India Pakistan dialogue
- Video of the India Pakistan Citizens Dialogue I moderated on 12 June 2026, organised by Sandeep Pandey of the Socialist Party of India and Centre for Peace and Secular Studies Pakistan, Pervez Hoodbhoy, physicist and leading public intellectual of Pakistan; Lalita Ramdas, crusader for peace, India; Sheema Kermani, Bharatnatyam dancer and activist, Pakistan; Radha Kumar, writer and policy activist, India; A.H. Nayyar, physicist and activist, Pakistan; Rita Manchanda, Pakistan India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, India; Saeeda Diep, human rights activist, Pakistan; and O.P. Shah, campaigner for India-Pakistan peace, India. The veteran peacemonger Mani Shankar Aiyer also joined.
Democracy in Debt in South Asia: Autocratic Rulers and People’s Resistance (a title drawing from our documentary, ‘Democracy in Debt: Sri Lanka Beyond the Headlines‘:
- With Mahfuz Anam from Bangladesh, Kanak Dixit from Nepal and Harsh Mander from India on the people’s aspirations for democracy, Scroll media, 10 Sept. 2024
With Harsh Mander, commentator and peace activist in India
‘Exclusive: Interview with Beena Sarwar legendary journalist, artist, filmmaker, and a peace activist‘ by Dr. Shabana Parvez, MD FACEP, Desi Buzz, 21 November 2024
Fireside Chat with Ganesh Natarajan and the Rotary Club Of Pune Riverside, on peace initiatives and the Southasia Peace Action Network, 07 Feb 2024
- ‘Peace Through Journalism: Why Beena Sarwar Founded Sapan News Network‘, by Isabella Luzarraga, Emerson Today, 02 Feb. 2024.
- ‘The way forward is a rainbow of blended colours‘, talk on Celebrating love across caste and religious divides, Community Church of Boston, 14 July 2023
- THE NEW GREAT GAME: INDIA, PAKISTAN AND THE SEARCH FOR ENDURING PEACE, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, 02 March 2023
- Interview at Karachi Press Club, by Tahir Hasan Khan, X2 Live, 5 July 2022
- Pakistan SC strikes down Deputy Speaker’s decision, calls for no-trust vote – India Today with Rajdeep Sardesai, live discussion, 07 April 2022
- Constitutional crisis in Pakistan – Al Jazeera English, live, 04 April 2022
- “While we have these restrictive national borders, who really benefits from them?” – by Pragya Narang in eShe, 20 September 2021
- ‘Let People Meet’: Beena Sarwar On The Case For A Visa-free South Asia, by Aekta Kapoor in MoneyControl.com, 14 April, 2021.
- #PartitionAt70: The creation of India and Pakistan, Al Jazeera, The Stream, 1 June 2017
- On media, peace and conflict, live on These Vibes are too Cosmic, WPRB 103.3 Princeton radio, Oct 15, 2016
- Remembering Sabeen, a Pakistani woman who died because she wanted everyone to have a space to speak freely, PRI’s The World, 28 April 2016
- 1965 کی جنگ پر ابھی تک لے دے کیوں؟ – BBC Urdu, Sairbeen, Sept 6, 2015 – on the narrative of the 1965 war between Pakistan and India
- Critical Conversations: Video interview by Mehlaqa Samdani, March 2015
https://vp.telvue.com/player?id=T01467&video=231860&mini=true
- Mentor interview in My Pink Mag, Nov 2014
- Interview with Beena Sarwar, a senior journalist from Pakistan, works for India-Pakistan peace (Nobel Peace Prize to Malala Yousufzai), interview by Anahita Mukherji, Hello NRI, 17 Oct. 2014
- India, Pakistan should focus on children — not bullets, in Times of India, Oct 15, 2014
- Talk show on Rawal TV, Toronto, Sept 2014: Beena Sarwar on Aman Ki Asha – Bilatakalluf with Tahir Gora Ep159 (Urdu)
- Hamid Mir and the ideological security establishment, in Viewpoint Online, April 2014
- Grokking Democracy: A Political World Transformed by Digital Technology, PRI (KQED, San Francisco), February 13, 2014
- Three questions with Beena Sarwar on Indian elections, by The 545, January 2014 (published April, 2014)
- Mosque Leader Suspected of Framing Pakistani Teenager – with Lisa Mullins in PRI’s The World, Sept 3, 2012 (audio)
- World Have Your Say – Pakistan Blasphemy, BBC radio talk show, Sept 3, 2012 (audio)
- Women In Afghanistan And Pakistan, OnPoint with Tom Ashbrook, NPR, Oct 15, 2012
- Newshour, Imam who accused girl is arrested… BBC radio, Sept 2, 2012
- “Politics Today with Dr. Mona Kazim Shah“, Funasia Radio 1110 AM, August 12, 2012d
- Pakistan: A Journalist’s View – An Interview with Beena Sarwar – by David Barsamian, Alternative Radio, on YouTube in five parts, Jan 18, 2012. Video by Balaji Narasimhan. (compiled by New Pakistan)
- Interview: Beena Sarwar on Journalism and Safety in Pakistan – by Annie Ali Khan, Asia Society, 8 November 2011
- Pakistani Airman Apologises to Family of Indian Pilot, with Lisa Mullins on PRI’s The World, Aug 15, 2011
- 46 years after the war, a moment of humanity, NDTV’s ‘The Buck Stops Here’ with Barkha Dutt, Qais Hussain, Farida Singh, Aug 10, 2011
- In conversation with Babette Niemel about Pakistan at Kuch Khaas, Islamabad, July 2011
- India-Pakistan: Let’s make peace – VIDEO – Talk at TEDx Margalla, Islamabad, Dec 2010
- ‘Aur Nikle.nge Usshaq ke Qafle‘ – documentary screening and discussion at Kuch Khaas, Islamabad, Nov 2010
- Pakistan bans ‘Blasphemous’ Facebook – live discussion in Delhi with Barkha Dutt, NDTV; other guests – Marvi Memon in Islamabad, Mehmal Sarfaraz in Lahore, May 2010
- ‘Women of Strength’ talk show, with Rabia Baig, May 2009 (broadcast in July, 2009)
- Ankahi: ‘On Journalism‘ with Faisal Qureshi and Jasmine Manzoor, Samaa TV, May 14, 2008
- Post-election report and analysis in The Real News, Feb 20, 2008
- Analysis on the conflict in Pakistan: the agenda of local militants and the Taliban have converged, for The Real News, Oct 4, 2008
- Workshop on Pakistan for the Lelio Basso Foundation, about the consequences of the war on terror on human rights and women rights in Pakistan. Video interview by Luca Muzi, Ombretta Scattoni, Rome, Italy, Apr 18, 2008
- Gender and human rights. Lecture audio link: Gender and human rights; Take Five Podcast interview by Barbara LeBlanc, New Hampshire Institute of Politics, St Anselm College, 16 March 2006
- Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon, ‘Pakistan’, 19 January 2006.
- Self-profile for Video Journalists Movement, 2009.
- From a world away, she’s on a mission, Houston Chronicle, Aug 5, 2004
- Sparks From a Precious Stone – Beena Sarwar – BBC radio, 15 min, 18 Feb 1993
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