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SAMAR Magazine Archives

We have begun the process of archiving all of our back issue content. Currently, full archives are available from Issue 13 (Winter/Spring 2001) onwards, with a smattering of content from previous issues. We will continue to bring older articles online, and in the meantime we hope you will enjoy our growing collection.

You can browse by issue, section, topic, region of interest or by contributor using the links below, or the ones that appear consistently on the left hand side of this site.

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Books
Dance
Discussions
Editorial
Essay
Features
Fiction
Film
Forum
Humor
Interviews
Music
Photoessay
Poetry
Theater
Activism
Arts
Bhopal
Bollywood
Caste
Censorship
Class
Colonialism
Communalism
Dalit
Development
Diaspora/Migration
Elections
Gender
Globalization
Hinduism
HIV/AIDS
Immigration
Islam
Labor
Media
Militarism & War
Narmada
Nationalism
Neoliberalism
Nuclearization
Police Brutality
Public Health
Queer
Race
Science/Tech
Separatism
September 11
Sikhism
Sport
Tsunami
Urdu
Youth/2nd Gen
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  1. Sun-Surf-Sex Tourism by Shireen Samarasuriya
  2. If My Vagina Could Speak... by Vandana Makker
  3. Bollywood Comes To Nigeria by Brian Larkin
  4. You Can Not Escape Responsibility by Chandana Mathur and Anannya Bhattacharjee
  5. Photos from the People's War in Nepal by Li Onesto
  6. Sex, Lies and the AIDS Epidemic in Nepal by Aruna Radhakrishna
  7. Born Into Saving Brothel Children by Svati P. Shah
  8. Habib Tanvir: The Making of a Legend by Javed Malick
  9. Classical Dance Re-emerges in Pakistan by Kathryn Hansen
  10. Sailing Into the Past by Edward A. Alpers
  11. Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) by Soumya Kidambi
  12. Rotten Coconuts and Other Strange Fruits by Nitasha Sharma
  13. Pride and Prejudice by Zahra Meherali
  14. Junglee Girl, Funny Boy by June Unjoo Yang
  15. Once Upon a Time in Hoxton by Farah Damji

Ghadar is a forum for Left debate and dialogue through reports on political activism on the ground in South Asia and the diaspora.

lines is an online magazine that engages with the political spaces of Sri Lanka.

Youth Solidarity Summer (YSS), Organizing Youth (OY!), and RadDesi Summer are volunteer collectives of artists, activists, educators and students providing radical political education for South Asian youth in New York, California and Texas, respectively.

Asia Pacific Forum (APF) is the progressive pan-Asian radio show broadcast every Tuesday night from WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City and live on the web .

Apex Express is an Asian Pacific Islander community radio show on KPFA 94.1 FM in the Bay Area.

The Chicago-based South Asian Progressive Action Collective (SAPAC) takes up progressive issues pertinent to South Asia and the Diaspora through direct action, creative expression, and discussion.

DisappearedInAmerica.org is a multimedia art project created by the VISIBLE Collective to address the post-9/11 disappearances of Muslims in the US. See also Shobak.org: Outsider Muslims.

The South Asian Forum, a website of resources and storytelling, includes a directory of South Asian organizations, history of organizing, census information and an extensive bibliography.

MKSS is an organization pioneering the Indian RTI (Right to Information) movement.

Pass the Roti is a group blog covering issues pertaining largely to South Asia and the South Asian diaspora.