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Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Multiple Secular Thoughts

Syed Ahmad Taqvi bin Syed Muhammad Muttaqi, KCSI (Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India), commonly known as Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898), was an Islamic pragmatist, reformer, rationalist, liberal, modernist, creative philosopher, historian, jurist, legislator, statesman,…

UNGA and ICJ join the Crusade for East Jerusalem

Many were shocked when the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted its new Resolution A/RES/ES-10/24 on 18 September 2024; a Resolution that can indeed be described as a ground-breaking, not least because it mentions a taboo in the context of Israel…

What Should the Shudras Do?

This is the final chapter of Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd's, groundbreaking work 'The Shudra Rebellion' that promises to reshape our understanding of Indian civilization and culture. In this compelling book, Ilaiah boldly unveils the often-overlooked role of shudra nationalism in both India’s past…

The Shudra Rebellion Kancha Ilaiah

Somalia Is Becoming Africa’s Lebanon

The Horn of Africa, a region once described by Jeffrey Lefebvre as one of the world’s most “highly penetrated regional subsystems”, is on the brink of a dangerous turn as the several actors intensify their displays of power in Somalia.…

Somalia

Historic ICC War Crimes Complaint Names 1,000 Israeli Soldiers

A Belgium-based advocacy group on Tuesday announced it "filed an unprecedented and historic complaint with the International Criminal Court against 1,000 Israeli occupation forces soldiers for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Gaza," where more than 150,000 Palestinians have…

Hot News From Haryana

The news from Haryana is certainly a vast disappointment. In some ways it looks like a re-play of what happened in MP during the 2023 round of assembly elections.CM Kamal Nath is reported to have erected victory arches and ordered…

India

Hot News From Haryana

The news from Haryana is certainly a vast disappointment. In some ways it looks like a re-play of what happened in MP during the 2023 round of assembly elections.CM Kamal…

World

Russia aligns with Iran, war clouds scatter

Israel has apparently shelved its planned attack on Iran. A combination of circumstances can be attributed to this retreat, which rubbishes Israel’s own high-pitched rhetoric that it was raring to go.   Despite…

Putin Khamenei

The Crisis of America’s Public Defenders

by John J. Donohue and Eric A. Baldwin STANFORD – The public-defender system in the United States is plagued by underfunding, overwhelming caseloads, and entrenched inequalities. Public defenders, who manage…

Globalisation

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

Can You Afford Climate Change?

Consumer pocketbooks are taking the heat. Climate change is no longer a theoretical issue that will happen at some distant point in the future, like 2050 or 2100. Already, unprecedented…

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

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

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

Old Age Is Wasted by the Old

After Joe Biden was shuffled off stage on trumped-up charges of senility, I started thinking seriously about the weaponization of old age in our world. Who gets credit for old…

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

What Should the Shudras Do?

This is the final chapter of Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd's, groundbreaking work 'The Shudra Rebellion' that promises to reshape our understanding of Indian civilization and culture. In this compelling book, Ilaiah…

The Shudra Rebellion Kancha Ilaiah

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…

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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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