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Onward White Christian MAGA Soldiers!!!

The 1960 Stanley Kramer classic film ' Inherit the Wind' is a must see for everyone, especially our young middle and high school students. This film focused on the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial when a teacher was arrested for teaching…

Gendering and Democratizing Indian Cinema

Besides being renowned artists, French Actress Sarah Bernhardt and American actress Eartha Kitt have something in common. They were victims of sexual abuse and harassment at work. Their lived experiences made them activists against gender-based violence and they were instrumental…

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Human Rights

Mental Health and Prison

"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other" - Angela…

Allan Shuaib

Imperialism

Communal Harmony

Combating Islamophobia: A task overdue

In July 2024 England witnessed riots and unrest in several cities. They were precipitated mainly due to misinformation and anti immigration sentiments among the people. In these riots Muslims were the main…

Climate Change

Climate Week/NYC – Oh, Well!

Climate Week/NYC September 22-29, 2024, is underway and expects 100,000 attendees for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and expensive rooms in NYC’s ultra-expensive hotels amidst breast-pounding speeches and promises to fix civilizations’…

Environmental Protection

Global Drinking Water Crisis

The crisis of drinking water has become a serious and growing challenge worldwide. This issue is worsening due to several factors, including climate change, population explosion, urbanization, industrialization, and imbalanced…

Counter Solutions

On Jugaad

Jugaaḍ is a non-conventional, frugal innovation, in Indian subcontinent. It also includes innovative fixes or a simple workaround, solutions that bend the rules, or resources that can be used in…

Certainty

I struggle to strike a balance between certainty and circumspection. Our culture has a tendency to favor certainty, while one of my favorite and frequent fall-backs—seldom wrong—is: “we don’t know.”…

On Composting Space

Oh! Shit! Yes, let us talk some shit! All animals shit, including human beings. What happens to the shit? It gets composted and goes back to soil. That is until…

Resource Crisis

The Gritty Reality of Solar Power

by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox Time is fast running out. The world’s affluent nations, with their abundant greenhouse emissions, have to finally drag themselves across the starting line…

Patriarchy

Treat a woman; a human!

Dhoom Forever? Boyssss and Wolves. (Where does the remedy lie?) Treat a woman; a human! How do you feel when you read a Rape Report? Do you check for religion?…

The Patriarchal Politics of Security

On August 9, 2024, a female doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata, was brutally raped and murdered in a seminar room on the fourth floor, where she had gone to rest…

The Patriarchal War on Indian Women

On August 9, 2024, a female doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata, was brutally raped and murdered in a seminar room on the fourth floor, where she had gone to rest…

Who should Jaya (Bhaduri) Bachchan be?

Very recently, I watched the Bachchan vs Dhankhar showdown during a Rajya Sabha session. The treatment of Jaya Bachchan, an actor turned politician since 2012, and a 5th time elected…

Palestine

Need for action

Reminder: There is an ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip. Maybe we need reminder of other facts showing why this matters globally and ask how we collectively can act to stop…

Indigenous Land Palestine USA

South Asia

Annihilate Caste

Poona Pact and Its Adverse Effects

Caste is considered to be the cornerstone of Indian Hindu society. In this structure of hierarchical inequality, the untouchables are at the lowest level, who were officially called 'Depressed Classes'…

Has the Caste Vanished?

Amid the twin issues of Caste Census and Sub-categorization of reservation of SCs/STs and ‘creamy layer’ among SCs, it must be remembered that caste issues have always been tweaked and…

Life/Philosophy

Birth of ‘Hind Swarajya’

'Hind Swarajya' was born in the middle of the ocean on a ship called 'Kildonan Castle'! Gandhiji worked very hard during this stay! In a letter written to Maganlal Gandhi…

Arts/Literature

Looking Up

I realized recentlyThatIf you look up at a pine treeFrom a certain angleWith both of your feetPlanted deep in its shadowIts branches become never-ending.Standing there like that, you can seeHow…

Pine Tree

Wait till you see K K’s lights!

 That was my introduction to K K  Mahajan, at 27, with two National Awards, already a ‘star’ cinematographer, with his characteristic long hair and aquiline features. As a research student in Sociology at Bombay University,…

Book Review

Visualizing Palestine

For the most part coffee-table books serve only two purposes:  They look aesthetic in a living room, and they lend faux intellectual credibility to their owners:   The second, of course,…

visualizing Palestine

A New Book On Bicycle

‘The Bicycle in India: Selected Articles and Stories’ by T. Vijayendra.  Hyderabad, 2024, Ecologise Hyderabad. Price Rs. 100/  This is a book about the bicycle in India in the context…

The Black Book

Published in 1974, The Black Book is not just an anthology or a historical document; it is a profound and multifaceted cultural artefact that encapsulates the African American experience from…

Editor's Picks

Deaths in Gaza and Us

Death is normal unless if it happens one of our dear and near ones. 40000+ (as per official figures) people have been killed in Gaza. According to The Lancet almost…

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