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A Year Of Israeli Genocide In The Present War

(7th October 23 to 7th October 24…) A long Year and the year is not going to end soonHow does a poet measure an endless year? When the Second World War broke outMy grandmother's grandmother was knittingWool for a newborn…

One year of Genocide in Gaza

More than sixteen thousand children were killed in one year and more than eighteen thousand children became orphans! Air strikes and military action by the Israeli army have been going on in Gaza Strip for the last one year! More…

Bibi, You Are Not Going to Win this War

Look Israel, you are not going to win the war so stop acting as if you are going on to win it! The sooner Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu realizes that the better it would be for everyone.  But will he?…

Netanyahu

Reflections on October 7

A commentary on October 7 stimulated by an interview with an independent Turkish journalist, Naman Bakac Q: how do you briefly evaluate the last year regarding the October 7th operation in terms of HAMAS, Palestine and Israel? Response: For the several…

India

World

Bold New Proposals for Peace on Earth

The world may have dodged an immediate bullet when the U.S. intelligence agencies warned, this week, that by giving in to Ukraine’s pleading for long range missiles that could attack…

Operation Cast Joy

Now that Joe Biden is on his way into the history books as a president who refused to stop a genocide, we have his vice president coming into focus as…

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

Global Drinking Water Crisis

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

Counter Solutions

On Jugaad

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

Certainty

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

On Composting Space

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

Resource Crisis

The Gritty Reality of Solar Power

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

Patriarchy

Treat a woman; a human!

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

The Patriarchal Politics of Security

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

The Patriarchal War on Indian Women

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

Who should Jaya (Bhaduri) Bachchan be?

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

Palestine

One year of Genocide in Gaza

More than sixteen thousand children were killed in one year and more than eighteen thousand children became orphans! Air strikes and military action by the Israeli army have been going…

Reflections on October 7

A commentary on October 7 stimulated by an interview with an independent Turkish journalist, Naman Bakac Q: how do you briefly evaluate the last year regarding the October 7th operation…

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

Visualizing Palestine

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

visualizing Palestine

A New Book On Bicycle

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

The Black Book

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

Editor's Picks

Deaths in Gaza and Us

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

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