Editorial
Special Issue: The 2014 Indian elections
In response to the recent swearing in of Narenda Modi as India’s 15th prime minister, SAMAR releases this special issue which takes a deeper look at the differences between rhetoric and reality, and the connections between communalism and neoliberalism.
The Pitfalls of Language Politics in Bangladesh
A High Court ruling seeks to eliminate any distortions of the Bangla language on television or radio channels. The ruling is absurd and dangerous and can present real challenges to the freedom of press in Bangladesh. Part of SASI's (South Asia Solidarity Initiative) monthly series that explores current social justices issues in South Asia.
Policing Sex
This issue on Policing Sex explores the wider context of the criminalization of homosexuality in India, as well as visions put forth to challenge heterosexism, the police state, and misogyny.
The Art of Politics
In honor of our 20th anniversary, we wanted to share our perspectives on crafting this vibrant issue, which features poetry by Bushra Rehman, Purvi Shah, YaliniDream and Ather Zia, along with a photo essay by Sabelo Narasimhan. Together, these pieces highlight the diversity of voices in the diaspora, ranging from Narasimhan’s visual documentation of protests against New York City’s Stop-and-Frisk policy to Rehman’s tongue-in-cheek take on break-ups.
Corporate Responsibility Twenty Years On
In Bhopal, the struggle to seek justice goes on, not as compensation, for the loss is too great to be compensated, but rather as a founding virtue of human society.
Call to Pakistan
A daughter calls her mother in Lahore; the phone rings and rings. She, along with seventy other peace activist from the best-known human rights organizations, have been arrested. But the troubling times are giving birth to a new resistance.
Good Mutants, Bad Mutants
The good mutants work in spaces servicing the global economy. The bad ones want to destroy freedom, democracy, free markets. New mutations are arising in the politics of fear and the War on Terror.
A T-shirt, a Muslim and a Handful of Eleven-year-olds
An intense anti-Arab media campaign against the Khalil Gibran International Academy ends with a high-tech lynching.
