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Shadow of Covid  lingers over the erstwhile Kingdom of Cooch Behar     

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Environment

  • 5 Surprising Things That Could Be Preventing Your Backyard From Serving as a Wildlife Sanctuary
    Doug Tallamy | 07/03/2023
  • Fish Killing Mania: Australia’s War Against the Common Carp
    Dr Binoy Kampmark | 06/03/2023
  • Turning Healthy Food into Disease Causing Food—The Case of GM Corn
    Bharat Dogra | 18/02/2023

Featured Stories

  • Sorry to bother you but people are dying!

    Sorry to bother you but people are dying!

    by Olivia DiNucci — 07/03/2023

    Dear President Biden, My name is Olivia DiNucci and I am the anti-war activist who interrupted your dinner in DC the other night. You, the most powerful man in the world, were sitting right in front of me. Normal people like me don’t often have access to people like you and I couldn’t resist addressing you knowing we are in[Read More…]

  • Bicycle and Women’s Liberation

    Bicycle and Women’s Liberation

    by T Vijayendra — 07/03/2023

    Bicycling and Feminism One hundred years ago, Alice Hawkins, a suffragette, cycled around Leicester (UK) promoting the women’s rights movement, causing outrage by being one of the first ladies to wear pantaloons in the city. During the fight to win the vote the bicycle became not only a tool but also a symbol for the emancipation of women. The American[Read More…]

  • Zionists & Pro-Zionist, US Lackey Australian Government Threaten Australian Academic Free Speech

    Zionists & Pro-Zionist, US Lackey Australian Government Threaten Australian Academic Free Speech

    by Dr Gideon Polya — 07/03/2023

    Academic free speech is under great threat in Australia (and elsewhere) from authoritarian university managers of corporatized universities, state and federal  governments, secret government, foreign governments (notably the US and Apartheid Israel and their lobbyists), mendacious oligopoly Mainstream  media, and lack of a Bill of Rights guaranteeing free speech. Back in 2001 I gave a paper entitled  “Current Academic Censorship[Read More…]

  • 5 Surprising Things That Could Be Preventing Your Backyard From Serving as a Wildlife Sanctuary

    5 Surprising Things That Could Be Preventing Your Backyard From Serving as a Wildlife Sanctuary

    by Doug Tallamy — 07/03/2023

    by Doug Tallamy, Daniel Klem, and Jim Cubie, J.D.  Prevent your backyard from being an “ecological trap” by taking these key actions to protect wildlife. Imagine a wildlife refuge that does not protect its wildlife. How could this be possible? It is not only possible, but it is also likely unless we take action to prevent it. Unfortunately, many advocates of[Read More…]

  • Ethiopian Orthodox Christians Call for Biden’s Help 

    Ethiopian Orthodox Christians Call for Biden’s Help 

    by Phil Pasquini — 07/03/2023

    WASHINGTON – A large and colorfully dressed crowd of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians peacefully demonstrated on March 5 at the White House led by religious leaders calling upon President Biden, the US and the world to intervene on their behalf in an ongoing systematic campaign of oppression and intimidation against their religion by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party. Abiy is[Read More…]

  • Women must Arise Now and #EmbraceEquity

    Women must Arise Now and #EmbraceEquity

    by Cedric Prakash — 07/03/2023

    On 13 February, a mother and her daughter were burnt alive during an encroachment clearing drive in Dehat village of Kanpur; the incident that killed a 44-year-old mother and her 21-year-old daughter had triggered massive tension between police and the villagers. A few days earlier, on 7 February, in Karnataka’s Koppal district, a Dalit woman was beaten with slippers and abused[Read More…]

  • Journey of Anandpuri’s Tribal Communities from Migrant Labor to Self-Reliance

    Journey of Anandpuri’s Tribal Communities from Migrant Labor to Self-Reliance

    by Bharat Dogra — 07/03/2023

    Anandpuri block in Banswara district (Rajasthan) is known for high concentration of tribal communities, particularly Bhil communities. Their traditional livelihood and farming patterns based on biodiversity and self-reliance were well-suited to local conditions, but these suffered under exploitative systems of colonial times. Freedom from colonial rule brought some relief, but the dominant development thinking still neglected special needs, conditions and[Read More…]

  • Vedanta Group’s proposal that HZL should acquire their Mauritius-based zinc company- Further concerns

    Vedanta Group’s proposal that HZL should acquire their Mauritius-based zinc company- Further concerns

    by E A S Sarma — 07/03/2023

    To Shri Alok Tandon Union Mines Secretary Dear Shri Tandon, You are aware of my correspondence with the Cabinet Secretary and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on a disclosure filed by the Vedanta Group in the national stock exchanges on 19-1-2023 on a proposal allegedly approved by the Board of Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL) to acquire the group’s zinc subsidiary[Read More…]

  • Front Row Seat In The Theater Of The Absurd

    Front Row Seat In The Theater Of The Absurd

    by Pratap Antony — 06/03/2023

    Sometimes, okay, not sometimes, a lot of the time, we feel we’re in the front row seat at an irrational, incongruous, illogical tragicomedy which rivals tabloid televisions’ moronic, futile and pointless reality shows, like the discussions on news channels. This reality show that we have a front row seat at is about life in our world today, it is called[Read More…]

  • Modi needs to improve his understanding of public transport

    Modi needs to improve his understanding of public transport

    by Vidyadhar Date — 06/03/2023

    We can expect little improvement in our urban transport system considering what could be termed as inadequate understanding of the issue shown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his post budget webinar last week. He emphasised Metro rail network as a key driver not realising the extremely poor record in most ciies. Even the moderate Marathi daily Maharashtra Times in[Read More…]

India

Journey of Anandpuri’s Tribal Communities from Migrant Labor to Self-Reliance

Journey of Anandpuri’s Tribal Communities from Migrant Labor to Self-Reliance

07/03/2023 — Bharat Dogra

Anandpuri block in Banswara district (Rajasthan) is known for high concentration of tribal communities, particularly Bhil communities. Their traditional livelihood and farming patterns based on biodiversity and self-reliance were well-suited to local conditions, but these suffered under exploitative systems of colonial times. Freedom from colonial rule brought some relief, but the dominant development thinking still neglected special needs, conditions and[Read More…]

  • Vedanta Group’s proposal that HZL should acquire their Mauritius-based zinc company- Further concerns

    Vedanta Group’s proposal that HZL should acquire their Mauritius-based zinc company- Further concerns

    07/03/2023 — E A S Sarma
  • Modi needs to improve his understanding of public transport

    Modi needs to improve his understanding of public transport

    06/03/2023 — Vidyadhar Date
  • Hamirpur Efforts Confirm Huge Potential of Natural Farming Waiting to be Tapped

    Hamirpur Efforts Confirm Huge Potential of Natural Farming Waiting to be Tapped

    06/03/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • A Film on the grave dangers of GM Mustard

    A Film on the grave dangers of GM Mustard

    06/03/2023 — Suma Josson

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

Sorry to bother you but people are dying!

Sorry to bother you but people are dying!

07/03/2023 — Olivia DiNucci

Dear President Biden, My name is Olivia DiNucci and I am the anti-war activist who interrupted your dinner in DC the other night. You, the most powerful man in the world, were sitting right in front of me. Normal people like me don’t often have access to people like you and I couldn’t resist addressing you knowing we are in[Read More…]

  • Zionists & Pro-Zionist, US Lackey Australian Government Threaten Australian Academic Free Speech

    Zionists & Pro-Zionist, US Lackey Australian Government Threaten Australian Academic Free Speech

    07/03/2023 — Dr Gideon Polya
  • Ethiopian Orthodox Christians Call for Biden’s Help 

    Ethiopian Orthodox Christians Call for Biden’s Help 

    07/03/2023 — Phil Pasquini
  • Possibility Of Nuclear War Between The U.S. And Russia, Warns Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers Leaker

    Possibility Of Nuclear War Between The U.S. And Russia, Warns Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers Leaker

    06/03/2023 — Countercurrents Collective
  • Women Over Profit? Activists Say No!

    Women Over Profit? Activists Say No!

    06/03/2023 — Phil Pasquini

Globalisation

Corporatizing the World One Small Company at a Time

Corporatizing the World One Small Company at a Time

25/01/2023 — Sally Dugman

I remember when my small town lost its last family owned and run pharmacy — a beautiful, old, turn of the century store and a high quality company that the family had managed over four generations of pharmacists. In fact, the pharmacist-owners had loved their jobs and helped each other in work while simultaneously knowing most of their long-standing customers and[Read More…]

  • 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
  • Time for India and other developing nations to quit WTO

    Time for India and other developing nations to quit WTO

    25/11/2021 — KV Biju

Human Rights

Condemn NIA raid on residence of Advocate Ansar Indori

Condemn NIA raid on residence of Advocate Ansar Indori

22/02/2023 — Campaign Against State Repression

On the 18th of February 2023, Human Rights Lawyer Ansar Indori’s house was raided by NIA in Kota, Rajasthan. Ansar Indori has been targetted because he sought to provide legal defence and challenge an FIR (filed before the ban) against some former PFI members in Rajasthan High Court. Ansar has been working in civil rights field for a long time[Read More…]

  • Humanity’s Secret War Against the Environment, Ourselves, and Our Children

    Humanity’s Secret War Against the Environment, Ourselves, and Our Children

    18/02/2023 — Carter Dillard
  • From Past Till Present: Women Facing Sexual Violence By the Combatants During Wars and Armed Conflicts

    From Past Till Present: Women Facing Sexual Violence By the Combatants During Wars and Armed Conflicts

    16/02/2023 — Anam Zahra
  • Aerial Bombings in Chhattisgarh: CDRO Fact Finding Team Stopped

    Aerial Bombings in Chhattisgarh: CDRO Fact Finding Team Stopped

    03/02/2023 — Press Release
  • Voices of Minors working in Informal Sector from Maharashtra

    Voices of Minors working in Informal Sector from Maharashtra

    01/02/2023 — Bhagyashri Boywad

Imperialism

The Monroe Doctrine Is Soaked in Blood

The Monroe Doctrine Is Soaked in Blood

07/02/2023 — David Swanson

The Monroe Doctrine was first discussed under that name as justification for the U.S. war on Mexico that moved the western US border south, swallowing up the present-day states of California, Nevada, and Utah, most of New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming. By no means was that as far south as some would[Read More…]

  • 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
  • The 2002 Bush Doctrine and the Pandora Box of the Preemptive War

    The 2002 Bush Doctrine and the Pandora Box of the Preemptive War

    04/12/2022 — Dr VladislavB Sotirovic
  • A Hall of Shame of U.S. Weapons Sales

    A Hall of Shame of U.S. Weapons Sales

    18/11/2022 — William D Hartung
  • The Secret Wars of the US Imperium

    The Secret Wars of the US Imperium

    14/11/2022 — Dr Binoy Kampmark

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

Climate Code Red Analysis and Sea Level Warnings

Climate Code Red Analysis and Sea Level Warnings

25/02/2023 — Robert Hunziker

Climate Code Red, a very thorough and well-respected source on climate change/global warming, recently issued a three-part study on where things stand with the climate system via looking through the rearview mirror at 2022 and reflecting that charred image into the future: Faster, Higher, Hotter: What We Learned About the Climate System in 2022 by David Spratt, Research Director, Breakthrough[Read More…]

  • Big Heat Hits Antarctica

    Big Heat Hits Antarctica

    18/02/2023 — Robert Hunziker
  • “Sometimes a Gas Stove Is Not Just a Gas Stove”

    “Sometimes a Gas Stove Is Not Just a Gas Stove”

    16/02/2023 — Stan Cox
  • Homo sapiens extinction?

    Homo sapiens extinction?

    16/02/2023 — David Anderson
  • Global Challenges Require Global Solutions: How We Can Prevent a Complete Climate Catastrophe

    Global Challenges Require Global Solutions: How We Can Prevent a Complete Climate Catastrophe

    15/02/2023 — Jacopo DeMarinis

Environmental Protection

5 Surprising Things That Could Be Preventing Your Backyard From Serving as a Wildlife Sanctuary

5 Surprising Things That Could Be Preventing Your Backyard From Serving as a Wildlife Sanctuary

07/03/2023 — Doug Tallamy

by Doug Tallamy, Daniel Klem, and Jim Cubie, J.D.  Prevent your backyard from being an “ecological trap” by taking these key actions to protect wildlife. Imagine a wildlife refuge that does not protect its wildlife. How could this be possible? It is not only possible, but it is also likely unless we take action to prevent it. Unfortunately, many advocates of[Read More…]

  • Fish Killing Mania: Australia’s War Against the Common Carp

    Fish Killing Mania: Australia’s War Against the Common Carp

    06/03/2023 — Dr Binoy Kampmark
  • Turning Healthy Food into Disease Causing Food—The Case of GM Corn

    Turning Healthy Food into Disease Causing Food—The Case of GM Corn

    18/02/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • Forever Chemicals, Everywhere

    Forever Chemicals, Everywhere

    03/02/2023 — Robert Hunziker
  • Will the Joshimath Devastation Lead to A Change in Policy for Himalayan Region?

    Will the Joshimath Devastation Lead to A Change in Policy for Himalayan Region?

    21/01/2023 — Bharat Dogra

Counter Solutions

Photo by gideon_wright

Can there be a long-term solution to Ecological Crisis?

03/03/2023 — Dr Shama

In the backdrop of the 18th G20 Heads of State and Government summit to be held in New Delhi on 9th-10th September 2023, it becomes imperative to talk about India’s commitment to the environment conservation to preserve biodiversity, along with sustainable growth of the economy. As a part of an Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group (ECSWG) under G20, India[Read More…]

  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom: The Heritage of the Twentieth Century Science for the Twenty First Century

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom: The Heritage of the Twentieth Century Science for the Twenty First Century

    03/03/2023 — T Vijayendra
  • Why Understanding Limits Is the Key to Humanity’s Future

    Why Understanding Limits Is the Key to Humanity’s Future

    21/01/2023 — Richard Heinberg
  • An Ancient Recipe for Social Success

    An Ancient Recipe for Social Success

    21/01/2023 — Linda M Nicholas
  • Strengthening Sustainable Livelihoods of Small Farmers 

    Strengthening Sustainable Livelihoods of Small Farmers 

    15/01/2023 — Bharat Dogra

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

Bicycle and Women’s Liberation

Bicycle and Women’s Liberation

07/03/2023 — T Vijayendra

Bicycling and Feminism One hundred years ago, Alice Hawkins, a suffragette, cycled around Leicester (UK) promoting the women’s rights movement, causing outrage by being one of the first ladies to wear pantaloons in the city. During the fight to win the vote the bicycle became not only a tool but also a symbol for the emancipation of women. The American[Read More…]

  • Women must Arise Now and #EmbraceEquity

    Women must Arise Now and #EmbraceEquity

    07/03/2023 — Cedric Prakash
  • Digital Femininity and Indian Patriarchy

    Digital Femininity and Indian Patriarchy

    09/02/2023 — Yanis Iqbal
  • Demand for Same-sex Marriage Pending Since 1991 – Indian Parliament Continues to Stonewall the Debate

    Demand for Same-sex Marriage Pending Since 1991 – Indian Parliament Continues to Stonewall the Debate

    14/01/2023 — Shobha Aggarwal
  • Men and menstruation: A young anti-caste thinker fights menstrual stigma

    Men and menstruation: A young anti-caste thinker fights menstrual stigma

    30/12/2022 — Rucha Satoor

Palestine

An Open Call For Genocide In Palestine

An Open Call For Genocide In Palestine

03/03/2023 — Jafar M Ramini

Some might think that state genocide is a new phenomenon in Israeli occupied Palestine. I can assure you that this is the very essence of Zionism. The point was, and still is, to occupy the land, get rid of the people by any and every means, and change the topography and the demography of Palestine to favour Jewish supremacy. The[Read More…]

  • On False Hopes and Broken Promises: Behind the Scenes of the UN Statement on Palestine 

    On False Hopes and Broken Promises: Behind the Scenes of the UN Statement on Palestine 

    02/03/2023 — Dr Ramzy Baroud
  • ‘Truth, No Matter What’: Why Watering Down Palestinian Reality is a Crime

    ‘Truth, No Matter What’: Why Watering Down Palestinian Reality is a Crime

    27/02/2023 — Dr Ramzy Baroud
  • Palestinians mourn during a funeral for 10 people killed during an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Nablus on 22 February. Nidal EshtayehXinhua News Agency

    Israel kills 11 in daytime raid on Nablus

    23/02/2023 — Maureen Clare Murphy
  • When will it ever end?

    When will it ever end?

    17/02/2023 — Jafar M Ramini

South Asia

Alternatives to the IMF and the future of the Welfare State: Beyond the blame game between Superpowers

Alternatives to the IMF and the future of the Welfare State: Beyond the blame game between Superpowers

19/02/2023 — Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake

The economic proxy war between the rising and fading Superpowers is escalating and expanding in the “Asian 21st Century.’ This was apparent in an (un)diplomatic exchange between Chinese and United States officials over the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) debt restructuring delays in Sri Lanka which was the venue of the recent CARAT/ MAREX war games. These happened in the run[Read More…]

  • Case of institutional violence in SAARC University

    Case of institutional violence in SAARC University

    16/02/2023 — Sandeep Pandey
  • Ranil’s political gamble to resurrect the half alive but kicking 13th amendment

    Ranil’s political gamble to resurrect the half alive but kicking 13th amendment

    14/02/2023 — Thambu Kanagasabai
  • Pakistan Is Facing Major Economic Crisis

    Pakistan Is Facing Major Economic Crisis

    01/02/2023 — Countercurrents Collective
  • Game of Chess, India Bangladesh Enclaves, Constitution Amendment and Godda Power Plant

    Game of Chess, India Bangladesh Enclaves, Constitution Amendment and Godda Power Plant

    26/01/2023 — Nisha Biswas

Annihilate Caste

Omnipresent Caste

Omnipresent Caste

02/03/2023 — Sandeep Pandey

by Sanjana Sree Manusanipalli and Sandeep Pandey The city is supposed to be the place where anyone can be anything they want to be. They say in a city like Hyderabad, there are no feelings of caste, class or religion. Everyone is supposed to be equal. Sociologists have also believed that urbanisation could signal the end of the caste system.[Read More…]

  • Anti-Caste Laws in America: Thwarting Aryan Hatred Against Jesus As Dalit?

    Anti-Caste Laws in America: Thwarting Aryan Hatred Against Jesus As Dalit?

    27/02/2023 — Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
  • Radical Desi declares Kshama Sawant as Person of the Year 2023

    Radical Desi declares Kshama Sawant as Person of the Year 2023

    27/02/2023 — Press Release
  • Seattle’s ban on caste discrimination has created history in America: Indian American Coalition

    Seattle’s ban on caste discrimination has created history in America: Indian American Coalition

    22/02/2023 — Indian American Muslim Council
  • Persistence of Caste as the axial principle of stratification

    Persistence of Caste as the axial principle of stratification

    16/12/2022 — Mucheli Rishvanth Reddy

Life/Philosophy

Front Row Seat In The Theater Of The Absurd

Front Row Seat In The Theater Of The Absurd

06/03/2023 — Pratap Antony

Sometimes, okay, not sometimes, a lot of the time, we feel we’re in the front row seat at an irrational, incongruous, illogical tragicomedy which rivals tabloid televisions’ moronic, futile and pointless reality shows, like the discussions on news channels. This reality show that we have a front row seat at is about life in our world today, it is called[Read More…]

  • Remembering Karpoori Thakur : His relevance in the present times

    Remembering Karpoori Thakur : His relevance in the present times

    06/03/2023 — Dr Prem Singh
  • Stalin 70th death anniversary Memory  

    Stalin 70th death anniversary Memory  

    05/03/2023 — Harsh Thakor
  • 125th birth anniversary tribute to Harry Haywood

    125th birth anniversary tribute to Harry Haywood

    26/02/2023 — Harsh Thakor
  • Bicycle Is The Future: Cycling In Indian Cities and Its Future

    Bicycle Is The Future: Cycling In Indian Cities and Its Future

    24/02/2023 — T Vijayendra

Arts/Literature

“Mother’s Day”

“Mother’s Day”

06/03/2023 — Kristin Christman

In honor of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2023 If we could see a Mother’s Day All around the world, Where mothers lived a day of joy, Where mothers felt their worth,   Then what exactly would we see So moms could realize That their lives are important and Their own perspectives wise?   The women in Sudan would not[Read More…]

  • The Ten Essential Powers of Great Literature

    The Ten Essential Powers of Great Literature

    04/03/2023 — Dan Corjescu
  • 1963: death of a poet

    1963: death of a poet

    24/02/2023 — Ra Sh
  • February: The Month of Deaths

    February: The Month of Deaths

    24/02/2023 — Moumita Alam
  • The incredible story of how East African culture shaped the music of a state in India

    The incredible story of how East African culture shaped the music of a state in India

    05/02/2023 — Dr Sayan Dey

Book Review

Eduardo Galeano, revolutionary writer, continues to inspire us

Eduardo Galeano, revolutionary writer, continues to inspire us

05/03/2023 — Vidyadhar Date

Eduardo Galeano was best known for his 1971 book Open Veins of Latin America, which rocketed to the top of US bestseller lists after the Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez presented a copy to President Barack Obama in 2009 It is one of the most inspiring and monumental works against imperial exploitation. We now have a slender but valuable translation into[Read More…]

  • Bhagat Singh: Life and legend

    Bhagat Singh: Life and legend

    04/03/2023 — Farooque Chowdhury
  • The Rise of the Consultant Governing Class

    The Rise of the Consultant Governing Class

    25/02/2023 — Dr Binoy Kampmark
  • Lenin by Rajan Palme Dutt Book review

    Lenin by Rajan Palme Dutt Book review

    25/02/2023 — Harsh Thakor
  • Work – slavery in exploiting economy

    Work – slavery in exploiting economy

    21/02/2023 — Farooque Chowdhury

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Farewell to Sasi etta, brother K.P. Sasi

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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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