Human Rights in South Asia
INDIA 2020 YEAR IN REVIEW: PROTESTS, PANDEMIC, AND THE PRC
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2020 will unfortunately be remembered as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like other countries, India has been grappling with the social and economic fallouts of COVID-19, on top of the public health catastrophe. Besides the pandemic, two other episodes dominated the India story in 2020: Delhi’s communal riots and the border conflict with China. Emerging clo
Read Full ArticleWhatsApp transcripts: Onus now on world to take India to task, says FO
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Sunday hoped that following the release of WhatsApp transcripts by the Mumbai police, the international community would hold India accountable for its state-sponsored actions vitiating the environment and endangering peace and security in South Asia. “The reckless regime of New Delhi has shown how its ac
Read Full ArticleRole and Responsibility of Global Kashmiri Diaspora
0 comments | by Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” Winston S. Churchill. The disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir stands apart as the most cantankerous of conflicts, with the catastrophic possibility of nuclear devastation. After all India and Pakistan have fought three wars and
Read Full Article0 comments | by A.G. Norrani
THE fundamental right to dissent from the state’s views or from conventional wisdom is now being systematically denied by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India. The signs were obvious no sooner had he assumed power in May 2014. The slogan ‘Congress mukt Bharat’, (an India freed totally from the Congress party) indicated a plan on
Read Full ArticleChanging Social Landscape of Tribes in Kerala: Challenges in Tribal Studies
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Written by K.M. Seethi & Elizabeth Abraham The social landscape and livelihood options in the tribal habitats in Kerala have changed tremendously in the last several decades. This transformation has its impact on the tribal population and their life-world experiences. This is the theme of the ongoing workshop organised as pa
Read Full ArticleKashmir: Shining Example of Pluralism & Diversity
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“…It is really difficult for me to distinguish between a Hindu Kashmiri and a Muslim Kashmiri. You people speak one language and have one culture. While the rest of the country burns in communal fire, I see a ray of hope in Kashmir only…” Mahatma Gandhi, August 1947. “The alternative to chaos in
Read Full ArticleAll criticism of Israel is ‘antisemitic’
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Harsh penalties are needed to stop Israel annexing Palestinian territory. But western states are outlawing even peaceful boycotts It is tempting to dismiss last week’s statements by Mik
Read Full Article0 comments | by F.S. Aijazuddin
I HOPE I still have the courage to acknowledge the Judaic DNA strain in my faith, for my spiritual genes are the umbilical thread that links me today through Christianity, through Judaism, to that figure in indiscernible antiquity — the prophet Abraham. I can never become a Jew. As a human being, though, I ought to have the
Read Full Article0 comments | by Dr. Prem Singh
“Members of the police shall exercise their functions, powers and duties as impartial servants of the general public and the Government of the day. … No member of the police may be ordered or forced to exercise his other functions or powers or deploy police resources to promote or undermine any political party or interest group, or any member o
Read Full ArticleSuch A Temple Would Not Have Been Acceptable To Ram and..
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Such A Temple Would Not Have Been Acceptable To Ram and Should Not Be Acceptable To A Common Hindu Co-Written by Arundhati Dhuru and Sandeep Pandey Ram has been described as Maryada Purushottam, the most virtuous among men. He left his kingdom merely because he didn
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