with Pervez Hoodbhoy: On elections, extremism and science
- Invading the Secular Space in India
- Ironically, most of the ammunition for Jamaat’s ’propaganda’ is given by the Bangladesh government
- Is solidarity with the Gazans same as solidarity with Hamas?
- Is South-South Economic Interaction Any Better for Poor Countries?
- Islamabad’s Margala Towers Tragedy
- Islamic extremism in the Maldives: alive and killing
- Israel’s devastating attack on Gaza
- It is Darwin Time: Will We Accept It?
- It is the Swatis today, tomorrow it could be your turn
- It’s Not Class Struggle in Swat
- Jaitapur, no thank you! A French parliamentarian speaks
- Jama’at-e-Islami in Pakistan & Bangladesh
- Jamia Teachers Condemn Communal Witch Hunt and Demand Independent Impartial Enquiry
- Jan Lokpal: an alternative view
- Japan: Report by Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission of Diet (NAIIC)
- Javed Jahangir: Silence speaks volumes
- Jeremy Seabrook: Celibacy in an intensively sexualised world is a curious anomaly
- Jinnah Institute’s Report on the Status of Religious Minorities in Pakistan
- Judiciary – Need For Introspection
- Karachi: private militias and arms smuggling
- Karima Bennoune: 40 days after Boston bombing: we must stop radical jihad
- Karima Bennoune: The Taliban of Timbuktu
- Kashmir’s Fruits of Discord
- Kathmandu Declaration, South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE) 4th General Assembly, 18-19 December 2012
- Kathmandu to Peshawar Beetle fund-drive
- Khushi Kabir: How our generation sees Shahbagh
- Killing Bombay
- Kuldip Nayar on India’s media moguls - the Jain Brothers and contract journalists
- Lalon and Terror
- Land, Class and Ethnicity in Post-War Sri Lanka
- Language Rights in Sri Lanka
- Let us become — proudly — bayghairat
- Letter from a Doctor to the Indian Medical Association Not to Endorse Pepsi food products
- Letter from Karachi - The Mehran Man
- Lettre de Suja Jones à la Commission de l’ONU sur le statut des femmes
- Lila Azam Zanganeh interviews Amitav Ghosh - Guernica, May 2011
- Limitless violence and Pakistan’s future
- Lokpal Bill 2010 – A Farce on Public
- M F Hussain at 94: Artists Tributes and an Exibit by Sahmat in Delhi
- M. B. Naqvi’s Book ’Pakistan at Knife’s Edge’ Released
- Madhavan Palat’s Essay on Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Mahatma Gandhi and India’s National Independence Movement
- Mahendran Thiruvarangan: Remembering The Martyrs And Traitors [in Sri Lanka]
- Make labouring poor the center of economic policy
- Maldives: Horror in paradise - a 15-year-old rape survivor has been sentenced to be whipped 100 times in public!
- Maldives: public flogging for a 16-year-old girl for pre-marital sex
- Malnourishment has become too big an issue to be ignored in Pakistan
- Manmohanites, Maoists and Mahatmaists
- Manto, on murder
- Media Freedom in Sri Lanka Curtailed Via Proposed Code of Ethics by GoSL
- Meet the World’s Largest Weapons Importer
- Meeto Memorial Award for Young South Asians
- Memorandum to India’s Prime Minister on the eve of his upcoming visit to Burma
- Mending the Food Security Act
- Mes Aynak: Afghanistan’s Buddhist buried treasure faces destruction
- Mihir Srivastava: How Big Business Gets Its Way in India
- Modi as Pakistan’s candidate
- Mohsin Hamid: To Fight India, We Fought Ourselves
- Monks, military and Myanmar – a Pakistani’s déjà vu
- Moral policing in Mumbai
- Morality Militias At Your Doorstep
- More than Exam Trouble at Delhi University: A Statement
- Mubarak Ho ! Kudos to the Egyptian uprising 2011
- Mumbai 2008, India’s 9/11?
- Mumbai is Not India’s 9/11
- Mumbai massacres may be a harbinger of more violence to come
- Mumbai terror attacks and India’s response
- Mumbaivoices.com : Testimonies and Response
- Murder of a Tamil child
- Music Video: Bombay - City of Gold - the city that never sleeps, the city that never speaks
- Myths about Urdu
- Nano in Gujarat: Make Believe Stature of Modi
- NAPM on one year of Delhi High Court Judgement on Section 377
- NAPM Statement On Mumbai Terror Attack
- National Food Security Act: Universalisation vs targeted approach
- National ID Cards: In the Interest of Surveillance?
- Nationalise, Dont Bailout Fraud and Crisis Ridden Private Firms
- Nationalistic fury is good for the government, terrible for Sri Lanka
- NATO’s bombing of civilian targets in Libya is illegal
- Nawal El-Saadawi: "50 Pounds and a Chicken to Beat Us"
- Nazes Afroz: Afghanistan after 2014
- Nepal and the Prachanda Path
- Nepal’s victims of ignorance
- Nepal: Prachanda’s Talk at the New School
- Nepal: Shrinking space for compromise; India should’nt flame tensions
- Nepal: The peace process must be allowed to work to its logical end of full democracy
- Nepal’s Turbulent Year of Transition
- New truths, or biases on Bangladesh’s war of liberation
- Nilanjana S. Roy: "Stopping rape" isn’t possible unless we change the way we tackle and think about ordinary violence
- Ninjas: Photo commentary by Q. Isa Daudpota
- Nirupama’s Murder: The Violence of India’s High-Born
- No Spring for Arab Women: Interview with Marieme Helie Lucas
- No to impunity for crimes of non-State actors
- No to vigil-aunties: thousands protest media’s moral policing in Pakistan
- Norwegian Television’s big lie
- Obama’s Indian
- On Democracy and Democratisation in Pakistan
- On Social Movements: An Interview with Smitu Kothari
- On the borders of two Bengals
- On the Road to Attractive Authoritarianism
- One hundred years of Manto
- Online Petition to India’s National Public Television Doordarshan: Save Indie Cinema
- Open Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
- Overruling democracy
- Paid News: How corruption in the Indian media undermines democracy
- Pakistan and elsewhere: Dismantling the myths about fundamentalism(s)
- Pakistan and the lucrative research industry that became ’Islam Inc.’ after 9/11
- Pakistan Election 2013 - Nomination form binds intellectual freedom
- Pakistan elections: how Nawaz Sharif beat Imran Khan and what happens next
- Pakistan Hunting down Shias: Society’s deafening silence
- Pakistan is a difficult state for religious minorities: interview with Asma Jahangir
- Pakistan Lawyers’ Movement: A critical view
- Pakistan media needs for a code of professional ethics
- Pakistan Peace Coalition Concerned at Growing Violence Against People by Taliban and allies in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
- Pakistan Peace Coalition demands free trade among all SAARC countries according to commitments
- Pakistan Social Forum 2009 - Karachi, 7 February 2009
- Pakistan state must provide education for all demand’s citizen’s lawsuit
- Pakistan Supreme Court’s order puts question mark on democracy: A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission
- Pakistan threats: ’Shut up or be shot’ : A BBC video interview
- Pakistan will have to undo the Maududian infiltration of its state and society
- Pakistan’s Universities - From Boom To Bust
- Pakistan’s Universities: The New War Within
- Pakistan’s utter failure to deal with extremist attacks against religious minorities and aid workers
- Pakistan’s war on polio workers
- Pakistan: School Network of Religious Right now Expanding into English Medium
- Pakistan: a country obsessed with black magic
- Pakistan: activists of the youth wing of Jamaat-e-Islami strike terror at Punjab university - statement by HRCP
- Pakistan: Against all odds - A new left?
- Pakistan: Apprehensions regarding electoral process - concerned citizens statement
- Pakistan: Ban the ban on Basant
- Pakistan: Banning a textbook — the Punjab government panics
- Pakistan: Can It Get Worse? Yes!
- Pakistan: Can religious extremism be countered with out secular alternatives ?
- Pakistan: Caught in a vortex
- Pakistan: Citizens groups urge state institutions to respect the democratic process
- Pakistan: Citizens Letter / Petition Seeking Separation of Religion and State
- Pakistan: Citizens Petition To Separate Religion from the State
- Pakistan: Civil society groups condemn target killing of Parveen Rehman, calls for urgent action by the state to protect citizens
- Pakistan: Concessions to religious extremists defies all logic
- Pakistan: Culture, Corruption and the Hereafter
- Pakistan: Democracy under attack
- Pakistan: Democratic resilience
- Pakistan: Education Fights Militants and Military (Ashfaq Yusufzai)
- Pakistan: Endless stream of targetted killings of Hazara Shias - editorials in Pakistan press
- Pakistan: Eradicating ‘impurities’ - focus on the Hazaras
- Pakistan: Exit God, enter madness
- Pakistan: Fascists at the doorstep
- Pakistan: Forked tongues of the holy armies
- Pakistan: If talks could kill
- Pakistan: If we dont fight back the Taliban today, we may not even live to regret it
- Pakistan: If we persist with fire-fighting, the fire will only spread further
- Pakistan: Is a reversal possible?
- Pakistan: Is the Punjab Govt. Buying Votes with Shia blood
- Pakistan: Lal Masjid - rewarding an insurrection
- Pakistan: Lal Masjid is Not The Only Threat
- Pakistan: Life of Afzal Khan Lala is under threat
- Pakistan: Message in the bullet
- Pakistan: Needed A United Front Against Talibanization
- Pakistan: Our ’America’ problem
- Pakistan: PDSN condemns attack on Christian village in Punjab and demand justice for victims
- Pakistan: PILER, PPC condemn terrorists attack on Malala Yousfzai, call for immediate arrest of culprits
- Pakistan: Punjab Govt Should Stop Official Patronage to Fundamentalist Outfits!
- Pakistan: Removal of elected PM sad day for democracy - HRCP Press release
- Pakistan: Rising Religious Influence in the Garrison
- Pakistan: Rule of the ’danda’
- Pakistan: Shatter the silence on the war in 1971
- Pakistan: Taliban’s opposition to the polio vaccination drive etc
- Pakistan: Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan’s Aafia Siddiqui Brigade
- Pakistan: The conspiracy to keep the majority disenfranchised
- Pakistan: The Exclusion of the Poor and The Unregulated Maulvi
- Pakistan: The Filthy Rich Election
- Pakistan: The missing democrats
- Pakistan: The nightmare must end
- Pakistan: The noose around our own necks is tightening
- Pakistan: The politics of anti-secular scholarship
- Pakistan: The Power of Intelligence Agencies
- Pakistan: The Qadri enigma, stunt & aftermath
- Pakistan: The Taliban’s new, more terrifying cousin
- Pakistan: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) threat and elections
- Pakistan: Triumph of Taliban in Swat Likely to Stimulate Other Bigots in the Region
- Pakistan: Unwelcome conversions
- Pakistan: When killers stalk the streets
- Pakistan: Who should the state talk to in FATA and what about ?
- Pakistan: Why Malala must live
- Pakistan: Why they killed Arif Shahid
- Pakistan’s religion problem
- Pakistani civil Society expresses solidarity with Quake-hit Japanese
- Pakistani’s Against Talibanisation: Citizen’s Letter to be sent to the President, PM, CJ and COAS
- Pakistanis Need to Reflect on the Elections in India
- Peace Mumbai condemn’s Salman Taseer’s killing
- Peddling a bygone culture and patriarchy as Islam
- Peddling Hate in the Name of Culture
- People vs the people
- Petition Against continuing violence in Swat and Taliban’s closure of girls’ schools
- Petition To Government of Pakistan To End Religious Violence
- Petition to: Stop the Carnage in Swat and FATA / Stop the Taliban from Ending Girls Education
- Philip Hensher: The war Bangladesh can never forget
- Photos of Delhi Protest Demo of 2 June 2010 Against Israeli Raid on The Gaza Freedom Flotilla
- Physician for Human Rights - India launched
- PILER condemns Prime Minister’s statement on nationalization of education in Pakistan
- Pilgrimage to nowhere: A year on from Benazir Bhutto’s assassination
- Plea for a Secular Education Policy in Bangladesh
- Please don’t call it a revolution
- Political Decay and Ethnocentrism in Sri Lanka
- Private militias
- Progressive forces are under threat from extremists in Pakistan
- Protest, political terror and personal life
- Public Pays for Fukushima While Nuclear Industry Profits
- Quake Survivors Await Relief in Pakistan
- Rajani Thiranagama’s Vision for Sri Lanka
- Ranjit Hoskote : The dangers of a movement
- Rape a crime of bodily integrity and consent
- Rationalising jihadi discourse
- Real Security Should Accompany Real Justice
- Recycling violence & unrest in Kashmir
- Reflections on violence and non-violence in political movements in India
- Refutation of Invented Claims Regarding Indus Script
- Religious fanaticism is eating the roots of the country
- Religious militants have fiercely turned upon their former tutors from the Pakistani Army
- Religious Right Rules the Roost At Top University in Pakistan
- Repeal 1st amendment to [Bangladesh] constitution for fair ICT trials: HRW
- Rethinking Development
- Rewinding tapes
- Right to Food Campaign’s reaction to the statement by India’s Prime Minister on food, courts and policy
- Ritwik Agrawal: Mannequin Lingerie Ban in Mumbai – It’s about controlling women, not men
- Run for your life
- Russian parliament passes a religious offense law
- Sana Haroon: The Taliban movement in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
- Sarmila Bose: Myth-busting the Bangladesh war of 1971
- Saudiisation of Pakistan where all discourse seems increasingly legitimised only through religious inferences
- Scrutiny of Finances And Working of Armed Forces Needed in Pakistan: Statement by Joint Action Committee (JAC)
- Sectarian Socialism: The Politics of Sri Lanka’s Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)
- Secularism is the key to peace and security for all in Pakistan and South Asia
- Self-Reflection Fast: How should India Behave With Its Tribal Population
- Shahbag or Badami Bagh
- Shahbag Square — why we Pakistanis don’t know and don’t care
- Shahbagh no imperialist conspiracy, Mr Umari
- Shame, not honour
- Sharing the same difference
- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: Inside a school for suicide bombers
- Shining India/Mumbai: Through the Prism of Slumdog Millionaire
- Sign of things to come in Afghanistan
- Silencing the Moderate Voice in Balochistan
- Slumdog Millionaire uses poverty as a prop
- Solidarity Statement from the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance to the people of India
- Solution to Tamil issues lies in strengthening the peace process in Sri Lanka
- Some Reminiscences of India and the CPI
- Some Thoughts on Developments in Nepal
- South Africa: Call for Papers for Yusuf Dadoo Conference
- South Africa: The Strike Wave and New Workers’ Organisations - Breaking out of Old Compromises
- Spectacle As Reality
- Spotlighting Lankan Tamils
- Sri Lanka Supreme Court’s ruling on constitutional status of Courts Martial will weaken independence of the judiciary
- Sri Lanka: 22nd Anniversary of Northern Muslim Expulsion by LTTE
- Sri Lanka: A monk leads mob violence at Maligawatta with the connivance of the police
- Sri Lanka: An appeal to the Tamil Community and its civil and political representatives
- Sri Lanka: CHRI and SLC Statement on the Impeachment of the Chief Justice
- Sri Lanka: controversial ’sacred areas’ Bill - The Town and Country Planning (Amendment) withdrawn
- Sri Lanka: Government organizes protests to distract from economic crisis
- Sri Lanka: Landmark Supreme Court Judgment Upholds Journalist’s Ownership of his Photographs
- Sri Lanka: Militarization as a way of life: an ‘Orwellian’ note from Kilinochchi
- Sri Lanka: New Farmland Grab
- Sri Lanka: Privatisation of education for the rich - What’s next to sell?
- Sri Lanka: Reviving The Left? Frontline Socialist Party Launched
- Sri Lanka: Shameful stifling of freedom of expression
- Sri Lanka: Sinhala Ultranationalists Threaten Progressive Think Tank
- Sri Lanka: Stock Market Crisis and Oligarchic Interests
- Sri Lanka: The ’Old Left’ writing itself out of contention
- Sri Lanka: The Budget, Populist Politics and the Neoliberal Economy
- Sri Lanka: The final nail in the coffin of the judiciary
- Sri Lanka: The Military Expansion into Education
- Sri Lanka: The Price of Truth-Telling, The Price of Lying . . .
- Sri Lanka: What are ‘anti-national’ criticisms exactly?
- Sri Lanka: Women paid a heavy price in the civil war - A documentary report on Al Jazeera
- Stand firm and united in support of democracy: statement by civil society groups in Pakistan
- Stand up in solidarity with Pakistanis fighting repressive blasphemy laws
- State of the Urdu Press in India
- Statement Against Deportation of David Barsamian by Government of India
- Statement by Jamia Teachers Forum
- Statement by Lawrence Lifschultz to Bangladesh Court on the 1976 Military Execution of Colonel Abu Taher
- Statement by Pakistani civil society organisations and individual human rights and peace activists on Human Rights violation in Myanmar
- Statement of Pakistani Progressives in Solidarity with Victims of Forced Conversion and Against Sunni Tehreek’s attack on Sindh Progressive Committee’s Rally
- Statements by Disarmament Groups Condemn the Third Nuclear Test by North Korea
- Status Quo Likely to Prevail in Pakistan After Osama
- Stemming the Rot
- Stewart Motha: Australia is playing a dangerous game with Sri Lanka
- Stop Big Business From Funding Political Parties in India
- Stop the violence and listen to the people in Turkey: Statements by feminist groups part of the Taksim Gezi park resistance movement
- Strange Love
- Strengths and Pitfalls of Constitutional Reforms in Pakistan
- Struggling to enter the BPL club
- Sunila Abeysekera from Sri Lanka to receive Nirmala Deshpande South Asian Peace and Justice Award
- Surviving on the Faultline: 3 years after the earthquake . . .realities of people’s lives
- Take Secularism Route To Free Bangladesh from Extremism
- Take the crisis head-on: reshape Pakistan’s economic policy
- Taking back Pakistan
- Taliban and the government of Pakistan compete with each other in marketing their respective brands of Islam
- Tamil Nadu, Our Free-Land! [1]
- Taymiya R. Zaman: Not Talking About Pakistan
- Ten myths about Pakistan
- Text of Pakistan Supreme Court order taking Suo Motu action regarding law and order situation in Karachi
- Text of Pakistan Supreme Court Ruling against amnesty under the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO)
- Text of Statement by Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Against CEDAW
- The Accidental Historian
- The answer’s blowing in the wind
- The BJP Dreamland
- The bribing game
- The cash mantra
- The Challenge of Fundamentalism and Imperialism
- The crisis of institutions in Pakistan
- The Currency of Sentiment: An Essay on Informal Accumulation in Colonial India
- The dead two nation theory remains an obsession for some
- The embrace of insanity
- The Emergency in India: Now, which is which?
- The Ethics of Alliance and Solidarity: An Exchange Between Rafia Zakaria and Meredith Tax
- The fabulous myths, tales and histories of Mumbai
- The Girl Who Changed Pakistan: Malala Yousafzai
- The gravity of the challenge in Pakistan
- The holy writ
- The Hurriyat must unite for Azadi in Kashmir
- The idea of Dev Anand
- The India Lobby in America’s Corridors of Power
- The India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement - Ten Years On
- The Lancet: Trends in selective abortions of girls in India
- The Limits of Shock And Awe: Nandy, Dalits & corruption
- The Lonely Battle [of Activists]
- The Millions and the Foolish Few: A speech delivered by Gita Sahgal
- The Mothers of The Lashkar
- The Mumbai Terror Attacks: Need For A Thorough Investigation
- The Muslim Brotherhood has shown its contempt for Egypt’s women
- The Pakhtun, the Taliban and ignorant outsiders
- The Pakistan Supreme Court "has flouted all canons of Constitutional Jurisprudence" - Justice Markandey Katju
- The party’s over
- The Politics of Deal Making With the Taliban in Swat
- The Politics of Independence in Bangladesh - David Ludden
- The Production of Difference
- The Russians in Afghanistan
- The Saudi-isation of a once-vibrant Pakistani culture
- The seeds of authoritarianism
- The Seer of Pakistan
- The Story Behind The Common High Court For Punjab & Haryana
- The superbug meets the suprabug of Indian polity — jingoism
- The Swat Offensive in Pakistan
- The Talibanisation of Society in Pakistan
- The three big problems of India’s biggest minority
- The Water Car Fraud
- These self styled economists
- They Bid To Keep India Locked in the Past
- Time to answer vital questions on November 2008 attack on Bombay
- Tired of Democracy?
- To insurgents at Shahbag Sq. : Create the world you want But not with blood on your hands
- To market with terrorism
- To Say No to Indo US Nuclear Deals
- Too little, too late
- Towards a Secular Nepal
- Towards an Informed Pre-Legislative Debate on the Lokpal Bill
- Triangular Phenomenon in India
- Truth Behind The Killing of Dany Pearl - A detailed investigation
- Two wings and a prayer
- UK: East London community leader on war crimes charge in Bangladesh
- UK: Rise in the market for fatwas and book burning and decline of secular space
- UK: Whose Archive? Whose History? Destruction of Archives at Ruskin College, Oxford
- University Community for Democracy Challenges Eviction of Students
- Uphold the parliament’s authority in Pakistan
- Upsurge of Hate That Could Sweep Away Liberal Pakistan - No Choice But to Resist
- Use and Abuse of Gandhi
- Victor Kiernan: A Tribute
- Videos : National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) on the Lokpal Bill
- Violence and its victims
- Violence has no borders
- Walking hand in hand into the smog of mistrust
- Was 26/11 related to Bombay or India?
- We have failed Gandhi: Fascist communal forces gaining ground
- We wish to inform you: A history of censorship in Bangladesh (1972-2012)
- What about “Never again”?
- What do school books in Bangladesh and Pakistan say about 1971 war ?
- What should minorities do
- Whither Pakistan?
- Who are India’s real traitors?
- Who does Anna Hazare speak for?
- Who is a civil society member?
- Who needs moral policing, how much and why?
- Who rules Pakistan?
- Why do they pick on us Pakistanis?
- Why Faisal Shahzad Bombed Times Square?
- Why Pakistan chose to honor Charlie Wilson is beyond everyone, even the Texans
- Why Sir Syed loses and Allama Iqbal wins in Pakistan
- Why the Story of Bhagat Singh Remains on the Margins?
- Wiki Rebels: The documentary [on Swedish television]
- With the blinds drawn in Delhi University
- Writ Petition in Supreme Court of Pakistan for Nationalization of Sugar Mills
- Zionism, exterminism, and the Times of India
News items
Web sites
- A Lokpal for India
- ALAL O DULAL
- Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal
- Bole Gujarat
- dastangoi
- Dilnaz Boga’s Blog on New Internationalist
- Dionne Bunsha
- Dudes Against Dowry
- Faiz Ghar
- Hyderabad Urban Lab
- Infochange India RSS Feeds
- International South Asia Forum Bulletin
- Journeys to Democracy
- newsclick
- Other India
- Praful Bidwai
- PurushottamAgrawal.com
- SATYAM BRUYAT - Justice Katju
- Science and Rationalists’ Association of India
- South Asia Counter Information Project 2
- The Sri Lankan Republic at 40
History Writing at Risk
Articles
- Can’t change history? Rewrite it
- Caught in historical cliches
- Delhi University Stands up for Academic Freedom: Images of protest on 24 October 2011
- Denying generations their history
- First A K Ramanujan lecture and seminar announced for 21 March 2012
- Hindutva Fundamentalists Loose California Textbook Court Case: Text of Summary Judgment (February 25, 2009)
- Hindutvadis Lose California Textbook Fight . . . Again
- Historians protest as Delhi university drops A. K. Ramanujan’s essay on Ramayana from history syllabus
- Ideology clashing with history
- India: Hindutva and history - Why do Hindutva ideologues keep flogging a dead horse?
- India: The richness of the Ramayana, the poverty of a University
- India: Three hundred Ramayanas - Delhi University and the purging of Ramanujan
- India: While the BJP runs Karnataka they tinge history textbooks with Hindutva ideology
- Interpreting the past: A conversation with Prof. Romila Thapar
- Protest Letter to Vice Chancellor of Delhi University - 4000 intellectuals against removal of A K Ramanujan’s essay ’Three Hundred Ramayanas’ from courses of Delhi University
- Romila Thapar: Don’t impose religious beliefs onto history
- Romila Thapar: History and Contemporary Politics in India
- Romila Thapar: Katz Lecture 2005
- The Battle Over Ramayana in Delhi University History Course
- The closing of our minds
- The History Debate and School Textbooks in India: a Personal Memoir
- University Culture and The Three Hundred Ramayanas controversy
- When a Department let the University down
Web sites
Human Rights
Articles
- A Whole Series of Staged Killings in Orissa
- "My prosecution is malafide; in fact it is a persecution" : Final statement of Dr. Binayak Sen
- "Scrap The Law on Sedition and Release Dr Binayak Sen" Statement by Artists in Delhi
- ’Encounter Killings’ and the Question of Justice in India
- ’Encounter’ at Batla House: Unanswered Questions
- ’India Must Prosecute Those Responsible for 1984 Massacre of Sikhs’ - asks Human Rights Watch
- A conscience encountered
- A Flood of Draconian Laws in India’s North East
- A Letter from Nagpur Central Jail
- A Letter to the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir re the Arrest of Five Right to Information Activists
- A Memorandum to Governer of Gujarat submitted by rights activists
- A Singer’s Tribute To Dr. Binayak Sen
- A Statement by Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (22 July 2009)
- A statement by Mohammad Afzal Guru: Press release by Human rights lawyer N. D. Pancholi
- About the people who wrote the universal declaration of human rights
- Abuses Against Civilians in areas under LTTE control
- ACHR Report on Detention, Torture and Execution of Children in India’s conflict zones
- Act now for the enactment of a law on ’Honour’ Killings
- Actors and poets protest imprisonment of Dr Binayak Sen - Photos from New Delhi
- Acts of Terror and Terrorising Act: Unfolding Indian Tragedy
- Afghan women activists may be sidelined at a key international conference on Afghanistan
- Afghanistan: Attacks on humanitarian workers must end - Statement by Amnesty International
- Afghanistan: Don’t Prosecute Sexually Assaulted Children - Human Rights Watch
- AFSPA Must Be Repealed ! The 10 Years Hunger Strike of Irom Sharmila’s Must End Now!
- AFSPA: Who Rules India?
- Against evictions and arrests of protestors in Kolkata - Joint Statement from Delhi organisations
- American socialist feminist Angela Davis extends a warm hand of solidarity to Free Binayak Sen Campaign
- An idea whose time has come - Editorial in Daily Times
- An open appeal to the UN HRC regarding the Universal Periodic Review in November, 2012 on Sri Lanka
- An open letter to Obama & McCain
- And then there was no one left to speak out for me
- ANHAD Statement on the recent killings of civilians in Jammu and Kashmir
- Appeal for the Release of Pakistani Human Rights Activist, Tariq Mehmood
- Arundhati Roy: Introspect before calling for sweeping anti terror laws
- As the Fires Die: The Terror of the Aftermath
- Aung San Suu Kyi - BBC Reith Lecture 2011
- Authorities in India should avoid excessive use of force, investigate killings in Kashmir valley
- “Citizens for Democracy” alliance to amend the blasphemy laws in Pakistan
- Bangladesh 1971: A genocide and refugees - Ripples in the pond
- Bangladesh and human rights: An interview with Sultana Kamal
- Bangladesh: Alarm over the proposed Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill 2011
- Bangladesh: Attacks on journalists rise with tension around war crimes tribunal - Amnesty International
- Bangladesh: CHT Commission seeks investigation into arson attack on Jumma village in Sajek
- Bangladesh: Concerned citizens seek probe into custodial deaths of BDR men
- Bangladesh: Emergency Treatment
- Bangladesh: Human Rights Watch Report On BDR Trials - Custodial deaths, torture and unfair trial?
- Bangladesh: Indigenous Peoples engulfed in Chittagong Hill Tracts land conflict - say Amnesty
- Bangladesh: Unfinished Justice for the crimes of 1971
- Bangladesh: War Crimes, Justice and the Politics of Memory
- Bangladesh: Wave of violent attacks against Hindu minority - Press release by Amnesty International
- Bangladesh: Whose Ekushey, Whose Blood?
- Bangladesh: Why the ban on men and women sitting together near a city lake
- Bangles of thorn
- Bhutan: Democracy with a rider - Press release Human Rights Organization of Bhutan (HUROB)
- Binayak Sen Case - Farcical move to undermine the legal process
- Binayak Sen Case - India’s L’affaire Dreyfus
- Blaming the Messenger: Kashmir’s media under pressure
- Blasphemy in Pakistan: time to repeal a flawed law
- Bloodstains will remain
- Book Review: The Curious Case of Binayak Sen
- Breaking the mistrust in Chhattisgarh
- Burma: Lest we don’t see, a genocide is in the making
- Call For Judicial Probe into the Batla House ’Encounter’ Now!
- Call for Repeal of Blasphemy Law in Pakistan
- Calling for a judicial enquiry into the Batla House encounter is a not a travesty
- Callous Handling of Refugees and Migrants by India
- Calls for a Citizens’ March to Parliament for Judicial Enquiry into Jamia Nagar Encounter
- Challenging Police Use of Pseudo Scientific Technologies in India: Selected Resources
- Citizen’s statement against terrorism and communal violence in India
- Citizens and friends of Pakistan express concern for Pakistan democratic process, safety of human rights defenders
- Citizens Appeal on Kashmir (9 July, 2010)
- Citizens resistance to sectarian hatred in Gujarat in India
- Citizenship and contested identity - A case study from Bangladesh
- Collar those cowboys
- Concern about Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission - HRW release
- Concern at Orissa Govt Setting up a ’Sulwa Judam’ Type Militia
- Concerned Citizens Letter To India’s Prime Minister Regarding the Situation in Sri Lanka
- Continuation of enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka
- Courage Craft and Contention: Human Rights and the Judicial Imagination
- Court battle against use of "state armed mercenaries" in Chhatissgarh
- CPJC Statement on NHRC Report on Salwa Judum
- Crew members of ship stranded in India for over five months - Appeal from Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
- Crime-cum-sin in Kashmir : Will human rights defenders protest ?
- Cruelty let loose in Kashmir unlikely to subdue popular resistance
- Culture of impunity in Kashmir
- Curb fresh wave of violence against religious minorities in Pakistan
- Dark Times for Human Rights With Amnesty International Getting into Bed With the Jihadis
- Dead Hence Guilty ?
- Defamation of Religions Versus Human Rights : A Civil Society Letter to 16th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
- Delhi ’encounter’ raises tough questions
- Demand accountability from Sri Lanka
- Democratic Rights at Home and Abroad: The Case of India
- Democrats to the rescue of Binayak Sen
- Does the war on terror legitimise violating the due processes of law in India?
- Dont Stiffle Democratic Dissent in Orissa !
- Dr Sen’s case has put Indian democracy on trial. Will it prove itself or fail?
- Draconian laws are no answer
- Eminent Citizens and Groups Open Letter To The The Supreme Court of India Seeking Justice For Soni Sori
- End the use of children in the conflict in Chhattisgarh state
- Equality before the law?
- EU-India summit 2008: Amnesty International’s Letter to Sarkozy
- Excerpts from the UTHR(J) Special Report on Third Anniversary of the ACF Massacre in Sri Lanka
- Fact finding report on Shahbaz accused in Jaipur Bomb blasts
- Fake Encounters in Kashmir: Dangerous for the Integrity of the Country
- Fear for Safety of Human Rights Activist in Uttar Pradesh
- Filmmakers and writers letter to India’ Prime Minister regarding injustice being done to Dr Binayak Sen
- Filthy business
- Findings of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on the Crisis in Balochistan
- Flogging of women is a serious blot on Maldives
- Forced Evictions Due to 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi
- Freedom House report on The Impact of Blasphemy Laws on Human Rights
- Freny Manecksha on why securing justice in Kashmir has become impossible
- Full Text of India’s Supreme Court plea to Pakistan to release Indian prisoners languishing in various jails there to foster friendship between the two countries
- Geoffrey Robertson: Justice crushed in Sri Lanka
- Guilt by Association
- Gujarat: CJP welcomes supreme court order handing over the investigation and appraisal of the evidence to the amicus curaie
- How much longer will the State fight against its own citizens, inside and outside court?
- How not to fight Maoism
- HRCP seeks abolition of death penalty, moratorium on executions
- Human Rights and Humanitarian Issues in Northern Sri Lanka
- Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s outrage at minorities’ flight
- Human rights in Kashmir: Use and Abuse of the Article 370
- Human rights in South Asia and the functions of SAARC
- Human Rights Watch Letter to the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
- Human Rights Watch report on Counter Terrorism and Human Rights Abuse in India
- Human Rights Watch Report on Police Brutality and Abuse in India
- Hundreds march to demand Judicial Enquiry into the Batla House ’Encounter’
- ICJ report on ’The Crisis of Impunity in Sri Lanka’
- Illegal and outrageous: Gautam Navlakha’s arrest, debarring his entry [into Kashmir]
- Illegal Detentions and Torture Continue in Gujarat
- Implement The Supreme Court Order on Salwa Judum and SPOs
- In Mayaland, human rights activists are targets of anti terrorism agencies
- Independent commission should probe the allegations of human rights violations in Kashmir
- Independent Report on Mass Graves in Indian-administered Kashmir
- India - Chhattisgarh: Return these girls to us, Mr Raman Singh
- India - Kashmir : Time to face the ugly truth
- India Administered Kashmir: Shopian Cover Up - Investigating agencies stand exposed
- India citizens voices in solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka
- India Must Ensure A Fair Trial To Qasab
- India should steer clear from blood diamonds
- India’s AFSPA: Emergency lite?
- India/Bangladesh: Indiscriminate Killings, Abuse by Border Officers
- India: PUDR questions secretive hanging of Afzal Guru - Press Release
- India: The Narayanpatna Police Firing on Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangha in Orissa - A Citizens Report
- India: "Replace 26/11 Trial Judge" - Press Release from International Association of People’s Lawyers
- India: ’Adivasis need speedy and impartial justice’ - An open letter
- India: ’Encounters’ as Murders
- India: A Citzens Fact Finding Report on the Demolition of Vanvasi Chetna Ashram, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh
- India: A Tale of Two Encounters - Dehradun and Batla House
- India: Act with restraint during elections in Jammu & Kashmir
- India: Afzal Guru’s Petition in Supreme Court For Transfer To Srinagar Jail
- India: AIDWA report on the Bhatta-Parsaul Firing
- India: Amnesty International seeks urgent action on unmarked graves of disappeared persons in Jammu and Kashmir
- India: An Open Letter to Hon’ble Prime Minister re Ishrat Jahan’s killing in Gujarat
- India: Appeal to Parliament to Abolish Death Penalty
- India: Appointments to rights bodies - Why ex-police officers aren’t fit for the job
- India: Attacks on Schools by Maoists and Occupation of Educational Facilities by Government Security Forces
- India: “Is it a crime to work in a democratic and peaceful way for the empowerment and development of Adivasis”?
- India: Binayak Sen’s Continued Incarceration is Meant to Silence Dissent
- India: Brutal Attack by Bihar Police on Primary Teachers Peaceful Demonstration
- India: Call for Action in Support of Irom sharmila
- India: Call for Nationwide Protest Repeal AFSPA, Free Sharmila
- India: Capital Punishment An Agenda for Abolition - Shahid Azimi Memorial Lecture
- India: Caste Panchayats Getting Away With Murder
- India: Choking foreign funds of NGOs to suppress dissent
- India: Citizen’s groups statement against police firing on protestors in Jaitapur, Maharashtra
- India: Citizens Statement of Protest and Demand for withdrawal of Gallantry award to SRP Kalluri
- India: Citizens’ Statement on the arrest of Journalist Kazmi
- India: Compel government to implement police reforms ordered by Supreme Court
- India: Concerned Citizens Statement on Maoist attack on police camp in West Bengal
- India: Concerned citizens statement on Niyamat Ansari’s killing and the "apology" by Maoists
- India: Concerned Citizens Statement on the Execution of Afzal Guru
- India: Concerned Citizens Statement on the NHRC report on the alleged encounter at Batla house
- India: Counter-terrorism must not kill democracy
- India: Criticism and Opposition Being Stifled - Baseless allegations against legitimate democratic rights organisations
- India: Deadly Ambush by Maoists in Chhattisgarh - Statements in response from social movements and human rights fora and by concerned citizens
- India: Dirty Tricks of Special Cell of Delhi Police Revealed
- India: Documentary film on Basaguda killings by paramilitary forces in Chhattisgarh
- India: Does freedom of speech, guaranteed by Article 19(1) (a), exist in Maharashtra | Arbitrary Arrests for Comment on Bal Thackeray’s Death
- India: Dr Binayak Sen Under Threat from Chhattisgarh Police
- India: Dr Binayak Sen’s conviction and life sentence mock justice
- India: End Intimidation of Peaceful Protesters at Nuclear Site - Human Rights Watch
- India: End Manipur Killings Repeal Law That Gives the Military License for Violence
- India: Facts about the arrest and mistreatment of Kobad Ghandy
- India: Gallantry Award For Sexual Violence
- India: Growing threats to human rights activists on eve of protest march and public hearing in Chhattisgarh
- India: Haryana Government witch hunt and negative profiling of the political activists
- India: Hunger Strikes in Solidarity with Soni Sori - Press Release
- India: If the Maoists care for the tribals and have any respect for human rights, they should release both Alex Paul Menon and Jhina Hikaka
- India: illegal arrests for Facebook message disapproving the coercive shutdown of Mumbai city - Statement by Communalism Combat and SAHMAT
- India: Ishrat Jahan case - A shootout and many smoking guns
- India: Jamia Teachers reiterate demand for a Judicial Probe into the Batla House ‘encounter’
- India: Kasab and His Trial
- India: Kazmi Solidarity Committee welcomes the SC order granting bail to Syed Kazmi
- India: Killings, Torture at Bangladeshi Border : A Human Rights Watch press release
- India: Let us Do Some Soul-search and Talk Again! - Press release by People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy
- India: Letter from Afzal Guru’s Lawyers to Director General of Prisons on behalf of Afzal’s family
- India: Malicious propaganda against the Lalagarh movement and the urban intellectuals who supported it
- India: Narmada Bachao Andolan Khandwa Office Sealed and all Key activists of NBA arrested
- India: National protest on 30 January against Binayak Sen’s incarceration and the law on sedition
- India: New anti-terror laws would violate international human rights standards
- India: No to Farcical Enquiries; Shame on the NHRC for its Partisanship
- India: No to Government Crackdown at Koodankulam - CNDP Statement
- India: Open Letter to the Ministry of Minority Affairs on the Equal Opportunities Commission
- India: Passage of Amendments to UAPA - Further erosion of Constitutional Rights
- India: Press Release of Independent Citizens Fact Finding Mission to Manipur
- India: Press release of national fact-finding visit to Govindapur and Dhinkia villages of Jagatsinghpur District Orissa on the 9th of March, 2013
- India: Press Statement by Committee for Release of Political Prisoners - 3 May 2013
- India: Price of Honour - Caste Panchayats as Instruments of Terror
- India: Produce Mr. Kobad Ghandy, Senior Maoist Leader Immediately Before The Court!
- India: Prominent human rights activist Gautam Navlakha denied entry in Kashmir
- India: PUCL chhattisgarh statement against the killings in Bijapur Chhattisgarh
- India: PUCL Press statement condemns violence against Kudanakulam nuclear power plant protestors
- India: PUCL Press Statement on Detention of Himanshu in Chhattisgarh
- India: PUCL Press Statement on the Arrest of Sri Dandapani Mohanty
- India: PUCL Statement on Hyderabad Bombings
- India: PUCL statement on Rejection of Clemency Petitions in Simons case
- India: PUCL Statement on the Hanging of Afzal Guru
- India: PUDR report on the attack on Dilip Simeon in 1982
- India: Release Abhay Sahoo and withdraw criminal cases against anti POSCO activists in Orissa demands PUCL
- India: Reports on the Ejipura Eviction in Bangalore
- India: Resolution by Citizens Campaign for the Repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act
- India: Saffron cheerleaders dance to a different terror tune
- India: Section 69 of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 Violates The Constitution
- India: Shocking case of illegal confinement by police of senior journalist - all round condemnation by media bodies
- India: Shopian - Case Watch of a Cover Up
- India: Slanderous accusations against People’s Union for Civil Liberties
- India: Social Boycott of Dalits in Madhya Pradesh - Uncivil Society, Apathetic Administration
- India: Some Thoughts on the Syed Kazmi Case
- India: Soni Sori Case - Huge gulf between the sharp observations of the judiciary and their timid operative orders
- India: Statement and petition against police killings in Assam on 22 June 2011
- India: Statement on the arrest of respected rights activists on way to Lalgarh
- India: Statement on violent attack on anti-POSCO protestors on 14th December 2011 and its aftermath
- India: Stop torture and arbitrary arrests of peace activists and human rights defenders in Chhattisgarh
- India: Suppression of Civil and Political Rights in Chhattisgarh
- India: Supreme Court Judgement on Batla House ’Encounter’ will set a dangerous precedent
- India: Text of Ahmedabad Metropolitan Magistrate’s Inquiry Report on The Death of Ishrat Jehan and others in Gujarat
- India: Text of Resolution adopted at the Meeting on Capital Punishment and the State of Indian Democracy
- India: Text of statement of Shamima Kausar, mother of deceased Ishrat Jahan
- India: Text of statements by human rights groups regarding the arrest of Anna Hazare and others on 16 August 2011
- India: Text of Supreme Court ruling re membership of banned organisations
- India: Text of the letter to Home Minister P. Chidambaram by citizens’ groups
- India: Text of the Supreme Court Order of 5 July 2011 in the Salwa Judum (in Chhattisgarh) Case
- India: The army cannot interfere in political decisions
- India: The Hanging of Afzal Guru - Statement by Committee For The Release of Political Prisoners
- India: The Kinship of Impunity
- India: The Right to Fair Trial and Ajmal Kasab
- India: The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act 2008 - Repeating Past Mistakes
- India: Urgent need for Government to act as death toll rises in Kashmir
- India: Use ordinary criminal laws not Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA)
- India: Verdict of the ’Jan Sunwai’ Jury
- India: Voices rise against death row
- India: We strongly oppose the cold-blooded execution of Afzal Guru in our name
- India: WGHR Statement on Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act
- India: What about Salwa Judam’s of Kashmir, Northeast, Bihar and Orissa? - Windup all illegal militias used by the state
- India: Whether Human Rights of Prisoners Stand Suspended ?
- India: Why dissent matters in a democracy - The Case of Dr Binayak Sen
- India: Why is Irom Sharmila’s Hunger Strike Against Militarisation a Criminal Act ?
- India: Women Groups Decry Chhattisgarh Government’s Attempt and malafide Intentions to Make Soni Sori Undergo "Psychiatric Evaluation"
- India: Women’s groups stopped from meeting Soni Sori in Raipur Jail
- Indian Democracy Under Threat If Unquestioned Powers To the Armed Forces Not Curbed
- Indian women’s rights activists urge the Indian government to Support the UN Resolution on Sri Lanka
- Injustice Anywhere Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere: Abu Taher and The Supreme Court of Bangladesh
- Interim Statement on the Situation in Karachi by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
- International Bar Association deeply concerned at targeting of lawyers in Sri Lanka as ’Traitors in black coats’
- International coalition calls for the release of Kopa Kunjam, a human rights and development activist imprisonned in India
- Interning Insurgent Populations
- Intimidation undermining the credibility of upcoming elections in Kashmir
- Intimidation, harassment and violence against leading human rights defenders in India
- Investigate human rights violations at New Delhi commonwealth games
- Irom Sharmila Released and Rearrested: 9th Year of Struggle Against AFSPA
- Jammu and Kashmir: Hundreds held each year without charge or trial to ‘keep them out of circulation’ says Amnesty International
- Jan Sunwai and Public Meeting on the Batla House ’Encounter’
- Join hands to end Karachi mayhem - Press release by HRCP
- Judicial Indifference to Deaths in Custody or ’Disapearances’
- Judiciary under assault in Sri Lanka - statement by ICJ
- Justice for Binayak Sen
- Justice For Niymat Ansari
- Justice for Soni Sori - Punish officials responsible for custodial torture in Chhattisgarh, India
- Justice Nasir Alam Ahmed on the plight of Indian and Pakistani prisoners in the two country’s jails
- Kabita Chakma: Sexual violence, indigenous Jumma women and CHT, Bangladesh
- Kabul Conference raises fears of sacrificing rights for short-term peace
- Kandhamal, Orissa - Press release by human rights activists
- Kashmir Diary: Where do We Go from Here?
- Kashmir Tribunal Memorandum to CM Omar Abdullah
- Kashmir: A Militarist Mindset and Lack of Accountability Continue to Prevail
- Kashmir: Bogey of infiltrations being raised to curb citizens civil liberties
- Kashmir: Will The Pain Never End?
- Kashmiris Cannot Be Won Over or Suppressed at Gun point : A statement from Anhad & concerned citizens
- Law & Society Trust’s review of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka in 2010
- Lessons from an Indian jail
- Lessons from the controversy between Amnesty International and Gita Sahgal
- Letter from university faculty to the Police Chief of Chhattissgarh
- Letter from US Academics Re. Richard Shapiro’s Denial of Entry to India
- Letter to Editor: Kashmir and the Indian Media
- Listen To Irom Sharmila - Repeal AFSPA - Treat Kashmiris and the North East As Our Own
- Love Commandos Against Honour Killings
- Making an Example of Binayak Sen
- Media war in Sri Lanka: A Television report on AlJazeera English
- Military Governance in Indian-administered Kashmir
- Mirza Waheed: India’s message to Kashmir - the noose can extend beyond the gallows
- Misuse of state power to curb freedom of press, freedom of expression, academic freedom in West Bengal - Statements by PUCL, Sahmat and PUDR
- Move For A Draconian Law, Has To Be Resisted
- Mumbai Attack leads to a one-dimensional debate on Islamic fundamentalism
- Murder of Saleem Shahzad meant to muzzle media in Pakistan: HRCP
- Murdered for Love
- NAPM Condemns the Police Firing on peaceful protesters in Srikakulam District, AP
- Nepal should expand citizenship provisions - Press Release Human Rights Watch
- Nepal: Justice Denied for Crimes During Decade of Conflict
- Nepal: Prosecute, Don’t Promote, Notorious Army Officer
- NEPAL: Support for protest against impunity - 32 protesters arrested and manhandled during peaceful protests - AHRC Appeal
- New Delhi’s infinite tolerance to human rights abuses in Kashmir
- New threats to rights
- NHRC’s Most Friendly Inquiry on Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh
- No more denials, please
- Non-state actors and the rule of law in Chhattisgarh
- Not Crushed, Merely Ignored
- Not to question why
- Open letter to Election Commission to Restrain BJP targeting the Muslim community in Jamia and Batla House area
- Open Letter to the Chief Justice of India, Chairpersons of NCW and NHRC
- Operation Green Hunt’s Urban Avatar
- Outsourcing state terror
- Pakistan - India: A long wait for prisoners
- Pakistan - India: When Border Lines Are Drawn on Water - The story of detained fishermen
- Pakistan Governement Deal with the Taliban undermines rights of women and other basic rights for all
- Pakistan govt. must file charges against clerics for incitement to murder
- Pakistan: A couple was abducted from Nepal, arrested and tortured in India to confess that they were agents of the ISI and were planning to assassinate chief minister of Gujrat
- Pakistan: Allow Pardon for Blasphemy Victim
- Pakistan: Balochistan Militants Killing Teachers
- Pakistan: Ban on foreign news channels as arbitrary, futile - HRCP
- Pakistan: Blasphemy Law Carries Over Into New Year
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- Pakistan: Marginalisation and discrimination against the minorities - An interview with Dr Charles Amjad-Ali
- Pakistan: Press Release by Womens Action Forum on Violence in Karachi on 22 May 2012
- Pakistan: Prosecute Ahmadi Massacre Suspects - Human Rights Watch Press Release
- Pakistan: Provide Security, protect 2013 elections from Taliban attacks - Human Rights Watch
- Pakistan: Religion cannot be used or allowed to justify murder
- Pakistan: Salmaan Taseer Assasination Case - State and judiciary must uphold rule of law
- Pakistan: Sectarian killings won’t stop sans tackling root cause - HRCP
- Pakistan: Shia pilgrims’ killing exposes state’s criminal negligence
- Pakistan: Take Action against Jirga’s That Triger Violence Against Women - Statement by National Commission on the Status of Women
- Pakistan: Threat to Asma Jahangir’s life - press release by prominent citizens
- Pakistan: When the police take on the duties of the mullahs a young girl is married to a man of 85
- Peace for the Baloch
- Peaceful citizen protest against chauvinist politics, brutalised by Bombay police
- Police firing in India: Human life remains as cheap as a bullet
- Preliminary Findings of People’s Tribunal on State action in the name of countering terror
- Press Release on Jamianagar ’Encounter’
- PUCL Statement on Threat of Imminent Arrest of Teesta Setalvad - Jan 1, 2011
- PUCL, Singhbhum Statement on the Killing of Subhash Mahato of Bonta (Jharkhand) by alleged Maoists
- Raise your voice against state backed vigilante groups in Chhattisgarh
- Reining In The Dirty Harrys
- Rejoinder to Official Report by Pakistan to UN Human Rights Council by Civil Society Networks - Oct 2012
- Religious right pushing a retrograde and anti human rights agenda in Maldives
- Report by Human Rights Forum on March 2011 violence in villages of Dantewada, Chhattisgarh
- Report of 2008 Mission to India by Asma Jahangir, UN Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
- Reports from an independent human rights investigation in Kashmir
- Restoring the integrity of human rights: A Petition to Amnesty International
- Safarnama: Chronicling the democratic rights movement in India (3 September 2011, New Delhi)
- Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh: Criminalisation of the State
- Sanjay Kak: The Apparatus - Laying bare the State’s terrifying impunity in Kashmir
- Shocking endorsement of ’Defensive Jihad’ by Amnesty international: Human rights advocates respond
- Shutting him up
- Silence and Denial on Enforced Disappearances in Jammu and Kashmir
- Solidarity in the US with campaign for the release of Binayak Sen in India
- Some Questions for the Delhi Police and Embedded ’Journalists’
- South Asians For Human Rights Statement on Challenges to Peace and Prospects of Cooperation
- Southern Chhattisgarh: Human Rights Watch Letter to India’s Prime Minister
- Sri Lanka Military Conference to Whitewash War Crimes Says Human Rights Watch
- Sri Lanka needs a president, not a demi-god
- Sri Lanka’s Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution Represents an Assault on Constitutional Democracy
- Sri Lanka’s Election Aftermath - Media Under Attack
- Sri Lanka’s Final Offensive and India’s Deafening Silence
- Sri Lanka: 1000 days after the disappearance of Prageeth Eknaligoda
- Sri Lanka: Amnesty International report on suppression of Dissent
- Sri Lanka: As aid workers withdraw, thousands of war displaced persons at further risk
- Sri Lanka: Attacks on Judiciary are attacks on people - Friday Forum statement
- Sri Lanka: Breakdown of Law and Order
- Sri Lanka: Commonwealth Should Relocate November Meeting (Human Rights Watch)
- Sri Lanka: Deportation of Bob Rae - Some Fundamental Questions for the future of Minorities and the Erasure of Democracy
- Sri Lanka: Ethnic Strife, Fratricide, and the Peace vs. Human Rights Dilemma
- Sri Lanka: Execution Video Shows Need for International Inquiry
- Sri Lanka: HRW Report on Sexual Violence against Tamils by Security Forces
- Sri Lanka: Medical personnel that witnessed the war deserve recognition not revenge
- Sri Lanka: Normalising The Exception - The Emergency Continues
- Sri Lanka: Online Petitions Against Intimidation of Prominent Activists and Journalists
- Sri Lanka: Press release from Centre for Policy Alternatives Regarding Death Threats To its Director
- Sri Lanka: Smear campaign against dissident voices
- Sri Lanka: Submission to Police re murder of Lasantha Wickramatunge
- Sri Lanka: The clergy and civil society condemn the arrest and unlawful detention of four students from the University of Jaffna and call for their immediate release
- Sri Lanka: Three Sri Lankan human rights defenders respond to attacks in state media
- Sri Lanka: UN Committee concerned at secret detention, enforced disappearances and torture
- Sri Lanka’s deteriorating press climate: A joint report by Press freedom and human rights groups to the UN Universal Periodic Review
- Stand up against the blasphemy laws
- State action in the name of countering Terrorism & Conversions
- State repression on political and social activists in Uttarakhand
- Statement by Academics and intellectuals on Dr. Binayak Sen judgment
- Statement by President of All Pakistan Newspapers Society re the murder of the journalist Salim Shahzad
- Statement from International Press Freedom Mission to Sri Lanka
- Statement on Bhutanese Refugees’ Right to Repatriation
- Statement on the Treatment of Rohingya and Bangladeshi ’Boat People’ in Asia
- Statement Released by Women and Mothers on Killings in Kashmir Valley
- Stem the rot in Balochistan: HRCP
- Stop the Undeclared Emergency and Witch-hunt of Social activists & Human Rights Defenders [in India] – Statement by Civil Society groups and concerned citizens
- Stories of Impunity from Jammu and Kashmir : report by IPTK and APDP
- Support Separation Between Religion and State: A Petition and Open Letter to Human Rights Watch
- Talk by Amartya Sen on the need for global action for democracy in Burma
- Terror, Batla House and the Indian Police
- Terrorism and Human Rights
- Terrorism, Justice and Human Rights in India
- Text of Appeal by Nobel Laureates for the Release of Binayak Sen
- Text of Statement on India by Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Text of Supreme Court of India order granting bail to Sayed Mohd. Kazmi
- The Breakdown of the Rule of Law in Sri Lanka: An Overview
- The case of the good doctor
- The Chin People of Burma: Unsafe in Burma, Unprotected in India
- The Crisis in Manipur: A Joint Statement issued by Human Rights Alert and the Asian Human Rights Commission
- The eleven are not just eleven
- The inhuman AFSPA is our way of handling insurgency
- The last option : A stone in her hand
- The outrageous sentence against Dr. Binayak Sen aims to bludgeon dissent
- The residents of paradise on earth are truly in a hell of a quandary
- The Return of POTA & TADA
- The Silent and Telling Emergency in India
- The story of Binayak Sen is a wake-up call for India
- The Tragic Situation of Sri Lanka
- The Trial of Dr. Binayak Sen: An Update
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- They, the people
- This is not zero tolerance, Mr. Prime Minister
- Threat to Arrest Human Rights Activists and Journalists by Gujarat Police
- Threat to Teesta Setalvad and other rights activists, lawyers working for justice for the victims of 2002 Gujarat pogrom
- Threats and Violence undermine democratic governance in Sri Lanka
- Three International human rights organisations decline invitation to testify before Sri Lanka govt panel
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- U.S. military frees Afghan journalist after 11 months
- UN Panel’s Report on Accountability and War Crimes in Sri Lanka
- UN Report on Conflict-related Disappearances in Bardiya District, Nepal
- UN Should Investigate Abuse of Prison Labor in Burma
- Universal Periodic Review(UPR), Bangladesh: A Report by Human Rights Forum
- Urgent Action Required: Crossfire exhibit regarding extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh, provokes death threats
- Victims of a quick fix war on terror in India
- video: Tehelka interview with Dr Binayak Sen
- Voices rise against life imprisonment of Binayak Sen: Photos of a protest in Delhi
- Was it really an encounter in Jamul on 15th October?
- We demand demilitarisation of Kashmir beginning with immediate repeal of the AFSPA
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- Bauxite Mine and Refinery Devastate Lives in India
- Big Dams, Big Floods: On Predatory Development
- Binayak Sen is a victim of resource conflicts in Chhattisgarh
- Border Security Complex: India - Bangladesh ’security’ fence
- Busting The Myths About Vedanta’s Mining Project in Orissa, India
- Call For A Moratorium on Mega-Resorts
- Call for Justice on the 24th Anniversary of The Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster
- Challenging commodification of nature - Dehradun declaration by forest workers in India
- Chhattisgarh March for Peace and Justice Talks - from May 5 to 8, 2010
- Children Against Dow-Carbide Formed
- Citizen’s demonstration against inaction by Maharashtra Government and in Support of Medha Patkar’s Indeifinite Fast
- Citizens groups protest against Commonwealth Games held in Delhi
- Citizens groups stand up in defence of peaceful resistance against anti-people steel project in Orissa
- Civil Disobedience Action for the Release of Dr. Binayak Sen
- Civility Will Not Do
- CNDP deplores the repression launched by the government in Jaitapur in Maharashtra
- Coalition Releases Charter of Demands of Communities Affected by The 2010 Commonwealth Games; Calls For Justice
- Combating displacement
- Commonwealth Games: The Pettiness of Eminence
- Competing missionaries and the tribal market
- Concern about violence and shrinking democratic space in Chhattisgarh
- Condemnation of Chhatradhar Mahato’s arrest by organizations and individuals in India
- Conspiracy, politics and betrayal
- Counter-insurgency industry, mysterious militia’s and parochial politics
- Court Says Paramilitary Approach is a Problem Not The Solution
- Daily Indifference
- Dam(n)ed in Kashmir
- Declaration from the South Asia Regional Peoples Convention on Food Sovereignty
- Defend Sebastian Rodrigues and defend Goa’s environment from the Fomento
- Defining Migrants, Foreigners and Citizens in Assam
- Detained in India, arrested in Bangladesh
- Development Via State Terror in Jharkhand
- Disband Salwa Judum
- Displacement and Political Parties
- Does post 9/11 America explain Binayak Sen?
- Dont let the corporates override human and environment interests
- Dont undermine Bangladesh
- Establish democratic control over natural resources and strengthen struggle against forced land acquisitions
- Ethno-nationalism in Pakistan: beyond economics and politics
- Fantasies of Development and The Democracy Deficit in North East India
- Festival of Hope, Justice and Peace in Manipur (2 – 6 November 2010)
- Food Insecurity and Hunger in Rural Madhya Pradesh: A report on submergence affected areas and villages of Sardar Sarovar Project in Alirajpur
- Games city plays with the poor
- Gaon Chodab Nahi - A song
- Give up arms and join the democratic struggle
- Government of India should Honour Commitment to the Parliament Regarding Tribal Lands
- Gravest Displacement - Bravest Resistance
- Green Revolution And After
- Gujarat Voters Awareness Campaign Press Release / Factsheet (15 April 2009)
- Gujarat’s Development Masks Other Realities
- Halt the Offensive Against People and End Militarisation of the Forests - Joint Statement of Forest People’s Movements in India
- How lobbyists are poisoning democracy in India
- In Denial of Fukushima
- India - Chhattisgarh: Take a different route
- India - Orissa: Anti-Posco stir - women protesters demand halt to land acquisition, withdrawal of police
- India : Harassment of the peasants and adivasis of Narmada valley struggling for their just rights and implementation of court orders and the rule of law
- India must change the discourse from violence to democracy
- India’s Armed Safari
- India’s democratic institutions are rotting from within
- India’s Ruling Elites, Mineral Resources and Jharkhand
- India’s Uneven Democracy: The cry from Chhattisgarh
- India: Intellectuals, Maoists and the State
- India: PUCL, Gujarat & Sahiyar (Stree Sangathan) condemn the mass detention of 5500 people of Mahuva, Gujarat.
- India: Statement at VIBGYOR International Film Festival Demands Release of Dr. Binayak Sen
- India: A Citizens March for Peace is Blocked by the Chhattisgarh Government
- India: A Letter From The Women of Koodankulam
- India: Act Now For Survival And Justice In The Narmada Valley
- India: Against repression of a mass movement in Tamil Nadu - statement in solidarity with fellow citizens
- India: Alarming Notes from the Underground
- India: An account of a visit to the police state of Chhattisgarh
- India: Anthropology of a Genocide
- India: Appeal against genocide of adivasis in Bastar
- India: Appeal by concerned citizens for a ceasefire and peace talks between Govt. and maoists
- India: Appeal for talks with broader section of people’s struggles in the forest and mineral belt
- India: Around 4,500 people of 28 villages boycotted Environment Public Hearing following breach of promise by Government officials
- India: Before the storm broke [in Lalgarh]
- India: Between Maoists and mines
- India: Brutal violence by Jindal Steel company against protestors in Orissa
- India: Challenges for Government-Maoist Talks
- India: Citizens Initiative for Peace and the Maoist Challenge
- India: Citizens March Against Predatory Corporations in Orissa
- India: Citizens Report Card on SEZs
- India: Comrade Abhay Sahoo speaks of the false and trumped up charges against activists of Anti posco steel plant struggle in Orissa
- India: Confronting ’Guns of Peace’ - Bastar faces its worst crisis
- India: Corporate Crimes and Environmental plunder
- India: Corporate take over of democracy
- India: Creating a threatening other
- India: Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor not about development but resource grab and corporate profit : Press release from a citizens groups meet
- India: Democracy vs Economy
- India: Demolition of Vanvasi Chetna Ashram and the continuing violence in Chhattisgarh
- India: Deployment of Special Police Officers undermining justice and human rights
- India: Dial M for moral crisis
- India: Dr Binyak Sen on shrinking space for dissent in Chhattisgarh
- India: End Hostilities, Start Dialogue
- India: Failure of governance . . . Chronic hunger in villages and on city streets
- India: Forest Rights Act - Lost in the wilderness
- India: Government should respond to Maoist offer - Press Statement by Concerned Citizens
- India: Hemant Morparia’s Cartoon Maovadi Vs MOU vadi
- India: How many soldiers will it take to contain the mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people?
- India: Imminent clampdown on anti nuclear movement - Urgent Message from Idinthakarai
- India: Independent fact finding report on massacre in Bastar
- India: Interim Observations of the Jury - Independent People’s Tribunal on Land Acquisition, Resource Grab and Operation Green Hunt
- India: Irom Sharmila’s 10-year-fast is ignored
- India: Join the Citizens Initiative for Peace Public meeting on 20 October 2009
- India: Joint Statement Condemning Attack on Peaceful Protesters of Nuagaon
- India: Keep the Bauxite in the Mountains
- India: M.P. Govt must stop betrayal of thousands of dam oustees
- India: Memorandum on The State of Affairs Twenty-Five Years After The Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster
- India: Mining Multinational Vedanta’s Scare Tactics Against international NGOs highligting tribal’s rights in Orissa
- India: National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movements (NAAM) Launched
- India: Notes on a Dying People [in Lalgarh]
- India: Oustees of Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar dam fighting for their rights and life need your support
- India: Public Statement against Planning Commission engaging the World Bank to review pro-poor programs
- India: PUCL statement on the fight between State and Maoists in Chhattisgarh
- India: Quashing the voiceless with state ruthlessness
- India: Recognize Adivasi’s fleeing to Andhra Pradesh as Internally displaced persons (IDPs) and provide them rehabilitation
- India: Right to Food Campaign Rejects National Food Security Bill passed by the Cabinet
- India: Scrap LAA & R&R Bills - Enact NAC approved People’s Development Policy
- India: Seven Day action in Delhi and Nationwide Protests In Support of Anti-Nuclear Struggle In Koodankulam
- India: Slum Dwellers Protest No Say On Mumbai Metro Phase II
- India: Special Economic Zones, Path to Massive Land Grab
- India: Statement by Rights Activists Who Were Attacked And Refused Access Tribal Zone in Orissa
- India: Statement On Nonadanga From Students’ Forum Against Mal-Development
- India: Statement on the Lalgarh Operation
- India: Stop Offensive, Hold Unconditional Dialogue - Call From National Convention Of Citizens Initiative For Peace
- India: Suspend work at Koodankulam, talk to protesters, urge concerned citizens
- India: Take steps for the extradition of Warren Anderson, from the United States of America
- India: Tamil Nadu caves in to nuclear lobby - Alert sounded as repression begins on anti nuclear movement
- India: Terror of poverty and strife in the countryside
- India: The Biggest Grab of Tribal Lands After Columbus
- India: The Bloodstained Karmic Cycle
- India: The Conflict Over Tribal Rights and State Response To The Activities of The Shramik Adivasi Sanghathana In Harda And Betul Districts, M.P.
- India: The Doctor Whom The State Fears
- India: The Influence of Big Business Lobby on Government and its Implications
- India: The New Face of Capitalist War and Duty of the Left
- India: The Path to a Conflict-Free Chhattisgarh
- India: The State of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples 2009
- India: The Supreme Court’s decision on Koodankulam fails to address concerns about nuclear energy
- India: Thousands Court Arrest to Demand Democracy in the Forests
- India: Thwarting Social Unrest in the Name of Security - Chhatisgarh administration, industry and the security agencies
- India: Tiny Collateral Damage - Killing on the basis of suspicion can have dangerous results
- India: Violence on the Left
- India: Waves of Resistance Never End at Nuclear Plant
- India: When The State Declares War on The People - Excerpts from Gopal Menon’s documentary film
- India: Will My Fast Against Violence and Dispossesion Help the Adivasis?
- Into thin air
- Is central India’s civil war a resource war over metals for arms?
- Janhit (Chhattisgarh) Bulletin August 2011
- Jha Commission begins inquiry into fake registries at Alirajpur
- Jharkhand’s Villagers Face the Wrath of India’s Atomic Bureaucrats
- Justice and The Adivasi
- Kalpakkam’s forgotten people
- Kalpitiya, Sri Lanka Fisher Folk under threat from Tourism Development — Report of an International Fact-Finding Mission
- Kashipur’s struggle against the bauxite mining companies: An Appeal (30 December 2003)
- Kashmir where children dont know life without a militarised environment
- Kashmir’s Kangaroo Elections
- Kashmir: ’Democracy’ Through Repression and Intimidation
- Kashmir: Replacing the troops by a dreaded state police is no solution
- Kashmir: The routinisation of fake encounters
- Koodankulam Struggle: A Chronology (Part I)
- Koodankulam Struggle: A Chronology (Part II)
- Land must be acquired fairly
- Law and behold: Flagrant double standards in India’s legal and political system
- LBOD project in Southern Pakistan is a social and ecological disaster - ’People’s Tribunals’ of 2008 and 2007
- Legitimation of Terror and Erosion of Democratic Space in India: A Radio Conversation with Arundhati Roy
- Let’s have a fair deal
- Letter to India’s Prime Minister on the 25th Anniversary of Bhopal Gas Tragedy
- Losing their nerve?
- Manipur in the Shadow of Armed Forces Special Powers Act - A four part documentary
- Manufacturing compulsions of national security
- More Militarisation Will Not Ensure Safety
- NAPM Hails Direct Action at Coca Cola Factory in Plachimada by Activists
- National protest in Delhi against land acquisition and displacement
- New Delhi: The commercialisation and dehumanisation of the city
- No more Fukushima, Not in Koodankulam, Nor Anywhere Else
- Northwest by northeast: a tale of two frontiers
- Notes on Indian Vietnam
- Old fears and bitterness now resurface in Assam
- Online Petition Against Witch Hunt of Activists by Jindal Corporation
- Online Petition: Children too have a right to say no to POSCO
- Open letter to the Chhatisgarh DGP
- Open Letter: International Oil Companies in Bangladesh and State Violence against Bangladeshi Activists
- Ordinary People, Extraordinary Movement
- Orissa’s POSCO project: fundamentally flawed and economically unviable says report by Mining Zone People’s Solidarity Group
- Pakistan: Plight of Displaced Balochs
- Pakistan: The Tenants’ Struggle on Okara Military Farms
- People’s Tribunal on WB, IMF, ADB in Bangladesh
- Peter Popham: Vedanta’s very embarrassing silence
- Petition from the Affected Citizens of Teesta to the Government of India
- Petition to European Investment Community to disinvest from the South Korean steel giant POSCO
- Press statement from CHT Commission’s Mission in September 2010
- Progress can kill: A report by Survival International
- Protest for Peace
- Questions that millions of common Indians ask Mr. Obama
- Raipur Satyagraha Campaign for the Release of Dr Binayak Sen
- Relay Hunger Strike at Delhi University Against Commonwealth Games
- Report on ‘Forced Evictions and Commonwealth Games’ released in Delhi
- Repressive Indian State vs. Brutal Maoist Insurgency: Call for Peace and Sanity
- Rethink Corporate Farming in Pakistan
- Reverie of quick-fix industrialization
- SASI & MZPSG Urge Korean Govt to Seek POSCO Withdrawal From Orissa
- Sell out by India’s Environment Ministry over the POSCO Project
- SEZ: The Indian Experience
- Singrauli’s Discarded people
- Slums as self-confrontation
- South Koreans in Solidarity with Anti POSCO protests in Orissa, India
- Speak up for the people of Bhopal
- Speaking Out of Turn
- Spooks and states
- Sri Lanka: Civil Society Organisations Deeply Concerned at the Situation in Vanni
- Sri Lanka: Diaspora Organizations Demand GOSL and LTTE Act Immediately to Prevent Humanitarian Catastrophe
- Sri Lanka: SOS - Agonising Cry of the People of Wanni
- Sri Lanka: Why are the Vanni civilians still being held hostage?
- Stop destructive development and restore the faith of the adivasis in the Indian Constitution
- Stop killing with impunity on India Bangladesh border
- Stop! Militarization of Democratic Processes and Space in India
- Stories from the Baloch resistance movement in Pakistan: Interview with Chakar Khan
- Supreme Court orders security forces to vacate schools, disband Salwa Judam and rehabilitate victims
- Sweeping dissent under the carpet of ’normalcy’ in Kashmir
- Take up with President Obama, the matter regarding absconding accused in Bhopal gas leak disaster case
- Taking on the ’Developers’: A proposal for social transfomation
- Taking the State to Court
- The "Heritage" of the Games
- The Bhopal Disaster, 25 years on - A Dossier
- The Bhopal Verdict : A Tragedy for National Dignity and Justice
- The Borderland and Its Zero People
- The Class Bias of India’s Higher Judiciary
- The Coming Famine in India
- The Development War — A ’Humanitarian Operation’ Against Colombo’s Poor
- The ghost projects in Pakistan
- The Government of Orissa in eastern India announces Attack on POSCO Resistance Within 24 Hours’, People Ready to Resist
- The Indian State in a Liberalising Landscape
- The Kosi Disaster: Dont Forget the Survivors
- The Mega Development Projects Money Machine in Pakistan
- The naive song and dance around KRRS: A critique of gatekeepers of global solidarity
- The Neo-liberal Urban Development Paradigm in Asia
- The poor cannot be left to fend for themselves while the elites party
- Thirteen Reasons Why We Do Not Want the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project
- U.S. Tour of Bhopal Gas Disaster Survivors and Campaigners
- Unending fear and violence in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh
- US Lawsuit Wins Appeal Against Union Carbide Corporation and Dow
- Vibrant Gujarat: Lies, Half Truths and Illusions
- War and the Displaced Civilians in Sri Lanka’s Vanni Region
- We Say ‘NO’ to Nuclear! New Delhi Rally Against India’s Nuclearisation, 2 October 2009
- We the citizens of Pakistan must express solidarity with the people of Balochistan
- What happens when democracy is hollowed out and emptied of meaning?
- What has Driven the Tribals of Central India to Political Extremism?
- When Generals Subvert Democratic Process
- Who calls the shots in Kashmir: the military establishment or elected civilan govt?
- Why Everyone Speaks The Flowing Language of Blood
- Why India needs aid
- Withdraw Operation Green Hunt: Letter from Jharkhand Indigenous People’s Forum
News items
- India: Continue ceasefire, prepare for Peace Talks (Public Meeting, New Delhi, 3 May 2012)
- Dispossession and Resistance in India - The River and the Rage by Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Web sites
- Adivasi Sangama
- Adivasis of Rourkela
- Aman Biradari
- Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
- Bangla Praxis
- Bhopal Group for Information and Action
- Chingari Trust
- Citizens’ Research Collective on Special Economic Zones (SEZs)
- Dayamani Barla’s Blog
- Development Dialogues
- Fighting Injustice in Polepally SEZ
- Intercultural Resources
- Internally displaced persons in India
- Kerala Tourism Watch
- Mand
- Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan
- Mining Zone People’s Solidarity Group
- Nangla’s Delhi
- Narmada Bachao Andolan
- Nijera Kori
- Otherindia.org
- People’s Movement Against Posco Steel Plant
- Phulbari Resistance
- Public Matters
- Raipur Satyagraha
- Refugee Watch
- SAAPE
- SEZ Virodhi Manch
- Soak Collective Memory Exhibit
- Urban Resource Centre: Karachi
- Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti
- Water and Energy Users Federation - Nepal
Resources / Links
Articles
- Bangladesh: The ghosts of 1971
- "Ik Aur Jahan Mumkin Hai"
- A documentary film on Homai Vyarawalla
- A Trade Union Solidarity Song from Canada
- Adam Curtis on How The Left Got Trapped Inside Their Own Heads - And How Fairies Can Open The Door To The Future
- Amartya Sen on the Illusion of Identity and Violence
- Antonio Negri: a revolt that never ends
- Arundhati Roy Interview on Media and Police Complicty
- Arundhati Roy Interviewed on Fault Lines / Aljazeera (May 2010)
- Arundhati Roy: "We are neither with you nor with the terrorists"
- Ayesha Siddiqa on the Jihadis in Punjab (Pakistan)
- Bangladesh: Corruption, Politicians and Extremist Groups
- BBC: Tracing your Asian roots on the Indian subcontinent By Abi Husainy
- Cambrige Union Debate: Is Religion compatible with 21st Century life?
- Celebrating Manto: Articles and Discussion in Dawn
- Children Of The Taliban
- Class Dismissed in Swat Valley: The Death of Female Education
- Cultural Relativism, Fear and Censorship: Salman Rushdie in conversation with Irshad Manji
- Current Nuclear Scenario In India - Newsclick Interview with M V Ramana
- David Harvey: ’The financial crisis is an urban crisis’ - video
- Discussion on Pakistan Elections - programme on Rajyasabha TV
- Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar - A film by Jabbar Patel
- Encountered on Saffron Agenda: A documentary film on staged encounter killings in Gujarat
- Eqbal Ahmad’s Review Article on the Bhuttos in London Review of Books - June 1998
- Eyewitness Accounts of Pakistan’s 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh
- How education intersects with violence in Pakistan
- Hunting the Corporate Killers: Excerpt from a documentary film on the Bhopal gas disaster
- I for India by Sandhya Suri
- Image, Music, Text: 20 Years of Sahmat
- In God’s name
- India: A Television Debate on Naxal Violence Versus State Violence
- India: Caricature Against Forced and Hasty Push for American Style 4 Year Undergraduate Programme at Delhi University - Dissent through posters
- India: Documentary Film on MKSS and right to information campaign
- India: Justice Verma Committee Report on Ammendments to Criminal Law (23 January 2013
- India: NDTV India Hindi programme on Sabyasachi Panda’s letter to Maoist leaders
- India: Protest Posters & Badges appear to oppose Delhi university’s forced introduction of a 4 year undergrad programme
- India: PV Indiresan Committee Report on Electronic Voting Machines (September 2006)
- India: Report of Task Force on National Social Assistance Programme, Ministry of Rural Development
- India: The needless noise over FDI in retail
- Interview with Vivek Chibber: How Does the Subaltern Speak?
- Jay Naidoo’s An open letter to Congress of South African Trade Unions
- Little Terrorist
- NDTV’s interview with Salman Rushdie (17 Sept 2012)
- Of histories and identities - 11th Neelan Tiruchelvam Memorial Lecture
- Opium and Empire: Amitav Ghosh speaking to Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Pablo Bartholomew: Photos of Calcutta of 1970s
- Pakistan: The Stigma of Reporting a Rape
- Patricia M. Thornton: On Chinese Communist Party organized non-governmental organizations (PONGOs)
- Pervez Hoodbhoy speech on terrorism in Pakistan
- Photos on Indian Railways by Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters
- Politics, Ethnicity and Popular Culture in Karachi
- Press Statement from UN Special Rapporteur on Health on Country Visit to Japan, 15 to 26 November 2012
- Prof. Vinay Lal and Prof. Shiv Bajpai on Revisionist History in California Textbooks (audio, 20 min). Air Talk, KPCC 89.3 FM Los Angeles, Mar 1, 2006
- Quality of Life: India vs. China (Amartya Sen in NYRB, May 12, 2011)
- Rajya Sabha TV Discussion on India’s World - Sri Lanka & the Tamil Nadu factor
- Religion and Argument: Salman Rushdie in conversation with Gauri Viswanathan
- Romila Thapar: India’s past and present — how history informs contemporary narrative
- Salman Rushdie Interview with Shekhar Gupta in Walk the Talk on NDTV
- Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Connected Histories - Notes towards a Reconfiguration of Early Modern Eurasia
- Santosh Singh: Bihar caste wars
- Shapan Adnan: The Roots of Political Conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
- Simon Johnson: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
- Sita Sings the Blues: an animation film by Nina Paley
- Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community in India
- Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin: After neoliberalism: analysing the present
- Taksim Square Protests in Turkey: a compilation of select media commentary
- Tariq Ali on Pakistan and US Policy
- The Auction - a film by Zakir Hossain
- The Bhopal Gas Tragedy - A three minute documentary film
- The Forgotten Woman by Dilip Mehta
- The Legend of Fat Mama - A documentary by Rafeeq Ellias
- The Rape of Bangladeshi Women and Girls by the Pakistan Army in the Genocide of 1971 - NBC reportage Feb 1972
- The ska vengers with delhi sultanate sing for the free binayak sen campaign (6 April 2011)
- Theodor Adorno: Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda (1951)
- Upinder Singh: On the Politics of War and Violence in Early Medieval India
- Video: "Yeh jo US say prem Hai, Yeh subb Paisay Ki Game hai"
- Video: Asma Jahangir on U.S. Pakistan relations and Pakistani democracy
- Video: Land-grab, Law and Capitalism in India discussed by Medha Patkar and David Harvey
- Video: Sahmat Collective - Sahmat’s Beginnings
- Videos from The Global Crisis and Hegemonic Dilemmas Conference
- Videos of CUNY Seminar: Understanding Shahbag - Bangladesh at a Crossroads
- War Crimes File - The Channel 4 documentary
- When Jewish women were the leading ladies of Indian cinema
Web sites
- 2013 Shahbag Protest in Bangladesh
- Adivasi Academy
- Almost Island
- Anhad Institute of Media Studies
- Arvind Gupta: Science Toys and Books
- Bangalore Aware
- Bangladesh Genocide Archive
- Bangladesh Open Source Network
- Barefoot College
- Bytes For All
- Centre for Monitoring Election Violence
- Chasing A Mirage
- Cycle Bhopal
- Darpana Academy
- Daudpota’s Photostream
- Deep Focus
- Drik
- Hazards Centre
- Heritage of Kashmir
- Himal South Asian
- Independent Publishers’ Distribution Alternatives
- India 2009 - Parliamentary Elections Map
- Indian Sceptic
- Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad
- Macroscan
- Mallika Sarabhai
- Mashal Books
- Mauj Collective
- Navayana
- Nepal Wireless
- New Socialist Movement
- Nirmukta
- Online Cartoon Exhibit
- Pakistan Action Network
- Pedestrian Pictures
- Philosophy and Social Action
- Public Access Digital Media Archive
- Radio Schizoid
- Ralph Russell
- Ram Rahman Photography Homepage
- Raqs Media Collective
- Reenactment of Gandhi’s "Salt March"
- Right to Food Campaign
- Samudaya
- Sita Sings the Blues
- Sri Lanka Democracy Forum
- Street Survivors India
- Teachers Resource Centre
- Teeth Maestro
- Tehelka
- The Second Floor
- Unsuni
- Vote Report India
- Who’s the Daadi ?
Sexuality Minorities
Articles
- "Coming out" of sexuality in India
- 377 Judgment, One Year On. Celebrations on July 2, 2010!
- Accepting the love that does not speak its name
- Accidental gay pride in homophobic Afghanistan
- Bangalore Police assault on trangenders and sexual minorities rights defenders
- Bangalore Queer Pride March’09: A Report
- Call for contributions to SCRIPTS, the queer zine
- Decriminalize Homosexuality
- Erotic justice: law and the new politics of postcolonialism
- Gay pride only goes so far in India
- Gay sex among adults ’not criminal’ in India - Full Text of Delhi High Court Ruling of 2 July 2009
- India: End to unnatural exclusion
- India: From ’perversion’ to right to life with dignity
- India: Justice for Professor Siras
- India: Landmark Judgment on Gay Rights: Litmus Test for Tolerance
- India: Mental Health Professionals Criticise Union Health Minister’s Statement on Homosexuality
- India: Policing morality at Aligah Muslim University - An independent fact finding report
- India: Regulating ’perversion’ and the role of tolerance in de-radicalising the rights claims of sexual subalterns
- India: Statement by teachers, researchers and academics welcomes the Delhi High Court judgement reading down Section 377
- India: The Regressive Attitude of State on Homosexuality
- India: Whose morality is this?
- India: Why gay rights should matter to the rest of us
- India: Why no neta will talk straight on 377
- India: Women’s groups and feminists should be particularly encouraged by the Delhi court decision on section 377
- Law like love
- Love in a Different Climate: men who have sex with men in India
- Moral Policing and the threats to Indian culture from ‘bad’ sexuality
- Open letter for the overturning of section 377 of the Indian penal code
- Out of the closet and into the courts in India
- Pakistan’s Lesbians Live In Silence, Love In Secret - A radio report
- Queer Thoughts: Call for Papers
- Queering India: same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society
- Representing same-sex politics and positions in the media
- Section 377 - where crime and ’sin’ are inseparable
- Section 377 and Denial of Rights to Sexual Minorities
- Section 377 and Moral policing by the Indian State
- Sexual Minorities, Homophobia and Bangalore Police
- Sri Lanka: Threats to ’Equal Ground’
- Stop Abuse of Sexual Rights Activists
- The Origins of "Sodomy" Laws in British Colonialism
- The perversions of writers
- The policing of desire
- The Politics of Sex
- The revolution will not be funded
- Why India’s Section 377 ruling is not Stonewall
Web sites
- Bengaluru Pride
- Blue Diamond Society
- Chay Magazine
- Companions on a Journey
- Delhi Queer Pride
- Desi Q
- Equal Ground
- Mumbai’s Queer March
- Naz Foundation International
- Queer Pride Keralam
- Resistance by sexual minorities and rights defenders in Bangalore
- Sangama
- Sangini
- Tarshi
- The South Asian Lesbian (SALGA) & Gay Association NYC
- Trikone
- Voices Against 377
- Women’s Support Group
South Asia Labour Activists Library
Articles
- ’Mazdoor’ Jawad Ahmed’s Tribute To Workers Who died in Karachi Factory Fire
- 6% for State education: The exemplary struggle of Sri Lanka’s teachers against authoritarianism and neoliberalism
- A Critique of India’s Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008
- A fact finding report on the exploitation of workers at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- A struggle in search of dignity
- A Study of Labour Standards in Football Manufacturing Industry in Pakistan
- Amnesty International must respect its workers rights
- An Appeal to Address the Education Crisis in Sri Lanka
- Anti War Message from Network of Iranian Labor Associations
- Anti-Labour Violence Isn’t Random
- कर्णपुरा की कहानी...India’s Coal Rush: Interview With Jharkhand Leader Bulu Imam
- Bail Application of Graziano Workers Rejected by Sessions Court
- Bangladesh: Occupational health and safety crisis among Hazaribagh tannery workers, and residents - A report by HRW
- Bangladesh: Aminul Islam - A Voice for Workers
- Bangladesh: As the rightwing party Hefazat-e-Islam grows, millions of female garment workers increasingly fear for their jobs
- Bangladesh: Ashulia Factory Blaze and Employers impunity
- Bangladesh: Failure of the Trade Unions To Defend Workers Rights
- Bangladesh: Garment manufacturers and exporters association (BGMEA) protecting killers behind Tazreen factory fire
- Bangladesh: selected labour rights stories from New Age in May 2011
- Bangladesh: Stop repression of trade unionists, labor activists and workers in the garment industry
- Bangladesh: The Nischintapur garments factory fire and reckless disregard for workers’ safety - A report by ASK
- Bangladesh: The Trade Union Movement is in Doldrums for Years
- Bangladesh: Tragedy Shows Urgency of Worker Protections
- Bangladesh’s exploitation economy
- Banning Strike of Pilots of Air India is unjustified: PUCL Press Release
- Beyond Safety Nets: Provision of Comprehensive Social Security in Pakistan
- Calibrated Indifference: Understanding the Structure of Informal Labour in India 1
- Can India Inc. face the truth about the Manesar violence? - G Sampath
- Celebrating Najma Akhtar, and her associates who built Bangladesh’s women garment workers trade union
- Chhattisgarh: Indefinite sit-in by unprotected workers in ACC (Holcim) cement plant for regularisation
- Citizens Groups demand ban on mining, manufacturing and use of asbestos in India
- CMM, the Pragatisheel Cement Shramik Sangh and contract workers of Chhattisgarh need your support!
- Coal and Colonialism: Production Relations in a Indian Coalfield
- Coca-Cola Pakistan’s Death Threats, Abduction, Extortion and Dismissals
- Delhi’s exotic migrants
- Democracy Now: Survivor of Bangladesh’s Tazreen Factory Fire Urges U.S. Retailers to Stop Blocking Worker Safety
- Denied, deprived, deceived and deserted
- Dina Siddiqi: So Bangladeshi factory workers need saving?
- Do the workers vanish into the blue?
- Does emigration reduce poverty?
- Fighting Back for Workers’ Rights
- For a ’New Deal’ for labour
- Friends of PILER (FoP) formed to muster international support for Pakistani labour
- Garment workers one day Karnataka state wide strike
- Globalization and Labour Rights in the Sweatshops of Pakistan, Indonesia and Vietnam
- Globalization, International Labour migration and Poverty
- Government of India Must Immediately Stop Perpetuating Forced/Bonded Labour
- Graziano Worker’s Solidarity Forum
- Greece, Blood Strawberries, and Hate Crimes crisis
- In northeast India coal towns, many miners are children
- India - Chhattisgarh: When criminal negligence passes for ‘Industrial Accident’ - statement by PUDR
- India of Domestic Workers
- India’s hidden epidemic
- India: ’Manesar Workers are the Villains’ - Truth or Prejudice?
- India: A new deal for labour
- India: A Report on Living and Working Conditions of Private Security Workers
- India: A Video from Maruti Suzuki Workers Solidarity Meeting, Gurgaon
- India: A video reportage on Maruti automobile workers strike of June 2011
- India: Arbitrary arrests and intimidation used against Maruti Suzuki workers
- India: Arrest of activist Shamim Modi
- India: Automobile workers at Maruti Plant in Gurgaon back sacked workers - union press release
- India: Behind the glitter of Tirupur garments hub is precarious labour
- India: Chhattisgarh Special Public Safety Act Used To Target a Labour Organiser and His Family
- India: Continued Repression of Maruti Workers - MSWU Press Release, 20 May 2013
- India: Deep-etched poverty lines
- India: Delhi’s Almond Workers’ Strike - Press Release on Day 6
- India: Delhi’s auto-rickshaw drivers are caught in a hard grind
- India: Domestic Workers Public Hearing in Jaipur
- India: Gross Denial of Workers Rights at New Delhi’s Commonwealth Games Construction Site
- India: Human Rights Abuses Involving Corporations - A report by ICJ
- India: Imperatives on the job front
- India: Invisible World of Domestic Workers Exposed at the Public Hearing
- India: Join MKSS to celebrate "May Day" Mazdoor Mela on the 1st of May 2013
- India: Leaflet on 1977 Swadeshi Mill Police Firing in Kanpur
- India: Leave and Working Hours in Mid 1980s in Industrial Firms of Bombay - URG Bulletin 9
- India: Life And Death In Annawadi
- India: Maharashtra’s Black Act
- India: Maruti Suzuki Manesar Workers - Facing Repression and illegal lockout - statements by unions
- India: Maruti Suzuki Workers Appeal from Jail
- India: Maruti Suzuki workers leaders arrested - Press release by human rights groups + letter by union official
- India: Misinformation in Government of Gujarat’s Employment Claims
- India: National Fishworkers’ Forum’s (NFF) open letter to the Prime Minister on the Koodankulam Nuclear Plant
- India: National Pension System - Loading the dice against workers
- India: NREGA promises transformation of rural livelihoods
- India: NTUI Statement on Sexual Crimes against Women
- India: Online Petition In Defence of Labour and Tribal Rights Activist Shamim Modi
- India: Open letter to Chief Minister Narendra Modi regarding deaths of migrant workers at Alang shipbreaking works
- India: Pension Bill - Robbing the Workers to Enrich the Capitalists
- India: Playing games with the construction workers
- India: Poster on Workers Protest at Delhi University on 26 October 2012
- India: Poverty estimates vs food entitlements
- India: Reflections on Maruti workers strike of June 2011
- India: Report on labour rights violations in BYD Electronics (P) Ltd, in Tamil Nadu
- India: Right to work and rights at work
- India: Stop the Police Brutality Against Maruti Suzuki Workers - Joint Press Statement
- India: The extra-legal treatment of street vending
- India: The Maruti style of industrial relations seen from the workers side
- India: The working conditions of ordinary Delhi policemen
- India: Union budget 2013-2014 - responses by labour & social movements
- India: Uranium Corporation of India Ltd. Stop Victimising Union Activists
- India: Why is it that the government wants to substitute the labour inspector by the company secretary?
- India: Women’s Work, Stigma, Shelter Homes and the State
- India: Workers Struggle at Maruti-Suzuki and Seven Other Factories in Manesar
- India: Workers struggles in Dehradoon
- India: Workers’ struggle in Maruti Suzuki
- Indian trade unions are getting bigger, coinciding with slowdown
- Iron Crows: The ship-breakers of Chittagong (Film Review - New York Times)
- ITGLWF Condemns Jailing of Pakistan Power Loom Union Leaders
- James Surowiecki: After Rana Plaza
- Jammu and Kashmir: labour under conflict
- Japanese Auto Giant Maruti Suzuki India: Reeling in Profits, Violating Workers Rights says PUDR report
- Joint India-Pakistan Trade Unions’ Statement on Terrorism in South Asia: A Challenge for Democracy
- Keep UID out of NREGA!
- Killing of CEO of Graziano Trasmissioni, India: Inaccuracies, and anti-labour bias in media coverage
- Labour in Global Value Chains: A Study of the Leather and Footwear Manufacturing Cluster of Kanpur
- Labour movements in globalisation era
- Labour Rights in Garments Industry in Bangladesh - A report by Odhikar
- Labour’s fair demands in Pakistan
- Life in a Nepali Workers’ Labour Camp in Qatar
- Lifeworld of Delhi’s Ragpickers
- Like Leaves in a Storm
- Looking back at Shankar Guha Niyogi, 20 years after his assassination
- Malik-speak: demonisation and denial
- Migrants Tale - Jessica’s Story - as a maid in Saudi Arabia
- MNREGA perhaps the largest financial inclusion drive in rural India
- National Forum of Forest People and Forest Workers of India Open letter to President, Peru
- Negligence causes death of worker at Nokia Telecom SEZ, Sriperumbadur
- Networking and grassroots organizing among women workers in conflict-ridden Sri Lanka
- New Delhi’s war on beggars
- No More Rhetoric on Social Responsibility: Tata’s legitimise Modi’s communal - authoritarian ways
- Nokia SEZ: Public Price of Success
- NREGA: From accounts to accountability
- Nurses in India are up in arms against the deteriorating working conditions
- Open letter by Korean organisations regarding safety of opponents to construction of POSCO steel plant in India
- Pakistan Elections 2013: Labour Rights and Land Reforms Not on the Agenda of Political Parties - selected press reports
- Pakistan worker’s 9/11 - massive factory fires of Karachi and Lahore - selected media reports, edits and statements by labour organisations
- Pakistan: A Paradigm Shift Needed in Labour policy and industrial relations
- Pakistan: Brutal police action against workers in Khanewal
- Pakistan: Civil Society Organizations Express Concern Over Anti Workers Policy and Actions of the Punjab Government
- Pakistan: Fishermen’s trade union activists murdered by the land mafia
- Pakistan: Hazardous conditions for workers at Gadani ship breaking yard
- Pakistan: Human rights commission and Trade Unions Critique Anti Labour Law
- Pakistan: Labour and rights groups petition the Sindh High Court on the Baldia Town factory fire incident on Sept 11, 2012, in Karachi
- Pakistan: Labour Policy and Rights
- Pakistan: Labour’s just demands
- Pakistan: Landmark Agreement for the Victims of the Ali Enterprises Garment Factory Fire (in Karachi)
- Pakistan: National Conference on ’Labour Rights as Citizen Rights: Realising Constitutional Reforms’
- Pakistan: PILER Welcomes Amendment in Services Tribunal Act and Repeal of Removal from Services Order
- Pakistan: Remembering Baldia victims
- Pakistan: Slapping anti terrorism charges, latest tactic to crush workers protest
- Pakistan: Status of Labour Report 2010
- Pakistan: The State Should Not Turn a Blind Eye To Workers Rights Violations
- Pakistan: What really killed them
- PILER concerned about lack of occupational health and safety in coal mines in Pakistan
- PILER urges Indian authorities to release 72 Pakistani fishermen, languishing in Indian jails
- Polluting Industries, Environment and Workers’ Health: A Case for Intervention
- Precarious work in certified tea production for Unilever in India and Kenya
- Press Release by International Team of Lawyers and Trade unionists on Workers Rights in Maruti Suzuki Manesar plant, India
- Press Release Founding Conference of the All India Union of Forest Working Peoples
- Press Release: High Court Directs Bangladesh Bank to Freeze Accounts re Rana Plaza Collapse
- Primitive Accumulation and India’s Special Economic Zones: Implications for democracy and citizenship
- Racism in India towards migrant labourers
- Radiation Incident in Mayapuri: Disquieting Signals to Labour
- Regressive custom of dowry in Tamil Nadu in service of global garment industry
- Report on Sex Worker Freedom Festival in Calcutta
- Reports on Workers rights in Gurgaon and Gorakhpur: Precarious situation of migrants and police repression
- Repulsing The Employers’ Offensive in India: Honda is a turning point
- Respect workers’ rights at the Foxconn plant in Chennai, India
- Rethink Privatization - An open letter to the president of Pakistan
- Robert Fisk: On the appalling treatment of migrant labour in the Arab Gulf
- SAAPE Labour Group condemns Garib & Garib Sweater Factory Fire Case that Killed 21 Workers in Bangladesh
- Saudi Arabia: Bangladeshi labor becomes less “docile”
- Saying Good Morning in the Night
- Sex work and the misguided anti-trafficking development industry
- Sexual Abuse of South Asian Women Workers at ’Classic’ Factory in Jordan
- Shortchanged
- South Africa: The Runaway Union
- South Africa: Wildcat strike wave (sept-oct 2012) despite gate keepers of the labour movement - analysis and reports
- Sri Lanka University Teachers Struggle for Pay Hike - Trade Union Action by the FUTA
- Sri Lanka: Daily Massacre of Civilians, Can the Trade Union Movement Remain Silent?
- Sri Lanka: M.G. Mendis - Union Militant and Communist leader
- Sri Lanka: Million Signature Campaign to ’Save State Education’ by FUTA
- Sri Lanka: Open letter to ensure the security of Herman Kumara and Anura Roshantha
- Sri Lanka: Police firing on workers protest at the Katunayake Free Trade Zone - A Statement by the Lawyers for Democracy
- Sri Lanka: Statement on Rizana Nafeek’s Execution 11 January 2013
- Sri Lanka: The FUTA strike and the survival of democratic dissent
- Statement Adopted by Trade Unions from South Asia, 21 April 2010
- Statement protesting the arrest of Moshrefa Mishu, garment workers leader in Bangladesh
- Strike breaking or the Refusal of Subalternity ?
- Striking Workers, Bangladeshi Activist Challenge Wal-Mart on Labor Conditions at Stores & Factories
- Support Holcim India workers struggle for regularisation in Bhilai
- Tata India – Are its Tea Estates Above the Law?
- Tea Plantation Workers Rally For Justice at Tata-Tetley Headquaters
- Teachers cant be cogs in a machine
- The Economy, Poverty and Bonded Labour in Pakistan
- The Grameen Bank, Micro-credit and the NGO Paradigm in Bangladesh
- The PDS turnaround in Chhattisgarh
- The Power to Choose
- The risks to worker safety in India are serious: Scott Nova, Worker Rights Consortium (WRC)
- The Social Impact of East Asian Crisis and Lessons for Pakistan
- The Social Justice Mirage in Market Driven Fairtrade: a case study from India
- The social question, who cares?
- The wages of discontent
- The Work of Domestic Work
- Undermining people’s power - A story of five years
- Update on workers struggle for regularisation at ACC HOLCIM, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh - 4 weeks on
- Vietnam’s Suppression of the Independent Workers’ Movement
- What’s in NREGA for the middle class
- Who’s On the Line?
- Why are the automobile workers protesting at the Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar plant ?
- Will Burma Take Bangladesh’s Low Wage Sweatshop Jobs ?
- Women Workers in Textile / Readmade Garments Sector in Pakistan and Bangladesh
- Women Workers in the Global Economy: A Feminist Critique of the Core Labour Standards
- Workers as Machines: Military Management at Foxconn factories in China
- Workers Movement : New Challenges, New Possibilities
- Workers who keep the Delhi Metro rail stations shining are victims of exploitation by contractors
- Zones of Exploitation Compared: Labour and Gender in EPZ’s / FTZ’s of South Korea, Bangladesh and India
- [Against growing anti-union violence worldwide] A battle for justice
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Special Dossiers / Compilations
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Educating to Hate: fundamentalisms in school books
- "Indianisation reforms" in schools another name for communlised curriculum
- Black fell the day
- Book Review: Schools Or Hate-Labs?
- Censorship in Pakistani Urdu Textbooks : Ajmal Kamal
- De-Intellectualisation of Education
- Educated To Hate: Thanks to The Ekal Vidyalaya Schools of the Hindu Right
- Hate as a history lesson
- Hate by the textbook: Faiza Mirza
- India: Our own Hindu Taliban - Joshi’s Educational Coups
- India: RSS Schools and the Hindu Nationalist Education Project
- India: The Hindu right is spreading its poison via its schools network
- Is this education?
- Keeping faith in make-believe history
- Pakistan debate about ’curriculum of hate’ continues
- Pakistan: An oversupply of graduates from religious schools leads them towards militancy job market
- Pakistan: Bias in the textbooks and education - report on a meeting in Karachi
- Pakistan: Curriculum of hatred in schools
- Pakistan: Do school texts fuel bias?
- Pakistan: Independent report identifies biases against religious minorities in textbooks
- Pakistan: Our poisoned education - Shia clothes and Sunni textbooks
- Pakistan: Seeds of hate
- Pakistan: Seeds of hatred are sown in schools
- Pakistan: When hatred seeps into classrooms
- Pakistani textbooks build hate culture against India
- Report on Pakistan’s Educational System and Religious Discrimination
- RSS, School Texts and the Murder of Mahatma Gandhi
- Secular education and the federal polity
- Textbooks And Communalism
- Textbooks as primers for extremism
- The Battle over Pakistan’s Schools
- The cartoon crisis in India
- The half truths and distorted facts in Pakistan Studies textbook
- The ideology of thought control in Pakistan
- Will Pakistan’s schools get a curriculum that weed’s out hate?
- Zia’s spiritual children - From schoolbooks to religious vigilantism: An interview with A H Nayyar
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In Defence of Freedom of Expression, Public Space in / on South Asia
- ’Like racism, homophobia works in invisible ways’
- A.K. Ramanujan: ’Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation’
- Afghanistan Government’s Organised Move to Scuttle Freedom of Expression
- Afghanistan’s War on Books
- An excuse called Rushdie
- And Then They Came For Me
- Attacking Writers, Banning Books : Growing fascist intolerance
- Bangladesh High Court Show Cause on Government re Constitutionality of ICT Act Powers to Block Websites
- Bangladesh’s writers --- battling terror, ethnic conflict and fundamentalism
- Bangladesh: Statement by Rights activists against arrest for owning a book by Taslima Nasreen
- Blocking Rushdie shameful (Editorial in Deccan Chronicle)
- Books and Boycotts in Galle
- CIP Protests Banning of Gandhi Book
- CIP statement on Maharashtra government’s move to gag freedom of expression
- Colin Gonsalves: Freedom of speech and expression and the law of sedition in India
- Condemn Shutdown of Sunil Gupta Exhibit
- Constitutional challenge to Bangladesh’s Facebook ban and sections of the Information Technology Act 2006
- Defend free speech as defined in the constitiution, not as defined by the mullahs
- Demanding Ban on Visit of Salman Rushdie to India is Outrageous
- Deobandis back to baiting Rushdie at Jaipur Literature Festival
- Dirty hands
- Do Not Punish Taslima Nasrin - An Open Letter to the Indian Authorities
- Dying to Tell the Story
- Exiled by Bigots’ Edicts
- Fear of ’fundos’ in Lahore
- Frightened by the mirror
- Full text of Judgement by India’s Supreme Court Lifting the ban of the book by James Laine
- Fundamentalist clamp down on freedom of artistic expression in the NWFP
- Fundamentalists – of all stripes – stripping away the right to freely discuss their faiths
- Fundamentalists Threaten the Friday Times in Pakistan
- Gagging Mickey Mouse
- Galle Literary Festival: An international appeal
- Gandhi Doesn’t Need This Defence: Banning books shows insecurity
- Githa Hariharan on The ’Epic’ Controversy of Ramanujan’s Essay
- Harassment of film crew and confiscation of footage in Bombay
- Husain is Safely Dead: Posthumous tributes to the self-exiled artist expose India’s hypocrisy
- In defence of Shahina KK and freedom of expression
- In Full Support of Shah Rukh Khan
- India’s Censor Board and our freedom of expression
- India’s Free-Speech Crisis
- India’s speech restrictions didn’t allow M.F. Husain to paint in peace
- India’s Supreme Court Judgement of April 2010 on S. Khushboo vs Kannaiammal - 2008
- India: Reading ‘Satanic Verses’ legal
- India: SAHMAT Press Release condemning ban on the play Charandas Chor by BJP government of Chhattisgarh
- India: "Formulate a decisive response, this danger to everyone’s freedom of expression will only escalate"
- India: Censorship and Law
- India: Chauvinists of the Hindu Right and Film Censorship Board
- India: Children of A Dreadful Midnight
- India: Delhi University abdicates its core duty by removing Ramanujan’s essay
- India: Eminent persons condemn the voices emanating from Chhatisgarh Police to book Arundhati Roy for her article, Walking With The Comrades
- India: For Islamist fundamentalists, the target is much bigger than Ms Nasreen
- India: Harassement and intimidation of Mallika Sarabhai because she speak out against the Gujarat riots
- India: It has become extremely difficult to produce films on controversial themes
- India: Mere mention of Kashmir sees art event cancelled in Bangalore
- India: Network of Women in Media Condemns Violent Abuse of Meena Kandasamy
- India: perhaps it is time to have a ministry against cartoons
- India: Police must enforce rule of law and curb hooligans
- India: Resist the Climate of Intimidation in Academics
- India: Speak, freedom
- India: The Culture of Fear - film-making in the Thackeray years
- India: The most precious of all freedoms
- India: Uphold Freedom of Expression. Condemn Fabricated cases against Film and Media persons in Kerala
- India: Violent Assault on Prashant Bhushan - Demonstrates bad times for freedom of expression
- India: We Artists, Academics and Citizens Condemn the Attack on Sundarayya Vignana Kendram
- India: Why The Shiv Sena Gets Away With Intimidation and Violence?
- Indian advisory to Beijing gallery is unacceptable
- Investigate Hindutva groups and websites spreading hate against artists and communities
- Kowtowing to the Super-Censors
- Law suit against recent regulations re TV broadcasts in Sri Lanka
- Let Delhi not go the Mumbai way: Oppose intolerance and hatred of disruptors
- Let us defend everybody’s right to free speech, even Ashis Nandy’s
- Letter of protest against cancelling the screening of documentary made by MF Husain
- Letter to India’s Censor Board re ’Removal’ of Tibet from Movie
- M F Husain’s death and India’s shameful surrender to violence that cites religion as its pretext
- Many Ramayanas enriched the epic
- Media under assault in Sri Lanka
- MF Husain was driven into exile by a hatred that has been allowed to flourish in Britain too
- MF Husain’s Exile Tests India
- Mind Without Fear
- Mr Governor save Mumbai from bigots
- Obliterating a Rich Past in the Swat Valley
- On 25 April 2013 we stand with Bangladeshi bloggers and activists!
- Online petition against Mumbai university’s removal of Rohinton Mistry’s book from English syllabus under pressure of the right wing Shiv Sena
- Outrage at 20 years prison sentence to journalism student in Afghanistan
- Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists to observe November 3 as "Black Day"
- Pakistan: "If you give the Taliban an inch - they will take a mile"
- Pakistan: Art Lovers Defy Taliban
- Pakistan: Artistes Caught in Crossfire
- Pakistan: Dont yield space to the extremists
- Pakistan: Media in Chains
- Pity the nation that has to silence its writers: Arundhati Roy
- Please do not ban books — not even the ugliest
- Politics of caste and religion and the ban on the Shivaji book: An interview with Anand Patwardhan
- Prime Minister, India: Reconsider the ban on Salman Rushdie’s ’The Satanic Verses’
- Prophets and prohibitions [Ban on Facebook in Pakistan]
- Public Interest Cartoon by Amul India’s Milk Producers Cooperative in Defence of Kashmiri Girls Band facing Ire of the Religious Right
- Publish and Be Damned in India
- Rally secular forces and resist the bigots
- Rationalist fears arrest if he returns to India
- Read here texts Blocked [Banned] in India: Salman Rushdie, Hamish McDonald, A K Ramanujan
- Reading of excerpts from Rohinton Mistry’s book - 18 Oct 2010 Mumbai
- Religious censorship crushes creativity. So is it ever right to ban art?
- Rohinton Mistry on Bombay University’s removal of his book from the syllabus
- Rushdie banished from Calcutta
- Rushdie visit: Nonsense over non-issue
- SAHMAT Statement on Rohinton Mistry
- Sahmat statement to condemn the attack on Arundhati Roy’s residence
- Sanal Edamaruku, well known rationalist, under threat of arrest for exposing the "miracle"
- Self-censorship in post-Zia Pakistan
- Shahshi Tharoor: Indians concerned about freedom of expression should applaud the judgement by Justice Kaul
- Social Sites, Salman Rushdie, and Individual Freedom
- Speaking Freely
- Sri Lanka’s slow descent into dictatorship has mostly gone unnoticed
- Sri Lanka: Death threats against journalists Frederica Jansz and Munza Mushataq
- Sri Lanka: Investigate death threats to the editor of Sunday Leader
- State ads and free press
- Statement by Arundhati Roy after attack on her residence on 31 October 2010
- Statement In Defense of Ashis Nandy: for academic and intellectual freedom
- Stifling free speech a bad idea
- Stop The Sena - A Comment in The Times of India
- Text of High Court of Delhi Ruling Clearing the Film ’Had-Anhad’ for unrestricted public screening
- The Ban on Pakistani Writers by Bombay’s Rightwing Has Dangerous Ramifications
- The Battle Over Culture : Fundamentalist threats and secular response in Bangladesh
- The beginning of the Talibanization of Lahore?
- The blasphemy case against Afghan journalist Parwiz Kambakhsh
- The campaign by the Hindu right against MF Hussain
- The collective conscience of the silent majority in Sri Lanka
- The fist is mightier than pen in India
- The Great Indian Love Affair With Censorship
- The human spirit cannot be subdued by violence
- The storks are still standing
- They can file a charge posthumously against Jawaharlal Nehru too
- Uphold Free Speech and Expression in India - A public statement by concerned citizens
- Vandalism Unlimited
- When the State Panders to Parochial Politics Freedom of Expression is Threatened - Select Editorials
- When the state shirks its responsibility other secular institutions help
- Why is India’s Censor Board Refusing To Certify ’Flames of the Snow’, a documentary on Nepal ?
- Zardari Bans My Books
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Partition of 1947 - India - Pakistan
- A reploughing of Jinnah’s life, but shorn of balance
- Ajay Bhardwaj: The 1947 partition of Punjab and after
- “It is a mistake to equate the demand for Pakistan with the partition of India”
- Book Review of ’Witnessing Partition by Tarun Saint’
- Book review of Lucy P. Chester’s ’Borders and Conflicts in South Asia’
- Book Review: ’Partitioned lives by Haimanti Roy’
- Book Review: Partition and its inhumanity
- Book review: Partition of 1947 and its reproduction - Histories
- Book Review: Partition retrospect
- Inheritance of loss
- New Directions in Partition Studies
- Partition and Bengal: A book review of Joya Chatterji’s ’The Spoils of Partition’
- Partition and The Fantasy of A Masculine State
- Partition Narratives: Displaced trauma and culpability among British civil servants in 1940s Punjab
- Partition Still Casts Shadow On India-Pakistan Ties
- Partition: Stories of arrival
- Paul Brass: The partition of India and retributive genocide in the Punjab, 1946–47
- Perry Anderson: Why Partition?
- Preeti Nair in EPW - Partition and Minority Rights in Punjabi Hindu Debates, 1920-47
- Punjabi Hindus and Partition
- Refugees, boundaries and histories
- Remembering Partition
- Remembering Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955)
- Revisiting 1947 through Popular Cinema: A Comparative Study of India and Pakistan
- Supriyo Sen’s 2009 film on the Wagah border ritual
- Sylhet in the Partition of India
- The ’bloody’ Punjab partition — VIII
- The Partition of India - A story of love and hate
- Venkat Dhulipala: Debating Pakistan in Late Colonial North India
- Venkat Dhulipala: The Muslim League in UP in late 1930’s
- What Partition did to her mother and her family
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Religion and Obscurantism
- A Karnataka High Court Ruling Against Obscurantism and Blind Faith
- A Miracle in Chakwal?
- A sati temple on university campus !
- Activists move courts against religious rituals or display of religion in Govt offices in southern India
- Bangladesh likely to make U-turn from secularism to Islamic hegemony
- Bogus Science: The conspiritorial claims regarding HAARP
- Case for Secular Pakistan
- Chhattisgarh women poisoned in witchcraft test
- Church Fatwas in Meghalaya
- Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life
- Delhi’s government has no business promoting religion using the taxpayer’s money
- From state to non-state actors
- Godmen Conmen
- Holy phoonk
- In God We Trust … Rest Strictly Cash!!
- India needs a national law against witch hunts and other superstitious practices
- India’s god laws fail the test of reason
- India’s secular state is in a state of slow-motion collapse
- India: Business and Politics of Blind Faith
- India: Courts continue to peddle obscurantism by recognising astrology as science
- India: Fasting, feasting and politicking
- India: Hindu religious rituals in Police station premises
- India: Human rights of women being violated openly in the name of witchcraft
- India: Karnataka Government’s Unconstitutional Action
- India: Madhya Pradesh Govt’s Massive Use of Public Funds to Promote Religious Pilgrimages
- India: Petition to Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay to encourage the withdrawal of complaints against Rationalist Sanal Edamaruku
- India: Public Interest Litigation against temples and other religious structures inside government premises in Orissa
- India: Rightwing Leader Wants More Religion Laced Teaching in School
- India: State, Religious Ritualism and Politics in Karnataka
- India: Supreme Court says no more religious structures, statues on public roads
- India: Text of landmark court ruling regarding ’Khap Panchayats’ which decree honour killings
- India: Why a state funeral for Sai Baba the con artist and fly ash generator ?
- Indian Godmen and the sacred complex
- Indian Spiritualism Made for the Modern Age
- Irrational protests
- Jammu and Kashmir: Pilgrim’s Progress Causes Regression
- Kamayani Bali Mahabal: Open letter to Chief Justice Bombay High Court on Fraud Nirmal Baba
- Maharashtra government keeps delaying legislation to curb black magic etc.
- Nepal: Religious Practices Oppress Women
- Obscurantism in the Law School
- On Neutrinos and Angels
- Pakistan’s televangelists
- Pakistan: How political Islam was dissipated across the society and made mainstream
- Pakistan: Live and Let Live - Stop Violence in the name of religion - Signature Campaign in Karachi
- Pakistan: Sindh under assault of obscurantism
- Political buttons to protest erasure of A K Ramanujan’s essay by Delhi university
- Prayer in the Pakistan Parliament?
- Prayer is useless
- Public interest litigation challenges Hindu religious ritual for Highcourt as unconstituonal
- Rationalists Seek To Prove Holy Men’s Power Not So ’Divine’ After All
- Religion, Religiosity and Secular Concerns
- Saffronisation of Karnataka
- Shashank Shekhar Sinha on witch-hunting
- Sitaram Yechuri on Dangers of Blind Faith
- Sri Lankan Government Overtly Pushing Religious Doctrine
- State Funds For Hindu Temples by the BJP run Government in Karnataka State in India
- Superstorm Sandy and God’s wrath
- The Big Kumbha Mela Hogwash : Big Money, Religion and Hypocrisy
- The scientist and Nobel laureate Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan debunks Astrology and other mumbo jumbo
- The story of the Rationalist Movement in India
- We should welcome the Kerala ban on display of religious motifs on state run buses
- What Sort of Secularism in Bangladesh?
- When Faith Eclipses Reason
- Why havent the secular forces created a popular culture that does not rely on religion and communal identities?
- Why Pakistan’s Ahmadi community is officially detested
- Without invoking religion
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Screening South Asia: Public Sphere, Citizenship and Technologies of Control
- A constitutional value for privacy
- A peoples campaign against India’s UID project
- A Unique Identity Bill
- Bangladesh: Proposed broadcast policy to limit freedom of media
- Comments on ’The National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010’
- CPJ Blog: India’s clumsy Internet crackdown
- Dont Try to Play Big Brother
- Eight reasons why you should oppose the UID - An appeal to all citizens
- India’s Gargantuan Biometric Database Raises Big Questions
- India: ’Biometrics, Turning a ’Citizen’ into a ’Subject’ - Video Interview with Usha Ramanathan
- India: Big Brother is looking over your shoulders
- India: Cyber censorship should be opposed
- India: Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 will scuttle Internet Freedom
- India: Justice A.P. Shah Expert Group’s Report on Privacy
- India: Photos from "Freedom in the Cage" Delhi Protest Against Web censorship in India
- India: Population Register Worse than Prisoner Identification - Press Release
- India: R. Ramakumar on the myths behind the Aadhaar project
- India: The IT law with its sinister section 66A is used time and again to ’straighten’ the ’rebellious’ online community
- India: Treat television as a public utility and guarantee citizens access to it
- India: Unregulated communications surveillance dangerous for democracy
- India: Why we Oppose the Rush to Cash Transfers and UID - concerned citizens statement
- India: You tube and Facebook blocked in Kashmir
- Not all that unique
- Notes from a contested history of National Identity Card in India:1999-2007
- On outrageous lies, collective fears and hopeless dreams of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
- Registration and the Poor: Why UIDAI wants to register the poor in India
- Sri Lanka’s authoritarian control of information
- Sri Lanka: Arbitrary Blocking and Registration of Websites - Statement by concerned citizens and organisations
- Sri Lanka: Growing trend of Internet Censorship
- The perils of ’Aadhaar’
- The Unique Identity of a Standing Committee: The UID in Parliament
- UID*
- UID: Facility or Calamity?
- Unique Identification (UID): A Primer
- Who is a citizen of India, who decides who is not?
- Why Indians should fear the UID
Web sites
- Cartoonists Rights Network
- Don’t Block the Blog
- Editors Guild of India
- Federation of Nepali Journalists
- Films For Freedom
- For Press Freedom by Sunanda Deshapriya
- Foundation of Media Professionals
- Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature
- Free Media Movement (Sri Lanka)
- Support Online Speech Freedoms in Pakistan
- Websites at Risk - Sri Lanka
- Womens World Free Speech Network of Feminist Writers
Tributes and Remembrances
Articles
- A Tribute to cartoonist Kutty
- A Tribute to Maharaj Kaul (1940-2009)
- A Tribute to Ram Narayan Kumar
- A tribute to the life and work of Leslie Gunawardana
- A Tribute to Upali Cooray (1939-2009)
- Adieu to an activist
- An Unusual Performer - Ceaseless search for new beginnings
- Bharati Roy Chowdhury - A grassroots feminist activist passes away
- Comrade Binod Bihari Chowdhury (1911-2013)
- Defending dissent and democracy
- Faheem Hussain - As I Knew Him
- Faheem Hussain - Lal Salam
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz centenary celebrations - 2011
- Habib Tanvir (1923-2009) : A Tribute
- Hari Sharma: Obituary
- Hari: My Comrade
- Human Rights Forum Salutes K.G. Kannabiran
- In Memory of Jyoti Babu!
- In memory of Sudarshan Punhani (1933-2009)
- India: A tribute to Asghar Ali Engineer - Farewell dear friend
- India: Eminent writer, feminist activist, Maitreyi Chatterjee passes away
- India: Lotika Sarkar 1927 – 2013 - Tributes
- India: Qamar Azad Hashmi passes
- India: The Story of Sister Valsa John (1958-2011)
- India: Tribute to Sitaram Shastry
- India: Tribute to Vina Mazumdar
- Iqbal Haider (14 January 1945 - 11 November 2012)
- K.G. Kannabiran Breathes His Last
- Kannabiran: Doyen of the civil liberties movement
- Keeping memories alive: 20th anniversary of Rajani’s assassination in Sri Lanka
- KG Kannabiran: Warrior for civil liberties
- M. F. Husain (1915 -2011) - a statement by SAHMAT
- Mansoor Saeed (1 November 1942 - 24 May 2010)
- Neera Desai (1925-2009): Pioneer of Women’s Studies in India
- Not enough tears: Remembering Rajani Thiranagama
- Our grief, our shame
- Pakistan: Tributes to Asad Rehman ’Chakar Khan’
- Rajani Thiranagama: Making of a new revolutionary
- Ram Narayan Kumar: An Obituary
- Remembering Ahilya Rangnekar
- Remembering the late J. Sri Raman
- Remembering Victor Gordon Kiernan
- Remembering Victor Kiernan
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927- 2013)
- Sabina Sehgal Saikia : A Tribute
- Saneeya Hussain (1954 -2005)
- Secular historian - R.S. Sharma (1920-2011): A tribute by Suvira Jaiswal
- Smitu Kothari - A salute to his life-long contribution
- South Asia celebrates the centenary of Faiz Ahmad Faiz: reports and commentary
- Sri Lanka: Hector Abhayavardhana - The last of the Old Left and the end of an era
- Sudesh Vaid: A feminist public intellectual
- Sunil Janah (1918-2012) - A tribute by Ram Rahman
- Surendra Mohan - End of A Socialist Era (1929 - 2010)
- Tea and Consequences with Qurratulain Hyder
- Tribute to J Sri Raman
- Tribute to Mrinal Gore
- Tribute to Ravi Shankar - Statement by Sahmat
- Tributes to Captain Lakshmi Sahgal
- Tributes to Eric Hobsbawm - 1917-2012
- Tributes to Mario de Miranda
- Tributes to Professor Leela Dube
- Victor Kiernan (1913-2009): historian and India’s friend
Web sites
- Akhtar Hameed Khan - A tribute
- Celebrating Smitu Kothari
- Dr M. Sarwar (1930-2009)
- Human Rights Forum (Maanava Hakkula Vedika)
- IG Khan Memorial Trust
- In Memory of Lasantha Wickrematunge
- K Balagopal: A web memorial - archive
- Neelan Tiruchelvam
- Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust
- Omar Asghar Khan
- Remembering Eqbal Ahmed
- Remembering K Balagopal
- Sunil Janah’s Website
- Tareque Masud: Life and Dreams
Women’s Rights
Articles
- Culture Worship by Indian Feminists is Killing India’s Women
- "Fundamentalists of all religions don’t like women"
- "The Womens Movement is a larger thing" - Interview with Kamla Bhasin
- "We Refuse to Be Held to Ransom By Terrorism" - Pakistan’s Women Swimmers
- ’Aurat Kay Haq Main Utai Jani Wali Awaaz’ - An audio tape by Womens Action Forum
- 8 March 2009 Statement by Civil Society Organisations Against Violence Against Women in Sri Lanka
- A brutal manifestation of patriarchy
- A Father’s Crime
- A Journey Across India In Support of the Women’s Reservation Bill
- Afghan peace process offers little hope for women
- Afghan Women’s Network and Civil Society’s Statement on the Scrutiny of the Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women
- Afghanistan must stop the murder of its female leaders
- Afghanistan Pakistan: The Taliban, Malala, and nations of women under the gun
- Afghanistan will not know peace until women are equal participants in negotiations
- Afghanistan: Edicts released by Hamid Karzai reminiscent of the Taliban era
- Afghanistan: Extremist Threat to Women Increasing, Government Failing to Protect
- Afghanistan: Hundreds of Women, Girls in Jail for ’Moral Crimes’ says HRW
- Afghanistan: Proposed Clamp Down on Women’s Shelters
- Afghanistan: Women Who Fight for Freedoms & The Taliban’s War on Women
- AIDWA Flays Petition Seeking Dilution of Dowry Law
- AIDWA Press Statement on Bill for Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at the Workplace in India
- An eleven-year shadow
- Anger as Afghan MPs halt women’s bill debate
- Backlash Against Feminist Writing in India
- Bangalore Demo Against Moral Policing
- Bangladesh - discriminatory family laws: Marriages - Made in Heaven, Living Hell for Many
- Bangladesh feminists demand state action against fatwas by obscurantist clerics
- Bangladesh: ’Fatwa’ violence against women goes on unabated - Human Rights Watch
- Bangladesh: Crime in the Name of Belief
- Bangladesh: Dhaka Women’s Rally Against Demands by Fundamentalists of Hefajat-e Islam - Selected News Reports
- Bangladesh: Fighting back against daily sexual harassment
- Bangladesh: High Court Directs Government to Immediately Implement Sexual Harassment Guidelines in all Educational Institutions, and ensure that Women Not Forced to Veil or Cover their Heads
- Bangladesh: Islamists again violently oppose women’s rights - Secularists need to resist firmly
- Bangladesh: Stop Parallel Justice System Issuing Religious Edicts to Punish Women
- Bangladesh: The era of women empowerment and 39 lashes
- Bangladesh: Where is the promised change for women?
- Bangladesh: Women development policy - Pushing the boundaries?
- Bangladesh: Women to remain sloganists only?
- Beneath the veneer of protecting public morality in Sri Lanka
- Burqa got a befitting French kiss
- Business As Usual - Sexual harassment on Gujarat campus
- Call for action to denounce CBI cover-up of Shopian
- Carry Forward the Struggle against Patriarchy and oppression based on Class, Caste, Nationality, and Religion
- Challenging Impunity on Sexual Violence in South Asia
- Challenging the community councils that order honour killings and punitive rapes
- Compromise and surrender of principle: A response to the article by Ramachandra Guha, ’The Beauty of Compromise’
- Conference Statement - Afghan Women’s Movement from First Women’s Council to Kabul Conference
- Consequences of Maternal Exposure to Spousal Violence on Infant and Child Mortality
- Controversies Over Women Writing Their Lives In Kerala
- Crimes against Afghan women in the name of custom: Hypocrisy of European Union officials
- Cultural and Body Politics of Patriarchy
- Custom of Honour Killings, Business As Usual
- Cycle Fatwa Rides into My Re-Cycle Bin
- Debunking the Women’s Movement in Nepal
- Delhi Declaration on 100 years of International Women’s Day
- Elimination of Violence against Women law in Afghanistan has a long way to go
- English Literary Studies, Women’s Studies and Feminism in India
- Erosion of secular public culture in the UK and its implications for minority women
- Events in Delhi, Bombay, Bangalore, Colombo for One Billion Rising - 14 February 2013
- Family Honour That Kills Women
- Fight Back the Hindu Taliban Join the Pink Underwear Campaign
- For Rape Victims in India, Police Are Often Part of the Problem
- For women’s sake
- Freedom from violence in the family still remains a distant dream for women
- Fundamentalists agenda of subjugation of women
- Fundamentalists and Their Mythical Notions of Womanhood
- Gender and Sovereignty in Northeastern India
- Gender and the perils of identity politics in India
- Gender Profile of the Conflict in Sri Lanka: A report by UNIFEM
- German Afghan Women’s Rights Activist Killed in Kandahar
- Girls say, We want to change things in Burma
- Global Protest Against Sexual Terrorism Practiced on Egyptian Female Protestors - 12 February 2013
- Governments Must Stop Condoning ‘Honour Killings’
- Harmful traditional practices that violate women’s rights widespread in Afghanistan
- Highly Inflammable
- Human Rights Watch Report on Forensic Examinations of Rape Survivors in India
- If we are not careful, we women could become second class citizens in our own country
- Ignorant goodwill
- In solidarity with Rayana R. Khasi under threat from Muslim fundamentalists in Kerala
- India Must Reform Sexual Assault Laws, Treatment of Survivors says Human Rights Watch
- India’s sexist political habitat
- India: A study of deserted women from Sangli district
- India: Anti-woman resolutions of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind are condemnable
- India: Appratchiks of National Commission of Women Forced to Reopen the Soni Sori Case
- India: Blind to what, Your Honour?
- India: Bombay Feminists Protest Sexist and Unetheical Reportage
- India: Calcutta feminists arrested for protesting against the twin incidents of rape and murder of students | statement by NTUI
- India: Celebrating Dayamani Barla
- India: Citizens Memorandum to Chief Justice of Karnataka regarding Justice Bhaktavatsala’s remarks legitimizing domestic violence
- India: Comprehensive Action Against Sexual Violence Needed - Safety at Public Places is Everybody’s Business
- India: Dead Women Tell No Tales
- India: Feminists demand stern action against officials for sexualised torture and violence in Chhattisgarh
- India: Gender Just, Gender Sensitive and NOT Gender Neutral Rape Laws - Press Statement
- India: Let’s call it hate speech
- India: Murders In the Name of Honour and Tradition
- India: No country for young women
- India: No reservations about women’s reservations
- India: Open Letter on Sexuality Education
- India: Open letter re police misconduct at Delhi university protest — sexual abuse, violence and initimidation
- India: Panchayats turn into kangaroo courts
- India: Patriarchy rules the mind
- India: Petition to the Prime Minister regarding a comprehensive response to sexual violence
- India: Photos from ’Freedom Parade’, New Delhi, 26 January 2013
- India: Photos from People’s Watch Over Parliament, 21 February 2013 - Bekhauf Azadi (Freedom Without Fear) Campaign
- India: President urged not to Sign the Ordinance by Women’s Organizations
- India: Rape, blame and the tourism industry in Goa
- India: Remembering Laxmi Orang - The Predicament of the Gender Question in Assam
- India: Report and Film on Commercial Surrogacy
- India: Saheli Fire - An update & appeal to help us rebuild our office
- India: Savage samaj
- India: Sexism and Patriarchy in the Textbooks
- India: sexual harassment at Sun TV — NWMI statement
- India: Sexual Violence Against Women in Chhattisgarh
- India: Some Thoughts on Rape, Sexual Violence and Protest - Responding to Responses
- India: Statement by women’s organizations on increasing state violence on people’s movements and sexual violence on women by police, paramilitary and army
- India: Statement in Protest Against Muslim Right Wing Attack on Women’s Reservation Bill
- India: Surviving in a world of men
- India: Take back the night. Greet the new year to come . . .
- India: The National Consultation on Regulation of Drug Trials
- India: The new sexual security regime
- India: The Struggle Against Rape and Sexual Assault - A View from the Left
- India: The Verma Commission and Women’s Status
- India: Too many women dying in childbirth
- India: Video Interview with Subhashini Ali on Women’s Reservation Bill
- India: What honour? It’s cruel murder with sanction from parallel judicial systems.
- India: Why the protests sadden me
- India: Women’s Delegation meets President Pratibha Patil on Custodial sexual torture of Soni Sori - Press release
- India: Womens Groups and Health Activists Appeal Against the Parliamentary Committee Report on Sex Education
- Is molesting and beating women part of our culture?
- Law reform in response to sexual harassment in India
- Legislative Brief: Women’s Reservation Bill
- Letter to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Re.: Gender Justice in Kashmir
- Making Peace With the Taliban Will Come at a Steep Price — Further suppression of women’s rights in Afghanistan
- Memo to Irish Parliament by Indian Feminists Demands Abortion Rights
- Monika Hauser: Support women’s rights not obfuscation in Afghanistan
- Moving ahead, in the shadow of fear
- Namita Bhandare: Survivors, not victims
- NDTV: In conversation with Eve Ensler
- Nepal: Women human rights activists continue to face violent attacks despite promises of govt protection
- On the International Campaign ’One Billion Rising to End Violence Against Women’ : Eve Ensler, Kamla Bhasin
- On the Patriarchy Highway - honour killing defenders get a prize
- Online Petition Agianst Attacks on Women in Karnataka
- Pakistan Appeal Re Mukhtar Mai: write letters and emails to the authorities
- Pakistan official religious court contradicts secular laws on womens rights
- Pakistan: Citizens petition against shocking appointments of Zehri and Bajarani as ministers
- Pakistan: Extracts from the NCSW Report on Hudood Ordinance
- Pakistan: For Whom Will ’Gul Nargis’ Bloom This Spring in The Swat Valley
- Pakistan: Full text of petition seeking review and recall the Judgment on Mukhtar Mai (April 2011)
- Pakistan: Fundamentalists Assault on Women, Minorities and on Culture
- Pakistan: Justice for women
- Pakistan: Letter to Progressive Women Parliamentarians and A Response
- Pakistan: Malala’s journey, and mine
- Pakistan: NCSW and members of IHI disappointed at the verdict of Supreme Court in Mukhtaran Mai case
- Pakistan: secularism is fundamental for womens rights
- Pakistan: Why state patronage to Hijab pushers of the Muslim Right
- Pakistan: Why the Silence of Women Parliamentarians on the Passage of ’Nizam-i-Adl’ Regulation ?
- Pakistan: Women on motorbikes — what’s the problem?
- Pass The Women Reservation Bill Now - Press Release from The Alliance for 33%
- Patriarchal state and Jumma women’s agency
- Petition in defence of Lal Bibi: bring her rapists to justice and protect women across Afghanistan
- Politically motivated sexual assault: the Egypt story none want to hear
- Powers That Be Protect The Rapists - Recent instances in Bihar, UP and Punjab
- Preetika Rana: Why India Still Allows Marital Rape
- Press Release From International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women of Burma
- Public statement condemning incidents of sexual assault on women from North East India
- Rape and the crisis of Indian masculinity
- Rape in 1971: in the name of Pakistan
- Rape, Justice and Compromise
- Rapes of Women Show Clash of Old and New India
- Resist fundamentalist opposition and implement women’s development policy in Bangladesh - reports and commentary
- Resistance to forced marriage in India: Asylum victory in New York
- Rethinking the law on sexual assault in India
- Richard Pithouse: From Delhi to Bredasdorp
- Rising Violence Against Afghan Women in Taliban held areas
- Second India Shadow Report on CEDAW
- Secrets and lies: Tackling HIV among sex workers in India
- Separate personal laws for Bangladesh’s Muslims, Hindus, and Christians discriminate - HRW report
- Sex crimes are ubiquitous: Interview with Jacqueline Bhabha
- Sex, Death and the Gods - video interview with filmmaker Beeban Kidron
- Sexual harassment
- Sexual harassment at the workplace bill: Justice or cruel joke?
- Sexual violence in Indian cities
- Shame, not honour in Killing
- Shariat Court Decision Anti Women and Undermines Judiciary in Pakistan
- Shehla Anjum on Malala Yousafzai
- Shutting the doors?
- Silence is Violence: End the abuse of women in Afghanistan
- Social Change and "Keepers" of Culture and Tradition
- Southern India’s devadasi system - sex work under the cover of religion
- Sri Lanka: ’Covering Up’- Creeping Talibanization?
- Statement by Afghan women’s rights activist Malalai Joya on the Pakistani Taliban attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai
- Story of the Feminist Campaigns for a Law on Domestic Violence in India
- Tales of women’s resistance in Pakistan
- Taliban: agent or victim?
- Target - Driven Sterilization Harming Women in India - HRW statement
- Text of statement condemning sexual violence and opposing death penalty: women’s and progressive groups and individuals in India
- The "Ten-Dollar Talib" and Afghan Women’s Rights - A report by Human Rights Watch
- The Afghan government is trying to whitewash the Taliban’s image
- The Enemy At Home
- The Guwahati frames
- The Mukhtar Mai case will silence many women in Pakistan
- The Poison of Male Violence
- The Psychology Behind ’Honour Killings’ in India
- The State and Status of Women in Pakistan
- The Trophies Of Operation Green Hunt - When rape is routine and there’s a paucity of condemning voices
- The Women of Gulabi Gang in Bundelkhand
- The women who violently perpetuate oppressive cultural practices
- The women’s movement needs to learn how to deal with the compelling force of religious discourse
- Time To Stand Up and Say No
- Todo Bandhan (Break Barriers)
- Tragic silence over Bangladesh’s babies of war of 1971
- UK: Long and Unfinished Feminist Battle Against Fundamentalism
- Understanding and Responding To The Mangalore Assaults
- Victory in Mauritius on Abortion Decriminalization
- Video: One Billion Rising Events in Dwarka, Delhi - 14 Feb 2013
- What has Malala Yousafzai done to the Taliban?
- What secularists and women stand to loose in the Tunisian elections?
- When Malala Fell, People of Pakistan Stood Up for Her
- Why a dress code? Why only women?
- Why is India so bad for women? Helen Pidd
- Why Ram Sene is horrific and honour killings routine
- Why the public caning of a women in Malaysia concerns us all?
- Why the US anti prostitution pledge is bad - testimonies of sex workers from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Thailand . . .
- Why We Need A Uniform Civil Code in India?
- Why we said pants to India’s bigots
- Woman Alone
- Woman behind the movement: An interview with Nighat Said Khan
- Women and Discriminatory Laws in Bangladesh
- Women are not willing to go back to pre-war status quo in Sri Lanka
- Women for Secularism - A Vision Statement
- Women’s freedom, not ’pub culture’, is their target...
- Women’s Groups Condemn State Cover-up in Shopian Case (in Kashmir)
- Women’s Rights in India: Promises and Prospects
- Womens Studies Conference, The Latest Victim of India’s War on Terror
- Womens’s Campaign ’Reservation Express’ launched in India
- WSS Press Release on Sexual Assault of 20 year old Adivasi Woman in Gapathi district of Orissa
- Yasmin Alibhai-brown: The Unpalatable Truth About Forced Marriage
- [Bangladesh] Women in politics: What should be the focus?
News items
Web sites
- Afghan Women’s Network
- Ain O Salish Kendra
- Anveshi
- Anweshi
- •PRIA’s CASH
- Bangladesh Mahila Parishad
- Bangladesh Women Lawyers Association
- Blank Noise
- Breakthrough
- Campaign Against Honour Killings
- Centre for Women’s Research
- CREA
- Feminist Approach to Technology - FAT
- Fight Back
- Gender Equal: A Blog on India’s Female Gendercide
- Gramya Resource Centre for Women
- Indian Association of Women’s Studies
- Jagori
- Khuli Zabaan
- Majlis
- Make Art Not War
- Manushi
- Network of Women in Media
- Passages to India. Literary and Socio-Political Perspectives on Gender Concepts in India
- Pink Chaddi Campaign
- Progressive Women’s Association
- RAWA
- Reservation Express
- Saheli Women’s Resource Centre
- Sakhi
- Sama: Resource Group for Women and Health
- Saneeya Husssain Trust
- Sangat South Asia
- Sangram
- SEWA
- Shirkat Gah
- Southall Black Sisters
- Stop Street Harassment
- Stree Mukti Sanghatana
- TARSHI
- Tehrik e Niswan (Karachi)
- The Sexuality and Rights Institute
- Vimochana
- WAR - war against rape
- Women and Media Collective
- Women Unlimited
- Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC), Nepal
- Women’s WORLD India
- Zubaan Books
