2025

People’s Union for Civil Liberties
15th May, 2025 PUCL condemns the BJP Government

Citizens for Democracy
17.5 2025
CFD statement on India-Pakistan hostilities
Citizens for Democracy expresses its alarm at the aftermath of the horrific terror attack in Pahalgam, which endangers world peace and leads to further breakdown in the rule of international law, as well as poses a further threat to democracy within India itself.
What happened in Pahalgam was undoubtedly the use of terror to achieve political objectives and it was rightly condemned by all sections of the (…)

National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM)
A Month Since Pahalgam: Demand accountability from the Govt and action against the terrorists
Resist the attempt to plunge us into war: A warning and call to action for the peace-loving people of India and Pakistan
22nd May, 2025: It is exactly a month since the dastardly terror attack at Pahalgam shook the nation, leading to widespread condemnation across India and globally, of the massacre and forces enabling such mindless violence. The (…)

Obituary
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Gaza: A History
by Jean-Pierre Filiu
(Translated by John King)
Pan MacMillan India
Pages: xix + 563; Price: Not mentioned
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It is difficult to imagine a more impoverished strip of land which lies at the heart of one of the most enduring and seemingly most intractable of historical disputes. Also called a dense open-air prison, Gaza is where peace will have to come first if the dragging Israeli-Palestinian row needs to (…)

* Feminists from India and Pakistan Issue Call for Peace and Dialogue
* The CAA and the Eroded Public Sphere: A Media Content Analysis through Chomsky and Habermas | Sunit Singh and Anjali Sidhwani
* Obituary: The Death Of Joseph Nye Sounds Requiem For Soft Power | Vijay Kumar

Letter to Readers, Mainstream
Dial Down the War Talk, Time to Talk Peace
The recent ceasefire on the border between India and Pakistan is still holding. The sound of artillery guns & drones is gone, but the social fires that were lit in an atmosphere of war-mongering and hostility towards Pakistan have not died down. The focus of ruling Hindutva nationalists is to extract full political advantage from the recent military confrontation with Pakistan, to target critics or people from (…)

Cessation of war anywhere in the world, whoever might have intervened and said halt, is welcome, even if the whistle blower is some illiterate pompous ruler of a nation full of monetary wealth but somewhat lacking in finesse and intellect.
It is true that the terror attack from across our western border in Pahalgam identifying and killing non-Muslims tourists was too dastardly to be forgiven. Never mind that among those killed was also a Christian and a Kashmiri Muslim, trying to save the (…)

While just now there is a widespread feeling of relief that a much bigger potential disaster has been averted due to the clinching of an early ceasefire, thanks to the wisdom displayed at a crucial juncture by the leaders of India and Pakistan, this feeling of relief is also tinged by the serious concern that the two countries had come perilously close to a full-blown war. India and Pakistan should not only keep way from war, in addition they should also strive to avoid getting so close to (…)

May 7, 2025
While the Indus Waters Treaty has survived three India-Pakistan wars, the pattern of interaction between the two countries on sharing the waters of the Indus Basin has been conflictual rather than cooperative.
As the conflict escalates post Operation Sindoor [1], it is pertinent how India recalibrates the link between water and terrorism.
Some claim India has weaponised the Indus Waters Treaty by putting it in