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Writer pulls out of Galle Lit Fest due to human rights issues
When we released this statement over Sri Lanka recently, I would never have imagined its global impact. What does it show? That a strongly-worded statement can have an effect and raise uncomfortable and necessary questions for an event that is far too keen to avoid the realities in dictatorship Sri Lanka. The latest: South African…
Latest on Galle issues
Visa issues? Human rights a concern? Indian government ineptitude? Suffice to say, I’m very pleased that the statement we released this week that outlined the gross human rights abuses in Sri Lanka continues to resonate and launch a much-needed discussion worldwide (including here in Jaipur, India, where many people seem uncomfortable even hearing the compromises…
India and Sri Lanka are our mates (and they cause violence)
Thank you, Wikileaks. One: US officials had evidence of widespread torture by Indian police and security forces and were secretly briefed by Red Cross staff about the systematic abuse of detainees in Kashmir, according to leaked diplomatic cables released tonight. The dispatches, obtained by website WikiLeaks, reveal that US diplomats in Delhi were briefed in…
How Palestine inspires the people of Kashmir
Arundhati Roy in the New York Times powerfully expresses the conflict in Kashmir, America’s willful impotence and the mood of resistance: A week before he was elected in 2008, President Obama said that solving the dispute over Kashmir’s struggle for self-determination — which has led to three wars between India and Pakistan since 1947 —…
New Delhi and Tel Aviv get all cosy
The growing friendship between Israel and India. In a post-US century, the Jewish state can’t simply rely on Washington for backing.