Events… Kabir Festival 2022: Celebrating the humanistic values of an ancient mystic 10 Jun 202216 Jun 2022 UPDATE 11 June: Due to rain Kabir Festival postponed to Sunday June 19,2022. Please inform everyone CURTAIN RAISER BOSTON: A cultural event to commemorate the birth anniversary of Kabir Das,…
Press Statements… The Sapan logo story 26 May 202231 May 2026 May 26, 2022: We are so excited and proud to introduce the new Sapan logo. Here’s how it happened. A few days after we launched South Asia Peace Action Network…
Sapan Blog Kamla Bhasin, the spirit of Southasia and the power of the four-letter word love 16 May 202216 Jun 2022 Note: This syndicated feature published in November 2021 has been belatedly posted to the Sapan website. A syndicated feature available for use with attribution to Sapan News Commemorating 16 Days…
Sapan Blog Let people meet – before it’s too late 6 May 20229 May 2022 A Sapan syndicated feature available for use with attribution to Sapan News By Tridivesh Singh Maini May 6, 2022, Sapan News Service: The past few months have seen several instances…
Press Statements… Ahead of May Day, a call for worker unity, solidarity and a visa-free Southasia 30 Apr 202226 Dec 2023 A syndicated feature available for use with attribution to Sapan News By Sheeba Aslam Fehmi, Priyanka Singh, and Beena Sarwar April 30, 2022, Sapan News Service: The last Sunday of…
Sapan Blog Evoking the madness of Manto, what we need is ‘one big roar of laughter across Southasia’ 11 Apr 202224 Jan 2023 A Sapan syndicated feature available for use with attribution to Sapan News Artists, journalists, sportspersons, healthcare workers, educators, businesspersons, students, gather for the first anniversary of a Southasian peace coalition.…
Sapan Blog Let’s teach our kids about peace before someone else teaches them to hate 8 Apr 202216 Jun 2022 A Sapan syndicated feature available for use with attribution to Sapan News By Rahul Mukherji and Beena Sarwar April 7, 2022, Sapan News Service: On 6 April 2022, an 11-year-old…
Sapan Blog Sara Suleri: Beyond borders 27 Mar 202231 Mar 2022 PERSONAL-POLITICAL By Beena Sarwar March 25, 2022, Sapan News Service: “Aur bataiye” – tell me more, a polite invitation to keep talking. I can hear her voice, perhaps naturally husky,…
Press Statements… The power of love and a Southasian resolution on the Ukraine crisis 12 Mar 202213 Sep 2022 By Priyanka Singh and Beena Sarwar March 9, 2022 “It is the power of love that’s most important, not the love of power”, said Dhaka-based feminist Khushi Kabir, quoting her…
Sapan Blog Opinion: Pakistan’s ‘Aurat March’ 2022: To be or not to be 7 Mar 202216 Apr 2022 By Nadra Huma Quraishi March 7, 2022, Sapan News Service: On March 8, women around the world mark a day they call their own -- International Women’s Day, highlighting achievements…
Sapan Blog Chakwalians, Rotarians gather for “a tsunami of peace” reunion at Kartarpur Corridor 23 Feb 202215 Mar 2023 February 23, 2022: Dozens of Indians and Pakistanis with ancestral roots in Chakwal will meet today at Kartarpur Darbar Sahib in Pakistan, taking advantage of the visa-free corridor inaugurated in…
Sapan Blog Working Ghalib’s magic to interrogate universal questions and contemporary realities 11 Feb 202216 Apr 2022 Thinking with Ghalib: Poetry for a New GenerationBy Anjum Altaf and Amit BasoleEnglish, with Urdu and Devnagri scriptsFolio Books, Lahore 2021 (108 pages, PKR 500)Roli Books, Delhi 2021 (124 pages,…
Sapan Blog Singing and inspiration in dark times: Art and resistance in South Asia 4 Feb 202224 Jan 2023 NOTE: This feature report produced by Sapan News Service is free for publication with credit to Sapan, www.southasiapeace.com. Editors may trim content to their own needs. By Sushmita Preetha and…
Press Statements… Hindu pilgrims visit Pakistan, Muslim delegation for India late January 6 Jan 20226 Jan 2022 By Beena Sarwar / Sapan News Service January 5, 2022: An international delegation of 200 Hindu pilgrims in Pakistan for a four-day religious tourism visit departed this week after performing…
Press Statements… “Growing up, growing together”: Activists across South Asia resolve to continue working for a better tomorrow 31 Dec 20218 Jan 2022 DECEMBER 30: Activists from across South Asia have expressed concern at the deteriorating human rights situation in the region, amidst growing majoritarian authoritarianism and a rise in discrimination on basis…
Sapan Blog Married across an intractable border, Rajput Sodhas suffer due to India-Pakistan visa issues 11 Dec 20211 Feb 2023 This is the story of Ganpat Singh from Pakistan’s Sodha Rajput community of less than half a million. Like him, each member of this community has matrimonial linkages across the…
Press Statements… Feminise to Humanise: The universe of violence against South Asia’s women 3 Dec 20218 Jan 2022 By Lubna Jerar and Priyanka Singh 2 December 2021: What South Asia needs is a feminisation of politics and polity. This is necessary to counter the “grand celebration of the triumph…
Climate Change… How climate change is linked to the tragedy of a Bengali-Pakistani fisherman incarcerated in India 31 Oct 202124 Jan 2025 By Beena Sarwar Lead photo: Amir Hamza's coffin exchanged at Wagah border, Sept. 14, 2021. Photo: Obtained from source. The tragedy of a fisherman who died of Covid-19 while imprisoned…
Sapan Blog Curtain raiser: Women step up for peace in South Asia 30 Sep 202130 Sep 2021 “The power of feminine wisdom, the spirit of solidarity, and a vision tinted with empathy” NEW DELHI: Prominent Indian actor-director Nandita Das and British-Afghan journalist Najiba Laima Kasraee are among…
Events… Commemorating ‘the second 9/11’ and the way ahead 29 Sep 202116 May 2022 The United States and India should join with other regional powers to deal with the Taliban and help the Afghan people – Noam Chomsky BOSTON, 27 September: Prominent academic Noam…
Sapan Blog Uproar in Pakistan against proposed media legislation 18 Sep 202120 Sep 2021 15 September 2021, Sapan News Service: There is an uproar in Pakistan about a controversial new media regulatory body termed as an “ill-conceived, dictatorial concept” being pushed through by the…
Sapan Blog Remembering Hal Gould, a friend of South Asia 8 Sep 2021 By Beena Sarwar When some of us launched a South Asia initiative earlier this year, Hal Gould came to mind. I wondered how he was. We were in a pandemic,…
Press Statements… Uphold the rights of the incarcerated in Southasia, say human rights advocates 30 Aug 20211 Apr 2026 29 August 2021: “If the government becomes the monster that it can be, then the belly of the beast contains the people in jail”, said Nepali journalist Kanak Mani Dixit,…
Sapan Blog Undaunted by temple attack, Pakistani Hindu stuck in India with three children yearns to return home 12 Aug 202120 Apr 2022 This report, sent to several media houses serves as the soft launch of Sapan News, a syndicated service linked with South Asia Peace Action Network, Sapan. By Beena Sarwar A Pakistani Hindu…
Press Statements… South Asian female athletes share inspiring stories of grit and determination 26 Jul 202117 Oct 2022 July 26, 2021: Women athletes from across the South Asian region came together for an online discussion focusing on their challenges and wins, sharing moving stories and inspiring solidarity. The…