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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.
Arundhati Roy challenges the Indian state
The stance of a brave human rights believer, writer and journalist: For her talk… on Kashmir, writer Arundhati Roy has come under the threat of “sedition” charges in India. These speeches… are currently being analyzed by… Delhi police. Her response to the threat is below and was issued from Srinagar: I write this from Srinagar, Kashmir. This morning’s…
What Indians may think of Australia and it’s not entirely positive
A new Indian film, Crook – It’s Good to be Bad, that examines the racial violence against Indian students in Australia. If many in Australia remain in denial about the problem, don’t be surprised that many in India will react accordingly:
British looks back into history and misses the good old days
Just what the world needs; an invigorated, more interventionist British empire: William Hague has outlined the Government’s vision of Britain’s role in the world, promising a sweeping overhaul of foreign policy aimed at expanding the country’s influence to every inhabited continent. In his first major speech as Foreign Secretary Mr Hague stressed that while he…
A real writer’s job isn’t to be popular
How famed Indian writer Arundhati Roy fights her own war against terror and defends the rights of the silenced in her country.
Australia snubs Tamil refugees
My following article is published in US magazine The Nation: Sri Lanka’s brutal war against the Tamils, a native ethnic group that has suffered legal, economic and political discrimination for more than half a century, has come at a huge domestic and global cost. Human rights in the Sinhalese-dominated nation are consistently violated, with journalists,…