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Peace:
- India Pakistan: Citizens Against Kargil war of 1999
- Pakistan India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy
In Defence of Secularism:
- Communalism repository
- Contesting communalism digital resources: images/audio/video
Invoking an imagined Past:
- Doctoring education
- History writing in the service of Hate
Gender:
- Womens rights
- Sexuality minorities
Human Rights Pages
In defence of S.A.R. Gilani
Victims of 'Nation Building', Development and Conflict
Environmental Action
South Asia Labour activists library
The undocumented independent left space
Special Collections
- Gujarat 2002
- Fundamentalist Threats to Freedom of Expression
- The Military Coup in Pakistan October 1999
- S. Asians against the war on Iraq
- Partition of 1947
- Fencing off the People - On borders and boundry making in South Asia
- Alerts
Mailing lists
- South Asia Citizens Wire
- South Asians Against Nukes
- India Pakistan Arms Race and Militarisation Watch
- Labour Notes South Asia
Blogs
- Communalism Watch
- Hindutva at Work
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Selections from recent content
We Condemn the heinous crime in Mumbai
A statement by Pakistani Peace Activists on bombings of July 11, 2006Towards a Politics of Justice: Affirming Diversities; Resisting Divisiveness
India: Hindutva Kills As Usual In Gujarat
Declaration of the National Co-ordination for the Seventh Conference of Autonomous Women’s Movements in India, Kolkata 2006
Wages of Hate
by Harsh Mander
There's a Taliban in Gujarat
by Javed Anand
Nepal by the People:
Statements In Solidarity with the Movement for Democracy in Nepal
An Open Letter to Nepali Democrats
Challenging obscurantist constructions of India's past:
by Dilip Simeon and Madhu Sarin
Looking for a Hindu Identity
by D N Jha
Getting to know the past better
by Romila Thapar
Pakistan- India: The Mountain Tsunami and after:
No Burial For Balakot
by Pervez Hoodbhoy
Quaking ourselves out of apathy
by Praful Bidwai
War and Tsunami in Sri Lanka:
Challenges of Post-disaster Development of Coastal Areas in Sri Lanka
by N. Shanmugaratnam
- Trading Faith for Spirituality: The Mystifications of Sam Harris by Meera Nanda
- The winter in Delhi, 1984
by Aseem Shrivastava
- Minorities In South Asia
by by K.N.Panikkar
- Beyond the wasteland and the minefield: What Afghanistan has to teach
by Aseem Shrivastava
- Interrogating 'terrorism - Speak the truth - Stop the killing
by Dilip Simeon
- Sri-Lanka: Achieving Legitimacy with Accountability
by Sri Lanka Democracy Forum (SLDF)
- India's 1984 Riots Revisited - Time for a National audit
by Lalitha Ramdas
- A Very Special Police: India's 'Special Cell' and Abuses
by Nirmalangshu Mukherji
- Humayun Azad: "No" To Oblivion
by I.K.Shukla
- A Dangerous Illusion
by Mukul Dube (Introduction in The Parivar Raj and After, published by Vikas Adhyan Kendra, Mumbai, August 2005)
- Tanika Sarkar and Sumit Sarkar on Politics in India
An interview by Snehal Shinghavi
- Citizens statement re the Indian Prime minister's comments on refusal of US Visa to Narendra Modi
-Tsunami Victims Perceptions of the Proposed Buffer Zone and its Implications in Eastern Sri Lanka
by N. Shanmugaratnam
- India Through Pakistani Eyes: Observations on science and society in India
by Pervez Hoodbhoy
- Science, Scientists and Science Movements in India - a comment on Pervez Hoodbhoy's 'India Through Pakistani Eyes'
by Meera Nanda
- An open letter to the Pakistan President re representation of women and labour in local govt bodies
- SAHR Demands Nepal's return to democratic rule
- India: Citizens Letter to National Human Rights commission re disinformation campaign relating to the attack on S.A.R. Geelani
- The attack on S.A.R. Geelani and questions re the December 13 Case: An Open Letter to the Home Minister of India
- Nepal Under Military Rule - Public Appeal from the Nepali Human Rights Community
- Appeal to Orissa Govt.on Human Rights Violations in Kashipur
- Royal Takeover in Nepal: Drastic and Ill-advised
by Kanak Mani Dixit
- Globalization and Pakistan's Dilemma of Development
by Hassan N. Gardezi
- We, the Citizens of Bangladesh Demand Security . . . A statement by women in Dhaka
- A last chance for peace in Sri Lanka
by Rohini Hensman
- Global War on Terrorism and Democratic Rights
by Tapan Kumar Bose
- UK: Hullabaloo over the English play Behzti
- India: The Indira Sagar Dam - State Accountability and Rehabilitation Issues
by Independent People's Commission
- Sri Lanka: Broadening the discourse on peace and security
by Prof. Asoka Bandarage
- India: Open Letter to the Media
by feminists, rights activists and organisations
- Letter to India's Prime Minister Re: The Dec 13, 2001 attack on Parliament
- Who Attacked the Indian Parliament?
by Nirmalangshu Mukherji
- India: Hindutvaisation of a Gorakhnath Mutt
by Subhash Gatade
- State Accountability in Communal Riots: Proposed Law on Duties of State Authorities
by Harsh Mander
- Resolution adopted at the 10th Anniversary of Pakistan India People's Forum For Peace and Democracy, Lahore, September 5, 2004
- India: Innovation in Media Censorship:Gujarat Experiment of Mini Emergency
by Digant Oza
-India: Mushhars: Tales of untold miseries
by V.B.Rawat
- India: Manufacturing Hysteria:
On Census-Inspired 'Nationalism'
by S. Subramainian, and S.Jayaraj
- India's National Anthem: Are we still singing for the Empire?
by Pradip Kumar Datta
- Veer of a Different Kind
Footsoldiers in Search of an Icon
by Subhash Gatade
- Proposed Draft of [India] National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2004
- Indian Democracy: which way headed?
by Bina Srinivasan
- The Sri Lankan Peace Process
by Asoka Bandarage
- Dharmic Ecology and the Neo-Pagan International: The Dangers of Religious Environmentalism in India
by Meera Nanda
- India, 2004: A corrective for public amnesia on the eve of General Elections
by Aseem Shrivastava
- The Future of The Indian Past
by Romila Thapar
- Section 377: How natural is normal?
by Nivedita Menon
- Rethinking Plebicite in Kashmir
by Pervez Hoodbhoy
- Broadening the Perspectives for Peace in Sri Lanka
by Asoka Bandaraje
- Islam, the Mediterranean, and the rise of capitalism
by Jairus Banaji
- Islamist Militancy in Kashmir: The Case of the Lashkar-i-Tayyeba
by Yoginder Sikand
- Pakistan India Peoples Forum - Through a decade of stormy waters
by B.M. Kutty and Karamat Ali
- Power Dressing in Sri Lanka
by Farzana Haniffa
- Ayodhya Diary: Communalism and the Common Public by Raghuvanshmani
- The Riot Economy: The Ganj Basoda case
by the Bhopal Group on Communalism
- Borders and Boundaries in Partition Literature
by Shivam Vij
- The Politics of Religion in Pakistan: Islamic State or Shari'a Rule
by Hassan N. Gardezi
Elsewhere on the web
- Thwarting the Market for Corporate Control: Takeover Regulation in India
by Jairus Banaji
- Does Globalization Help or Hurt the World's Poor?
by Pranab Bardhan
- India's History from below
by Partha Chatterjee
- The Failure of Military Government (Book Review of Asghar Khan's Pakistan: Politics and Military Power)
by Raunaq Jahan
- Why the United States Promotes India's Great Power Ambitions
by Research Unit for Political Economy
- Mystic River (Book Review of Amartya Sen's The Argumentative Indian)
by Tariq Ali
- Urban Riots and Cricket in South Asia: A Postscript to ‘Leveling Crowds’
by Stanley J. Tambiah
- Godless States: Dilemmas of secularism in India and America
by Meera Nanda
- 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
- "In the Name of Politics" Sovereignty, Democracy, and the Multitude in India
by Dipesh Chakrabarty
- The 'People's War [in Nepal]
by Pankaj Mishra
- Decolonising the Past
by Romila Thapar
- US Dollar Hegemony - The Soft Underbelly of Empire
by Rohini Hensman, Marinella Correggia
- "Woman" and "homeland" in Ritwik Ghatak's films: Constructing post-Independence Bengali cultural identity
by Erin O'Donnell
- A Lecture on India: Large and Small
by Amartya Sen
- Don't Forget India's Poor
by Jean Drèze
- Indian democracy and Public Reasoning Interview with Amartya Sen
- India, a Great Power?
by Samir Amin
- Relevant History (Book Review of: The Emergence of Bangladesh: Class Struggles in East Pakistan (1947-1958) by Badruddin Umar; Oxford University Press, Karachi; pp 389)
by Ashok Mitra
- "Historical writing is not a free-for-all in which anyone can claim to be writing history." Romila Thapar
- Nuclear Disarmament: Building a Movement in South Asia
by Achin Vanaik
- Films as Historical Sources or Alternative History
by Anirudh Deshpande
- Dismantling Prejudice -The Journey to a people based peace strategy
by Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas
- Miracles, Wars, and Politics
by Pervez Hoodbhoy
- Bangladesh's Prisoner of Zion
by Michael Freund
- India /Pakistan: Next Steps For Nuclear Talks
by Zia Mian, A.H. Nayyar, R. Rajaraman, M.V. Ramana
- How deep shall we dig? by Arundhati Roy
- Religion Under Globalisation by P. Radhakrishnan
- Secularism Under Seige by K.N. Panikkar
- The Political Economy of Bangladesh's external relations by Rehman Sobhan
- Sri Lanka: Rewarding Tyranny: Undermining the Democratic Potential for Peace by UTHR
- Culture and Ethnicity: An Examination of Recent Conceptual Shifts in Left Writings on Indian Politics by Devesh Vijay
- The Political Psychology of Hindu nationalism by Rajeev Bhargava
- Loss of Socialist Vision and Options before the Women's Movement
by Gabriele Dietrich
- Gandhi, the Philosopher by Akeel Bilgrami
- The Dammed: Arundhati Roy discusses India's Dams
- Selves Made Strange: Violent and Performative Bodies in the Cities of Indian Cinema, 1974 - 2003 by Ravi Vasudevan
- Coming Out by Shyam Selvadurai
- How does Culture Matter by Amartya Sen
- Erotic Politicians and Mullahs by Hanif Kureishi