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…
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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,…
What it means to advocate the ”˜Sri Lanka model’ for Israel/Palestine
My following article is published on US website Mondoweiss: It is easy to frame the conflict in Israel and Palestine as inherently unique. In many ways it is – decades-old occupation, US-supported racial discrimination and failure of Western journalism to hold the powerful to account – but other struggles have eerie similarities. This year Sri…
New Delhi grows as a new Israeli partner in crime
Finding friends in new places: Israel’s army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, has left on a trip to India, the first time the head of the Israeli military is visiting the country, the army said on Dec. 6. Ashkenazi left for India late on Dec. 5 as part of a trip to Asia,…
New Delhi knows why the Tamils are suffering
A fellow adviser on the UK-based Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice, Prof Brahma Chellaney writes on India’s collusion in the Tamil fate: Nearly six months after Sri Lanka’s stunning military triumph in the 26-year-old civil war at the cost of thousands of civilian lives in the final weeks alone, the peace dividend remains…
A world with no more Palestinians
Flipping Out is a 2008 documentary about Israeli men and women who finish military service and head to India. The picture is ugly; racist and aggressive: