A multi-disciplinary exhibition viewing, opening up to conversations foregrounded on practices of women artists and peacebuilders, takes SOAS South Asia Institute’s Sanglaap Art and Culture Series to a contemporary level of critical inquiry, based on decades of personal experience by artists, curators and writers from the region. In collaboration with SOAS South Asia Institute, Southasia Peace Action Network (Sapan), and Kultura Verse UK, we invite…

PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BOSTON: An online petition calling for global recognition of Southasia’s shared climate crisis and collective potential has been launched ahead of the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Belém, Brazil, 10–21 November 2025. Titled “Recognize Southasia’s shared climate crisis and fund a just transition at COP30…

Read the latest Sapan Blog, where Siraj Khan reflects on India’s historic Women’s Cricket World Cup victory, a win that transcends sport to symbolize empowerment, unity, and regional pride. By Siraj Khan / Southasia peace India's historic victory in the Women's Cricket World Cup is being widely hailed as a defining moment for women's empowerment, not just in India, but the entire Southasia, symbolizing increased confidence, visibility, and empowerment for women in sports and beyond.

Imagine: Neighbours in Peace!Bridging Borders - A Southasian Vision for COP30Date: Sunday, 26 October 2025Time: 10:00 a.m. EST / 2:00 p.m. GMT / 7:00 p.m. PKT / 7:30 p.m. IST / 7:45 p.m. NPT / 8:00 p.m. BDT / 4:00 p.m. SAVenue: Online (Registration required)Register to attend: About the Event As the world prepares for COP30, the Southasia Peace Action Network (Sapan) is hosting a timely virtual gathering:

This Friday in Boston: A special screening of ‘Chittagong’, Bedabrata Pain’s debut film (2012) that brings to life the true story of the revolutionary students, led by their teacher, rising up against British colonial rule in 1930s in Chittagong, East Bengal. The raid on the armoury ignited the imagination of the people of Southasia to rise up and throw off the 20-year old colonial yoke.

Report on a unique discussion organised by the Southasia Peace Action Network, featuring the voices of young people from across the region on what what peace means to them By Sara Arshad LAHORE, June 2025: Since its inception in March 2021, the Southasia Peace Action Network, or Sapan, has advocated for freedom of trade, travel, and tourism within the region, upholding human rights and dignity, and…

By Beena Sarwar/Sapan News CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Some 300 festively dressed Cantabrigians and neighbors gathered at Cambridge’s Reservoir Church on Saturday for the annual Diwali-Eid Cultural program, an interfaith, intercultural event featuring music, dance, food and speeches. “There are four generations here,” said Jaspal Singh, a Punjab and Vedic scholar and Cambridge resident, in front of a packed auditorium. “We are one humanity, one struggle.

By Sapan News Desk New Delhi / Berlin / Karachi / Southasia diaspora — Last week, the story of prominent social entrepreneur Sabeen Mahmud who was shot dead in Karachi, Pakistan, in April 2015, again resonated across the world, with several screenings of the powerful documentary After Sabeen by Berlin-based filmmaker Schokofeh Kamiz. The Sapan Film Club of the…

Sapan invites you to watch the moving documentary 'After Sabeen' about slain peace activist Sabeen Mahmud, and participate in the Sapan Film Club discussion with filmmaker Schokofeh Kamiz on September 28.

Date: Thursday, April 24, 2025Time: 11 am Boston / 4 pm GMT / 8 pm PakistanLocation: Online (Register here, or go to the event Facebook page here)Hosted by: Joy of Urdu, a volunteer-run, bilingual organisation promoting Urdu language and literature. Joy of Urdu is amongst more than a hundred organisations that have endorsed the Sapan…

Friends of Kamla Bhasin (24 April 1946 – 25 September 2021), the well-known feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist, will host an event to remember her “with women like her, her friends and comrades.”  The online event will take place on Saturday, 27 September, at 9.00 am EST / 1.00 pm GMT / 06:30 pm India. Speakers include…

In recent years, Southasia has seen a mushrooming of youth-led protest movements – fuelled by frustration around corruption, nepotism and economic inequality, and by anger at political and economic systems that have failed to deliver on their promises.  Join the Sapan WhatsApp channel In Nepal, the region watched as TikToks and Instagram Reels about #nepobabies, exposing the luxurious lives of the children of Nepal’s political and business elite, spilled over into street protests calling for change.

The Mumbai-based Vikalp@Prithvi Online Screenings is screening the documentary film 'After Sabeen' featuring the aftermath of the murder of prominent social entrepreneur and peacemonger Sabeen Mahmud in Karachi, April 2015. Moments before she was killed, Sabeen, founder and director of the non-profit cultural institution Peace Niche, Karachi, had hosted a discussion on the ongoing disappearances of activists and civilians in Pakistan.

The women-led Southasian diaspora organisation Matwaala celebrates its tenth anniversary this Sunday, with a Poetry Fest featuring works by Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Afghan poets. Date: Sunday, Aug 31, 2025Time: 11:45 a.m. ET (US and Canada)Where: Online - join Zoom Meeting id: 863 5563 1716 (Passcode: poetry) Co-directors Usha Akella from Hyderabad, India, and Pramila Venkateswaran from Mumbai, launched Matwaala in 2015 to increase the visibility of Southasian poets in America, and to create solidarity across identity groups through poetry.

The growing resistance to feminist causes in Bangladesh and its implications for the broader struggle for women’s rights across Southasia, catalysing the need for greater solidarity and collaboration in the region, came into focus at an online seminar on Sunday, June 29, organised by the Southasia Peace Action Network (Sapan).

press statement / for immediate release In a time of deepening ecological emergencies and political fragmentation, the Southasia Peace Action Network (Sapan) hosted a landmark virtual discussion titled “A shared horizon: Climate and peace in Southasia.” The event featured Lahore-based environmental lawyer and policy expert Rafay Alam in a conversation initiated and organised by young climate-conscious leaders across Southasia, aged between 17-19 years.

Date: Sunday, 29 June 2025 Time: 10 am ET, 3 pm UKT, 7:00 pm PKT, 7:45 pm NPT, 7:30 pm IST , 8 pm BDT Register to join via Zoom: Register Across Southasia, as women contribute to social and political movements and make significant strides, they also face resistance. Women's voices often trigger the patriarchal power structures in all the dynamics of society, whether religious, social, or political.

A comment on the ‘South Asia: people, promise and potential - art, film and discussion’ event organized by the Bloomsbury Institute.

Unfazed by the dominant narrative focusing on conflict, a small group of teens and young adults convened by by the Southasia Peace Action Network or Sapan, is quietly working together across borders to share their vision for peace in the region and beyond

🗓 Sunday, 25 May 2025🕙 10:00 a.m. ET /  3 p.m. GMT / 7:00 p.m. PKT / 7:30 p.m. IST / 7:45 p.m. NPT / 8:00 p.m. BDT📍 Venue: Online. Registration required🔗 Register to attend As political temperatures rise and borders bristle, the Southasia Peace Action Network (Sapan) is carving out space for something different: a cross-border, youth-led conversation on what peace looks like for them —and what it could be.