FRIENDS OF SOUTH ASIA
Background
Friends of South Asia (FOSA) is a California, United States based social and political activist organization. Founded jointly in 2001 by Americans of Pakistani and Indian origins, the group describes its mission as "achieve a peaceful, prosperous, and hate-free South Asia. FOSA has an informal organizational structure, and a number of members have served as spokespeople.
FRIENDS OF SOUTH ASIA (FOSA)
Address: - c/o San Jose Peace and Justice Centre 48 S 7th St., Suite 101 San Jose, CA 95112
Contact no. (408) 480-5805
About: - Friends of South Asia (FOSA) is a California, United States based social and political activist organization. Founded jointly in 2001 by Americans of Pakistani and Indian origins, the group describes its mission as "achieve a peaceful, prosperous, and hate-free South Asia. FOSA has an informal organizational structure, and a number of members have served as spokespeople. Group members have often collaborated with or co-sponsored events with other California South Asian American anti-communal organizations like EKTA and the Coalition against Communalism. Friends of South Asia was a prominent participant in the Californian Hindu textbook controversy, in which it joined a number of other groups in petitioning California's Curriculum Commission to reject allegedly revisionist edits to California's textbook curriculum on Hinduism and India. It is known that they're [FOSA] tied with the Communist Party in India. This foundation is a connected organisation of Ambedkar International Centre.