Educate diaspora members and the wider international community about human rights violations and the threat to democracies in South Asia.
About us
South Asia Collective Ireland is an independent, grassroots coalition of progressive South Asian diaspora members and allies. Originally formed in July 2026 in solidarity with the nationwide education protests in India, the Collective has since grown into an enduring platform for cross-border activism. United against authoritarianism, caste oppression, and human rights violations, we mobilize to defend civil liberties, protect democratic norms, and keep South Asian state institutions accountable to their citizens. Through direct public action, community education, and civic engagement, the Collective creates an inclusive, intersectional space in Ireland to amplify marginalized voices, demand justice for political prisoners, and safeguard constitutional freedoms across South Asia.
- Against fascism
- Against casteism
- Human rights for all
- Youth-led movements
What we want to achieve
Agitate to build international pressure on the government and institutions to meet the demands of protesters.
Organise cross-border solidarity to build a community of progressive citizens and allies that can keep South Asian governments accountable on the current and aligned causes.
Our demands
What we stand against during our current protests to protect Indian Democracy
Mass voter disenfranchisement
The arbitrary Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise has resulted in the deletion of more than 130 million citizens from the electoral rolls, disproportionately erasing vulnerable communities, minorities, and critical voices from the democratic process.
Militarized crackdown on peaceful dissent
In response to nationwide student and youth-led demonstrations, authorities have imposed sweeping transit shutdowns, cancelled passenger trains, executed preemptive detentions, and deployed tens of thousands of armed central security forces (including the RAF and CRPF) to blockade New Delhi and dismantle lawful public assembly.
Criminalization of the right to protest
Indian youth leaders, activists, and journalists face targeted harassment, dawn raids, draconian anti-terror charges (such as the UAPA), and arrests simply for exercising their constitutional right to dissent or unfurling the national flag.
Our people
Shreya Gupta
Founder
I discovered & joined the July educational reform protest through social media, before becoming one of the admins on Whatsapp, and co-organising future protests. With our accelerated growth post Oct 10, I've tried to bring my program management experience into shaping the org structure with distinct pillars and workstreams so we can build a long-term self-sustaining system because this fight is not ending anytime soon. For over a decade, I’ve fought Hindutva identity politics within my own circles & family. I realise that I don’t face the threats to life and freedom that minorities, oppressed castes & vulnerable communities in India do - and so, I take it as my responsibility to amplify their voice. I thank the youth movement in India for uniting the several siloed pressure groups, which has helped influence diaspora members across the globe.
Sana Diwan
Founder
We started this community literally on a WhatsApp group to echo the education reform protests that were happening in Delhi back in July. I felt we had to be involved because of the extreme censorship of the press in India- if they can’t talk about what’s going on I felt we really needed to and got this group together. The group has grown a lot since, and formalised into southasiacollective.ie after October 10. We are now being able to reach many communities within Ireland (like ROSA Socialist Feminism, brazilianleftfront, yourtechtheirdeaths, unitedagainstracismireland, queerasianpride.ie) and also connect globally with other groups doing the same (like SFI UK, Indians.InBerlin, etc). Each time we do a protest there is more interest from Ireland to join the protest- and we gain more and more support. Hopefully our goal of adding pressure on the Indian Government finally succeeds and we’re able to restore our democracy fully.