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Event, Mar 26: Two Years of Sapan – Towards Peace and Solidarity in Southasia

22 Mar 202325 Mar 2023
Southasia Peace Action Network celebrates its second anniversary! Two years of connecting people and organisations across borders and the diaspora. We are also excited to honour the acclaimed journalist Lyse…
Sapan News Network

Celebrating love: Beyond borders and boundaries of religion, caste, and nationality

8 Mar 202315 Mar 2023
“In the process of suppressing individual happiness over centuries, we have encouraged agents of hate, discrimination, and violence,” comments journalist Aekta Kapoor, moderating an online discussion promoting equality and harmony.…
Sapan News Network

Lessons from journalism, tai chi, and life

23 Nov 202230 Nov 2022
23 November 2022: In May this year, journalist and filmmaker Beena Sarwar, founder-curator of Southasia Peace Action Network, was invited to give the keynote speech at Harvard University's inaugural AAPI/APIDA…
Sapan News Network

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 News Network

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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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…
Sapan News Network

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…
Press Statements

Covid-19 needs a regional response, say physicians and activists at South Asia peace meeting

27 Jun 202126 May 2022
June 27, 2021: “South Asian countries cannot go it alone, that's irrational,’’ said Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, renowned public health activist and Ramon Magsaysay awardee from Bangladesh. The hard lockdown in…

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Directing Change: Gender Representation in South Asian Films and Television6 May 2023

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