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Large-Scale Permafrost Thawing

Large-Scale Permafrost Thawing

Twenty-five percent (25%) of the Northern Hemisphere...

Debunking the Myths

Debunking the Myths

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Bhima Koregaon Case: A Critical Appraisal : Our Call – Free them All

Bhima Koregaon Case: A Critical App...

Background to Bhima Koregaon Event The 1818 Battle...

Environment

  • Need to update EIA norms for preserving biodiversity
    E A S Sarma | October 26, 2020
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    Mirza Yawar Baig | October 14, 2020
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    Mirza Yawar Baig | October 9, 2020

Featured Stories

  • Notes on US presidential election: Show of a politics [Part II]

    Notes on US presidential election: Show of a politics [Part II]

    by Farooque Chowdhury — October 28, 2020

    Politics of the ruling classes in all lands is fundamentally always violent, full with coercion. It varies in appearance – covert or overt. The variation depends on, to say in a simple way, circumstance, which is, in real sense, state of [1] class struggle/class contradiction, [2] ruling classes, [3] machines for rule. These are evident in power of classes, antagonistic[Read More…]

  • A Purple Poem

    A Purple Poem

    by Praniti Gulyani — October 28, 2020

    there is a purple poem on my mother’s neck that my father writes for her every full moon night instead, most poets write on paper but my father writes on mother’s skin she smiles, she says she doesn’t mind says, the purple poem is truly a thing of pride and beauty yet, she keeps it covered, carefully with the ends[Read More…]

  • Class Consciousness in the Age of COVID

    Class Consciousness in the Age of COVID

    by Colin Todhunter — October 28, 2020

    Prior to the appearance of COVID-related restrictions and lockdowns, neoliberal capitalism had turned to various mechanisms in the face of economic stagnation and massive inequalities: the raiding of public budgets, the expansion of credit to consumers and governments to sustain spending and consumption, financial speculation and militarism. Part and parcel of this has been a strategy of ‘creative destruction’ that has[Read More…]

  • Debunking the Myths

    Debunking the Myths

    by K Sahadevan — October 28, 2020

    Book Review – Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong By David Orrel At the beginning of the year, Bloomberg.com predicted that 2008 would be a year of prosperity, based on forecasts by financial pundits. The growth rate for the year was forecast at 11 percent. No one had even a hint of the impending massive economic collapse. By the[Read More…]

  • Riot, looting continues for 2nd night in Philadelphia following fatal police shooting, troops mobilized

    Riot, looting continues for 2nd night in Philadelphia following fatal police shooting, troops mobilized

    by Countercurrents Collective — October 28, 2020

    Media reports from Philadelphia said: Looting and demonstrations continued for a second consecutive night Tuesday in Philadelphia following the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. in West Philadelphia. Police have made several arrests. Several hundred troops from the Pennsylvania National Guard have been mobilized in Philadelphia following a night of violent unrest over a fatal police shooting, as city[Read More…]

  • Caste In Heaven: Can Shudras And Dalits Find Moksha In Brahminism?

    Caste In Heaven: Can Shudras And Dalits Find Moksha In Brahminism?

    by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — October 28, 2020

    I kept watching the funerals of people killed by the brutal coronavirus in the global pandemic of Covid-19 on TV channels and read about them in newspapers. Those dead bodies who are described as Hindu are being quickly burnt without anybody around. The usual presence of the Brahmin priest to recite slokas are nowhere to be seen. Only the rich[Read More…]

  • Make Mankind Great Again!

    Make Mankind Great Again!

    by Mitali Chakravarty — October 28, 2020

    “It has often been said that the only thing that could unite mankind was a threat from space.” I read this in Arthur C Clarke’s novel, 2061, Odyssey Three. The threat in Clarke’s science fiction was a second star — which mankind renamed Lucifer but was actually Jupiter set ablaze by superior space engineering by an intelligent species far more[Read More…]

  • Dictatorship And Democracy As Loaded Language: Anti-Communist Cold-War Propaganda

    Dictatorship And Democracy As Loaded Language: Anti-Communist Cold-War Propaganda

    by Bruce Lerro — October 28, 2020

    ORIENTATION In my last article I showed how the word “totalitarian” was used as a loaded vice word to attack the Soviet Union after World War II and to red-bait communists around the world. The use of the word totalitarian began in the 1930s, but even before then in the 1920’s, the word “dictator” began to surface in order to[Read More…]

  • “Sugar Bones” - Original painting by Luke Spooner

    “Sugar”

    by Gary Steven Corseri — October 28, 2020

    Sweet apocalypse in the blood! Stephen-King nightmare in the brain! Mortar rounds at synapses! Invader of our personal stash! SweetSweet as Delilah’s lips!   Cooing with the voice of Mom— Bubela, Bambino, come home, come home To peaches and cream and castles of fructose, To sugared hot cocoa and honeycombed words In hives of endearments buzzing on eardrums; To plaudits[Read More…]

  • Menstrual Hygiene – Talk about what’s not comfortable!

    Menstrual Hygiene – Talk about what’s not comfortable!

    by Rudresh Dahiya — October 28, 2020

    “When I first got my periods, I felt I was about to die. I didn’t know what it was,”  Says Sonam, a resident of Nalhar village in Mewat district of Haryana, who is now in her 20s and married. Sonam’s experience is the story of every second girl in India. Menstruation as a subject is still a taboo in Indian[Read More…]

World

Notes on US presidential election: Show of a politics [Part II]

Notes on US presidential election: Show of a politics [Part II]

October 28, 2020 — Farooque Chowdhury

Politics of the ruling classes in all lands is fundamentally always violent, full with coercion. It varies in appearance – covert or overt. The variation depends on, to say in a simple way, circumstance, which is, in real sense, state of [1] class struggle/class contradiction, [2] ruling classes, [3] machines for rule. These are evident in power of classes, antagonistic[Read More…]

  • Class Consciousness in the Age of COVID

    Class Consciousness in the Age of COVID

    October 28, 2020 — Colin Todhunter
  • Riot, looting continues for 2nd night in Philadelphia following fatal police shooting, troops mobilized

    Riot, looting continues for 2nd night in Philadelphia following fatal police shooting, troops mobilized

    October 28, 2020 — Countercurrents Collective
  • Crunch Time

    Crunch Time

    October 27, 2020 — Michael Albert
  • How the War Came Home, Big Time – Perspectives From a Military Spouse

    How the War Came Home, Big Time – Perspectives From a Military Spouse

    October 27, 2020 — Andrea Mazzarino

India

The Proletarian Uprising of Punnapra-Vayalar: 74 Years Later

The Proletarian Uprising of Punnapra-Vayalar: 74 Years Later

October 27, 2020 — Arjun

The most romantic and probably the only proletarian insurrection of the subcontinent is also the most tragic and the most damned. The Punnapra-Vayalar revolt of October 1946 was Travancore’s ill informed imitation of the Great October Revolution, misled by the Brahmin-Bhadralok leadership and un-Marxist Marxism it preached. The insurrection was based on a single, broad issue – the rejection of[Read More…]

  • Is it time to revisit the measures in India to prevent cruelty against animals?

    Is it time to revisit the measures in India to prevent cruelty against animals?

    October 27, 2020 — Shradha Kumari Sikaria
  • Hindutva: A Political and Economic Project of Shared Lies of Brahmanical Caste and Class Order in India

    Hindutva: A Political and Economic Project of Shared Lies of Brahmanical Caste and Class Order in India

    October 27, 2020 — Bhabani Shankar Nayak
  • Tribal health in India: An eternity of backwardness?

    Tribal health in India: An eternity of backwardness?

    October 27, 2020 — Dr Anamika Roy
  • The Significance of 27th October, 1951 for Punjab 

    The Significance of 27th October, 1951 for Punjab 

    October 26, 2020 — Baldev Bhardwaj

Globalisation

Globalization and health: A glimpse into the developing nations

Globalization and health: A glimpse into the developing nations

October 27, 2020 — Dr Krati Shrivastava

Co-Written by Dr. Krati Shrivastava, Dr. Parul Malik & Dr. Arathi P Rao Globalization with its worldwide economic, political and cultural integration has made the world a small village with the borders being dissolved between countries. It has had a positive aspect and has successfully brought the world closer, but simultaneously, it has also resulted in various important public health[Read More…]

  • Image by Eric Westbrook

    Globalization in health: An upside or a roadblock?

    October 15, 2020 — Dr Sudhamshi Beeram
  • Globalization: a multifaceted exchange platform of healthcare

    Globalization: a multifaceted exchange platform of healthcare

    September 21, 2020 — Dr Chandrima Chatterjee
  • Odds are against us, but we are not alone

    Odds are against us, but we are not alone

    September 19, 2020 — Chandan
  • Globalisation of Capitalist Crises

    Globalisation of Capitalist Crises

    July 29, 2020 — Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Human Rights

Bhima Koregaon Case: A Critical Appraisal : Our Call – Free them All

Bhima Koregaon Case: A Critical Appraisal : Our Call – Free them All

October 27, 2020 — Dr Prakash Louis

Background to Bhima Koregaon Event The 1818 Battle of Koregaon is of importance for Dalits. On 1st January, 1818, 800 troops of the British Army, with large number of Mahars, Dalit Community of Maharashtra predominant among them, defeated a numerically superior force of the Peshwa Baji Rao II.  A victory pillar (Vijay Sthamb) was erected in Koregaon by the British, commemorating[Read More…]

  • Stand With Stan: Release All Accused In The Bhima Koregaon Case

    Stand With Stan: Release All Accused In The Bhima Koregaon Case

    October 27, 2020 — Press Release
  • Time to set up a Commission to look into cases of Political Trials

    Time to set up a Commission to look into cases of Political Trials

    October 22, 2020 — Vidya Bhushan Rawat
  •  Opposition Leaders, Civil Society denounce arrest of Stan Swamy  and other activists in Bhima Koregaon case

     Opposition Leaders, Civil Society denounce arrest of Stan Swamy  and other activists in Bhima Koregaon case

    October 21, 2020 — Press Release
  • UNHCHR dismayed at curbs on Rights, NGOs and arrests of activists

    UNHCHR dismayed at curbs on Rights, NGOs and arrests of activists

    October 20, 2020 — Jose Kalathil

Imperialism

Britannic Impunity: The UK Overseas Operations Bill

Britannic Impunity: The UK Overseas Operations Bill

October 18, 2020 — Dr Binoy Kampmark

It was praised by Michael Clarke, former Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute, as “clear and entire laudable” – at least up to a point.  The UK Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill would “give [British] troops serving overseas much-needed extra protection against fraudulent or frivolous claims against them of criminal behaviour.”  It was also part of a[Read More…]

  • Porf G N Saibaba

    G. N. Saibaba to go on Hunger Strike in Nagpur Central Jail!

    October 16, 2020 — Press Release
  • How to Stuff the Middle East With Weaponry

    How to Stuff the Middle East With Weaponry

    October 14, 2020 — William D Hartung
  • Trump’s Endless Wars

    Trump’s Endless Wars

    October 13, 2020 — Nicolas J S Davies
  • Matters of International Justice: Challenging Trump’s ICC Sanctions

    Matters of International Justice: Challenging Trump’s ICC Sanctions

    October 8, 2020 — Dr Binoy Kampmark

Communal Harmony

Film Screening On Kandhamal And Webinar

Film Screening On Kandhamal And Webinar

September 24, 2020 — Press Release

Pedestrian pictures weekend screening VOICES FROM THE RUINS: Kandhamal In Search of Justice directed by K P Sasi from 25th September 2020 Friday , 6 PM onwards. Please follow this link to watch the film. https://vimeo.com/461484394   Link will be active from 25th 6pm The link for the webinar – Lessons and Reflections from Kandhamal is given below Synopsis: The state[Read More…]

  • Grooming Chimps and Grovelling Minorities- Is this the Dead-End?

    Grooming Chimps and Grovelling Minorities- Is this the Dead-End?

    August 30, 2020 — Umer O Thasneem
  • National Call of Action to Observe Kandhamal Memorial Day

    National Call of Action to Observe Kandhamal Memorial Day

    August 22, 2020 — Press Release
  • India’s Composite Culture and Muslim Stalwarts

    India’s Composite Culture and Muslim Stalwarts

    August 6, 2020 — Dr Ram Puniyani
  • Hope from the field – Amicable Hindu Muslim Collaboration

    Hope from the field – Amicable Hindu Muslim Collaboration

    August 6, 2020 — Sandeep Pandey

Climate Change

Large-Scale Permafrost Thawing

Large-Scale Permafrost Thawing

October 20, 2020 — Robert Hunziker

Twenty-five percent (25%) of the Northern Hemisphere is permafrost. By all appearances, it is melting well beyond natural background rates, in fact, substantially! Making matters much, much worse, new research has identified past warming events of large-scale permafrost thaw in the Arctic that may be analogous to today, thus spotting a parallel problem of large-scale thawing accompanied by massively excessive[Read More…]

  •  The Green New Deal as Climate Denial

     The Green New Deal as Climate Denial

    October 16, 2020 — Bill Henderson
  • Leadership for Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change

    Leadership for Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change

    October 14, 2020 — Anandi Sharan
  • Hundreds of wildfires ravage the Middle East: 3 dead and thousands flee

    Hundreds of wildfires ravage the Middle East: 3 dead and thousands flee

    October 12, 2020 — Countercurrents Collective
  • Extinction Possibility

    Extinction Possibility

    October 5, 2020 — David Anderson

Environmental Protection

Need to update EIA norms for preserving biodiversity

Need to update EIA norms for preserving biodiversity

October 26, 2020 — E A S Sarma

 To   Shri R P Gupta Secretary Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MEFCC) Government of India   Dear Shri Gupta, The National Environment Policy, 2006 (NEP) emphasises the need to conserve the rich biodiversity heritage of the country in the following statements. “Pay explicit attention to the potential impacts of development projects on biodiversity resources and natural heritage.[Read More…]

  • Wildlife Conservation in India

    Wildlife Conservation in India

    October 14, 2020 — Mirza Yawar Baig
  • Zoo in Corbett

    Zoo in Corbett

    October 9, 2020 — Mirza Yawar Baig
  • Kiss the Amazon Rainforest Goodbye

    Kiss the Amazon Rainforest Goodbye

    October 3, 2020 — Robert Hunziker
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    Machines Are Not Bodies

    October 1, 2020 — Anandi Sharan

Counter Solutions

The Rescue of the Spirit and of Nature

The Rescue of the Spirit and of Nature

October 23, 2020 — Victor M Toledo

The world has reached its limit. Humanity no longer resists. Who dares to defend this order full of injustice, shame, catastrophes, depredation? In the name of whom or what? What –ism can you defend today? It only remains to delve into natural history and human history in search of the essence of the species. To try to overcome it by tracing[Read More…]

  • Humility, Caring and Wisdom Make a Better Future Possible

    Humility, Caring and Wisdom Make a Better Future Possible

    October 18, 2020 — David Suzuki
  • Building resilience is critical to minimise the impact of humanitarian crises

    Building resilience is critical to minimise the impact of humanitarian crises

    October 18, 2020 — Shobha Shukla
  • Rescuing civilization dirt cheap

    Rescuing civilization dirt cheap

    October 17, 2020 — Donovan C. Wilkin
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    Educating in times of systemic collapse

    October 15, 2020 — Luis González Reyes

Resource Crisis

Fossil Fuel Production Is Reaching Limits in a Strange Way

Fossil Fuel Production Is Reaching Limits in a Strange Way

October 16, 2020 — Gail Tverberg

Strangely enough, the limit we seem to be reaching with respect to fossil fuel extraction comes from low prices. At low prices, the extraction of oil, coal, and natural gas becomes unprofitable. Producers go bankrupt, or they voluntarily cut back production in an attempt to force prices higher. As the result of these forces, production tends to fall. This limit comes long[Read More…]

  • Business-as-usual porn – or, We need to talk about collapse

    Business-as-usual porn – or, We need to talk about collapse

    July 19, 2020 — Chris Smaje
  • Malthus Revisited

    Malthus Revisited

    June 28, 2020 — John Scales Avery
  • COVID-19 and oil at $1: Is there a way forward?

    COVID-19 and oil at $1: Is there a way forward?

    April 21, 2020 — Gail Tverberg
  • Collapse: The Coronavirus is not a Cause, it is a Trigger

    Collapse: The Coronavirus is not a Cause, it is a Trigger

    April 17, 2020 — Ugo Bardi

Alternative Energy

SMART? – Solar In Massachusetts

SMART? – Solar In Massachusetts

June 22, 2020 — Roy Morrison

Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (“DOER”) will finalize by July 15 regulations doubling the size of MA SMART solar photovoltaic program from 1,600 to 3,200 megawatts (MW). On the surface this is a reasonable, if limited, step forward. But like most things, the devil and long-term consequences are in the details. Unless changed by DOER, or the legislature, the latest[Read More…]

  • The Beginning of the End for Oil? Energy in a Post-Pandemic World

    The Beginning of the End for Oil? Energy in a Post-Pandemic World

    April 28, 2020 — Michael T Klare
  • A Future Without Fossil Fuels?

    A Future Without Fossil Fuels?

    March 17, 2019 — Bill McKibben
  • The real Energy Return of Crude Oil: smaller than you would have imagined

    The real Energy Return of Crude Oil: smaller than you would have imagined

    March 9, 2019 — Luciano Celi
  • The Biodiesel Disaster: Why bad Ideas are Always so Successful?

    The Biodiesel Disaster: Why bad Ideas are Always so Successful?

    February 5, 2019 — Ugo Bardi

Patriarchy

Menstrual Hygiene – Talk about what’s not comfortable!

Menstrual Hygiene – Talk about what’s not comfortable!

October 28, 2020 — Rudresh Dahiya

“When I first got my periods, I felt I was about to die. I didn’t know what it was,”  Says Sonam, a resident of Nalhar village in Mewat district of Haryana, who is now in her 20s and married. Sonam’s experience is the story of every second girl in India. Menstruation as a subject is still a taboo in Indian[Read More…]

  • Phenomenal Surge of Domestic Violence/Gender Violence: The Shadow Pandemic of Humanity 

    Phenomenal Surge of Domestic Violence/Gender Violence: The Shadow Pandemic of Humanity 

    October 27, 2020 — Lopamudra Banerjee
  • A Priest in Cassock and the Santal Girl

    A Priest in Cassock and the Santal Girl

    October 16, 2020 — Zeenat Khan
  • Rape, the Shadow Pandemic in the time of Covid-19

    Rape, the Shadow Pandemic in the time of Covid-19

    October 9, 2020 — Zeenat Khan
  •  ‘May you be the mother of many sons…’

     ‘May you be the mother of many sons…’

    October 4, 2020 — Shobha Shukla

Palestine

European Hypocrisy: Empty Words for Palestine, Deadly Weapons for Israel

European Hypocrisy: Empty Words for Palestine, Deadly Weapons for Israel

October 22, 2020 — Dr Ramzy Baroud

In theory, Europe and the United States stand on completely opposite sides when it comes to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. While the US government has fully embraced the tragic status quo created by 53 years of Israeli military occupation, the EU continues to advocate a negotiated settlement that is predicated on respect for international law. In practice, however, despite[Read More…]

  • Zionist War on Palestinian Festival in Rome is Ominous Sign of Things to Come 

    Zionist War on Palestinian Festival in Rome is Ominous Sign of Things to Come 

    October 16, 2020 — Dr Ramzy Baroud
  • The Palestinian Struggle Betrayed

    The Palestinian Struggle Betrayed

    October 14, 2020 — Askiah Adam
  • Palestinian Injustice Will Continue With A Biden Presidency

    Palestinian Injustice Will Continue With A Biden Presidency

    October 13, 2020 — Irwin Jerome
  • Dying Alone: When We Stopped Caring for Palestinian Prisoners

    Dying Alone: When We Stopped Caring for Palestinian Prisoners

    October 13, 2020 — Dr Ramzy Baroud

South Asia

 No end in sight for Rohingya crisis

 No end in sight for Rohingya crisis

October 27, 2020 — Beenish Ashraf

An estimated 730,000 Rohingyas had crossed into Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh three years ago in order to flee the persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Although the Rohingyas, who are currently residing in Bangladeshi camps as refugees, wish to return to their homes in Rakhine State, very little has been done to create a safe environment for their return. The challenges facing the Rohingya people, described by the United Nations as[Read More…]

  • Why does Indian Nationalism Undermine South Asian Solidarity?

    Why does Indian Nationalism Undermine South Asian Solidarity?

    October 25, 2020 — Manjima Misra
  • Tamils In The North And East Of Sri Lanka – Justification For Self-Determination

    Tamils In The North And East Of Sri Lanka – Justification For Self-Determination

    October 21, 2020 — Kumarathasan Rasingam
  • Crucial Time For Urgent Actions By UNHRC, UN, International Community And Diaspora Tamils

    Crucial Time For Urgent Actions By UNHRC, UN, International Community And Diaspora Tamils

    October 19, 2020 — Thambu Kanagasabai
  • Is peace possible in Afghanistan?

    Is peace possible in Afghanistan?

    October 16, 2020 — Amir Mohammad Sayem

Annihilate Caste

So You want to ally with the Dalit Rights Movement?

So You want to ally with the Dalit Rights Movement?

October 28, 2020 — Shivani Waldekar

On 25th May 2020, George Floyd, an unarmed Black man was murdered in police custody in Minneapolis, USA. A video showing a white police officer kneeling on his neck for almost nine minutes while he was pinned to the floor went viral. Following this, large anti-racism protests took place with many white people also standing against racism and police brutality.[Read More…]

  • Dalits V/S Bahujan

    Dalits V/S Bahujan

    October 26, 2020 — SR Darapuri
  • Why did I accept Buddhism?

    Why did I accept Buddhism?

    October 15, 2020 — Saravana Raja
  • No caste for Dalit woman victim? Politics of rhetoric in responses to Hathras gang rape and murder

    No caste for Dalit woman victim? Politics of rhetoric in responses to Hathras gang rape and murder

    October 13, 2020 — Akash Sulochana
  • Government must ensure our elite institutions free from caste prejudices

    Government must ensure our elite institutions free from caste prejudices

    October 12, 2020 — Vidya Bhushan Rawat

Life/Philosophy

Caste In Heaven: Can Shudras And Dalits Find Moksha In Brahminism?

Caste In Heaven: Can Shudras And Dalits Find Moksha In Brahminism?

October 28, 2020 — Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

I kept watching the funerals of people killed by the brutal coronavirus in the global pandemic of Covid-19 on TV channels and read about them in newspapers. Those dead bodies who are described as Hindu are being quickly burnt without anybody around. The usual presence of the Brahmin priest to recite slokas are nowhere to be seen. Only the rich[Read More…]

  • Make Mankind Great Again!

    Make Mankind Great Again!

    October 28, 2020 — Mitali Chakravarty
  • Dictatorship And Democracy As Loaded Language: Anti-Communist Cold-War Propaganda

    Dictatorship And Democracy As Loaded Language: Anti-Communist Cold-War Propaganda

    October 28, 2020 — Bruce Lerro
  • Feeling blue

    Ensuring Mental Health For All

    October 27, 2020 — Moin Qazi
  • Representational image

    I am a human being and I have a story !

    October 25, 2020 — Asif Bilal

Arts/Literature

A Purple Poem

A Purple Poem

October 28, 2020 — Praniti Gulyani

there is a purple poem on my mother’s neck that my father writes for her every full moon night instead, most poets write on paper but my father writes on mother’s skin she smiles, she says she doesn’t mind says, the purple poem is truly a thing of pride and beauty yet, she keeps it covered, carefully with the ends[Read More…]

  • “Sugar Bones” - Original painting by Luke Spooner

    “Sugar”

    October 28, 2020 — Gary Steven Corseri
  • Innocence Lynched

    Innocence Lynched

    October 26, 2020 — Shaj Hameed
  • Film & Family–Woman As Provider, Men As Parasites

    Film & Family–Woman As Provider, Men As Parasites

    October 25, 2020 — Vidyarthy Chatterjee
  • “Cinema is a Sycophant to literature” – Part – I

    “Cinema is a Sycophant to literature” – Part – I

    October 24, 2020 — Joshy Joseph

Book Review

Debunking the Myths

Debunking the Myths

October 28, 2020 — K Sahadevan

Book Review – Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong By David Orrel At the beginning of the year, Bloomberg.com predicted that 2008 would be a year of prosperity, based on forecasts by financial pundits. The growth rate for the year was forecast at 11 percent. No one had even a hint of the impending massive economic collapse. By the[Read More…]

  • ‘Night March – Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas’

    ‘Night March – Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas’

    October 27, 2020 — Harsh Thakor
  • Political Economy of Caste in India

    Political Economy of Caste in India

    October 26, 2020 — Bhaskar Parichha
  • The Dissent of Man –Asserting Humanity by Raising Voices

    The Dissent of Man –Asserting Humanity by Raising Voices

    October 26, 2020 — Debraj Mookerjee
  • Critical Reflections on China’s Belt and Road Initiative

    Critical Reflections on China’s Belt and Road Initiative

    October 17, 2020 — Dr James M Dorsey

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