Beena Sarwar

Beena Sarwar

About Beena Sarwar

The writer blogs at Journeys to Democracy. She is Editor Aman Ki Asha and curator South Asia Peace Action Network, Sapan southasiapeace.

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Dr Mubashir Hasan, Kamla Bhasin, Lahore, October 2018. (Photo: Samina Bano Rehman)

The spirit of South Asia: Remembering Kamla Bhasin

  • Nov 27, 2021

Sapan is a coalition of individuals and organisations that places India-Pakistan relations in a regional context and calls for a visa-free South Asia

Pakistan on Thursday released 113 Indian fishermen after a similar gesture by New Delhi was announced to mark the start of the holy month of Ramazan

How climate change is linked to the continuing tragedy of Pakistani and Indian fishermen callously ignored by both nations

  • Oct 29, 2021

India and Pakistan’s toxic official relations continue to take a human toll and hold South Asia hostage even as the region deals with the crisis of climate change which includes fish migration patterns…

(Left)Dr. Harold A. Gould: A man of many parts (Right) Hal Gould with wife Ketayun, his “Persian queen”.(Photo Credit: Courtesy Philip McEldowney)

Remembering Hal Gould, a friend of South Asia

  • Sep 07, 2021

When some of us launched a South Asia initiative earlier this year, Hal Gould came to mind

Gurmeet, Ajeet Kumar, Ranjeet, Rekha and Lovina in this 2017 family photos. Photo: Family album

Undaunted by temple attack, Pakistani Hindu stuck in India with three children wants to go back home

  • Aug 10, 2021

A Pakistani Hindu stuck in India with three children after his wife died in April is pleading with the authorities to let him return to his country before Independence Day, August 14

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