September 5, 2004 PERSONAL POLITICAL The Artery Beena Sarwar Houston from the air is surprisingly green although the sprawling Texan city is known more for its...
The Nepali government has responded to the Maoist rebellion with force, but, argues Isabel Hilton, there is no military solution in this war on terror, any...
"First Bush, and now Putin, have picked up lessons for their wars on terror from Israel's campaign against the Palestinians". Excellent piece. thanks Marzia. ...
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 From: Pritam K. Rohila, Ph.D. ACHA (Association for Communal Harmony in Asia)<pritamr@...> Subject: Three Years Later: Peaceful...
September 12, 2004 PERSONAL POLITICAL The price of love Beena Sarwar “Mian biwi raazi, to kiya kare ka qazi?” goes the old saying – if the bride and...
This distressing report on a student hitting a teacher at Karachi University appeared in The News on Sunday, Aug 22, 2004 (the students who started the whole...
What India, Pakistan Won't Talk About By J. Sri Raman truthout | Perspective Wednesday 15 September 2004 http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091504I.shtml You...
Dear everyone wanted to introduce a new book by friend and colleague Ethan Casey, a Uk-based American journalist and publisher who was recently in Lahore for...
Sept 19, 2004 Personal Political The FM boom Beena Sarwar Video has not quite killed the radio star. Not even private cable television has managed to do that....
Cat Stevens has always been one of my absolute favourite singers - if he was to be punished for something, it should be for stopping singing. I read once that...
September 26, 2004 PERSONAL POLITICAL Beena Sarwar The forgotten 54 and more As tantalising visions of a sustainable peace between India and Pakistan appear on...
I met members of the Palestinian rights group Al Haq (T-shirt slogan: 'Against Collective Punishment') at the WSF in Bombay, Jan 2004 - here is their latest...
Kerry came out unexpectedly well in the debate with Bush - thanks in no small part to the 'split screen' that allowed viewers to see how the President was...
Oct 3, 2004 PERSONAL POLITICAL The dragon’s teeth Beena Sarwar Images of terrified, half-naked schoolchildren in Beslan merge with the wailing father in ...
Nicholas D. Kristof wrote a good followup recently in NYT about the gangrape of Mukhtaran Mai - here's the link to another piece by him, this time on Afghan...
from a friend in Washington. beena Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:45 PM Subject: Interesting patterns Who leads us to war and who questions it? ... ...
Oct 10, 2004 PERSONAL POLITICAL The commonality of ‘fundamentalisms’ Beena Sarwar When US-based Indian filmmaker Lalit Vachani set out in 1992 to make a...
Below, a link and text of article reproduced in www.countercurrents.org, run by Binu Mathew, a journalist in Kerala. There's also an appeal from him for help...
Hello all - sharing a comment I wrote last month for Project-Syndicate (apologies to those on this list for whom some of this may be stating the obvious). Just...
Thanks to Zubeida Mustafa of Dawn for sending this piece, with the following note: "We had carried a picture of the kids in the Sikh gurdwara but it's not...
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/10/13_patwardhan.shtml Anand Patwardhan, the 'Michael Moore of India,' brings his hard-hitting documentary...
Two emails re: Southasian films being screened in the US. beena ... from Christine in Holland: From: Marc Chery [mailto:mchery@...] Subject: Malcolm X...
October 17, 2004 PERSONAL POLITICAL No compromise on murder Beena Sarwar Murder by any other name still smells foul. It is still murder. Unfortunately, the...
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main7.asp?filename=Ne102304doctor_love.asp Doctor Love, Doctored Hate A Hindu girl eloped and married her Muslim neighbour in a...
Posting by Jo Wilding - a young British woman I admire, who's been working in Iraq as a human rights monitor. Another project she was involved was meant to...
October 24, 2004 PERSONAL POLITICAL To Margaret Hassan, it matters Beena Sarwar “They just don’t get it!” The thought jumps out as one follows the Great...
From Carol Wolman, MD, in California. beena ... From: David Randle Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 12:55 PM Subject: Attention Pro-Life Voters Dear Friends: The...