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Why Israel Needs the US and Why It Could Backfire on the US
Israel’s war on Iran is escalating fast. Within six days, Israeli airstrikes killed top Iranian military commanders and destroyed several surface-level civilian installations. But one key target remains untouched: Iran’s deeply buried non-military nuclear infrastructure, which Israel has used as a…
Seeking Food in Gaza Must Not Be a ‘Death Sentence,’ Says MSF Amid Israeli Attacks on Starving Civilians
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has criticized the US- and Israeli-backed aid distribution mechanism in the Gaza Strip, amid reports of mass killings of starving civilians by Israeli forces. MSF said seeking food should not be a…
No Anesthesia, No Aid, No Mercy: My Journey Through Gaza’s Collapsing Health System
Last week, my son Khaled cut his finger and urgently needed stitches. I wrapped his small hand in a clean piece of cloth and carried him through the shattered streets of Gaza City. Our first stop was Al-Shifa Hospital. The…
Israel’s War on Iran Is the Frontline of a US War on Multipolarity
Israel’s US-backed brazen violations of Iranian sovereignty mark a dangerous escalation in Washington’s long war on independent states, exposing the impotence of international law and the necessity of armed resistance. On the early morning of 13 June, Israel launched an…
Greening the Sahara: For a Nourishing and Regenerative Algeria
A celebration, a paradox, a fundamental question Algeria is celebrating Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice. A sacred moment of remembrance, sharing, and spirituality. Yet, once again this year, a large portion of the population is faced with a…
Food Security is Everyone’s Business
Food security, where everyone has access to safe, sufficient, and nutritious food at all times, is not just a development goal. It is a human right. Yet in Nigeria and across the globe, this right is under serious threat. Rising inflation, climate change,…
More than the global North, communities from Global South know what democracy is
The contrast could not be starker. In 2024, with over 60 countries covering half the world’s population going to the polls, there was a clear tendency to vote in right-wing political parties with thin democratic pretensions. In many countries including…
How Much for One Protein?
Showing my age a bit, a young Chris Rock in a 1988 movie amusingly asks: “How much for one rib?” Given that the crafting of a single protein plays a central role in this post, and ribs are a source…
Empty shelves, empty stomachs
At the end of our street is al-Sahaba market. It is no longer somewhere to fetch food. It is now quiet and gray, a place where the people are often greeted with shelves as empty as their stomachs. Since 2…
When Poets Become Bridges Between Iran and Israel
In a world increasingly fragmented by ideological conflicts and military hostilities, poetry often becomes one of the few surviving forms of honest human dialogue. The cases of Iran and Israel—two nations embroiled in mutual suspicion, geopolitical hostility, and historical trauma—offer…
India
Women Make Shining Contributions as Organic Farmers, Entrepreneurs and Social Reformers
There are two problems which hold back rural women from making their full contributions to development. Firstly, their important role, potential and capabilities are often not recognized properly. Secondly, even…
The Illusion of Statesmanship: Modi’s Misadventures Abroad and Tharoor’s Diplomatic Duplicity
India needs constructive global engagement, not vanity tours and hollow lobbying India’s foreign policy has in recent years taken on a tone of bombast rather than balance, of posturing rather…
Hypocrisy of RSS chief
All the heads of RSS have always been saying that RSS is a cultural organisation. And we only do the work of character building in our organisation. We have no…
Economic Lies Told by Governments!
Some recent headlines in newspapers regarding the country’s economy: Sources for such headlines include government economic institutions and interest-earning financial organizations like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund…
The Temporariness and Unpredictability of Life
It is a tragedy of immense proportion! One of the worst in the history of civil aviation in India! An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (AI-171), from Ahmedabad to London,…
Food Security Not Just for the Stomach, but for a Sustainable Life
Clean and safe food is not merely a health issue but is deeply connected to human dignity, sustainable development, economic progress, and social stability. Today, as the world grapples with…
World
Why Israel Needs the US and Why It Could Backfire on the US
Israel’s war on Iran is escalating fast. Within six days, Israeli airstrikes killed top Iranian military commanders and destroyed several surface-level civilian installations. But one key target remains untouched: Iran’s…
When Poets Become Bridges Between Iran and Israel
In a world increasingly fragmented by ideological conflicts and military hostilities, poetry often becomes one of the few surviving forms of honest human dialogue. The cases of Iran and Israel—two…
The American Game: Playing and Being Played on the Road to Nuclear War
“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of…
Highly imprudent for ADB to lift ban on funding nuclear power
ToMr. Masato Kanda President Asian Development Bank (ADB) Dear Mr. Kanda, Having represented India on ADB's Board in the past, I feel dismayed and distressed about newsreports about the Bank abruptly…
Trump’s Nuclear Fool’s Gold
STOCKHOLM – Will US President Donald Trump’s vision of building an impregnable missile-defense system be the final nail in the coffin for strategic nuclear arms control? Given that his proposed…
The Nazi Heritage of Germany’s Chancellor
Germany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz has a history, one that he does not like to highlight. His Opa or grandfather was a Nazi and it is this Nazi past that he is trying to…
Globalisation
The Globalized Elite Are Perpetuating Local Neo-Colonial Plunder
In the decades since the formal end of colonialism, nations across the Global South have proudly waved the banner of independence, self-reliance, decolonization, and now—deglobalization. The rhetoric of national empowerment,…
80 years is enough: Fight for food, land, and climate justice! Shut down the IMF-World Bank!
Rural peoples’ movements and communities demand the shutdown of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Over the past 80 years, imperialist governments and their transnational corporations (TNCs) have…
Comparing How the West and China Offer Loans to Developing Countries
Established Western economic institutions are facing a formidable challenge from Chinese newcomers, each side offering distinct and competitive lending strategies with far-reaching consequences for global infrastructure and development. In October…
It’s Not Capitalism… It’s MONEYISM!!
Here it is from an old college buddy and confidante of mine, J D. This former progressive talk radio host and socialist thinker nailed it with his commentary on things…
Why Garment Workers in Bangladesh are on Strike
Bangladesh is a major producer of garments supplying to world’s top brands such as H & M, Lewis, Gucci, Zara and many others. Nearly 4.0 million workers, mostly women toil…
Tossing Neoliberalism into the Dumpster
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…
Human Rights
Pakistan: Mass expulsion of at-risk Afghans imperils lives of writers, journalists, human rights defenders and others persecuted by the Taliban
We, the undersigned organisations, call on the government of Pakistan to immediately halt the arbitrary mass deportation of Afghan nationals in line with the country’s human rights obligations, including the…
The Silencing of Voices: Pakistan’s Crackdown on Baloch Human Rights Defenders
In its 2025 report titled “Pakistan must end crackdown on Baloch human rights defenders,” Amnesty International has issued a scathing indictment of the Pakistani state’s ongoing repression in Balochistan. The…
Language as an algorithmic tool of oppression: Roopesh’s unpublished novel and the implications of his hunger strike
Roopesh, the Maoist leader currently incarcerated in Viyyur Central Prison, Kerala, has initiated an indefinite hunger strike in protest against the jail authorities’ refusal to grant permission for the publication…
Violation of the Right to Dignity in Death: Demand for Immediate Release of Slain Maoist Bodies
The Coordination Committee for Peace expresses grave concern over the continued withholding of bodies of deceased individuals from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana following the operation conducted on May 21 2025…
PUCL Condemns the Arrest of Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad
PUCL condemns the arrest of Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, which demonstrates the Orwellian dictum that in the new India, truth does not matter and that ‘war is peace, freedom is…
PUCL condemns the BJP Government’s illegal, inhumane and duplicitous deportation of 40 Rohingya refugees from Delhi
PUCL condemns the BJP Government’s illegal, inhumane and duplicitous deportation of 40 Rohingya refugees from Delhi by kidnapping them from Delhi and throwing them in sea waters near Thailand border.…
Imperialism
Israel’s War on Iran Is the Frontline of a US War on Multipolarity
Israel’s US-backed brazen violations of Iranian sovereignty mark a dangerous escalation in Washington’s long war on independent states, exposing the impotence of international law and the necessity of armed resistance.…
How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization, Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More
At a time when many may feel that good news has gone the way of the dodo, look no further than the homeland of that long-extinct bird — Mauritius —…
Costs of Imperialism: Strategic Designs and Consequences
From diplomatic arm-twisting and economic and political blackmail to wars and hegemonic trade and tariff mechanisms, Yankee imperialism and its European minion lapdogs continue to wreak havoc on the lives…
The Real Evil Empire May Surprise You-Serving In (or Thinking About) the U.S. Military for 40 Years
Forty years ago this month, I was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. I would be part of America’s all-volunteer force (AVF) for 20 years, hitting my marks and…
Ending Militarism in America
I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man named Elon Musk. But he lost out on one thing: he didn’t get a top secret briefing on Pentagon war plans…
The Fraud of Endless War
There is not a single war or serious military confrontation since WWII involving the U.S. that needed to be fought. Every conflict where soldiers and civilians suffered death or injury…
Communal Harmony
Guha, a Village under Siege, Dispute over a Dargah, a Communal Cauldron, Muslim Minority facing Socio-Economic Boycott by Hindutva forces – Civil Society Intervention Required!
Guha, is a small village near Ahmednagar in Maharashtra. It’s now caught in the grip of Hindutva mobilization, where another Dargah has now been a target of attack over the…
Sambhal: A repetition of Ayodhya?
In Ayodhya the God descended and departed. A temple was built at his birth place. It is claimed that this temple was demolished to build a mosque. The mosque was…
A Mosque, A Movement, A Legacy: The Story of Ludhiana Jama Masjid
The Ludhiana Jama Masjid, a historic mosque in Punjab, India, holds a special place in the country's freedom struggle. Built in 1670 by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb's governor, Nawab Bahadur Khan,…
India’s Path to Peace: A Scriptural Perspective
India, often referred to as the land of spirituality and diversity, has been a cradle of civilizations, religions, and philosophies for millennia. Its rich tapestry of cultures, languages, and faiths…
Mystical Music: A Balm for India’s Fractured Soul
As I stood on the shores of Calicut Beach, surrounded by a sea of faces, I felt the weight of a nation's divisions slowly lifting. The music program, 'Charyar', was…
Khudai Khidmatgar–Taking the Message of Inter-faith Harmony to More and More People
Khudai Khidmatgar, an organization founded in memory of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in India in 2011, has been organizing several meetings for inter-faith harmony in various parts of the country…
Climate Change
Climate Socialism
I am writing this message to the millions of people who have been involved in the climate movement over the past several years. This movement has been an incredible force,…
Global Inaction on Gaza Genocide & Climate Genocide As Catastrophic Plus 2C Looms
The World is inactive against the Gaza Genocide and the looming total ethnic cleansing of Gaza by US-backed Apartheid Israel. However the World is also shockingly inactive as it faces…
The Time Has Come to Establish the International Arctic Ocean Sanctuary
In addition to accelerating efforts to reduce global carbon emissions to reverse global warming, governments must urgently adopt strong, permanent protections for the entire Arctic Ocean. On World Ocean Day,…
Nuclear Winter or Climate-Change Summer, What a Choice!
Thirty-five years after the start of the nuclear age with the first explosion of an atomic bomb, I visited the expanse of desert known as the Nevada Test Site, an…
Beyond ‘Environment Day’: The Everyday Ecological Justice Struggles Across India to save Commons, Humans & All Species
7th June, 2025: As the world marked yet another Environment Day on 5th June, the National Alliance for Climate and Ecological Justice (NACEJ), a pan Indian forum of NAPM, brought together…
CO2 levels peaked above 430 ppm for the first time in 30 million years
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere peaked above 430 parts per million in 2025—the highest it has been in millions of years—according to data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
Environmental Protection
Finishing What the World Started at the UN Ocean Conference
NICE – As the sun sets on the third United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, there is much to celebrate, but also much unfinished business for the world to address…
As Heat Waves Intensify in India, These Inspiring Examples Show How Small Budget Efforts to Conserve Water Made Big Contributions
Heat waves have been intensifying over vast areas of India in recent days and there are also many reports of water scarcity making the conditions worse for people. However the…
Plummeting Insects
Insects are vanishing from pristine rainforests. “Around the world many insect populations are crashing.” (Natural History Museum, April 2025) Insects are crucial for the health of nature, whereas humans are…
The Pollution Challenge: Can Pakistan Turn the Tide?
Air pollution poses a precarious threat to public health and environmental stability in Pakistan, particularly in urban centers like Lahore and Karachi. Indeed, the growing evidence of its harmful impact…
Green Crime Goes Global
RIO DE JANEIRO – In late 2024, Brazilian federal police dismantled a sprawling illegal gold mining network in Pará, exposing a criminal enterprise that stretched far beyond the rainforest. The operation, part…
Study Confirms Urgency of Avoiding High-Risk Glyphosate as it is linked to Multiple Types of Cancer
GM Watch is an organization and website dedicated to providing the latest information about the high-risks of GM crops and the various hazardous agro-chemicals sold for use in growing these.…
Counter Solutions
Greening the Sahara: For a Nourishing and Regenerative Algeria
A celebration, a paradox, a fundamental question Algeria is celebrating Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice. A sacred moment of remembrance, sharing, and spirituality. Yet, once again this year,…
Food Security is Everyone’s Business
Food security, where everyone has access to safe, sufficient, and nutritious food at all times, is not just a development goal. It is a human right. Yet in Nigeria and across the globe,…
More than the global North, communities from Global South know what democracy is
The contrast could not be starker. In 2024, with over 60 countries covering half the world’s population going to the polls, there was a clear tendency to vote in right-wing…
The Lost Agriculture on the Path of Development
Regardless of the shape or structure of the world, food remains an essential necessity for human survival. Whether in developed countries that have advanced with the latest benchmarks of modern…
Self-Determined: Solidarity in Sovereignty
Less than four months into the second Trump presidency, we’ve witnessed a barrage of destructive policies, aggressive actions, and increasingly alarming rhetoric driven by greed and authoritarian ambition. While I am…
Can degrowth communism save the world?
This is the first in a series on Possible Worlds, envisioning alternatives to the current system in the spirit of “Another world is possible.” Confronting our current political situation, we need…
Resource Crisis
The Project of Capital and the Project of the Proletariat in a time of World Crisis
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…
Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors
In the fight to address climate change, renewable energy companies are often assumed to be Jedi Knights. Valiantly struggling to save the planet, wind and solar interests are thought to…
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…
Solidarity with Resistance to Extraction
by Don Fitz and the Green Party of St. Louis People the world over are opposing fossil fuel extraction in an incalculable number of ways. It is now clear that…
Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?
Thanks to its very name — renewable energy — we can picture a time in the not-too-distant future when our need for non-renewable fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal…
The Growth Of Fascism Or The Fascism Of Growth?
Bear with me, scrupulous historians, as I try to run through some questions and parallels between centuries that I hope will enrich the essential debate on how to confront the…
Patriarchy
Rural Women Unite to End Discrimination against Widows
An unjust aspect of rural society in India that often goes unnoticed is the discrimination faced by widows. Although as far as the legal position is concerned they have completely…
Towards a Comprehensive, Inclusive, Feminist Code
This is Part 2 of the Article on the UCC. This is part 2. Part 1 can be accessed here. For the original detail research, please see here. Considering that…
Towards an Inclusive Gender Just Code in India: Women’s Rights are Non-Negotiable
This article on the UCC is divided in two parts. This is part 1. For the original detailed work by this author, please see here. The Common Civil Code (the…
Digital Jingoism and the Gendered Economy of Hate: Unveiling Islamophobic Patriarchy in India
Following the Pahalgam attack, there has been an increase in online calls for sexual violence against Kashmiri Muslim women, demonstrating the pervasiveness of Islamophobic patriarchy and hyper-nationalist jingoism in India’s…
Why Men Should Shut Up About the Burdens of Masculinity
Patriarchy has started a new PR campaign – rebranding the male jailors as emotionally wounded inmates. In The Indian Express, for instance, Shraddha Upadhyay declares that while “masculinity poses an…
The Hetero-Patriarchal Panic of India’s Minority Communalists
In 2024, the Supreme Court of India noted that what is primary in the determination of the minority character of an institution is not the “existence of a religious place…
Palestine
Seeking Food in Gaza Must Not Be a ‘Death Sentence,’ Says MSF Amid Israeli Attacks on Starving Civilians
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has criticized the US- and Israeli-backed aid distribution mechanism in the Gaza Strip, amid reports of mass killings of starving civilians by…
No Anesthesia, No Aid, No Mercy: My Journey Through Gaza’s Collapsing Health System
Last week, my son Khaled cut his finger and urgently needed stitches. I wrapped his small hand in a clean piece of cloth and carried him through the shattered streets…
Empty shelves, empty stomachs
At the end of our street is al-Sahaba market. It is no longer somewhere to fetch food. It is now quiet and gray, a place where the people are often…
At Least 11 Starving Civilians Killed by Israeli Forces While Waiting for Food near US-Backed Aid Sites in Gaza
Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least 11 aid seekers were killed and dozens more injured on Wednesday morning by Israeli forces near an aid distribution site run by the US-backed…
Massive police crackdown across Mumbai to crush Protest to Condemn Israeli Genocide of Gaza
In the early hours of the morning, Mumbai police came to the houses of various Political Party leaders & Social Activists to detain them to prevent a peaceful protest against…
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Direct accomplice in Israel’s killing and starvation machine, must be held accountable
Palestinian Territory – The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is directly responsible for the escalating Israeli crimes against starved Palestinian civilians near aid distribution points in central and southern Gaza The foundation's operational…
South Asia
Despite Recent Setbacks, True Progress in South Asia Must be based on an Agenda of Peace
Despite all hostilities of the past, South Asia as a region really needs the path of peace-based progress, and those who sincerely wish for the welfare of people should certainly…
The Coronation of a Collaborator: General Munir’s American Umrah
In the imperial theater of Washington, where regimes are puppeteered and loyalties auctioned, a curious ceremony unfolded. General Asim Munir, Pakistan’s top-ranking uniformed ruler, arrived not as a diplomat of…
Extrajudicial Killings in Balochistan Demand Global Attention
On June 4, 2025, two lifeless bodies were discovered in the rugged terrain of Kalat district, Balochistan. No public investigation, no names announced, and no responsibility accepted. Just silence. Yet…
Baloch Students Vanishing Under Drones of Silence-The Quiet Genocide of Baloch Students
The enforced disappearances of Baloch students from under the shadow of Pakistan’s security apparatus represent not isolated tragedies but a corrosive, systematic state-run campaign of repression. The recent case of…
Corporate land grab in Pakistan prioritizes foreign interests over food and water security of local people
In a report released on June 5, 2025 GRAIN, an international organization that has consistently researched and campaigned for food security and sovereignty of global south and its communities, has…
Pride, Propaganda, and the Nuclear Hangover in the Subcontinent
More than a month has passed since the deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, deep in the restive terrain of Indian-occupied Kashmir. Yet, the region has not exhaled. That attack was…
Annihilate Caste
Unabated Deaths of Manual Scavengers Demand Justice, Not Silence
June 8, 2025, New Delhi, India— At a time when the government claims that manual scavenging has been eradicated, the ongoing and preventable deaths of sewer and septic tank workers…
Emerging from the Sewers: Class, Legacy, and the Governance of Sanitation
In India, caste based oppression has long been linked to sanitation and related activities. Dalits make up the majority of these workers, particularly the manual scavengers. These workers, who come…
The violence of being Unseen
(A personal reflection on the quiet violence of caste-based exclusion in everyday, intimate spaces.) It’s not like someone installed a software in me to feel excluded. It was the repeated…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Casteism in India
“Will AI support social justice or is it waiting in the wings to bury social justice once and for all?” Historical biases already ingrained in present system of India will…
What is the Strength and Weakness of Dalit Politics and its Future?
(Note: This article has been written with the help of Grok Chatbot AI. It is a matter of great satisfaction that it is very close to the truth. It has…
The Untouchable Problem from Bhagat Singh’s View
According to the published documents of Bhagat Singh and his comrades, Bhagat Singh had written an article on the problem of untouchables under the name 'Vidrohi' in 'Kirti' of June…
Life/Philosophy
How Much for One Protein?
Showing my age a bit, a young Chris Rock in a 1988 movie amusingly asks: “How much for one rib?” Given that the crafting of a single protein plays a…
Combat Vegetarianism: In Search of Bread N’ Omelette
If I want bread and omelette for breakfast in a hotel in Hyderabad today, I will have to go to any of the three big railway stations or to the…
Fathers and Sons
“In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.”― Friedrich Nietzsche Early June. Dawn brings mist covered mountains and an empty road. The car’s capsule draws us together. I…
72nd Avenue
“It will take time to adjust. So be patient. It’s no less than your rebirth.” Those words of a wise uncle still echo into my memory. Even though they were…
Living In The Past
As we renew our friendships with friends we haven’t met for years, we sometimes have that uneasy feeling that something is not going well with some of them. …
Sree Narayana Guru’s Humanistic Vision: Beyond Religion, Toward Universal Prosperity
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the princely state of Travancore in Kerala, South India, was a society languishing in the throes of a deeply entrenched and brutal…
Arts/Literature
Meanwhile in Gaza
From Tehran to Tel AvivTel Aviv to Tehran,the world’s worried gaze follows--the flying trajectory ofunsparing projectiles,the unsettling light showsin the night’s nonchalant sky,the pawned population’spanicky search for shelters,the ineffaceable images…
A Mosque in Gaza
The mosque is now a mass grave:those who came to prayhave been buried under the rubblecovered in the shroud ofblood, dust, and splinters. They were just some regular folks,unflinching in…
The Hood;A Review
The Hood is a new novel by celebrated author, columnist and translator from Kashmir, Mushtaque B Barq. Barq has introduced a new phenomenon in the story line where Hoods of…
The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage
Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition for her Kannada short story collection "Heart Lamp".…
What Bhool Chuk Maaf Gets Right About Sarkari Jobs and Lost Time
Some films entertain. A few surprise. And once in a while, one quietly holds up a mirror—not to fantasy, but to the waiting room we call life. Bhool Chuk Maaf…
The Poetic Legacy of Sindh: Voices Beyond Borders and Time
The land of Sindh is not only significant for its geography or history; it is a wellspring of the Indian subcontinent’s cultural and spiritual consciousness. Sindh’s poetic heritage—especially its Sufi…
Book Review
Portrait of a Revolutionary
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subhas Chandra Ganguly A Commemorative Collection of Life Sketches in English and Bengali Edited by Frontier Collective 2024, GERMINAL PUBLICATIONS PVT. LTD., Pp 319, Price Rs. 500/- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most…
Book Review: “Gramsci and South Asia – Common sense, Religion and political society” By Prof. Arun K Patnaik
Prof. Arun Kumar Patnaik , Professor of Political Science and former dean of the school of social science ,University of Hyderabad, is a passionate and popular Gramscian teacher and researcher.…
Understanding the India Pakistan Enduring Rivalry Through T V Paul’s Strategic Lens
T. V. Paul’s The India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry is a seminal academic contribution to the study of protracted international conflicts, specifically in the context of South Asia’s most volatile…
Book Review – “Reds:The Tragedy of American Communism”
Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism by Maurice Isserman—A Review Essay by Kim Scipes New York: Basic Books, 2024. ISBN: 97815416200321 (hardback) The issue of communism in the United States,…
Rice, A Global History
Rice has a story that is anything but typical while being one of the most universal meals. "Not even the smartest housewife can cook without rice." From the earliest paddies…
No Room for Silly Sinophobia
In an era of intense Sinophobia, “China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity against Imperial Rivalry,” published by Haymarket Books is an important book. Most analyses of China emanating from…
Editor's Picks
Recipes for Revolution, Protein for Power, Meat for Change
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you—then you eat them." —Adapted for the Protein Revolution Introduction India's marginalized communities have been denied not just…
The Plot Against America
How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America As I write this in early 2025, a quiet revolution is unfolding within the U.S. government.…
The Fuhrer Is Here
This an article I wrote on 16 December 2002, just after Modi was re-elected as CM of Gujrat for a second term. For some strange reasons, the article can't be…
Solidarity is the Political Version of Love
The moral of the story, don’t hold on to something as silly as copyright. We are here to change society. Disseminate your articles/videos/photos or whatever content you produce, through as…
Climate Change: Why Should The Global South Pay For The Profligacy Of The Likes Of Taylor Swift, Elon Musk?
Climate change is a threat facing the whole of humanity. The real generators of this crisis are the developed economies of the Global North. They found a way to circumvent…
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…
COVID Response Watch
Shadow of Covid lingers over the erstwhile Kingdom of Cooch Behar
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.…
Public life in MP disrupted by heavy rains linked to climate change
Roads are crumbling, bridges are collapsing and railway lines are flooded . The surging waters from the rivers are drowning entire villages all around. It has rained so much that…
Hanging by a thread, Sheffield of the East
Sometimes it was a rise in pig iron prices due to disruption of supply chains due to the Covid pandemic. Now you can find the Ukraine War as a reason…
Malnutrition and death of children decreased in the system, increased in reality
In Maharashtra, the administration has been claiming that there is a steady decline in the number of malnutrition and child deaths in the state. But, in recent figures that have…
When Forest Rights meets Right to Education
With the horrors of the deadly virus still in the air, this would appear to be like a remarkable fairy tale in the post-Covid pandemic scenario, almost like a dream…
Uttarakhand In Need of Climate Resilient Agriculture Practices
In the last few years, we have been witnessing erratic, unpredictable and unexpected changes in climate, which are more perceptible in the Himalayan region of the country. These changes are…
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