South Asia Citizens Web

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  India: Gandhi’s Assassin, Godse’s ideological inheritors

  by Ram Puniyani, 20 May

  BJP is compelled to make the show of speaking against the likes of Pragya Thakur, Sakshi Maharaj and Anant Hegde, bowing to electoral and global compulsions, while letting them thrive in the party

• Anand Patwardhan on India’s 2019 Election, Modi & India’s Ongoing Violence Against Its Own People | Democracy Now

  18 May

  A video interview by Democracy Now with Anand Patwardhan on the eve of the conclusion India’s 2019 general elections.

• Audio: Making Sense of the Easter Sunday attacks of 21 April 2019 in Sri Lanka | Jayadeva Uyangoda

  17 May

  A Himal podcast on the Easter Sunday attacks on 21 April 2019 in Sri Lanka, which killed over 250 people, have shocked the country and left people fearful and uncertain. While some details about the conspiracy behind the coordinated bombings of churches and hotels have come out, much remains unclear. Political infighting within the government has added to the lack of credible information, compromising the general public’s ability to arrive at a clear understanding of the situation. Several instances of anti-Muslim violence this week has also led to fears of a communal conflagration. Himal Southasian’s Editor Aunohita Mojumdar spoke with Jayadeva Uyangoda, a Colombo-based political scientist, columnist and the emeritus professor of political science at the University of Colombo

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  SAHMAT Condemns Ms. Pragya Thakur’s Statement Calling Gandhi’s Assassin a Patriot

  by Sahmat, 17 May

  We are deeply shocked by the statement of Ms. Pragya Thakur, the BJP candidate for the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat, lauding Nathuram Godse the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi as a “deshbhakt”.

• India: They Peddle Myths and Call It History

  by Romila Thapar, 17 May

  The election of Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party, or the B.J.P., in 2014 led to renewed efforts to rewrite Indian history so as to legitimize Hindu nationalist ideology. These efforts had begun when the B.J.P. first governed India between 1999 and 2004.

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