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Sister sites Fundamentalism(s):Resources for concerned citizens www.snipurl.com/3grt South Asia Citizens Web www.sacw.net South Asians Against Nukes www.s-asians-against-nukes.org other content sections and links Selected press release archive: - PPAD / PPC / CNDP / Sahmat / NBA and others (coming soon) Pakistan India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy India Pakistan: Citizens against the Kargil war of 1999 Communalism- Articles Archive Contesting Communalism Resources: Grapics/audio/video Invoking an imagined Past: - Doctoring Education - History writing in the service of Hate Womens rights Sexuality minorities Human Rights Gujarat 2002 Partition Histories Labour Movement Collection Victims of 'Nation Building' Communications Censorship Special Reports and Collections - Fundamentalist Threat to Freedom of Expression - S. Asians against the war on Iraq Alerts Mailing lists - South Asia Citizens Wire - Searchable archive of South Asia Citizens Wire [From Aug 2003] - South Asians Against Nukes - India Pakistan Arms Race and Militarisation Watch - Labour Notes South Asia Blogs - Communalism Watch - Hindutva at Work	Selected content from SACW / SAAN : No Burial For Balakot by Pervez Hoodbhoy Interrogating 'terrorism - Speak the truth - Stop the killing by Dilip Simeon India: Radiation Monitoring Around Madras Atomic Power Station by VT Padmanabhan and NP Nakul [5 March 2005] (See also - Associated Charts and Pictures made while surveying the Tamil Nadu coast between 10-20 February 2005) Protest in Pakistan to rollback representation of labour and women in local Govt: Reports and Pictures - Letter to the Pakistan President [Urdu] - Cut in seats for women, workers opposed (link to report in English - Dawn) | Picture of Demo in Karachi | Reports on Protest in Hyderabad Daily Jang 15 Feb (in Urdu) | Dawn 15 Feb (in English) [Labour Notes South Asia | February 17, 2005] Founding Declaration and resolutions - International Forum for A Secular Democratic Bangladesh [February 6, 2005] Nepal Under Military Rule: Urgent Appeal by Human Rights organisations [February 8, 2005] India: Joint Statement of Women's Groups Against Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) by womens groups [January 17, 2005] India: Draft - The Communal Crimes Act, 2004 Part 1 / Part 2 A tribute to Mulk Raj Anand: Salute to a Mentor by V.B.Rawat India: Innovation in Media Censorship : Gujarat Experiment of Mini Emergency by Digant Oza [September 11, 2004] India: Mushhars: Tales of untold miseries by V.B.Rawat [September 10, 2004] India: Manufacturing Hysteria: On Census-Inspired 'Nationalism' Letter by S. Subramainian, and S. Jayaraj [September 9, 2004] Are we still singing for the Empire? by Pradip Kumar Datta [September 8, 2004] India: Rajasthan High Court Accepts Sati Writ Petitions Press Note: Jaipur, 6th August, 2004 India: Invitation to Anti War Assembly by Citizens Against War and Occupation [July 24-25, 2004] India - Pakistan: Next Steps For Nuclear Talks by Zia Mian, A.H. Nayyar, R. Rajaraman, M.V. Ramana [June 24, 2004] The Sri Lankan Peace Process by Asoka Bandarage [June 13, 2004] The Future of The Indian Past by Romila Thapar [April 2, 2004] Islam, the Mediterranean, and the rise of capitalism by Jairus Banaji [November, 2003] India: NCERT's Continuing Assault on History Press Statement by Sahmat [June 2003] Formation of Pakistan Social Forum and Joint Declaration [March, 2003] Peace in South Asia: Pipe-Dream or Real Possibility? by Rohini Hensman [March, 2002]  The Taste of Grass by Zia Mian [May, 1998] Elsewhere on the web: 60th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Special Issue, 2005 - Peace Now - Journal of India's Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace Edited by Zia Mian And Smitu Kothari The 'People's War' in Nepal by Pankaj Mishra [June 23, 2005] 'Media Wants a byte not a book' Rediff Interview with Romila Thapar [February 14, 2005] Reforming Our Universities by Pervez Hoodbhoy This warrior is fighting on by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti [Jan 13, 2005] Revolutionaries of another kind by Achin Vanaik [Dec 27, 2004] Passage to China by Amartya Sen [NYRB, Dec 2, 2004] Employment as a social responsibility by Jean Drèze Human Rights, Relativism and Minorities in North-East India by Rajesh Dev (October 23, 2004) Can Pakistan Work? A Country In Search of Itself by Pervez Hoodbhoy [An essay and commentary on a book by Stephen P. Cohen, 'The Idea of Pakistan', the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC. Published in the October 2004 issue of Foreign Affairs] India's gays awaken to bad dream Homosexuals have to fight centuries of social stigma by Mike McPhate Arun Kolatkar: A legend springs by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (October 8, 2004) Unconvincing peace - Kashmir by Ananya Jahanara Kabir How not to win friends and influence people by Zafar Sobhan Large Dams In India -- Temples Or Burial Grounds? by Angana Chatterji and Robert Jensen [September 21, 2004] Book review: The legacy of an intellectual by Tariq Rahman [August 23, 2008] India's Sikhs: Waiting for Justice by Barbara Crossette Things I never knew about my father by Hanif Kureishi [August 20, 2004] Sri Lanka: The politics of faith and fold by Vasuki Nesiah [August 2004] Bangladesh: Projects of Mass Destruction by Anu Muhammad [July 27, 2004] Soiled Hands: The Pakistan Army's Repression of the Punjab Farmers' Movement Human Rrights Watch Report [July 21, 2004]    Reinventing Pakistan by Mohsin Hamid Re-thinking Kashmir [Film Review] by Beena Sarwar [June 27, 2004] Pluralism and Qazi Hussain by Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy [June 19, 2004] Another fling at Shariat by I.A. Rehman [June 8, 2004] Calling India's freethinkers By Meera Nanda [May 22, 2004] A Text without Author Locating Constituent Assembly as Event by Aditya Nigam [May 22, 2004] Minorities in South Asia by I.A. Rehman [May 5, 2004] How deep shall we dig? by Arundhati Roy [April 25, 2004] Bangladesh: The Ahmadiyya Community must be protected by Amnesty International [April 23, 2004] Bangladesh: Signature campaign demanding the removal of ban on the Ahmadiya books When secular forces pave the fundamentalists' way by Shahid Alam [April, 13, 2004] Sri Lanka: Interim Report on General Elections 2004 by Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (April 7, 2004). [PDF file 735 kb] Our demand today: Freedom from fear by Sultana Kamal (March 8, 2004) Pakistan: Inside the Nuclear Closet by Pervez Hoodbhoy (March 3, 2004) Pakistan: Role of Intelligence and Political Islam by Zia Mian [February 13, 2004] [Audio recording] Communal Darkness in Shining India by Asghar Ali Engineer (February 28, 2004) The Many Faces of Nationalism by Nandita Haksar [January 2004] A Feminist Analysis of the Genocide in Gujarat A report by the International Initiative for Justice in Gujarat (December 10, 2003) Who Murdered Daniel Pearl? by William Dalrymple [December 4, 2003] Long Distance Call: Interview with Raju Rajgopal (November 7, 2003) Teachers and War on Terrorism by Nirmalangshu Mukherji [October , 2003] Civilising civil society: Donors and democratic space in Nepal by Seira Tamang [October , 2003] [General Musharraf's Pakistan] The Colour Khaki by Tariq Ali [February 2003] Genocide in Gujarat: The International Community Looks Away by Martha C. Nussbaum [Summer, 2003] Turn Tragedy Into Opportunity: An Open Letter to the People of Pakistan by Judea Pearl [July 17, 2002] Communalism and Identity among South Asians in Diaspora by Crispin Bates [Sept.2000] The End of Imagination by Arundhati Roy [1998] Selections from links area: Faiz Ahmad Faiz Hamza Alavi - A Web Memorial Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust Arvind Gupta Toys & Books Radio Free Nepal Zubaan Books	Citizens Alert in the Wake of Tsunami Tragedy! - CSFH Urges Responsible Giving [Steer Clear of Sectarian Groups Such as IDRF, HSS, Seva International and VHPA ] (2 Jan 2005) - Help Reconstruct Lives & Communities Beware of Funding Hate: Press Release by AWAAZ South Asia (5 Jan 2005) India Justice, the victim: Gujarat state fails to protect women from violence A report by Amnesty International (27 January 2005) Speaking up for Secularism Dhaka Intellectuals take on communal forces [2 March, 2004, Dhaka] Citizens protest against Hindutva [6 December, 2003, Bangalore] Anhad protest against Narendra Modi [24 Nov. 2003, New Delhi]
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		SPECIALS: In Bad Faith? British Charity and Hindu Extremism by Awaaz - South Asia Watch (London, February 2004) The Foreign Exchange of Hate (An investigation into the American funding of Hindutva) -- Sabrang Communications and SACW Communalism and Religious Fundamentalism in India: A Resource File by Harsh Kapoor [A PDF file]
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