Author Archives: Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia

Saturday 2-4 pm, May 18, 2013 MIT Room 3-133http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=3 Speakers: Jayanta Bandyopadhyay and Nazrul Islam Jayanta Bandyopadhya, environmental activist and professor, author of fourteen critically acclaimed books, is the former head of the Center for Development and Environment Policy at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Nazrul Islam, the senior economist at the UN, isContinue reading “Water Future of Bangladesh and India: Divided by borders, connected by rivers”

Speech by Nurul Kabir, poem read by Padma Balasubramanian below. Thanks, everybody for being here today. It is a great day, a beautiful day and I am happy to be here with all of you! And I remember that no more than a few days ago, at 9 AM in the morning on the otherContinue reading “Vigil/picket For Bangladeshi workers killed in the April 25th Rana factory collapse – May 4, 2013”

The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia raised $7,000 for the families of garment workers affected by the Tazreen garment factory fire of November 2012. This effort in no way absolves the Government of Bangladesh and the class it represents their criminal abdication of responsibility towards the workers. Nor does it weaken ourContinue reading “Fund Raising for families of Bangladesh Garment Workers killed by Fires”

The Atrocity of Caste | a Tradition of Reason | A Song that will be Sung Introduced by Anand Patwardhan Sat. Mar 2, 2013, 2 – 6pm MIT 32 – 155 Followed by QA with the Director Co-sponsored by: MIT Program in Women’s and Gender StudiesMIT History DepartmentSouth Asia Forum at MIT Ambedkar International CenterContinue reading “JAI BHIM COMRADE – Mar 2, 2013”

The Program in Women’s & Gender Studies The South Asia Forum at MIT The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia Cordially invite you to a panel discussion South Asian Women Resist Religious Fundamentalism, Imperialism, and The State in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan with Nusrat Chowdhury, Modhumita Roy, Afiya Zia Wednesday, February 27, 2013Continue reading “South Asian Women Panel Discussion – Feb 27, 2013”

Press Release post-Vigil YouTube videos: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1OtVbaJZG3Yhttp://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rIHfRZ7kLAk Protesting the Bangladesh Garment Factory Fire at Harvard Square by Umang Kumar, Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia (Advocate), Dec-09-12 International Op-ed As a member of the Alliance for Secular and Democratic South Asia (“Alliance”), a Cambridge, MA-based organization that champions issues in South Asia, the news ofContinue reading “Protest held in Harvard Square for Tazreen Garment Factory fire in Bangladesh – Dec 1, 2012”