Videos.
Crisis and Struggle in Sri Lanka:
One Year On.
One year after Sri Lanka’s political and economic crises, we bring together a panel of academics, journalists, and activists to discuss the continuing challenges and possibilities for political change.
This event is part of the Demos, Democratization, and Democracy in South Asia series at York University and is presented by Jamhoor and the York Centre for Asian Research. Panel.
Climate Catastrophe in South Asia; Taking Action in Canada.
Seniors for Climate Action Now! (SCAN!), Committee of Progressive Pakistani-Canadians (CPPC) and India Civil Watch International (ICWI) organize a panel with Dr. Nausheen Anwar, Dr. Sharachchandra Lele and Nick De Carlo to discuss the climate crisis in South Asia, the complicity of the global north, and ways in which activists in Canada can assist climate defenders in the global south.
Brewing Resistance: From Emergency to Authoritarianism.
Jamhoor in conversation with Dr. Kristin Plys, author of the book Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Post Colonial India. In this book, Plys recounts the little-known story of the resistance movement against the Emergency that brewed in New Delhi’s Indian Coffee House - a colonial institution that turned into a zone of social protest where workers and intellectuals alike gathered.
Sri Lanka Series Roundtable: Reflections and Report-backs.
Earlier this summer, a small and informal collective of artists, activists, and academics gathered in Sri Lanka. Variously and presently based in North America, the group's members collectively drew on their years of personal ties to politics and lives on the island in order to support and learn from the burgeoning re-emergence of political and creative imagination in the island's public arena, particularly in the still militarized North and East.
Niranjan Takle: Journalist on the Fascist Trail.
There is a shift in the world toward right-wing populist authoritarianism. As the recent spate of arrests of human rights activists and lawyers shows, India is well advanced on this path, with its ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) moving rapidly to make India a fascist state. Investigative journalist Niranjan Takle tells a story of historical significance in this development: the murder of a judge presiding over a case of extra-judicial killing in which the president of the ruling party and the most powerful man in India today, Amit Shah, was the prime suspect.
Introduction by Aparna Sundar
Fearsome & Familiar: Buddhist Majoritarianism & Anti-Muslim Attacks in Sri Lanka
Discussion with Farzana Haniffa & Aparna Sundar
Since Sri Lanka declared its war on the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam over in 2009, coordinated mass attacks by Sinhalese Buddhists on Muslims have been on the rise. Perpetrators have included monks and the police. How do these ongoing attacks flow from the historic anti-Muslim violence of 1915, the island’s first reported ethnic riots?
The Necessity of Communism.
By Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad surveys the conditions, facts and politics of India before suggesting ways the Left can move forward.
Muslim Maoists and Lenin's Limits: The Pakistan Mazdoor Kisan Party.
By Noaman Ali
The Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP) was arguably Pakistan's largest far left party, with significant support among the peasants of the North-West Frontier Province. Noaman G. Ali examines how differences in the values and interests of peasants and landless labourers were reflected in the theoretical differences of the MKP leadership, and how their inability to resolve these differences ultimately led to the collapse of the party.
The Making of a Progressive Tradition in Karnataka.
By Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobi
Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobi explains how Kannada progressive tradition is in crisis and makes a case for its reinvention.
Liking Progress, Loving Change: A Brief Look at the Progressive Writers' Movement & Socially-Purposive Writing in Urdu.
By Rakhshanda Jalil
Rakhshanda Jalil traces the local evolution of progressive thought in India to understand the coming together of writers & social reformers.
In Search of the Political: Social Life in Pakistan's Sufi Shrines.
By Ammen Jaffer
South Asia’s Sufi shrines are typically thought to have a quality of other-worldliness that is antithetical to the worldly concerns of the left. But can we rethink the shrine’s political possibilities?
Reserves of Resistance In Post-war Sri Lanka.
By Ahilan Kadirgamar
Ahilan Kadirgamar discusses anti-colonial Tamil youth politics in Sri Lanka and the interstices of nationalism, caste, and community in post civil war Sri Lanka.
