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When Cow Dung Meets Coronavirus

When Cow Dung Meets Coronavirus

 “Cow dung, cow urine didn’t work. Groundless...

126 Nobel Laureates Issue Urgent Call Ahead of G7 Summit, Demanding ‘Decade of Action’ to Combat Global Crises

126 Nobel Laureates Issue Urgent Ca...

A group of 126 Nobel laureates and other experts...

They fear vaccines more than Covid

They fear vaccines more than Covid

Pune, Maharashtra:“People are not ready to go...

NAPM Stands In Solidarity With The People Of Lakshadweep

NAPM Stands In Solidarity With The ...

National Alliance of People’s Movements Strongly...

Environment

  • Why  Environment Movement Should Have Much Closer Links With  Peace and Justice Movements
    Bharat Dogra | 04/06/2021
  • Saving Precious Drops of  Water
    Bharat Dogra | 02/06/2021
  • Excessive Market Pressure on Fragile Eco-Systems Can Ruin Them
    Bharat Dogra | 31/05/2021

Featured Stories

  • The Imperial geopolitics is facing challenge

    The Imperial geopolitics is facing challenge

    by Farooque Chowdhury — 04/06/2021

    Developments on the world stage are stunning. Almost every day, geopolitical incidents and moves are appearing magical. The developments are challenging the Empire’s geopolitics in regions. Months ago, the Empire gave an impression that it’ll regain ground whatever has been lost, prestige that slipped down from its crown. Immediate moves were taken, at least for public view. Those were image-rebuilding[Read More…]

  • NAPM Stands In Solidarity With The People Of Lakshadweep

    NAPM Stands In Solidarity With The People Of Lakshadweep

    by National Alliance of People’s Movements — 04/06/2021

    National Alliance of People’s Movements Strongly Condemns BJP’s Authoritarian Maneuvers to Destroy Lakshadweep Socially and Ecologically The Union Government must Recall their Administrator immediately and Ensure democratic rights to decision-making are held by the Islanders 4th June, 2021: National Alliance of People’s Movements condemns and opposes the recent measures brought in and proposed by the Lakshadweep Union Territory Administrator, Praful[Read More…]

  • A Cataract, Irreparable!

    A Cataract, Irreparable!

    by Suresh Nellikode — 04/06/2021

    I have never before detested a character like Sudhakaran in THIMIRAM (Cataract) in my movie-watching experience! And, that’s irreconcilable by all means. Actor K K Sudhakaran confuses the audience by calling the lead character the same name through a film, THIMIRAM, recently released on an OTT platform, NeeStream. K K Sudhakaran is not an actor new to Mollywood movies but[Read More…]

  • 126 Nobel Laureates Issue Urgent Call Ahead of G7 Summit, Demanding ‘Decade of Action’ to Combat Global Crises

    126 Nobel Laureates Issue Urgent Call Ahead of G7 Summit, Demanding ‘Decade of Action’ to Combat Global Crises

    by Julia Conley — 04/06/2021

    A group of 126 Nobel laureates and other experts on Thursday called on the leaders of the G7 nations and the United Nations secretary-general to help put the global community on a path to establishing “a new relationship with the planet,” as the world continues to battle the Covid-19 pandemic and faces a coming decade which will be “decisive” in determining[Read More…]

  • India’s ‘Westernism’ is its Undoing in Vaccine Strategy

    India’s ‘Westernism’ is its Undoing in Vaccine Strategy

    by M K Bhadrakumar — 04/06/2021

    Sputnik V has already been soft launched in India on May 14 as part of a pilot study with a top official of Dr Reddy’s Laboratories receiving the first jab in India. ..Single-dose Sputnik Light could be first single-dose vaccine launched in India. The biggest commercial consignment of Sputnik-V vaccines arrived in Hyderabad on june 1, at 3:40 am with[Read More…]

  • Private hospitals fleecing the people by overcharging for vaccines

    Private hospitals fleecing the people by overcharging for vaccines

    by E A S Sarma — 04/06/2021

      To Shri Rajiv Gauba Cabinet Secretary Govt of India Dear Shri Gauba, The  Pricing and Accelerated National Covid-19 Vaccination Strategy 21-4-2021 (PANCVS) notified by the Union Health Ministry has given a free license to the vaccine manufacturers to set prices arbitrarily, ostensibly in a transparent manner, as indicated in Para 8(ii) below. “Manufacturers would in a transparent manner make[Read More…]

  • Covid-19, lock down and health crisis in Adivasi areas

    Covid-19, lock down and health crisis in Adivasi areas

    by Press Release — 04/06/2021

    To Shri Arjun Munda, Minister of Tribal Affairs, Government of India Subject: Covid-19, lock down and health crisis in Adivasi areas – urgent intervention called for Dear Sir, We, a group of concerned citizens engaged with Adivasis and their organisations submitted an assessment report to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs in May 2020 highlighting the problems that Adivasis and other[Read More…]

  • Narmada Bachao Aandolan Took Forward A Holistic Vision of Protecting Nature and People

    Narmada Bachao Aandolan Took Forward A Holistic Vision of Protecting Nature and People

    by Bharat Dogra — 04/06/2021

    At a time when there is perhaps more need than ever before in human history for re-establishing and reasserting the protective relationship between nature and people , the Narmada Bachao Aandolan (NBA—Save the Narmada River and Its People Movement) in Central-Western India sought to accomplish this in very meaningful ways with continuity extending over several decades. The peaceful movement  was[Read More…]

  • Why  Environment Movement Should Have Much Closer Links With  Peace and Justice Movements

    Why  Environment Movement Should Have Much Closer Links With  Peace and Justice Movements

    by Bharat Dogra — 04/06/2021

    There is an increasing realization that the mobilization of people on environmental issues will be increasingly important in the days and years to come. Left to themselves the world leadership will be unable to make some of the most important changes in time. So a considerable strengthening of environmental movement all over the world with a clearer vision and proper[Read More…]

  • Freedom to die

    Freedom to die

    by Dr Madabhushi Sridhar — 04/06/2021

    The pandemic- tobacco is killing around 40 lakh people every year in India alone, while corona killed 3.29 lakh only so far from first and second waves. There was an interesting question before Supreme Court, whether a person has a right to die. That led to another question whether ‘life’ includes ‘death’. What is life? The line between two dots[Read More…]

India

NAPM Stands In Solidarity With The People Of Lakshadweep

NAPM Stands In Solidarity With The People Of Lakshadweep

04/06/2021 — National Alliance of People’s Movements

National Alliance of People’s Movements Strongly Condemns BJP’s Authoritarian Maneuvers to Destroy Lakshadweep Socially and Ecologically The Union Government must Recall their Administrator immediately and Ensure democratic rights to decision-making are held by the Islanders 4th June, 2021: National Alliance of People’s Movements condemns and opposes the recent measures brought in and proposed by the Lakshadweep Union Territory Administrator, Praful[Read More…]

  • India’s ‘Westernism’ is its Undoing in Vaccine Strategy

    India’s ‘Westernism’ is its Undoing in Vaccine Strategy

    04/06/2021 — M K Bhadrakumar
  • Private hospitals fleecing the people by overcharging for vaccines

    Private hospitals fleecing the people by overcharging for vaccines

    04/06/2021 — E A S Sarma
  • Covid-19, lock down and health crisis in Adivasi areas

    Covid-19, lock down and health crisis in Adivasi areas

    04/06/2021 — Press Release
  • Narmada Bachao Aandolan Took Forward A Holistic Vision of Protecting Nature and People

    Narmada Bachao Aandolan Took Forward A Holistic Vision of Protecting Nature and People

    04/06/2021 — Bharat Dogra

COVID Response Watch

They fear vaccines more than Covid

They fear vaccines more than Covid

03/06/2021 — Shirish Khare

Pune, Maharashtra:“People are not ready to go to the local government hospital to get treated for Corona. They think that from there the doctor will send them to the district hospital in Amravati, where there will be no treatment. They will only get sick and die. Even their dead body will be secretively disposed by the officers and family members[Read More…]

  • Cartoon

    Cartoon

    02/06/2021 — K P Sasi
  • When Cow Dung Meets Coronavirus

    When Cow Dung Meets Coronavirus

    01/06/2021 — Satya Sagar
  • COVID19: Dwindling Supply of Vaccines and Rising Cost

    COVID19: Dwindling Supply of Vaccines and Rising Cost

    29/05/2021 — Madhushree
  • Dead teachers don’t count in UP

    Dead teachers don’t count in UP

    28/05/2021 — B Sivaraman

World

Inherit the Hypocrisy

Inherit the Hypocrisy

04/06/2021 — Philip A Farruggio

A must see movie for all Americans is ” Inherit the Wind” ( 1960, Stanley Kramer, Director). To those who never saw this film, it accurately portrays the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. The trial of substitute high school teacher John Scopes was for breaking Tennessee’s Butler Act, which forbade the teaching of evolution in state funded schools.[Read More…]

  • Swept into a Covid Hell of Profits-The Great Forgetting, Part 2

    Swept into a Covid Hell of Profits-The Great Forgetting, Part 2

    03/06/2021 — Nina Burleigh
  • A Syria-story: Limit of the Empire’s power

    A Syria-story: Limit of the Empire’s power

    03/06/2021 — Farooque Chowdhury
  • US has been Spying on Major European Powers

    US has been Spying on Major European Powers

    03/06/2021 — Naveed Qazi
  • Spend $50bn to end COVID, suggest IMF, World Bank, WHO and WTO

    Spend $50bn to end COVID, suggest IMF, World Bank, WHO and WTO

    03/06/2021 — Countercurrents Collective

Globalisation

Mexico’s Difficulties in Protecting Safety of Its Food System Should Be An Eye-Opener For Other Countries

Mexico’s Difficulties in Protecting Safety of Its Food System Should Be An Eye-Opener For Other Countries

11/05/2021 — Bharat Dogra

The difficulties that Mexico has faced in recent times for protecting its food safety should be an eye-opener for all other developing countries including India. These difficulties are particularly acute in the case of corn crop which is the staple food-crop of the people of Mexico. After Mexico agreed to sign the infamous NAFTA trade agreement   it was almost inevitable[Read More…]

  • Free Trade Agreements May Further Aggravate Injustice in International Trade

    Free Trade Agreements May Further Aggravate Injustice in International Trade

    12/03/2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Unfair Trade Increases Problems of Small Farmers and Hunger in Many Countries

    Unfair Trade Increases Problems of Small Farmers and Hunger in Many Countries

    10/03/2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Resisting Various Forms of Increasing Corporate Domination of Farming and Food Systems

    Resisting Various Forms of Increasing Corporate Domination of Farming and Food Systems

    10/03/2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • The Wolf in Sheep’s Skin: IMF, WTO and WB role in promoting poverty and misery

    The Wolf in Sheep’s Skin: IMF, WTO and WB role in promoting poverty and misery

    15/02/2021 — Syed Ehtisham

Human Rights

Appointment of Justice Arun Mishra as Chairperson, NHRC: Another Move to Subvert & Destroy Democratic Institutions

Appointment of Justice Arun Mishra as Chairperson, NHRC: Another Move to Subvert & Destroy Democratic Institutions

02/06/2021 — Press Release

We, the members of various Human Rights Organisations and Concerned individuals, condemn the appointment of former SC Judge, Shri Arun Kumar Mishra, as the next Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India by the selection Committee headed by the Prime Minister. What is troubling is that the decision to appoint Justice Arun Kumar Mishra as NHRC Head[Read More…]

  • India’s Ignorance of its Political Prisoners during Pandemic

    India’s Ignorance of its Political Prisoners during Pandemic

    02/06/2021 — Naveelah Ishteyaque
  • Australian Refugees – Corruption, Profits and Politics

    Australian Refugees – Corruption, Profits and Politics

    02/06/2021 — Thomas Kilkauer
  • A system buried 215 children at a former residential school in Canada

    A system buried 215 children at a former residential school in Canada

    31/05/2021 — Countercurrents Collective
  • Facts and Fiction of Firing in Silger (Bastar)

    Facts and Fiction of Firing in Silger (Bastar)

    27/05/2021 — Jean Drèze

Imperialism

The Imperial geopolitics is facing challenge

The Imperial geopolitics is facing challenge

04/06/2021 — Farooque Chowdhury

Developments on the world stage are stunning. Almost every day, geopolitical incidents and moves are appearing magical. The developments are challenging the Empire’s geopolitics in regions. Months ago, the Empire gave an impression that it’ll regain ground whatever has been lost, prestige that slipped down from its crown. Immediate moves were taken, at least for public view. Those were image-rebuilding[Read More…]

  • Mourn Not Honor Americans Who Died in Dishonorable ‘Mistaken’ Wars for GOP DEMS & Wall St. Deep State

    Mourn Not Honor Americans Who Died in Dishonorable ‘Mistaken’ Wars for GOP DEMS & Wall St. Deep State

    30/05/2021 — Jay Janson
  • The Safe and Secure War Lords

    The Safe and Secure War Lords

    27/05/2021 — Philip A Farruggio
  • U.S. Operating 60,000-Troop Strong Secret Army, Claims Newsweek report

    U.S. Operating 60,000-Troop Strong Secret Army, Claims Newsweek report

    18/05/2021 — Countercurrents Collective
  • Too Much Respect for Authority

    Too Much Respect for Authority

    11/05/2021 — James Rothenberg

Communal Harmony

Fight against oppression must coexist with a call for humanity

Fight against oppression must coexist with a call for humanity

01/06/2021 — Aariz Imam

The genome of the oppressor lies in the oppressed. Once the oppressed gets the power and privilege he too becomes the oppressor. The bitter experience of oppression and the memory it leaves in the subconscious mind serve as fertile ground for the oppressed to turn oppressor when the equations change. In the absence of reforms and education, the origin of oppression remain[Read More…]

  • Five Great Film Songs That Challenge Communal Forces

    Five Great Film Songs That Challenge Communal Forces

    11/05/2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Guru Tegh Bahadur, Sikhism and Mughals

    Guru Tegh Bahadur, Sikhism and Mughals

    06/05/2021 — Dr Ram Puniyani
  • Is Secularism a threat to Traditions of India?

    Is Secularism a threat to Traditions of India?

    18/03/2021 — Dr Ram Puniyani
  • Hamid Ansari’s Woes: Plight of Pluralism in India

    Hamid Ansari’s Woes: Plight of Pluralism in India

    17/02/2021 — Dr Ram Puniyani

Climate Change

126 Nobel Laureates Issue Urgent Call Ahead of G7 Summit, Demanding ‘Decade of Action’ to Combat Global Crises

126 Nobel Laureates Issue Urgent Call Ahead of G7 Summit, Demanding ‘Decade of Action’ to Combat Global Crises

04/06/2021 — Julia Conley

A group of 126 Nobel laureates and other experts on Thursday called on the leaders of the G7 nations and the United Nations secretary-general to help put the global community on a path to establishing “a new relationship with the planet,” as the world continues to battle the Covid-19 pandemic and faces a coming decade which will be “decisive” in determining[Read More…]

  • The Net Zero Mirage

    The Net Zero Mirage

    28/05/2021 — Robert Hunziker
  • Premier Xi Jinping’s Geopolitical Methane Hydrate Feedback Loop Challenge

    Premier Xi Jinping’s Geopolitical Methane Hydrate Feedback Loop Challenge

    16/05/2021 — David Anderson
  • An Urgent Call for Action by Nobel Laureates

    An Urgent Call for Action by Nobel Laureates

    07/05/2021 — Robert Hunziker
  • The Arctic’s greening won’t save us

    The Arctic’s greening won’t save us

    07/05/2021 — Countercurrents Collective

Environmental Protection

Why  Environment Movement Should Have Much Closer Links With  Peace and Justice Movements

Why  Environment Movement Should Have Much Closer Links With  Peace and Justice Movements

04/06/2021 — Bharat Dogra

There is an increasing realization that the mobilization of people on environmental issues will be increasingly important in the days and years to come. Left to themselves the world leadership will be unable to make some of the most important changes in time. So a considerable strengthening of environmental movement all over the world with a clearer vision and proper[Read More…]

  • Saving Precious Drops of  Water

    Saving Precious Drops of  Water

    02/06/2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Excessive Market Pressure on Fragile Eco-Systems Can Ruin Them

    Excessive Market Pressure on Fragile Eco-Systems Can Ruin Them

    31/05/2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Massive Tree-Felling In Water-Scarce Bundelkhand Raises Serious Concerns

    Massive Tree-Felling In Water-Scarce Bundelkhand Raises Serious Concerns

    30/05/2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Rivers Ravaged by Sand-Mining Mafias

    Rivers Ravaged by Sand-Mining Mafias

    26/05/2021 — Bharat Dogra

Counter Solutions

What Is The Best Way Of Disposing Off A Dead Body?

What Is The Best Way Of Disposing Off A Dead Body?

27/05/2021 — Sandeep Pandey

Written by Abhay Jain and Sandeep Pandey As Covid consumes human life in a very conspicuous way we are confronted with additional problem of disposing off human corpses. Cremation grounds are lit with continuous pyres, graveyards are running out of land and now Ganga has become a mass grave potentially polluting its water. In India, one estimate reveals that funeral[Read More…]

  • Potential of Cooperative Movement Not Adequately Realized Yet

    Potential of Cooperative Movement Not Adequately Realized Yet

    08/05/2021 — Bharat Dogra
  •  What Would a Deep Green New Deal Look Like?

     What Would a Deep Green New Deal Look Like?

    02/05/2021 — Don Fitz
  • For Real Progress Learning to Avoid is As Important as Learning to Acquire

    For Real Progress Learning to Avoid is As Important as Learning to Acquire

    26/04/2021 — Bharat Dogra
  • Every Day Is An Earth Day: Suggestions for Living in an Ecozoic Future

    Every Day Is An Earth Day: Suggestions for Living in an Ecozoic Future

    23/04/2021 — David Sparenberg

Resource Crisis

Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?

Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?

20/05/2021 — Michael T Klare

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 will vanish. Indeed, the Biden administration has announced a breakthrough target of 2035 for fully eliminating U.S. reliance on those non-renewable fuels for the generation of electricity. That would be accomplished by[Read More…]

  • The Growth Of Fascism Or The Fascism Of Growth?

    The Growth Of Fascism Or The Fascism Of Growth?

    09/03/2021 — Juan Bordera
  •  The Connection Between War and Energy 

     The Connection Between War and Energy 

    03/03/2021 — Sally Dugman
  • Why Collapse Occurs; Why It May Not Be Far Away

    Why Collapse Occurs; Why It May Not Be Far Away

    26/02/2021 — Gail Tverberg
  • Fossil Fuel Production Is Reaching Limits in a Strange Way

    Fossil Fuel Production Is Reaching Limits in a Strange Way

    16/10/2020 — Gail Tverberg

Patriarchy

Circa,modern day thoughtfulness

Circa,modern day thoughtfulness

03/06/2021 — Daibee Das

This morning, I woke up to two beep sounds of my instagram notification the vibration felt like a thunderbolt ringing my lousy brain cells in bleak mid-dawn.  I immediately unlocked my phone, the notification panel was all jammed with posts on a trending campaign #notallmen. By the time I flipped my quilt, partially hanging on the edge of my bed[Read More…]

  • Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a meeting of the UN Security Council at UN headquarters in New York, U.S., February 20, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

    The Fumbling King of Palestine: Palestinians are Defeating the Oslo Culture

    03/06/2021 — Dr Ramzy Baroud
  • The Agency of ‘Left-Behind Women’ in Bihar

    The Agency of ‘Left-Behind Women’ in Bihar

    21/05/2021 — Mayank Labh
  • Male child sexual abuse: A feminist agenda for research and action

    Male child sexual abuse: A feminist agenda for research and action

    10/05/2021 — Jayaraj KP
  • Strengthening our Struggles through Zero Tolerance to Patriarchal Violence

    Strengthening our Struggles through Zero Tolerance to Patriarchal Violence

    09/05/2021 — Press Release

Palestine

Antisemitism’s Misdirection: Who Gets Hurt?

Antisemitism’s Misdirection: Who Gets Hurt?

01/06/2021 — Ira Glunts

Unfounded or unconfirmed charges of antisemitism made by US pro-Israel organizations which are then parroted by the pro-Zionist US mainstream press, always increase when Israeli actions become so hideous they shame even some of its most dedicated supporters. With the latest Israeli shelling of Gaza, its evictions of Palestinians from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem, and the continuing Israeli[Read More…]

  •  Remember the Name – Sheikh Jarrah

     Remember the Name – Sheikh Jarrah

    01/06/2021 — Dan Lieberman
  • A Memorial Day Celebration for Palestinian Freedom in a Hostile Occupied Land

    A Memorial Day Celebration for Palestinian Freedom in a Hostile Occupied Land

    01/06/2021 — Irwin Jerome
  • Taken from slides in “Reconstruction of Memory — Lifta — 2007” by Malkit Shoshan

    Israel, Don’t Raise the Roof Beams High as you “Resettle” Lifta; its Owners will Return

    31/05/2021 — Rima Najjar
  • Reading Between Blinken’s Li(n)es

    Reading Between Blinken’s Li(n)es

    31/05/2021 — Priti Gulati Cox

South Asia

Monsoon likely to hit India’s southwest coast around June 3, hopes weather office

Monsoon likely to hit India’s southwest coast around June 3, hopes weather office

01/06/2021 — Countercurrents Collective

Monsoon rains are likely to hit India’s southern coast around June 3, largely in line with typical patterns, the state-run India Meteorological Department said in its latest revised forecast on Sunday. Earlier in the day, the weather office had said the start of the monsoon would be on May 31. The leading edge of the southwest monsoon advanced across central[Read More…]

  • Detailed 3d rendering closeup of the flag of Pakistan.  Flag has a detailed realistic fabric texture.

    Pakistan from 1947 to now

    31/05/2021 — Syed Ehtisham
  • India will be front-line state in Myanmar civil war

    India will be front-line state in Myanmar civil war

    09/05/2021 — M K Bhadrakumar
  • Reviewing ‘Sindh Hari Tehreek’

    Reviewing ‘Sindh Hari Tehreek’

    30/04/2021 — Muhammad Abbas Khaskheli
  •  Judiciary launches scathing attack on Pakistan’s all powerful army

     Judiciary launches scathing attack on Pakistan’s all powerful army

    30/04/2021 — Abdus Sattar Ghazali

Annihilate Caste

BJP-RSS Politics and Economic Plight of Dalits in India

BJP-RSS Politics and Economic Plight of Dalits in India

29/05/2021 — Dr Ram Puniyani

India’s caste system is the major obstacle for betterment of the socio-economic condition of the downtrodden. The lowest in the rung of caste hierarchy, the victims of caste oppression are addressed as dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC). There are others who are also on the lower scale of hierarchy, the tribal (ST) and other backward castes (OBC). For centuries the[Read More…]

  • Core Constituency of Dalit Vote is the New Political Determiner

    Core Constituency of Dalit Vote is the New Political Determiner

    26/05/2021 — Dr Rehnamol Raveendran
  • Proportional Representation is the only way to resolve our reservation crisis

    Proportional Representation is the only way to resolve our reservation crisis

    29/04/2021 — Vidya Bhushan Rawat
  • Privatisation as a Counter to Dalit Assertion

    Privatisation as a Counter to Dalit Assertion

    28/04/2021 — Dr. Y. Srinivasa Rao
  • Dr.Ambedkar: Current Political and Economic Scenario

    Dr.Ambedkar: Current Political and Economic Scenario

    19/04/2021 — SR Darapuri

Life/Philosophy

Freedom to die

Freedom to die

04/06/2021 — Dr Madabhushi Sridhar

The pandemic- tobacco is killing around 40 lakh people every year in India alone, while corona killed 3.29 lakh only so far from first and second waves. There was an interesting question before Supreme Court, whether a person has a right to die. That led to another question whether ‘life’ includes ‘death’. What is life? The line between two dots[Read More…]

  • Imran Khan Shaped The Cricketing Destiny Of Pakistan

    Imran Khan Shaped The Cricketing Destiny Of Pakistan

    04/06/2021 — Harsh Thakor
  • Zaheer Abbas Took Batting To Surreal Heights

    Zaheer Abbas Took Batting To Surreal Heights

    02/06/2021 — Harsh Thakor
  • Education is hollow without Art

    Education is hollow without Art

    01/06/2021 — Siddharth Darapuri
  • The Relevance of Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man and its Failures

    The Relevance of Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man and its Failures

    01/06/2021 — Carlos L Garrido

Arts/Literature

A Cataract, Irreparable!

A Cataract, Irreparable!

04/06/2021 — Suresh Nellikode

I have never before detested a character like Sudhakaran in THIMIRAM (Cataract) in my movie-watching experience! And, that’s irreconcilable by all means. Actor K K Sudhakaran confuses the audience by calling the lead character the same name through a film, THIMIRAM, recently released on an OTT platform, NeeStream. K K Sudhakaran is not an actor new to Mollywood movies but[Read More…]

  • Naseeruddin Shah: One of India’s Greatest Actors Ever

    Naseeruddin Shah: One of India’s Greatest Actors Ever

    28/05/2021 — Harsh Thakor
  • Conversations in Shroud

    Conversations in Shroud

    26/05/2021 — Prof Shah Alam Khan
  • Shabana Azmi is the ultimate connoisseur amongst Hindi film actresses taking art to surreal regions

    Shabana Azmi is the ultimate connoisseur amongst Hindi film actresses taking art to surreal regions

    25/05/2021 — Harsh Thakor
  • Bob Dylan, even at 80, offers “Shelter from the Storm”

    Bob Dylan, even at 80, offers “Shelter from the Storm”

    24/05/2021 — James Anderson

Book Review

The Mission of Poetry

The Mission of Poetry

02/06/2021 — Moin Qazi

The poetry of earth is never dead -John Keats This is Sanjiv Bhatla’s maiden collection of poems. He has several authoritative and scholarly works on religious and spiritual subjects also to his credit. His poems are equally brilliant and bear out the finer sensibilities in him. His anthology was originally published by Orient Longman (now Orient Black Swan).It has now[Read More…]

  • Marxism and Intersectionality

    Marxism and Intersectionality

    28/05/2021 — Carlos L Garrido
  • The Sentiment in my stone; a review

    The Sentiment in my stone; a review

    27/05/2021 — Shafi Ahmad
  • The Social Responsibility Of Scientists

    The Social Responsibility Of Scientists

    26/05/2021 — John Scales Avery
  • How Fascism Works

    How Fascism Works

    24/05/2021 — T Navin

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