South Asia Citizens Web

• India: Damning Urdu

  19 March, by Mukul Dube

  Urdu is one of the twenty-two “scheduled languages” of the country. It is the language of vastly more Indians than, for instance, Bodo or Santali or Sindhi. Historically, there is no doubt that it is an Indian language.

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  Satyagraha - An answer to modern nihilism (keynote address to conference on East-West Intercultural Relations at Ramjas college)

  18 March, by Dilip Simeon

  Keynote address to the Eighth East-West Conference Ramjas College, March 17-18 2016. This lecture engages with the approaches of Socrates and Gandhi to the question of a ’national religion’; and on nation-worship as an instance of right-wing atheism.

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  India: Arrest of Dr Saibal Jana of Shaheed Hospital (at Dalli Rajhara) Human Rights Defenders Alert - India / E-Petition to Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh

  18 March

  A human rights alert from Human Rights Defenders Alert - India and an electronic petition seeks the release of Dr. Saibal Jana of Shaheed Hospital at Dalli Rajhara, Chhattisgarh

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  India: Photos from People’s March to Save Democracy - New Delhi, 15 March 2016

  15 March

  Students, Teachers from JNU and citizens of Delhi March from Mandi House to Parliament Street in New Delhi against the clampdown by authorities and for the release of students arrested on charges of sedition. People’s March to Save Democracy was called by the JNU students’ union on 15 March 2016. At its termination point there was a public meeting which was addressed by student leaders, members of the JNU teachers union and by intellectuals and political leaders. The photos posted here were taken by Mukul Dube and are part of the SACW.NET Archive - Photo Project

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  India: Public Statement in Support of Gauhar Raza by Scientists & Science Communicators from across the World

  15 March

  We, the undersigned, are shocked to learn about the sinister propaganda unleashed by a section of the Indian Media against Gauhar Raza, a well known scientist, poet and film-maker.

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