We are deeply concerned that a number of cinemas across the UK and Ireland are screening the Islamophobic propaganda film The Kerala Story with new venues added from May 26th. The Kerala Story has been thoroughly exposed in India as based on lies and deliberately designed to foster hate and division among faith communities. The

In this video, Amrit Wilson speaks outside HM Treasury in London at XR’s The Big One, on the 21st of April. Amrit discusses colonialism, World Bank/IMF debt conditionality, the root cause of climate change and the current context in India where Narendra Modi, the BJP and Gautam Adani, who are allied to the interests to

South Asia Solidarity Group condemns the internet shutdowns, media bans, oppressive policing and mass arrests happening in Punjab, in the name of an ongoing hunt for one man, who recently returned to India from Dubai. On March 18, a non-bailable warrant was issued for Amritpal Singh (leader of the organisation Waris Punjab De) under the

In the wake of recent events including the violence in Leicester in September, the screening of the BBC documentary ‘India: the Modi Question’ (which was effectively banned in India) and the expose of massive fraud by Modi’s right-hand man, the billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani, many on the British left are now finally aware of the

Statement by South Asia Solidarity Group Rishi Sunak is being celebrated as UK’s first Asian Prime Minister, so just what is his identity and how will it affect his domestic and foreign policies? As the richest man in Parliament, twice as rich as King Charles, with an eye-wateringly expensive education in private schools followed by

Featured image: Keir Starmer meeting the Indian High Commissioner on Monday 10 October. We are deeply concerned by Keir Starmer’s speech at the Navratri celebration at India Gardens, London on Wednesday 5 October. In particular, Starmer’s direct reference to ‘Hinduphobia’ in this speech, in the wake of the communal violence on the streets of Leicester

South Asian diaspora groups in the UK supporting the peaceful protest outside the Indian High Commission at 6pm this evening, released the following statement. The protest has been called to promote the restoration of peace and unity among all South Asian diaspora communities in the UK and to demand an end to the divisive activities

Amrit Wilson On 17 September, hundreds of masked and hooded men, some with weapons, marched through a largely Muslim area of Leicester, UK, shouting the slogan of ‘Jai Shri Ram!’ which, as everyone in the UK’s South Asian communities knows, is used in India by the RSS foot soldiers as they attack Muslims. There are

STAND TOGETHER FOR PEACE AND AGAINST HINDUTVA HATE-MONGERING IN LEICESTER! We condemn the inflammatory and Islamophobic and menacing call for a protest against so-called ‘Muslim Hate Crime’ at 9pm at night, tonight (September 11) in an area of Leicester which is predominantly Hindu and also has Muslim residents. This openly Islamophobic call reflects the rising

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We attended the Science Museum’s India Lates event on 31 August 2022 as part of the Fossil Fuel Science Museum coalition. Here we are explaining to artist Chila Kumari Burman and Sir Ian Blatchford about the insidious role the Science Museum is playing in enabling the Adani brand to greenwash its environmental crimes and whitewash

 Dear Chila, Amish, Lucy and Monish,We are progressive artists, writers and academics writing to you out of concern that you are involved in the Science Museum’s Lates event which this month is about India. We urge you as highly reputed artists to show your support to the people of the global south including India and

South Asia Solidarity Group stands with the people of Sri Lanka and supports their main demand “Gota Go Home” – that President Gotabaya Rajapakse and his brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse resign forthwith. The Rajapakses’ continued tenure as rulers has become untenable as their government has bankrupted the country in a spectacular manner, through excessive

Indian High Commission, India House, Aldwych, London WC2B 4NA, 28 February 2022 28 February marks 20 years since the orchestrated genocidal attacks on the minority Muslim community in Gujarat in 2002, when Narendra Modi was Chief Minister of the State. At least 2,000 Muslims were murdered and 200,000 displaced. Today with Narendra Modi’s far-right Hindu

UNDER EMBARGO TILL SATURDAY 26 February 2022 We the undersigned are gravely concerned by the targeting of Muslim women in India characteristic of a prelude to a genocide. We call on you to urgently institute an investigation.   At the end of February, it will be 20 years since the orchestrated genocidal attacks on the

FROM: SOUTH ASIA SOLIDARITY GROUP February 25, 2022 Nine UK Parliamentarians, including the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Preventing Genocide, together with more than 20 of UK’s major women’s organisations and  30 eminent academics working on South Asia, are urging the UN to urgently institute an investigation into the hounding of Muslim