Panos South Asia, with its headquarters in Kathmandu, is part of the family of Panos Institutes worldwide that encourage and facilitate public discourse and debate on a wide range of issues.
Reinforcing Dalit leadership &
mainstreaming in Nepal
Alchemy of Iniquity
A Photo Essay
Panos South Asia holds a symposium on Science, Environment and Media in association with IIT-Delhi and Centre for Studies in Science Policy Panos South Asia, IIT Delhi, and Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University together organised a two-day symposium on Science, Environment and Media: Discussing Experiences in South Asia at IIT Delhi on November 15-16, 2009.This symposium, brought together academics, journalists, lawyers, activists and policymakers to explore the many-layered tensions between research and reportage ...More»
Panos South Asia hosts Media Gatekeepers' retreat on 'Fresh paradigms for peace: Evolving a new framework for negotiations in North South Asia' at Salzburg, Austria The retreat which brought together editors and owners from three countries: India, Pakistan and Afghanistan was the first of its kind. Participants of the high profile retreat included N Ravi, C Rammanohar Reddy, Bharat Bhushan, Shravan Kumar Garg and Anuradha Bhasin from India;Arif Nizami, Abbas Nasir, Zahid Hussain , Azhar Abbas and Syed Talat Hussain from Pakistan;Shahir Zihane, Hussain Yassa, Danish Karokhel and Ehsanullah Arianzai from Afghanistan. The discussions held in Salzburg, Austria on October 6th and 7th 2009 were moderated by Kanak Mani Dixit from Nepal. ...More»
Panos South Asia announces awardees of the media fellowships for print/web and broadcast journalists on Conflict reporting and Climate change reporting in Northeast India for 2009-2010 Panos South Asia has granted fellowships to three print journalists, one television journalist and a radio journalist to research and document Conflict-related issues in Northeast India. The fellowships were awarded based on their investigative work on the subject ...More»
RELAY: Panos partners with Ishan
to communicate and make research more accessible Panos South Asia has been partnering with
mainstream Assamese language publication Ishan in its bid to
communicate research through the vernacular, thus making it accessible to
all. Ishan publishes translations of original research work carried out
in English on issues of conflict, identity and development. Panos’ RELAY
programme in Northeast India has been supporting this unique montage media
collectives’ initiative in making research accessible to more people in a
language they understand. The first volume
of Ishan is now available online at Panos
with Ishan to make research more accessible...More»
Panos fellow Surya Shankar Dash's short film on the politics of land acquisition creates a stir Vedanta, a UK-based company allegedly involved in the destruction of Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa, was chosen in June , 2009 as the recipient of the London-based World Environment Foundation’s award for best practices in environment management. The jury comprised two former Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, Justice Ahmedi and Justice Bhagawati. To protest and expose the true face of Vedanta Aluminium Limited, a subsidiary of UK-based Vedanta Resources Plc, a 30-minute film, Sham Public Hearing: The Real Face of Vedanta, made by independent filmmaker Surya Shankar Dash was released in New Delhi on June 11. Surya Shankar Dash is one of young film-makers trained by Amar Kanwar under a Panos South Asia project to make short films on the politics of land acquisition. Protests by concerned citizens and organisations forced the organisers to "review" their decision ...More»
Panos South Asia launches 'Choti Choti Baatein',a
community radio programme by children in Patna, Bihar Panos South Asia has successfully launched Choti Choti Baatein, a radio
programme by children in Bihar on 19th July, 2009.This programme provides
a platform to the children to bring to the fore their immediate concerns as well
as issues critical to their communities.Choti Choti Batein commenced
broadcast at 11:30 am on All India Radio Patna's primary channel as a
weekly half- hour programme. The launch for the public and press was held
simultaneously at the scheduled broadcast time, at Sri Krishna Memorial Hall,
Gandhi Maidan,Patna and was attended by over two hundred school children ...More»
Panos South Asia presents its report on ‘Reinforcing Dalit leadership and mainstreaming in Nepal’ The publication ‘Reinforcing Dalit’s leadership and mainstreaming in Nepal: Learning from across the Border’ is the result of the visit of a Nepali Dalit delegation to India to learn from the lives and times of Dalits in the world’s largest democracy. With the aim of reinforcing the Dalit leadership movement mainstreaming in Nepal, the delegation comprising Dalit media, activists and leaders of the country visited institutions in four Indian cities: Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai and Chennai. The reports disseminate the information and knowledge gathered from the visits in the hope of influencing the political transition process in Nepal. We present the reports in English and Nepali ...More»
The retreat which brought together editors and owners from three countries: India, Pakistan and Afghanistan was the first of its kind. Participants of the high profile retreat included N Ravi, C Rammanohar Reddy, Bharat Bhushan, Shravan Kumar Garg and Anuradha Bhasin from India;Arif Nizami, Abbas Nasir, Zahid Hussain , Azhar Abbas and Syed Talat Hussain from Pakistan;Shahir Zihane, Hussain Yassa, Danish Karokhel and Ehsanullah Arianzai from Afghanistan. The discussions held in Salzburg, Austria on October 6th and 7th 2009 were moderated by Kanak Mani Dixit from Nepal. 
Panos South Asia has successfully launched Choti Choti Baatein, a radio
programme by children in Bihar on 19th July, 2009.This programme provides
a platform to the children to bring to the fore their immediate concerns as well
as issues critical to their communities.Choti Choti Batein commenced
broadcast at 11:30 am on All India Radio Patna's primary channel as a
weekly half- hour programme. The launch for the public and press was held
simultaneously at the scheduled broadcast time, at Sri Krishna Memorial Hall,
Gandhi Maidan,Patna and was attended by over two hundred school children 
