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WMO Warning: 1.5 Degree C Warming Breach Very Soon & With Increasing Frequency. Act Now!

WMO Warning: 1.5 Degree C Warming B...

In 2015 the Paris Climate Change Conference decided...

Shadow of Covid  lingers over the erstwhile Kingdom of Cooch Behar     

Shadow of Covid  lingers over the ...

The princely state of Cooch Behar merged with...

Management’s demand for removal of protesting workers of Belsonika rejected on 16th day of fast

Management’s demand for remov...

 For 16 continuous days the Belsonika Union...

Environment

  • Thoughts for World Environment Day – The global economy –  threat to life on the Planet
    S G Vombatkere | 18/05/2023
  • Most Americans Oppose Killing Horses for Food—Here’s How to End This Brutal Practice
    Siri Lindley | 17/05/2023
  • Wildlife Photography For Creating Conservation Awareness
    Dr Renu Kohli | 17/05/2023

Featured Stories

  • Book Review: A Contemporary Feminist, Marxist And Environmentalist

    Book Review: A Contemporary Feminist, Marxist And Environmentalist

    by T Vijayendra — 22/05/2023

    ——————————————————————————————————————————- FROM KERALA TO KESLA By Loriette Benjamin “Lorry” Qurate Books Pvt. Ltd, Panaji Goa. 2023, Pp 74, Rs. 300/- Contact: Lorry: 82807 95523 ——————————————————————————————————————————- Lorry (Loriette Benjamin) was born in Kozhikode (Calicut for old timers), Kerala in 1954. Her father was an Army officer and the family moved to Pune in 1958. This very short autobiography (only 74 pages)[Read More…]

  • Global South Resistance Against The Artificial Intelligence War Strategy of the G7

    Global South Resistance Against The Artificial Intelligence War Strategy of the G7

    by Dr Pedro Mzileni — 22/05/2023

    The G7 Annual Summit for 2023 was convened in Hiroshima, Japan, over the weekend and it has taken some key resolutions that should concern all of us in the Global South. The G7, firstly, is an intergovernmental political forum that consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US. The EU is regarded as a strategic friend[Read More…]

  • Ludlow, Colorado/Windber, Pennsylvania

    Ludlow, Colorado/Windber, Pennsylvania

    by Michael D Yates — 22/05/2023

    Minerals and raw materials are the building blocks of industrial capitalism. No industrial revolutions would have been possible without iron, coal, copper, rubber, and similar substances. The extraction of such materials from the earth has been, without exception, a human enterprise mired in misery, in which one small class of persons viciously exploited other more numerous classes of workers and[Read More…]

  • Global Debt Increases To Near-Record Highs – $305 Trillion

    Global Debt Increases To Near-Record Highs – $305 Trillion

    by Countercurrents Collective — 22/05/2023

    The global debt increased by $8.3 trillion in the first quarter of the year to a near-record high of $305 trillion amid an aggressive tightening of monetary policy by central banks, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) has revealed. According to its quarterly Global Debt Monitor (GDM) report on Wednesday, the reading is the highest since the first quarter of[Read More…]

  • The Most Important Aspect of the Ukraine Conflict May Also be the Most Neglected

    The Most Important Aspect of the Ukraine Conflict May Also be the Most Neglected

    by Bharat Dogra — 22/05/2023

    A very important aspect of all wars is the great distress suffered by people and in particular the loss of human lives. This is certainly true of the Ukraine war. However there is one other aspect of the Ukraine war which may ultimately prove to be even more important when later the history of these very unfortunate and needlessly destructive[Read More…]

  • Led by China and India: On the Global South Efforts to Fix the UN   

    Led by China and India: On the Global South Efforts to Fix the UN   

    by Dr Ramzy Baroud — 22/05/2023

    In anticipation of next month’s United Nations Security Council talks on reforming the inherently archaic and dysfunctional political body, China’s foreign policy chief, Yang Yi stated his country’s demands. “The reform of the Security Council should uphold fairness and justice, increase the representation and voice of developing countries, allowing more small and medium-sized countries to have more opportunities to participate[Read More…]

  • How Strengthened Global Governance Could Produce a Nuclear-Free World

    How Strengthened Global Governance Could Produce a Nuclear-Free World

    by Lawrence S Wittner — 22/05/2023

    It should come as no surprise that the world is currently facing an existential nuclear danger.  In fact, it has been caught up in that danger since 1945, when atomic bombs were used to annihilate the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, however, the danger of a nuclear holocaust is probably greater than in the past.  There are now nine[Read More…]

  • Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis – Two Peas in a (White Nationalist) Pod

    Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis – Two Peas in a (White Nationalist) Pod

    by Clarence Lusane — 22/05/2023

    He appointed three conservative Supreme Court justices who shocked the nation with rulings that dramatically took away rights. He sided with the racists who used “states’ rights” to push through undemocratic policies locally. And he’s the only American president who lost a reelection bid but returned to office in the following election. Yes, I’m thinking of former New York governor[Read More…]

  • Weaknesses of the National Security Strategy 2022 – Part 6. US-led rules-based order autocratically imposed without consent of the governed

    Weaknesses of the National Security Strategy 2022 – Part 6. US-led rules-based order autocratically imposed without consent of the governed

    by Kristin Christman — 21/05/2023

    In this series I’ve been identifying and refuting the claims made in the National Security Strategy 2022, which I refer to as the Sullivan & Biden NSS, even though it’s not known whether or not Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, actually wrote the document. It could have been written by any members of the National Security Council or their[Read More…]

  • The International Community Does Not Accept The G7-Dominated Western Rules, Says China

    The International Community Does Not Accept The G7-Dominated Western Rules, Says China

    by Countercurrents Collective — 21/05/2023

    The international community will not fall in line with the pro-Western rules pushed by the Group of Seven (G7) and not allow the U.S.-led group to dominate world affairs, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. “China will never accept the so-called rules imposed by the few. The international community does not accept and will not accept[Read More…]

India

Management’s demand for removal of protesting workers of Belsonika rejected on 16th day of fast

Management’s demand for removal of protesting workers of Belsonika rejected on 16th day of fast

21/05/2023 — Harsh Thakor

 For 16 continuous days the Belsonika Union have resiliently continued the hunger strike. The management requested the court to prohibit the fast at the factory gate, which was rejected. Union’s legal advisor Karmbir Singh, sacked worker Sujit Singh and suspended worker Jainendra Kumar were participants in the hunger strike. A petition was filed in the Civil Court Gurgaon by the[Read More…]

  • On Indian Lynching Data

    On Indian Lynching Data

    20/05/2023 — Abu Siddik
  • Bulldozer Raj in Uttarakhand: 300 houses demolished, 4000 people  homeless

    Bulldozer Raj in Uttarakhand: 300 houses demolished, 4000 people  homeless

    20/05/2023 — Harsh Thakor
  • Indian Democracy And The Class Question

    Indian Democracy And The Class Question

    19/05/2023 — Hiren Gohain
  • Hunger Games

    Hunger Games

    19/05/2023 — Asmi Gupto

COVID Response Watch

Shadow of Covid  lingers over the erstwhile Kingdom of Cooch Behar     

Shadow of Covid  lingers over the erstwhile Kingdom of Cooch Behar     

30/08/2022 — Sandeep Banerjee

The princely state of Cooch Behar merged with the Dominion of India on August 8, 1949 and became a part of the State of West Bengal on January 1, 1950. To go to Cooch Behar, one has to cross Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts, which were also once part of other neighbouring hill kingdoms and annexed by the British. During my[Read More…]

  • Public life in MP disrupted by heavy  rains linked to climate change

    Public life in MP disrupted by heavy rains linked to climate change

    29/08/2022 — Pooja Yadav
  • Hanging by a thread, Sheffield of the East

    Hanging by a thread, Sheffield of the East

    27/08/2022 — Sandeep Banerjee
  • Malnutrition and death of children decreased in the system, increased in reality

    Malnutrition and death of children decreased in the system, increased in reality

    25/08/2022 — Shirish Khare
  • When Forest Rights meets Right to Education

    When Forest Rights meets Right to Education

    23/08/2022 — Amit Sengupta

World

Global South Resistance Against The Artificial Intelligence War Strategy of the G7

Global South Resistance Against The Artificial Intelligence War Strategy of the G7

22/05/2023 — Dr Pedro Mzileni

The G7 Annual Summit for 2023 was convened in Hiroshima, Japan, over the weekend and it has taken some key resolutions that should concern all of us in the Global South. The G7, firstly, is an intergovernmental political forum that consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US. The EU is regarded as a strategic friend[Read More…]

  • Ludlow, Colorado/Windber, Pennsylvania

    Ludlow, Colorado/Windber, Pennsylvania

    22/05/2023 — Michael D Yates
  • Global Debt Increases To Near-Record Highs – $305 Trillion

    Global Debt Increases To Near-Record Highs – $305 Trillion

    22/05/2023 — Countercurrents Collective
  • The Most Important Aspect of the Ukraine Conflict May Also be the Most Neglected

    The Most Important Aspect of the Ukraine Conflict May Also be the Most Neglected

    22/05/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • Led by China and India: On the Global South Efforts to Fix the UN   

    Led by China and India: On the Global South Efforts to Fix the UN   

    22/05/2023 — Dr Ramzy Baroud

Globalisation

Tossing Neoliberalism into the Dumpster

Tossing Neoliberalism into the Dumpster

20/05/2023 — Robert Hunziker

It’s official, according to a speech by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the United States is jumping off the neoliberal globalization bandwagon (a root cause of domestic extremism) and it couldn’t come soon enough as institutions of government are sucking up more and more angry exhaust fumes from constituents, as well as encountering a world trade map with China bullying[Read More…]

  • Corporatizing the World One Small Company at a Time

    Corporatizing the World One Small Company at a Time

    25/01/2023 — Sally Dugman
  • Corporatisation: Destroying Rural Economy 

    Corporatisation: Destroying Rural Economy 

    19/01/2023 — Tarun Kumar
  • How the policies of globalization exploited the resources and economy of the developing countries

    How the policies of globalization exploited the resources and economy of the developing countries

    25/07/2022 — Tarun Kumar
  • Western-Led Globalization Might End, but the New Globalization Might Have an Eastern Face

    Western-Led Globalization Might End, but the New Globalization Might Have an Eastern Face

    19/04/2022 — E Ahmet Tonak

Human Rights

Inquiring into the action taken and justice delivered on the matter of police firing on protestors in Tuticorin

Inquiring into the action taken and justice delivered on the matter of police firing on protestors in Tuticorin

17/05/2023 — Press Release

  To Mr. M. K. Stalin Hon’ble Chief Minister, Government of Tamil Nadu, Secretariat, Chennai Email ID: cmo@tn.gov.in Dear Sir, This memorandum is being submitted by the jury members of the fact-finding team, set up in the name of People’s Inquest, to inquire into the Tuticorin Police Firing, which resulted in the publication of a five-part report entitled, ‘The day Tuticorin[Read More…]

  • There is room for Fascism in Democracy: Siddique Kappan

    There is room for Fascism in Democracy: Siddique Kappan

    07/05/2023 — Rejaz M Sydeek
  • Image Credits- Ye_Jinghan, Unsplash

    Mental Health of Prisoners—An issue of Deep Concern but also Persistent Neglect

    05/05/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • World Press Freedom Day Rally held outside Indian visa office in Canada

    World Press Freedom Day Rally held outside Indian visa office in Canada

    05/05/2023 — Press Release
  • Dead Man Walking: One Poet’s Struggle for Freedom of Speech in Bangladesh

    Dead Man Walking: One Poet’s Struggle for Freedom of Speech in Bangladesh

    04/05/2023 — William Nicholas Gomes

Imperialism

Imperialism is Inherently Incompatible with Peace, Environment Protection and Happiness

Imperialism is Inherently Incompatible with Peace, Environment Protection and Happiness

17/05/2023 — Bharat Dogra

Do most people in the USA desire world peace? Like all normal human beings they certainly do, preferring a world of peace and stability to a world of wars and instability. Hence in normal conditions there is no reason why politicians should not be successful in seeking power on the basis of an agenda of world peace rather than an[Read More…]

  • We STILL Don’t Get It:  It is an Empire, Folks!

    We STILL Don’t Get It:  It is an Empire, Folks!

    20/04/2023 — Kim Scipes
  • America’s Wars

    America’s Wars

    20/03/2023 — John Scales Avery
  • The Monroe Doctrine Is Soaked in Blood

    The Monroe Doctrine Is Soaked in Blood

    07/02/2023 — David Swanson
  • No Peaceful Multipolar World Anytime Soon: Underestimating US Power is Dangerous

    No Peaceful Multipolar World Anytime Soon: Underestimating US Power is Dangerous

    20/01/2023 — John Stanton

Communal Harmony

Scapegoats and Holy Cows:  Crime and Justice Delivery System in the era of Sectarian Nationalism

Scapegoats and Holy Cows:  Crime and Justice Delivery System in the era of Sectarian Nationalism

15/02/2023 — Dr Ram Puniyani

In the case of Jamia violence of 2019, 11 students were arrested. One of them was Sharjeel Imam, who was student of JNU. The others included likes of Safoora Zargar and Asif Iqbal Tanha. While discharging them Court comments, “police was unable to apprehend “actual perpetrators” and “surely managed to rope them (accused) as scapegoats” in the matter.” Court also[Read More…]

  • History, Communal Narratives and Sectarian Politics

    History, Communal Narratives and Sectarian Politics

    21/10/2022 — Dr Ram Puniyani
  • Leicester Spells “Communal” Tension For British Society? 

    Leicester Spells “Communal” Tension For British Society? 

    25/09/2022 — Nilofar Suhrawardy
  • Nafrat chhodo! Bharat jodo! Bharat jodo! The Failed Fraternity Factor: A wake-up call

    Nafrat chhodo! Bharat jodo! Bharat jodo! The Failed Fraternity Factor: A wake-up call

    30/07/2022 — S G Vombatkere
  • Demonising Muslims: How the act is rooted in a cynical reading of Islamic scriptures!

    Demonising Muslims: How the act is rooted in a cynical reading of Islamic scriptures!

    01/07/2022 — Prof M A Sofi

Climate Change

WMO Warning: 1.5 Degree C Warming Breach Very Soon & With Increasing Frequency. Act Now!

WMO Warning: 1.5 Degree C Warming Breach Very Soon & With Increasing Frequency. Act Now!

19/05/2023 — Dr Gideon Polya

In 2015 the Paris Climate Change Conference decided that the world must take urgent action to ideally contain global warming to plus 1.5 degrees Centigrade (plus 1.5C) and to less than a catastrophic plus 2C. The present warming is about plus 1.1C. However the  World Meteorological Organization (WMO) now reports a 66% probability of 1.5C being exceeded for at least[Read More…]

  • The Old Future Is Gone, and Technology Won’t Bring It Back

    The Old Future Is Gone, and Technology Won’t Bring It Back

    19/05/2023 — Stan Cox
  • Climate change and water crisis

    Climate change and water crisis

    15/05/2023 — Vikas Parashram Meshram
  • Sea ice is formed when chunks of the Greenland ice sheet break off and flow into the ocean.

    The Ocean Heat Bomb Ignites

    13/05/2023 — Robert Hunziker
  • Peace for Environment Protection—Great Opportunities Missed Earlier Can Still be Realized

    Peace for Environment Protection—Great Opportunities Missed Earlier Can Still be Realized

    13/05/2023 — Bharat Dogra

Environmental Protection

Thoughts for World Environment Day – The global economy –  threat to life on the Planet

Thoughts for World Environment Day – The global economy –  threat to life on the Planet

18/05/2023 — S G Vombatkere

World Environment Day is observed every 5th June, to encourage awareness and action for protecting the environment. It is a “global platform for inspiring positive change” [Ref.1], to address climate crisis caused by global warming (GW). Homo Sapiens population on Planet Earth was 0.3-billion in 1000, and under 2-billion in 1900. It is currently 8-billion-and-counting. It is only in the[Read More…]

  • Healthy, sleek wild horses in the Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area during a Bureau of Land Management roundup on July 19, 2022. (Photo credit: Ginger Fedak/In Defense of Animals)
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    Most Americans Oppose Killing Horses for Food—Here’s How to End This Brutal Practice

    17/05/2023 — Siri Lindley
  • Wildlife Photography For Creating Conservation Awareness

    Wildlife Photography For Creating Conservation Awareness

    17/05/2023 — Dr Renu Kohli
  • Indiscriminate Introduction of Exotic Bees Likely to Prove Very Costly

    Indiscriminate Introduction of Exotic Bees Likely to Prove Very Costly

    15/05/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • Businesses and environmental consciousness in contemporary times

    Businesses and environmental consciousness in contemporary times

    25/04/2023 — Pema Choden Bhutia

Counter Solutions

The Fourth Industrial Revolution And The ‘Energy Transition’ Hoax: III – Hydrogen Energy

The Fourth Industrial Revolution And The ‘Energy Transition’ Hoax: III – Hydrogen Energy

21/05/2023 — T Vijayendra

Introduction The Fourth Industrial Revolution is the current programme of capitalism to restructure production, distribution and consumption in the face of the multiple crises it has been facing since 2008. While all major changes in history have multiple causes, some are more central to it than others; in the case of this restructuring, these central causes are 1) the shrinking[Read More…]

  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution And The ‘Energy Transition’ Hoax: II – Nuclear Energy

    The Fourth Industrial Revolution And The ‘Energy Transition’ Hoax: II – Nuclear Energy

    20/05/2023 — T Vijayendra
  • At the 2018 International Summit for Women in the Struggle called by the Zapatistas. The mural reads: “Capitalism converts everything, absolute everything into commodities. For it [capitalism] we women are propaganda, decorations…Down with this capitalist system!” Photo credit: Global Justice Now/Flickr/CC 2.0

    Zapatista Knowledge: Theoretico-political ontoepistemic alter-natives in times of war and civilisational collapse

    19/05/2023 — Xochitl Leyva Solano
  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution And The ‘Energy Transition’ Hoax: I – Solar Energy

    The Fourth Industrial Revolution And The ‘Energy Transition’ Hoax: I – Solar Energy

    19/05/2023 — T Vijayendra
  • A Note to the Debate on a People’s Development Paradigm

    A Note to the Debate on a People’s Development Paradigm

    18/05/2023 — P J James

Resource Crisis

The Project of Capital and the Project of the Proletariat in a time of World Crisis

The Project of Capital and the Project of the Proletariat in a time of World Crisis

03/10/2021 — T Vijayendra

ABSTRACT This is a response to the two sets of articles written by Sajai Jose on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and on the world’s and India’s hunger crisis. It is in two parts. In the first part it lays the historical background of the response of capital in the face of periodic crises it faces and people’s response to it.[Read More…]

  • Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors

    Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors

    12/09/2021 — Sean Sweeney
  • The Gritty Reality of Solar Power

    The Gritty Reality of Solar Power

    09/09/2021 — Priti Gulati Cox
  • Child Labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Solidarity with Resistance to Extraction

    15/06/2021 — Don Fitz
  • Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?

    Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?

    20/05/2021 — Michael T Klare

Patriarchy

Sexism descrimination concept as a struggling woman with the burden of pulling a heavy female 3D illustration symbol falling behind a group of running businessmen or men as an unfair gender bias icon.

Gender Discrimination: A Serious Concern

14/05/2023 — Masood Ali Mir

Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. It is the belief that all individuals should have equal rights and opportunities. A society can only develop when there is a balance of equity between male and female. Just like a bird cannot fly depending on a single wing,[Read More…]

  • Sexuality, Marriage and State

    Sexuality, Marriage and State

    20/04/2023 — Bhabani Shankar Nayak
  • Men, masculinities, and gender equality

    Men, masculinities, and gender equality

    27/03/2023 — Sada
  • Silent mountains of Uttarakhand

    Silent mountains of Uttarakhand

    10/03/2023 — Priyanka Minj
  • Woman is born with Identity? Or Woman creates her own Identity?

    Woman is born with Identity? Or Woman creates her own Identity?

    08/03/2023 — Dr Shama

Palestine

Apartheid Israel Among World’s Leading Countries For Militarization, Violence, Abuse And Genocide

Apartheid Israel Among World’s Leading Countries For Militarization, Violence, Abuse And Genocide

16/05/2023 — Dr Gideon Polya

Nuclear armed, serial war criminal and international law-violating Apartheid Israel is a genocidally racist settler-colonialist obscenity, and ranks on a per capita basis  among the world’s top  militarized countries in 30 key areas of military capacity and ghastly application of military power. On a per capita basis it ranks number 1 in terms of military expenditure, tanks, warplanes, US military[Read More…]

  • New Rules of Engagement: How Palestinians Defeated Netanyahu and Redefined ‘Unity’

    New Rules of Engagement: How Palestinians Defeated Netanyahu and Redefined ‘Unity’

    15/05/2023 — Dr Ramzy Baroud
  • Support our “glorious dead”, support Palestinian resistance

    Support our “glorious dead”, support Palestinian resistance

    14/05/2023 — Rima Najjar
  • And The Heavens Opened…

    And The Heavens Opened…

    13/05/2023 — Jafar M Ramini
  • Khader Adnan celebrates with his children during a rally honoring him following his release from Israeli prison, near the West Bank city of Jenin on 12 July 2015. Adnan died Tuesday after 86 days of hunger strike against his renewed imprisonment. Shadi HatemAPA images

    ‘My Family, My People’: How Khader Adnan Unified Palestinians from His Prison Cell  

    10/05/2023 — Dr Ramzy Baroud

South Asia

Sri Lanka: Dilly-Dallying Tactics To Keep The Ethnic Problem Alive And Kicking

Sri Lanka: Dilly-Dallying Tactics To Keep The Ethnic Problem Alive And Kicking

18/05/2023 — Thambu Kanagasabai

Ranil who was elected by a majority members of parliament on 18 July 2022 has been dishing out various promises to suit the occasion and the audiences.  A meeting was held on 09 May 2023 with Tamil MPs in the parliament where the 75 years long heartbreaking issues of land appropriations in the North and East by the occupying security[Read More…]

  • Pakistan Goes to Anarchy and Self-Destruction

    Pakistan Goes to Anarchy and Self-Destruction

    11/05/2023 — Dr Mahboob A Khawaja
  • JUST-IS denounces Political Terror against the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan

    JUST-IS denounces Political Terror against the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan

    08/05/2023 — Press Release
  • A Game of Thrones in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The Master Mind and Cover-up of Investigations in Easter Bombing in Sri Lanka

    A Game of Thrones in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The Master Mind and Cover-up of Investigations in Easter Bombing in Sri Lanka

    28/04/2023 — Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake
  • Death came from the sky: One massacre, too many

    Death came from the sky: One massacre, too many

    26/04/2023 — Amit Sengupta

Annihilate Caste

Migration is essential to spread Ambedkarism

Migration is essential to spread Ambedkarism

02/05/2023 — Vivek Sakpal

Migration has played a crucial vital role in the development and evolution of humankind. Exchange of idea’s, knowledge, cultures, food, medicines, economics….. religion, philosophy, and ideologies etc together contribute to this process. Conquest and War, Trade and Commerce and Ecology and Environment were principal reasons for people to migrate in earlier history. Today, it has been replaced with opportunities of[Read More…]

  • Neo-Buddhists have progressed more than Hindu Dalits

    Neo-Buddhists have progressed more than Hindu Dalits

    25/04/2023 — SR Darapuri
  • Who ‘stagnated’ the Ambedkarite ‘movement’?

    Who ‘stagnated’ the Ambedkarite ‘movement’?

    23/04/2023 — Vivek Sakpal
  • Copies of Manusmriti burnt on the birth anniversary of Ambedkar in Canada

    Copies of Manusmriti burnt on the birth anniversary of Ambedkar in Canada

    19/04/2023 — Press Release
  • Ambedkarites need to be content creators

    Ambedkarites need to be content creators

    17/04/2023 — Vivek Sakpal

Life/Philosophy

Demented Policing: Tasering the Elderly

Demented Policing: Tasering the Elderly

21/05/2023 — Dr Binoy Kampmark

Australia is a country addictively hostile to the elderly.  Despite being a continent that speaks to immemorial origins, respect for those who age is uncommon.  In The Lucky Country, that seminal, repeatedly misunderstood text, written in frustrated, sour prose, Donald Horne observes that Australia is not a place where one should grow old. And so, it follows: the rampant, habitual[Read More…]

  • Sheetla Singh—Editor Who Became A Legend in his Lifetime

    Sheetla Singh—Editor Who Became A Legend in his Lifetime

    20/05/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • In memory of 50th anniversary of Killing of Monika Ertl

    In memory of 50th anniversary of Killing of Monika Ertl

    19/05/2023 — Harsh Thakor
  •  Sentience: Does AI Have Artificial Consciousness?

     Sentience: Does AI Have Artificial Consciousness?

    19/05/2023 — David Stephen
  • The Coca-Cola-ization of ‘God Bless America’

    The Coca-Cola-ization of ‘God Bless America’

    16/05/2023 — Gary Corseri

Arts/Literature

Nita Ambani Cultural centre is opulent but not professional

Nita Ambani Cultural centre is opulent but not professional

17/05/2023 — Vidyadhar Date

The website of the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre claims that the Grand Theatre is technologically most advanced in India, is magical and meticulously designed. But what is the reality? Many in the audience have complained of serious problems. After spending thousands of rupees for one seat, you find that the bar in front of your seat makes it hard[Read More…]

  • The Day Arrived

    The Day Arrived

    16/05/2023 — David Sparenberg
  • ‘ISHANOU’: One question – One answer

    ‘ISHANOU’: One question – One answer

    15/05/2023 — Joshy Joseph
  • Harry- My Heart is Down, Lost in Kingston town

    Harry- My Heart is Down, Lost in Kingston town

    15/05/2023 — Monish R Chatterjee
  • The Háifoss waterfall in the heart of Iceland. (Photo: Moyan Brenn/flickr/cc)

    There Is No Escape From Telling

    11/05/2023 — Edward Curtin

Book Review

Book Review: A Contemporary Feminist, Marxist And Environmentalist

Book Review: A Contemporary Feminist, Marxist And Environmentalist

22/05/2023 — T Vijayendra

——————————————————————————————————————————- FROM KERALA TO KESLA By Loriette Benjamin “Lorry” Qurate Books Pvt. Ltd, Panaji Goa. 2023, Pp 74, Rs. 300/- Contact: Lorry: 82807 95523 ——————————————————————————————————————————- Lorry (Loriette Benjamin) was born in Kozhikode (Calicut for old timers), Kerala in 1954. Her father was an Army officer and the family moved to Pune in 1958. This very short autobiography (only 74 pages)[Read More…]

  • Bridging Narratives: Exploring Play

    Bridging Narratives: Exploring Play

    10/05/2023 — Mitali Chakravarty
  • Homo Deus: From Being Masters to Marionettes

    Homo Deus: From Being Masters to Marionettes

    08/05/2023 — Soumyanetra Munshi
  • Book Review: Renaissance and the 1857 Rebellion in the Hindi region

    Book Review: Renaissance and the 1857 Rebellion in the Hindi region

    07/05/2023 — T Vijayendra
  • Imperialism, from its origins to the Great War it caused

    Imperialism, from its origins to the Great War it caused

    04/05/2023 — Jacques Pauwels

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Farewell to Sasi etta, brother K.P. Sasi

Farewell to Sasi etta, brother K.P. Sasi

27/12/2022 — Satya Sagar

Our beloved K.P.Sasi is no more. Filmmaker, cartoonist, writer, mentor, friend and above all tireless activist championing the cause of every underdog, Sasi breathed his last, mid-afternoon this Christmas day –  after battling a medical condition for months. I remember the last time I met him, almost exactly a month before he passed away, at the ayurvedic healing center in[Read More…]

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