Allied Events… Sat. 08 Aug: Celebrating resistance in Southasia – Cultural event and potluck 7 Aug 20267 Aug 2026 The Southasia Peace Action Network in collaboration with the Boston South Asian Coalition invites you to: A Boston area event, in-person, on Saturday, 08 August 2026 Celebrating resistance in Southasia…
Events 25 July: Report Back From Southasia 21 Jul 202625 Jul 2026 BOSTON: Around the globe, communities are fighting to protect their rights, their lands, and their very existence. In Southasia, as the pressures of systemic oppression mount, so does the power…
Events Sun. 26 July: Mohenjodaro and the Indus Valley Civilisation — Looking to the past to look to the future 21 Jul 202628 Jul 2026 The Southasia Peace Action Network proudly hosts a discussion pegged on Harappa Films’ award-winning documentary ‘Mohenjo daro: Unsealing an Ancient Indus City’ (37 min, 2026), recently released on YouTube. Joined…
Allied Events… Sat. 18 July: Book Club ‘Readers Without Borders’ and Sapan host Dr. Azra Raza on the human cost of cancer 11 Jul 202614 Jul 2026 What happens when a world-class oncologist faces the very monster she has spent her life fighting, not just in her clinic, but in her own home? Readers Without Borders (RWB),…
Allied Events… Sat. 4 July: ‘Divergent Voices of South Asia’ Gathering in Stockholm 3 Jul 20265 Jul 2026 How do we talk about a border when the music, poetry, and memories of the people it divided refuse to stay on one side? Seventy-nine years after the 1947 Partition…
Allied Events… Thurs. 2 July: The India-Pakistan Youth Dialogue 1 Jul 20262 Jul 2026 Can the youth of India and Pakistan change the course of history? We believe they can. The world has moved closer together than ever before. Distance no longer defines relationships;…
Allied Events… India-Pakistan dialogue: Why aren’t the two governments talking to each other? 12 Jun 202612 Jun 2026 At a time when the global community looks to Southasia* to navigate complex geopolitical waters, a glaring question remains unaddressed: why is direct communication between New Delhi and Islamabad at…
Events… Sat. 30 May: Book discussion — ‘House of Caravans’ with author Shilpi Suneja 30 May 202630 May 2026 What happens to a family when a line is drawn through their homeland? How do the echoes of historical trauma ripple across decades, altering the lives of generations who never…
Events Sun. 31 May: Histories of struggle, futures of solidarity — Labour rights in Southasia 29 May 20263 Jun 2026 Celebrating labour history month with cross-border dialogue Every May, the world pauses to celebrate Labour History Month, a time to honour the hard-fought victories of working people, remember those who…
Allied Events… Sat. May 2, Boston: ‘Stories the state tries to erase’ – talk by Neha Dixit 23 Apr 202623 Apr 2026 Some lives exist only in files, headlines, or accusations. How do paperwork, policing, and media narratives quietly decide who belongs? What does democracy look like from below? Join us for…
Events Sun. 26 April: Southasian Beats – Remembering Asha Bhosle, Reimagining a Region’s Sound 20 Apr 202626 Apr 2026 On the last Sunday of April 2026, the Southasia Peace Action Network, Sapan, will present a curated conversation bringing together memory, music, and modernity across the region. Anchored in a…
Events Sun. 29 March: Five Years of Sapan – Connecting, Holding Space, Keeping Hope Alive 26 Mar 202620 Apr 2026 Join the Southasia Peace Action Network (Sapan) on Sunday, 29 March 2026, to commemorate our fifth anniversary, upholding the importance of dialogue, empathy, and regional solidarity When the Southasia Peace…
Events… Resistance in Pakistan: looking back to look forward 21 Mar 202623 Mar 2026 What can the student movements of the past teach us about the struggles of today? The Boston South Asian Coalition (BSAC), in collaboration with the Southasia Peace Action Network (Sapan),…
Event Reports… Sapan January Circle 2026: A year in review, a region in focus; voices and visions from Southasia and diaspora 30 Jan 20263 Feb 2026 The Sapan January Circle: Catching Up and Looking Ahead took place on January 25, 2026, via Zoom, serving as an annual gathering to reflect on the collective achievements of the…
Events… Sun, 21 Dec.: Nepal’s Shifting Political Landscape, Gen Z Protests, and Pathways Forward’ 18 Dec 202522 Dec 2025 This Sunday, Southasia Peace Action Network will hold an online discussion, as part of its Country Focus series, highlighting the situation in Nepal which is relevant to the entire region…
Events… Book lovers and ‘peacemongers’ come together over Arundhati Roy’s new memoir 16 Dec 202516 Dec 2025 Members of the online book club Readers Without Borders and activists from the Southasia Peace Action Network convened for an engaging discussion over the recently published ‘Mother Mary Comes to…
Events Sat. 13 Dec.: A conversation with Arundhati Roy 12 Dec 202513 Dec 2025 Photo credit: Mayank Austen Soofi The Southasia Peace Action Network (Sapan) is excited to collaborate with the Readers Without Borders book club for a conversation with Arundhati Roy this weekend.…
Events Mon. 8 Dec, Boston area: ‘South Asia Bound’ film premiere 30 Nov 202510 Dec 2025 You are invited! Join us for the premiere of South Asia Bound: The Cost of National Identity, a documentary film by Zac Colah, an independent journalist and senior at Tufts…
Allied Events… Mon. 24 Nov: Tribute to Dr. Arfa Sayeda Zehra, Toronto area 24 Nov 202524 Nov 2025 Third Culture Language Learning: Tribute to Dr. Arfa Sayeda Zehra ڈاکٹر عارفہ سیدہ زہرا کے لیے خراجِ عقیدت Organised by Joy of Urdu Toronto-Mississauga Chapter Joy of Urdu is a…
Events Nov 16: Sapan and Sanglaap: Art, Gender, Media and Peacebuilding at SOAS, London 14 Nov 202514 Nov 2025 A multi-disciplinary exhibition viewing, opening up to conversations foregrounded on practices of women artists and peacebuilders, takes SOAS South Asia Institute’s Sanglaap Art and Culture Series to a contemporary level…
Events Oct 26: Bridging Borders – A Southasian vision for COP30 24 Oct 202525 Oct 2025 Imagine: Neighbours in Peace!Bridging Borders - A Southasian Vision for COP30Date: Sunday, 26 October 2025Time: 10:00 a.m. EST / 2:00 p.m. GMT / 4:00 p.m. SA / 7:00 p.m. PKT…
Allied Events… Oct 26: Special screening of film ‘Chittagong’ in Boston 22 Oct 20252 Nov 2025 BOSTON: The Boston South Asian Coalition and the Southasia Peace Action Network will hold a special screening this Sunday of ‘Chittagong’, Bedabrata Pain’s debut film. The 2012 film brings to…
Events… “You Can Kill a Person, But Not an Idea”: Southasia Peace Action Network Film Club on ‘After Sabeen’ 3 Oct 202524 Apr 2026 By Sapan News Desk New Delhi / Berlin / Karachi / Southasia diaspora — Last week, the story of prominent social entrepreneur Sabeen Mahmud who was shot dead in Karachi,…
Sapan Film Club Sept 28: ‘After Sabeen’ film screening and discussion | Sapan Film Club 24 Sep 202528 Sep 2025 The Southasia Peace Action Network, Sapan, invites friends, followers and fellow peacemongers to watch After Sabeen (60 minutes), a documentary film by filmmaker Schokofeh Kamiz about the prominent peacemonger and…
Allied Events Sept 27: remembering Kamla Bhasin: The ‘compassionate values of an interconnected world’ 24 Sep 202525 Sep 2025 Friends of Kamla Bhasin (24 April 1946 – 25 September 2021), the well-known feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist, will host an online gathering to remember her “with women…
Allied Events… Sept. 25: Southasia’s Youthquakes – Panel discussion on the uprisings in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka 24 Sep 202524 Sep 2025 In recent years, Southasia has seen a mushrooming of youth-led protest movements – fuelled by frustration around corruption, nepotism and economic inequality, and by anger at political and economic systems…
Allied Events… Vikalp@Prithvi Online Screenings: ‘After Sabeen’ documentary 20 Sep 202521 Sep 2025 The Mumbai-based Vikalp@Prithvi Online Screenings is screening the documentary film 'After Sabeen' featuring the aftermath of the murder of prominent social entrepreneur and peacemonger Sabeen Mahmud in Karachi, April 2015.…
Allied Events… Matwaala Poetry Fest 2025, Sunday 31 August 31 Aug 202531 Aug 2025 The women-led Southasian diaspora organisation Matwaala celebrates its tenth anniversary this Sunday, with a Poetry Fest in collaboration with the Aseel Collective, featuring works by poets from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and…
Events Patriarchal Backlash: Bangladeshi Women Speak Out 29 Jun 202530 Jun 2025 Date: Sunday, 29 June 2025 Time: 10 am ET, 3 pm UKT, 7:00 pm PKT, 7:45 pm NPT, 7:30 pm IST , 8 pm BDT Register to join via Zoom:…
Allied Events… Southasian Voices: Art, Identity, and Bridging Divides 17 Jun 20252 Oct 2025 From Leeds to London: A comment on ‘South Asia: People, promise and potential - art, film and discussion,’ a half-day event organized by the Bloomsbury Institute London, beyond Instagram and…