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

South Asia Solidarity Group Statement on Adani 26 January 2022 By Keval Bharadia The UK’s Science Museum in London has announced plans for a new ‘Energy Revolution’ gallery that is going to be sponsored by Adani Group. South Asia Solidarity Group, along with Culture Unstained, Survival International, London Mining Network, UKSCN London, Market Forces, XR

Citizenship, Criminalisation and Protest in India and the UK South Asia Solidarity Group unequivocally condemns the UK government’s new proposed Nationality and Borders Bill. The bill sets out a range of draconian measures to exclude people from the UK, including a lethal change which allows Border Forces to turn back boats carrying refugees across the

At the demonstration held on the 26th of November 2021, Sarbjit Johal of South Asia Solidarity Group said: “We, SASG stand here with all these other groups here TO CELEBRATE THE MASSIVE VICTORY OF THE FARMERS’ MOVEMENT To express our solidarity with the Farmers who in protesting against the farm laws have organised one of