Out
of the Nuclear Shadow/edited by Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian.
Delhi, Rainbow, 2001, 525 p., $15. ISBN 81-86962-25-5.Out
of the Nuclear Shadow/edited by Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian.
Delhi, Rainbow, 2001, 525 p., $15. ISBN 81-86962-25-5.
Contents: I. Voices of conscience: 1. The Atom Bomb and Ahimsa/Mahatma Gandhi. 2. India’s obsession, our choice/Eqbal Ahmad. 3. India’s nuclear nemesis/Rajni Kothari. 4. The end of imagination/Arundhati Roy. 5. A Pakistani in Hiroshima/Beena Sarwar. 6. The hard choice/A.H. Nayyar. 7. War and peace/Anand Patwardhan. 8. A plea for a united struggle for peace/I.A. Rehman. 9. The struggle for nuclear disarmament/Praful Bidwai. II. The nuclear burden: 1. Pakistan’s fatefull Nuclear option/Zia Mian. 2. India and the Bomb/Amartya Sen. 3. The immorality of Nuclear weapons/Amulya Reddy. 4. The wages of Armageddon/C. Rammanohar Reddy. 5. Why women reject nuclearisation/Kumkum Sangari, Neeraj Malik, Sheba Chhachhi and Tanika Sarkar. 6. The smile that makes generations sick/Surendra Gadekar. 7. Reaping the Whirlwind/Kalpana Sharma. 8. Atomic error/Bittu Sahgal. 9. The Patriot games/Shiv Visvanathan. 10. Nuclear War in South Asia/M. McKinzie, Zia Mian, A.H. Nayyar and M.V. Ramana. III. Living the Nucelar life: 1. The epidemic of Nuclearism/Ashis Nandy. 2. The Hindutva weapon/Aijaz Ahmad. 3. The climber’s case/J. Sri Raman. 4. Nostrums of Nucelarism/K. Venkataramanan. 5. The uncounted costs/B. Baskar and R. Suresh. 6. The media and Nuclear nationalism/Zaffarullah Khan. 7. Of science and Nuclear weapons/T. Jayaraman. 8. Bombs, missiles, and Pakistani science/Pervez Hoodbhoy. 9. Nuclear power and human security/Itty Abraham. 10. Do Nuclear weapons provide security?/M.V. Ramana. 11. India’s draft Nuclear doctrine: a critique/Achin Vanaik. 12. Returning to our own Agenda: Why India should sign the CTBT/Achin Vanaik and Praful Bidwai. 13. Turning Pakistan away from the Nuclear Abyss/Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mian. 14. Education for peace/Lalita Ramdas. IV. Statements: 1. Indian scientists speak out against the Indian Nuclear tests. 2. Biologists in India for Nuclear disarmament. 3. Protest against Nuclear Bomb tests : Scientific Workers’ Forum, West Bengal. 4. Stop this ‘scientific’ Jingoism : An appeal by journalists against Nuclear weapons. 5. Protest rally at Hutatma Chowk /Anuvam Virodhi Andolan. 6. Sabarmati declaration/Anu Virodhi Shanti Samiti. 7. Join the struggle : Indian writers and poets. 8. Return to the disarmament agenda: Indian journalists. 9. A call for peace : Indian Medical Professionals. 10. Opposing Nuclear weapons: solidarity for peace. 11. Call for urgent and universal disarmament : Catholic Bishops Conference of India. 12. India should not induct Nuclear weapons : Communist Party of India (Marxist). 13. A cloudy future : Delhi School children. 14. ‘Candle light vigil’ held at Wagha border. 15. Protest against Pokhran II again: movement against Nuclear weapons. 16. Convention for Nuclear disarmament and peace against Nuclear tests and weapons retired Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi armed forces personnel. 17. Against the limited wars doctrine mind and Pakistan peace coalition. 18. Joint statement issued simultaneously in Karachi and Delhi by prominent Pakistani and Indian citizens. 19. Pakistan peace coalition Conference. 20. Condemning the Nuclear arms race: joint action Committee for rights, Lahore. 21. Against the nuclearisation of South Asia action Committee against arms race. 22. Condemning Nuclear tests and weapons Pakistanis across the world. 23. A call for revival of Lahore process. 24. South Asians against Nuclear arms: South Asian forum for human rights. 25. Marching for peace in Nepal. 26. Call for a Nuclear free South Asia Sri Lankan forum for Nuclear disarmament. 27. Call for a united movement against nuclearisation South Asia solidarity group. 28. Raise your voice against the Nuclear tests in India and Pakistan South Asians abroad. 29. Petition against the nuclearisation of South Asia. 30. Demanding global disarmament South Asian magazine for action and reflection. 31. Condemning the Indian and Pakistani Government Des Pardesh. V. Poems: 1. Goodbye Gandhi/Narayan Desai. 2. I will see if you like it or not/Amitava Kumar. 3. Dear civilised people/Sahir Ludhianvi. 4. Mankind’s error/Khushal Habibi. 5. Chagai: the white peak/Shaheen Rafi Khan. 6. ‘No, O Hunter, no’Jay Goswami. VI. Resources: Selected bibliography. Films. The Nuclear web. Organisations working for peace in South Asia. Maps of Nuclear Pakistan and India. Glossary. Index.