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South Asian Nonprofits - Bay Area


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Alliance of South Asians Taking Action


Campaign to Stop Funding Hate

Coalition Against Communalism

Friends of South Asia

Narika

Organizing Youth!


Arts and Culture


3rd I: South Asian Independent Film

Ali Akbar Khan College of Music

Center for South Asian Studies - UC Berkeley

Chitresh Das Dance Company

Progressive Bengali Network

South Asian Sisters

Trikone


Charitable Development and Education


Agami

Asha for Education - Berkeley & Stanford

Association for India's Development

Drishtipat

India Relief and Education Fund

Indians for Collective Action

SpaandanB

Vibha


Domestic Violence Assistance


Maitri

Narika


Professional

International Organization of Pakistani Women Engineers

South Asian Bar Association

South Asian Journalist Association (Bay Area)

South Asian Public Health Association



LINKS
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Art

Art & Architecture


Ajanta to Taj
Architecture of India through study of Monuments
Archive of Terracotta Temples of Bengal

Art India

The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms

Black Peacock
Paintings from Kangra and Mewar

Cooking for the Gods:
The Art of Home Ritual in Bengal

Flowers Underfoot
online exhibition of Indian carpets

Indian Art Circle

Harappa
images, sounds, movies and flashbacks from South Asia and the Indus Valley, before 1947.

Hindu Image Gallery
Indian Architecture
Pictorial essay by Guenther Eichhorn
Madhubani Painting
folk paintings by women village artists in north India.

Michael W. Meister
Webpage of U. Penn Prof. of South Asian Art History

Mother Goddess in Indian Art
online exhibition at Smithsonian

Mughal Miniatures

Old Money
vintage coins and indigenous currency gallery

Paintings of India
Poetry in Red Sandstone
Buildings of Fatehpur Sikri
Prince of Wales Museum of Western India
Salt Range Temples, Pakistan

Scaffold
India-related architectural information

South Asian Art Archive
American Institute of Indian Studies

South & Southeast Asian Masterpieces
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Tibetan Book of the Dead

Taj Mahal

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Contemporary Art

Preeti Bawa
M.F. Husain

N. Kumar Karun

Anjolie Ela Menon

Ashwini Tiketar

Raja Ravi Varma
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Dance / Performing Arts

Art India.net
Bharata Natyam

Bharata Natyam Interactive Study Guide

Folk dances

History of Classical Dance from South India

Kathakali

Kuchipudi

Odissi

Rukmini Devi Arundale's KALAKSHETRA

Sruti: India's premier music and dance magazine
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Photography

Raghu Rai
Sunil Janah

Vivek Desai

DRIK
Himalayan Home

Indian Architecture - Pictorial essay by Guenther Eichhorn

Monochrome Magic - William Gedney's photographs of Varanasi

Somewhere in India - A Photo essay by Raghu Rai

Culture

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Arts, Culture & Literature - India
Azadi - A Look at the 1947 Partition : explores creative responses to Partition and Indian Independence

Colors of India

Discover India

Himalayan Home

Jaal Desi Satire

Kamat's Potpourri: The History, Mystery, and Diversity of India

Manas: India and its Neighbors

Shekhar Gurera's Gallery : Sketch of Indian Politics and Society by a cartoonist

Shobak - Bangladesh Oral History Project
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Film

Anand Patwardhan
Satyajit Ray

Cry for Justice

MUTINY: Asians Storm British Music - a film by Vivek Bald

Nusrat has Left the Building... But When? - a film by Farjad Nabi

Taxi-vala/ Auto-biography- a documentary video by Vivek Bald
Traveling Film South Asia 2000

A Voice From Heaven - a film by Giuseppe Asaro

Uttara (The Wrestlers) - a film by Buddhaseb Das Gupta
When Women Unite: The Story of an Uprising

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Language

BengalNet
Cyber Kerela

Hindi instruction on the Internet

Hindi Language Resources - also some Sanskrit and Urdu language resources

Languages and Scripts of India

Marathi resources on the web

Parabass -about Bengali culture, mostly in Bengali.

Tamil Electronic Library

Tamil instruction on the Internet

Web of On-line Dictionaries - includes dictionaries for many South Asian languages
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Literature

Arun Mitra: Selected Poems
Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Literature: Theorists and Critics

Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Selected Poems

Immortal Hindi Authors and Poets

Literature of the Indian Subcontinent in English

Storytelling in India
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Music

Indian Music
MasalaSounds

Music India Online

Raganet

Ragascape
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Classical

Ali Akbar Khan
Classical Music of India

Glossary of North Indian Classical Music

Introduction to North Indian Music

Introduction to South Indian Classical Music

A Karnatic Music Primer

Real Audio sites for Indian Classical Music
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Traditional/ Folk

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Bhangra Central

The Bhangra Dimension
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New Beats

ANOKHA - SOUNDZ OF THE ASIAN UNDERGROUND
Asian Dub Foundation
Black Star Liner
Cornershop
Dhamaal

Mutiny
Rhino FX
State of Bengal

History

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Ambedkar Page
Azadi - A Look at the 1947 Partition : explores creative responses to Partition and Indian Independence

Diaspora

Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar - Dalit leader & Architect of India's Constitution

Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Literature: Theorists and Critics

Gandhi

Harappa - images from the Indus Valley and sounds, movies and flashbacks from pre-1947 South Asia.

History & Politics

History of the Ghadar Movement

History of India

India in Revolution

Itihaas: The History of India

Old Money - vintage coins and indigenous currency gallery

Sketches out of South Asian History

Law, Government & Politics

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Human Rights

Alternative India - contains several human rights reports by Indian NGO's
National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights

People's Union for Civil Liberties

South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre

Amnesty International
Centre for Science and Environment

Corporate Watch

Derechos Human Rights

Human Rights Watch

Bhopal.org
Bhopal.net
Child Labor - MNC Masala

The Dalit Solidarity Forum

Justice for Bhopal

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Politics

"HINDUTVA"
Indian Policy Institute

Nuclear Testing in India and Pakistan: Selected Internet Resources

Nuclear Politics in South Asia

Caste in Indian Politics: Two Stories by Sainath
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Government Sites

Islamic Republic of Pakistan - official website
National Informatics Center - directory of India governmental sites

Tibetan Government in Exile's Official Web Site

People's Movements

India Together
National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights

Narmada Dam page of oneworld.net

The Narmada River Campaign

National Alliance of People's Movements

People's Union for Civil Liberties

Saxikali's South Asia Web

Social Movements in India - MNC Masala

Social Movements in South Asia - selected internet resources from UCB

South Asia Citizens Web

South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre

South Asian Initiative

The Greater Common Good - a widely-reprinted article by Arundhati Roy on the Narmada Valley.
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Women's Resources

Feminism in India
Kali for Women

Narika

Maitri

Manushi, a journal about women and society

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
SAWNET- South Asian Womens NETwork
South Asian Women's Creative Collective
South Asian Women For Action

Religion and Spirituality

Bhagvat Gita
BuddhaNet

DUNYA: CyberMuslim Information Collective

Essence of Jainism: Original Jain Literature and Jain Logic

Fundamentals of Islam

Hindu Tantrik Home Page

India Blessings - descriptions of religions in India

Indian Religions

India Ritual - descriptions of religions in India

Jainism: Jain Principles, Tradition and Practices

Meeting God: Elements of Devotion in India

Mysticism in World Religions

Sriyantra - sacred art and geometry of Tantra

Links from the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library

Sikhism Homepage

Sikhism: Thy Name is Love and Sacrifice

Tibetan Book of the Dead

Vedavid
 

South Asian Organizations

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Advocacy

Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia
Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA)
Campaign to Stop Funding Hate (CFSH)
Coalition Against Communalism (CAC)
Coalition for an Egalitarian and Pluralistic India - Los Angeles
Forum of Inquilabi Leftists (FOIL)
Friends of South Asia (FOSA)

M.K. Gandhi Institute - Memphis
Organizing Youth! (OY!)
Promise of India (POI)
RadDesi Summer - Austin
South Asian Network - Los Angeles
South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy - Vancouver
South Asian Progressive Action Collective (SAPAC) - Chicago
Youth Solidarity Summer -New York


Arts and Culture


3rd I: South Asian Independent Film
Ali Akbar Khan College of Music
Artwallah - Los Angeles
Center for South Asian Studies - UC Berkeley
Chingari

Chitresh Das Dance Company
Diaspora Flow - New York
Digital Bangla Project
Indo-American Arts Council - New York
Progressive Bengali Network
South Asian Women's Creative Collective - New York
South Asian Lesbian Gay Association (SALGA) - New York
South Asian Sisters
Trikone


Charitable Development and Education


Agami
Asha for Education
Association for India's Development
Drishtipat
India Relief and Education Fund
Indians for Collective Action
SpaandanB
Vibha


Domestic Violence Assistance


Apna Ghar - Chicago
Chaya - Seattle
Maitri
Narika
Raksha - Atlanta
Sahara - Los Angeles
Saheli - Austin
Sakhi for South Asian Women - New York

South Asian Network - Los Angeles

Professional

International Organization of Pakistani Women Engineers
South Asian Bar Association
South Asian Journalist Association
South Asian Public Health Association


South Asian Virtual Libraries

Asia Society
Bangladesh Virtual Library

India Virtual Library

Kamat's Potpourri: The History, Mystery, and Diversity of India

Manas: India and its Neighbors

Pakistan Virtual Library

Progressive South Asia

South Asia Citizens Web

South Asia Network

South Asia Resources (UCB)

Sri Lanka Virtual Library

Tibetan Studies Virtual Library

Media

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Progressive Magazines / Periodicals

Chowrangi
Communalism Combat

Economic and Political Weekly

Frontline

Ghadar
HIMAL - South Asia
Manushi, a journal about women and society

Megh Barta

SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection

Trikone
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Mainstream Media / Newspapers

Bangladesh
Daily Star
| The Independent | The New Nation
Pakistan
DAWN
| The News International
Nepal
Kathmandu Post |
Sri Lanka
Daily News
India
Times of India | Indian Express | The Telegraph| The Hindu | Hindustan Times|The Statesman | Deccan Chronicle | Deccan Herald  | The Economic Times | Doordarshan | All India Radio
USA
India AbroadIndia Currents | India West
International News sources and Wires:
Yahoo! News - Asia Headlines | BBC News - South Asia | New York Times

 

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