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[Last update March 7, 2007]

Progressive Periodicals / Webzines / Portals
- Akhbar
- Bytes for All
- Combat Law (India)
- Communalism Combat (India)
- Chowk
- Delhi Magazine (India)
- Down to Earth (Indian fortnightly on Environmental issues)
- Economic and Political Weekly (India)
- Frontline (a popular Indian newsmagazine)
- Gallerie (India)
- Ghadhar (journal of the Forum of Indian Leftists)
- Jaal (alternative, humorous take on Indian events)
- Lines (Sri Lanka)
- Mainstream (India)
- Meghbarta (Bangladeshi Webzine)
- Meghdutam Plus
- People's Democracy (India)
- Peacemonger.com
- Refugee Watch
- Sangat (An Electronic journal on Politics, Culture, Poetry & Fiction)
- Seminar (India) Seminar Contents pages 1993
- SAMAR (South Asian Magazine for Action & Reflection, N.Y.)
- Shobak: Alternative Asian Voices
- Sanskriti (a South Asian journal)
- South Asian Voice
- Tamil Rights
- Taraqqi
- Trikone (A journal of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual South Asians)
- Weekly Ganashakti (India)
- Kuknalim.Net (the site for Naga news, issues and views)
- The Little Magazine (India)
- Insaf Bulletin (Canada)

Selected Journals / Projects / Groups / Scholars, intellectuals, artists & activists, blogs:
- A Database on South Asian Scholars
- A Directory of independent NGO's & activists in India
- A Guide to Pakistani NGOs
- Akhtar Hamid Khan
- Anhad
- Arvind Gupta
- Alternative Law Forum (India)
- Ahimsa (London, UK)
- Aman Biradari (New Delhi)
- Amanpanchayat (India)
- Anhad (New Delhi)
- Anumukti: A Journal for a Nuclear Energy Free India
- Asian American Network Against Abuse of Women (ANAA)
- Aligarh Historians Society
- Association for Communal Harmony in Asia
- Asia Source by Asia Society, NY
- Ambedkar Centre for Justice and Peace
- Amitav Ghosh
- Asma Jahangir: Interviewed by Amitav Ghosh (lawyer and human rights activist, Lahore, August 29, 1998)
- Awaaz South Asia
- Barefoot College (India)
- Bangaldesh's War Liberation Museum
- Bangla Nuremberg: Raising Awareness About 1971 War Criminals
- Bapsi Sidhwa
- Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars [Contents Pages 1968-93]
- Berkeley Journal of Asian Studies
- Biblio: A review of Books
- Bina Aggarwal
- Coalition of Tamils and Muslims for Peace and Coexistence (Sri Lanka)
- Center for Advocacy in Mental Health (Pune, India)
- Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka
- Community Development Library (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
- Center for Legal Aid Assistance & Settlement
- Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), Bombay. | [Indian Journal of Secularism]
- Centre for Studies in Social (CSSS) Sciences, India
- Centre for Eductaion and Documentation (Bombay & Bangalore)
- DialogNow.org : a forum to promote dialog between the peoples of India & Pakistan.
- Dionne Bunsha
- Drik Picture Library (Dhaka)
- Dristipat
- DRISHTI - Media, Arts & Human Rights
- Eqbal Ahmed: Selected Writings: (A collections of his writings) | In Memory of Eqbal Ahmed (Obitutaries & tributes)
- Ekta : A South Asian Progressive Network
- Environment Support Group (Bangalore)
- Faiz Ahmad Faiz (The official website)
- Friends for Peace in Sri Lanka (FPSL), Australia
- Greenpeace India
- Goa Research Net (GRN)
- www.gaisecurity.com Taking On Telematic Surveillance
- http://india.indymedia.org
- Indian Economic and Social History Review [Contents Pages 1993-96]
- Indian Journal of Gender Studies [Contents Pages 1996-97]
- India Media Review (E-Zine)
- Indo Pakistan Jazz Coalition (IPJC) [web sites of IPJC members Rudresh Mahanthappa; Fareed Haque; Samir Chatterjee]
- International Journal of Punjab Studies
- Indian Progressive Study Group (at Columbia Univ, N.Y.)
- International South Asia Forum (Montreal)
- India Pakistan Arms Race and Militarisation Watch
- Insaf International (India)
- Insight a journal of the Ambedkar Study Circle, JNU (India)
- Indian Rationalist Association
- International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo
- Jagori (India)
- Journalists Resource Centre (Pakistan)
- Justice for Afzal Guru
- Kafila
- Karnataka Komu Souharda Vedike / Communal Harmony Forum (India)
- Khalid Hasan Online
- Lokayan Bulletin
- Mangalbare Forum ( a weekly discussion forum of activists & intellectuals in Kathmandu)
- Manipur freedom | Irome Sharmila's hunger strike to repeal AFSPA
- Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (India)
- Moju (Sri Lanka)
- Mushirul Hasan: An Historian's Life in India (Spring 2000)
- Nepal Democracy Alliance
- Oral History project on the 1971 Bangladesh war of Independence
- Pablo Bartholomew (India)
- Pravada
- People's Commission on Environment and Development (India)
- People For Peace Between Pakistan and India
- Progressive South Asia Network (Proxsa Net)
- Praful Bidwai
- Praful Bidwai Interviewed by Amitav Ghosh
- Political Writings of Hamza Alavi
- PUCL
- PUDR
- Sabrang Communications
- Right to Food Campaign
- SAHMAT
- Shah AMS Kibria (Bangladesh)
- Social Scientist [Contents Pages 1993-96]
- Science and Rationalists Association of India
- Shazia Mirza (UK)
- Social Scientists Association (Sri Lanka)
- South Asia Bulletin
- South Asian History
- Studies in Nepali History and Society
- Shanthi: An Online Journal Promoting Peace in Sri Lanka
- Shirkat Gah (Pakistan)
- Simorgh (Pakistan)
- Siddharth Vardarajan
- South Asia Solidarity Group
- Southall Black Sisters
- Sarai: The new media initiative in India
- South Asians For Human Rights
- South Asians Against Nukes Mailing List
- South Asia Nuclear Dialogue Weekly
- Sakhi (USA)
- South Asia Citizens Wire (Archive of SACW posts)
- South Asia Watch
- Some Writings of D D Kosambi
- Shashi Tharoor
- The Experiment. Bengali rock band. Music of India, Bangladesh
- The Atheist Centre Website (Vijayavada, India)
- Tarksheel Bharat / Rationalist Society (India)
- Teachers' Resource Centre (Karachi)
- The Other Media (India)
- The People's Commission on Environment and Development (India)
- Vijay Iyer's home page - Jazz Pianist
- UBINIG Policy Research for Development Alternatives (Dhaka)
- Watandost (Pakistan)
- Writings by Achin Vanaik

Publishers and Bookstores:
- Kali for Women (New Delhi) | More on Kali for Women
- Katha (New Delhi, India)
- City Press (Karachi, Pakistan)
- Mashaal Books (Lahore, Pakistan)
- Vanguard Books (Lahore, Pakistan)
- Narigrantha Prabartana [ The Feminist Bookstore ] (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
- Narigrantha Prabartana (The Official Site)
- Permanent Black (New Delhi, India)
- Ram Advani Bookseller (Lucknow, India)
- Seagull Books (Calcutta, India)
- The Other India Bookstore (Goa, India)
- Tulika Books (Madras)
- Three Essays Press (New Delhi, India)
- University Press Ltd. (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
- Leftword Books ( New Delhi)
- Streelekha Feminist Bookstore (Bangalore, India)
- Stree (Calcutta)
- Seagull Books (Calcutta, India)
- Suriya Bookshop (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
- Asian Rare Books
- Women Unlimited (India)
- Zubaan Books (India)
- National Book Trust (India)

Films :

- Garam Hawa ( An important film on the Partition of India -1947)
- The Division of Hearts ( A documentary of Partition by Peter Chappel and Sati Khanna)
- Mammo (A valuable film on Partition by Shyam Benegal)
- Partition (A film by Tariq Ali and McMullen)
- War Crimes File (3 War criminals from Bangaldesh War of 1971)
- In the Name of God, Father Son & Holy war and other documentary films by Anand Patwardhan
- Anand Patwardhan's Films
- Song of Freedom / Muktir Gaan (A documentary on the Bangladesh liberation war of 1971)
- Jashn-e-Azadi (A film by Sanjay Kak)
- Films by Ali Kazimi
- A Season Outside (A film by Amar Kanwar )
- Stop the Hatred (A 50 second spot for communal harmony in India)
- Taxi-Vala (A film about South Asian taxi drivers in NY)
- BomGay (A film from the Gay Community in Bombay)
- Fire (An important film about women and sexuality in India)
- Earth (based on Pakistani novelist Bapsi Sidwa's Cracking India on the political dynamics of the India/Pakistan 1947 partition)
- Born Into Brothels (A documentary on Calcutta's red light district, and the children who grow up there) [March 2nd 2004]
- My Son the Fanatic (A film on young south Asians meddling with fundamentalist politics in the UK)
- The Men in the Tree by Lalit Vachani (2002 Digital Video; 98 min. Hindi/English/Marathi/Sanskrit with English subtitles) [Review: Growing into their knickers]
- The Boy in the Branch by Lalit Vachani [1993] (Interviews four young militants of the RSS in the months just prior to the destruction of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya)
- Gujarat: A Laboratory of Hindu Rashtra or Fascism by Suma Josson (2003 / 50 min. / English subtitles)
- Evil Stalks the Land by Gauhar Raza (17 min, 2002)
- Junun Ke Badhte Qadam by Gauhar Raza (On 2002 Gujarat carnage) (2002- English subtitles - 30 minutes)
- Final Solution by Rakesh Sharma
- East is East
- Talking Peace (A documentary on the experience of Pakistan-India People Forum for Peace & Democracy)
- No More Tears Sister by Helene Klodawsky (On Rajani Thiranagama)
- Pure Chutney by Sanjeev Chatterjee, Amitava Kumar and AJ Dickerson
- Chutney Popcorn by Nisha Ganatra
- Khamosh Pani by Sabhia Sumar
- Comrade Sak by Chris Mitchell / produced by Tartan TV (1990)
- Brothers in Trouble (1995) by Udayan Prasad

Film Related Resources:

- Karafilm
- Delhi Film Archive
- Queer readings of Bollywood
- South Asian Film and Video Association (SAFVA)
- Film South Asia
- New Delhi Video Forum
- South Asia Film and TV

Some important non South Asia Links:
www.protest.net
www.irr.org.uk/
www.zmag.org/
www.ibka.org/en/
www.icannwatch.org/
www.indymedia.org
www.iglhrc.org/
www.rabble.ca/
http://www.yomango.net/
www.iheu.org
www.timeanddate.com/

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