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Read well. Write well. Play well.

15 Jun 202225 Jun 2022
A Sapan syndicated feature available for use with attribution to Sapan News SAPAN NEWS: Two teen authors from India and Pakistan who recently published their first novels both began writing…
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Opinion: What’s sauce for the Nagas is sauce for the Kashmiris

14 Jun 202216 Jun 2022
New Delhi needs to engage with militant-turned-Gandhian, not imprison him A Sapan syndicated piece available for use with attribution to Sapan News By Sandeep Pandey Days after the Supreme Court…
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Lack of effective road safety programmes is a major public health concern

14 Jun 202225 Jun 2022
A Sapan syndicated feature available for use with attribution to Sapan News Activists, road crash survivors and victims’ families have a message for the upcoming UN General Assembly meeting on…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Ahead of May Day, a call for worker unity, solidarity and a visa-free Southasia

30 Apr 202216 Jun 2022
A syndicated feature available for use with attribution to Sapan News By Sheeba Aslam Fehmi, Priyanka Singh, Beena Sarwar April 30, 2022, Sapan News Service: The last Sunday of April…
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Evoking the madness of Manto, what we need is ‘one big roar of laughter across Southasia’

11 Apr 202216 May 2022
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 News

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…
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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,…
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The power of love and a Southasian resolution on the Ukraine crisis

12 Mar 202218 Mar 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…
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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…
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Chakwalians, Rotarians gather for “a tsunami of peace” reunion at Kartarpur Corridor

23 Feb 202223 Feb 2022
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…
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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,…
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Singing and inspiration in dark times: Art and resistance in South Asia

4 Feb 202211 Feb 2022
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…
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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…
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“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 News

Married across an intractable border, Rajput Sodhas suffer due to India-Pakistan visa issues

11 Dec 202114 May 2022
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…
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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…
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How climate change is linked to the tragedy of a Bengali-Pakistani fisherman incarcerated in India

31 Oct 20212 Dec 2021
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…
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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…
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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 News

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 News

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,…
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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…

Imagine! Neighbours in Peace

Streets for life: Southasians for road safety29 May 2022

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