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5G Spectrum – Is it a distress sale? CAG may look at it carefully

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Environment

  • UN General Assembly declares access to clean and healthy environment a universal human right
    Countercurrents Collective | 29/07/2022
  • Anti-Mountain Valley Pipeline Protest
    Phil Pasquini | 29/07/2022
  • Letter from Anti Vizhinjam Adani Port struggle front
    Anitha S | 26/07/2022

Featured Stories

  • Condemn the brutal attack on Salman Rushdie

    Condemn the brutal attack on Salman Rushdie

    by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — 13/08/2022

    I am deeply shocked to know about such a brutal attack on the globally renowned writer Salman Rushdie in New York by forces that have been planning to kill him for a long time. As a writer and columnist myself I cannot sit silent without condemning such a brutal attack on fellow writers. He was an Indian born writer with[Read More…]

  • Ideas

    Ideas

    by Mitali Chakravarty — 13/08/2022

    Ideas are hard to curb even if voices are silenced. Ideas will float in the air, waft on a sunbeam till they   embed themselves in more minds. Ideas will find wedges in time and ride over tides of violence, intolerance   forced silences and crimes. They will invade dreams till the magic of stardust blows sandstorms of love.  [Read More…]

  • Warmer Nights Could Lead To A 60% Increase In Global Mortality, Finds Study

    Warmer Nights Could Lead To A 60% Increase In Global Mortality, Finds Study

    by Countercurrents Collective — 13/08/2022

    Increasing night-time heat could have high toll on human health, finds a new research. According to models, by the year 2100, the world could see an up to 60 percent spike in mortality due to rising temperatures at night. Published in The Lancet Planetary Health, data from Japan, South Korea and China show hotter night-time temperatures could lead to a 60[Read More…]

  • A Brief Outline of Strategy for the New Phase of Janatha Aragalaya

    A Brief Outline of Strategy for the New Phase of Janatha Aragalaya

    by Dr Maya John — 13/08/2022

    [This article is based on the discussions with activists of the Janatha Aragalaya and concerned Sri Lankan citizens. It is a humble contribution towards ongoing debates within the movement. As the French proverb goes: “De choc des opinions jaillit la vérité” – Truth arises from a conflict of opinions.]   With the deepening crisis of the world capitalist system, we[Read More…]

  • 5G Spectrum – Is it a distress sale? CAG may look at it carefully

    5G Spectrum – Is it a distress sale? CAG may look at it carefully

    by E A S Sarma — 13/08/2022

    To Shri G C Murmu C&AG Dear Shri Murmu, The Department of Telecommunications (DOT) in the Ministry of Communications has just finalized 5G spectrum auctions. According  to the Ministry’s statements, out of the 72,098 MHz of spectrum put on sale, the government has realised Rs 150,173 Crores from the sale of 51,236 MHz of spectrum that could be sold. Most[Read More…]

  • Information Overload: A New Challenge for a Modern Man to Tackle

    Information Overload: A New Challenge for a Modern Man to Tackle

    by Bilal Ahmad Dar — 13/08/2022

    We are vessels of very limited content. Not all men can read all books; it is only in a chosen few that any man can find his appointed food. R.L Stevenson Technological advancement has sharpened the potential of modern and has also beautified his world with unique, awe-inspiring and novel gadgets like mobile phone, computer and other smart paraphernalia of[Read More…]

  • Sit-in protests by the families of the missing – 2000 days with no response from the Government

    Sit-in protests by the families of the missing – 2000 days with no response from the Government

    by Kumarathasan Rasingam — 13/08/2022

    Hundreds of Tamil mothers on August 12 took out a rally in Sri Lanka’s northern Kilinochchi district to mark 2,000 days of their relentless struggle, seeking truth and justice for their loved ones forcibly disappeared during and after the civil war. A whole bunch of Tamil moms rallied in Sri Lanka’s northern Kilinochchi district on Friday to mark a 2,000-day[Read More…]

  • The Inflation Reduction Act – Is it Enough Soon Enough?

    The Inflation Reduction Act – Is it Enough Soon Enough?

    by Robert Hunziker — 13/08/2022

    Could somebody please get an extension ladder to help Senator Schumer down from the ceiling? He’s stuck in the rafters in a high-pitched note of self-congratulation whilst spraining his elbow as he awkwardly and repeatedly tries to pat his own back, screaming over and over again “the greatest climate legislation of all time!” Compared to what? Still, one signal that[Read More…]

  • Two Most Important Crises of World Today and Their Inter-Connection

    Two Most Important Crises of World Today and Their Inter-Connection

    by Bharat Dogra — 13/08/2022

    Crucial to understanding the present day world is an understanding of its two major crises and their close inter-connection. The first crisis is the survival crisis. It consists of a number of ways in which the basic life-nurturing conditions of our planet are threatened by human made factors. One important factor is the emergence of about a dozen very serious[Read More…]

  • The plight of homemakers, post-Covid-19

    The plight of homemakers, post-Covid-19

    by Kumudini Pati — 13/08/2022

    Sarmishtha, a mother of two is a homemaker in the Cachar area of Assam. She says that though none in her family were infected during the second Covid wave in mid-2021, life has become tough since then. “I am not at all able to cope with the workload, because life has changed” she laments. “The children, who are studying in[Read More…]

India

5G Spectrum – Is it a distress sale? CAG may look at it carefully

5G Spectrum – Is it a distress sale? CAG may look at it carefully

13/08/2022 — E A S Sarma

To Shri G C Murmu C&AG Dear Shri Murmu, The Department of Telecommunications (DOT) in the Ministry of Communications has just finalized 5G spectrum auctions. According  to the Ministry’s statements, out of the 72,098 MHz of spectrum put on sale, the government has realised Rs 150,173 Crores from the sale of 51,236 MHz of spectrum that could be sold. Most[Read More…]

  • Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Independence – Why Gandhi-Nehru brothers RSS-BJP?

    Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Independence – Why Gandhi-Nehru brothers RSS-BJP?

    13/08/2022 — Sunil Mukhopadhyay
  • Babri Masjid-wikimedia

    75th anniversary of Indian Independence Part 2 -Post-1947 period 

    13/08/2022 — Harsh Thakor
  • Nafrat Chodo – Bharat Jodo Abhiyaan!

    Nafrat Chodo – Bharat Jodo Abhiyaan!

    13/08/2022 — Press Release
  • What ails the World of Medical Education? Caste Discrimination in the World of Medical Education

    What ails the World of Medical Education? Caste Discrimination in the World of Medical Education

    12/08/2022 — Subhash Gatade

COVID Response Watch

The plight of homemakers, post-Covid-19

The plight of homemakers, post-Covid-19

13/08/2022 — Kumudini Pati

Sarmishtha, a mother of two is a homemaker in the Cachar area of Assam. She says that though none in her family were infected during the second Covid wave in mid-2021, life has become tough since then. “I am not at all able to cope with the workload, because life has changed” she laments. “The children, who are studying in[Read More…]

  • As the State collapses in Sri Lanka, citizens fill the vacuum

    As the State collapses in Sri Lanka, citizens fill the vacuum

    08/08/2022 — J G Pandit
  • Women Frontline Warriors and Covid-19- Part Two

    Women Frontline Warriors and Covid-19- Part Two

    05/08/2022 — B Sivaraman
  • Inflation and malnourishment devastating MP’s poor

    Inflation and malnourishment devastating MP’s poor

    05/08/2022 — Pooja Yadav
  • Women Frontline Warriors and Covid-19 – Part One

    Women Frontline Warriors and Covid-19 – Part One

    03/08/2022 — B Sivaraman

World

Information Overload: A New Challenge for a Modern Man to Tackle

Information Overload: A New Challenge for a Modern Man to Tackle

13/08/2022 — Bilal Ahmad Dar

We are vessels of very limited content. Not all men can read all books; it is only in a chosen few that any man can find his appointed food. R.L Stevenson Technological advancement has sharpened the potential of modern and has also beautified his world with unique, awe-inspiring and novel gadgets like mobile phone, computer and other smart paraphernalia of[Read More…]

  • Two Most Important Crises of World Today and Their Inter-Connection

    Two Most Important Crises of World Today and Their Inter-Connection

    13/08/2022 — Bharat Dogra
  • Europe Faces Worst Drought In 500 Years

    Europe Faces Worst Drought In 500 Years

    12/08/2022 — Countercurrents Collective
  • This happens there in the US

    This happens there in the US

    12/08/2022 — Farooque Chowdhury
  • Ukraine Is a Wake-Up Call for Europe

    Ukraine Is a Wake-Up Call for Europe

    12/08/2022 — Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Globalisation

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

In last five decade of twentieth century has been perhaps the most remarkable in period of human history in terms of scientific development as we have unlocked countless secrets. In this same period saw the creation of institution of global governance: the United Nations, the International monetary fund, the world bank, and the GATT which turned into World trade organization.[Read More…]

  • 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
  • Is Globalization Leading to a Homogenized Global Culture?

    Is Globalization Leading to a Homogenized Global Culture?

    03/11/2021 — Rawsab Said
  • Captives of Coca-Cola

    Captives of Coca-Cola

    15/10/2021 — Stephen Shenfield

Human Rights

When true patriots are being locked up, what is there to celebrate?

When true patriots are being locked up, what is there to celebrate?

11/08/2022 — Gurpreet Singh

It was Sunday, July 31, when some of us gathered outside the Indian Visa and Passport Application Center in Surrey, BC. The occasion was the martyrdom day of Indian revolutionary Udham Singh. Singh was executed on July 31, 1940 in London for assassinating the former Lt. Governor of Punjab, Michael O’ Dwyer, who was instrumental behind the circumstances leading to[Read More…]

  • AFDR Protest in Sangrur on Black Laws and demanding unconditional release of political Prisoners

    AFDR Protest in Sangrur on Black Laws and demanding unconditional release of political Prisoners

    09/08/2022 — Harsh Thakor
  • A clarion call for the unconditional release of all political prisoners

    A clarion call for the unconditional release of all political prisoners

    03/08/2022 — Harsh Thakor
  • Rally for Teesta Setalvad held on Udham Singh’s martyrdom day in Canada

    Rally for Teesta Setalvad held on Udham Singh’s martyrdom day in Canada

    01/08/2022 — Press Release
  • Why Injustice to Himanshu Kumar Will be Exceptionally Harmful for Democracy

    Why Injustice to Himanshu Kumar Will be Exceptionally Harmful for Democracy

    27/07/2022 — Bharat Dogra

Imperialism

U.S.-Led Holy War to Conquer Russia and China Declared by Pompeo

U.S.-Led Holy War to Conquer Russia and China Declared by Pompeo

04/07/2022 — Eric Zuesse

On June 24th, at the think tank, the Hudson Institute, U.S. President Trump’s CIA chief and Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, delivered a 5,000+-word speech, suggesting that America has an essentially God-assigned mission to control the world, so as to preserve freedom and democracy for everybody, and that victory against Russia and China is therefore obligatory for the United States[Read More…]

  • Geopolitical Update: U.S. Tact To Make Inroads In Asia

    Geopolitical Update: U.S. Tact To Make Inroads In Asia

    16/06/2022 — Countercurrents Collective
  • Why Does the United States Have a Military Base in Ghana?

    Why Does the United States Have a Military Base in Ghana?

    16/06/2022 — Vijay Prashad
  • Who needs a hegemon?

    Who needs a hegemon?

    06/06/2022 — Ron Forthofer
  • War as Terrorism

    War as Terrorism

    31/05/2022 — Andrea Mazzarino

Communal Harmony

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

On 13 Dec 1946, Jawaharlal Nehru moved an “Objective Resolution” during the Constituent Assembly, which outlined the objectives of the Constitution. These were discussed and later became the constitutional Preamble, assuring to the People, the democratic core values of Justice, Liberty and Equality. Fraternity as a core value, was added by B.R.Ambedkar on 21 February 1948. B.R.Ambedkar urged that the[Read More…]

  • 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
  • Concerns about peace and harmony within Karnataka

    Concerns about peace and harmony within Karnataka

    28/06/2022 — Press Release
  • Kabir Jayanti is a day to celebrate inter-faith harmony  

    Kabir Jayanti is a day to celebrate inter-faith harmony  

    14/06/2022 — Bharat Dogra
  • Shrinking Secularism In India

    Shrinking Secularism In India

    09/06/2022 — Jaspreet Kaur

Climate Change

Warmer Nights Could Lead To A 60% Increase In Global Mortality, Finds Study

Warmer Nights Could Lead To A 60% Increase In Global Mortality, Finds Study

13/08/2022 — Countercurrents Collective

Increasing night-time heat could have high toll on human health, finds a new research. According to models, by the year 2100, the world could see an up to 60 percent spike in mortality due to rising temperatures at night. Published in The Lancet Planetary Health, data from Japan, South Korea and China show hotter night-time temperatures could lead to a 60[Read More…]

  • The Inflation Reduction Act – Is it Enough Soon Enough?

    The Inflation Reduction Act – Is it Enough Soon Enough?

    13/08/2022 — Robert Hunziker
  • The Inflation Reduction Act – just more time-wasting pretend mitigation?

    The Inflation Reduction Act – just more time-wasting pretend mitigation?

    12/08/2022 — Bill Henderson
  • America’s Biggest Reservoirs Hit By Dead Pool Jitters

    America’s Biggest Reservoirs Hit By Dead Pool Jitters

    06/08/2022 — Robert Hunziker
  • Climate Crisis, Tax Reforms and Sausages

    Climate Crisis, Tax Reforms and Sausages

    05/08/2022 — Phil Pasquini

Environmental Protection

UN General Assembly declares access to clean and healthy environment a universal human right

UN General Assembly declares access to clean and healthy environment a universal human right

29/07/2022 — Countercurrents Collective

With 161 votes in favour, and eight abstentions*, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution on Thursday, declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, a universal human right. The resolution, based on a similar text adopted last year by the Human Rights Council, calls upon States, international organisations, and business enterprises to scale up efforts to ensure a healthy environment[Read More…]

  • Anti-Mountain Valley Pipeline Protest

    Anti-Mountain Valley Pipeline Protest

    29/07/2022 — Phil Pasquini
  • Letter from Anti Vizhinjam Adani Port struggle front

    Letter from Anti Vizhinjam Adani Port struggle front

    26/07/2022 — Anitha S
  • Save Dhinkia

    Save Dhinkia

    23/07/2022 — Prashant Paikray
  • Will Egypt Drain the World’s Second Largest Wetlands?

    Will Egypt Drain the World’s Second Largest Wetlands?

    16/07/2022 — Robert Hunziker

Counter Solutions

Family affair: Sione Vaianginam, a farmer, with his children on their tractor in Nukuʻalofa, the capital of Tonga. (Photo credit: Luis Enrique Ascui/Asian Development Bank/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Pacific Islanders’ Food-Sharing Customs Ensure Resiliency in Face of Disaster

09/08/2022 — Stacy Jupiter

by Stacy Jupiter, Teri Tuxson, Caroline Ferguson & Sangeeta Mangubhai  Strong social networks foster resilience to food system shocks, both within and between Pacific Island communities. Pacific Islanders are no strangers to disasters. For millennia, island peoples have coped with and adapted to disasters like tropical cyclones and tsunamis, as well as unpredictable shifts in precipitation patterns, leading to droughts and floods.[Read More…]

  • Resisting End-Time

    Resisting End-Time

    29/06/2022 — David Sparenberg
  • We Can Have A Livable World Or Capitalism, But Not Both

    We Can Have A Livable World Or Capitalism, But Not Both

    28/06/2022 — Faramarz Farbod
  • Farmers, Women, Innovators Give Hope for Meeting Climate Challenge in Rural India

    Farmers, Women, Innovators Give Hope for Meeting Climate Challenge in Rural India

    29/05/2022 — Bharat Dogra
  • "Might we, by willful choice, transition from Earth exploiters to Earth healers?" (Photo: Bart/flickr/cc)

    School Education During Transition Times

    28/05/2022 — Usha Rao

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

Kansas Trusted Women

Kansas Trusted Women

05/08/2022 — Priti Gulati Cox

The “Vote Yes” side screamed at us that we wanted to kill babies. Their skillfully branded mother-and-child logo and cynical three-word slogan “Value Them Both” were everywhere here in Salina, Kansas. Always the same cozy white-on-purple image and soothing words on yard signs and banners, as if they were My Pillow or Hobby Lobby. On weekends, they would occupy street[Read More…]

  • The Patriarchal Regulation of Female Sexuality in India

    The Patriarchal Regulation of Female Sexuality in India

    05/07/2022 — Yanis Iqbal
  • Living room as a space of feminist solidarity

    Living room as a space of feminist solidarity

    18/04/2022 — Ravneet Param
  • Marital Rape Exception: Have women control of their own bodies? What Hindu scriptures say!

    Marital Rape Exception: Have women control of their own bodies? What Hindu scriptures say!

    07/04/2022 — Sankara Narayanan
  • Asexuality- An Emerging Identity

    Asexuality- An Emerging Identity

    05/04/2022 — Aadya Sain

Palestine

Gaza: War as an election tactic

Gaza: War as an election tactic

11/08/2022 — Dr Ranjan Solomon

It is cynical to use war as a way of beefing up chances of winning an election. This is exactly what Israel’s leader Lapid did in Israel’s latest aggression on the besieged Gaza strip. Two hard facts define what this war sought to achieve. First, it wanted to tug at the unity of the Palestinian resistance. Second, and equally disparaging,[Read More…]

  • Without Palestine, There is No Arab Unity: Why Normalization with Israel Will Fail

    Without Palestine, There is No Arab Unity: Why Normalization with Israel Will Fail

    11/08/2022 — Dr Ramzy Baroud
  • Vigil for Victims of Israeli Attack in Gaza

    Vigil for Victims of Israeli Attack in Gaza

    10/08/2022 — Phil Pasquini
  • With God on Our Side?

    With God on Our Side?

    09/08/2022 — Ariel Gold
  • Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes on a building in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood, Sunday, August. 7, 2022. [Photo: Hatem Moussa/WSWS]

    Israeli airstrikes massacre Palestinian children in Gaza

    08/08/2022 — Jean Shaoul

South Asia

A Brief Outline of Strategy for the New Phase of Janatha Aragalaya

A Brief Outline of Strategy for the New Phase of Janatha Aragalaya

13/08/2022 — Dr Maya John

[This article is based on the discussions with activists of the Janatha Aragalaya and concerned Sri Lankan citizens. It is a humble contribution towards ongoing debates within the movement. As the French proverb goes: “De choc des opinions jaillit la vérité” – Truth arises from a conflict of opinions.]   With the deepening crisis of the world capitalist system, we[Read More…]

  • Sit-in protests by the families of the missing – 2000 days with no response from the Government

    Sit-in protests by the families of the missing – 2000 days with no response from the Government

    13/08/2022 — Kumarathasan Rasingam
  • Pathetic plight of the Tamil Political Prisoners in Sri Lanka

    Pathetic plight of the Tamil Political Prisoners in Sri Lanka

    12/08/2022 — Kumarathasan Rasingam
  • Will Sri Lanka recover from its massive debt crisis?

    Will Sri Lanka recover from its massive debt crisis?

    10/08/2022 — Kumarathasan Rasingam
  • Peaceful Protests for a Revolutionary Change in Sri Lanka

    Peaceful Protests for a Revolutionary Change in Sri Lanka

    09/08/2022 — Kumarathasan Rasingam

Annihilate Caste

Swami Acchutanand/Picture courtesy: velivada.com

Adi-Hindu Movement, The Chimera of Social Equality and The Way Forward

20/07/2022 — Skand Priya

Co-written by Ms. Akanksha Sharma and Mr. Skand Priya I The phenomenon of caste as we see it today has evolved historically and been shaped materially. It is also perhaps the most written about Indian phenomenon and, consequently, has generated a truly colossal amount of scholarship, and this shows the hegemonic position Caste possesses in the contemporary Indian society and politics. Though[Read More…]

  • St. Devasahayam’s Caste, Crucifixion And His Resurrection As A Global Shudra Saint

    St. Devasahayam’s Caste, Crucifixion And His Resurrection As A Global Shudra Saint

    09/06/2022 — Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
  • Why Self-Employment Schemes for Those Leaving Manual Scavenging Have Not Progressed

    Why Self-Employment Schemes for Those Leaving Manual Scavenging Have Not Progressed

    31/05/2022 — Bharat Dogra
  • 50th Anniversary of Dalit Panther party

    50th Anniversary of Dalit Panther party

    29/05/2022 — Harsh Thakor
  • Bahujan politics needs a new radical alternative

    Bahujan politics needs a new radical alternative

    27/05/2022 — SR Darapuri

Life/Philosophy

Condemn the brutal attack on Salman Rushdie

Condemn the brutal attack on Salman Rushdie

13/08/2022 — Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

I am deeply shocked to know about such a brutal attack on the globally renowned writer Salman Rushdie in New York by forces that have been planning to kill him for a long time. As a writer and columnist myself I cannot sit silent without condemning such a brutal attack on fellow writers. He was an Indian born writer with[Read More…]

  • Phoolan Devi: A Feminist Icon

    Phoolan Devi: A Feminist Icon

    10/08/2022 — Ritu
  • 40th Death Anniversary Tribute to Poet Cherabanda Raju  

    40th Death Anniversary Tribute to Poet Cherabanda Raju  

    09/08/2022 — Harsh Thakor
  • HIV patients should have uninterrupted flow of life saving anti-retroviral drugs

    HIV patients should have uninterrupted flow of life saving anti-retroviral drugs

    09/08/2022 — Press Release
  • Mendel’s Genetic Revolution and the Legacy of Scientific Racism

    Mendel’s Genetic Revolution and the Legacy of Scientific Racism

    09/08/2022 — Prabir Purkayastha

Arts/Literature

Ideas

Ideas

13/08/2022 — Mitali Chakravarty

Ideas are hard to curb even if voices are silenced. Ideas will float in the air, waft on a sunbeam till they   embed themselves in more minds. Ideas will find wedges in time and ride over tides of violence, intolerance   forced silences and crimes. They will invade dreams till the magic of stardust blows sandstorms of love.  [Read More…]

  • Painting by Sorei Kesang

    What’s that decisive moment in art and life?

    13/08/2022 — Joshy Joseph
  • Many lives of creative artists

    Many lives of creative artists

    08/08/2022 — Surbhi Goel
  • A still from Shekhar Kapur's "What Love Got To Do With It?"

    TIFF 2022 Announces A Few of the Special Presentation Titles

    01/08/2022 — Suresh Nellikode
  • A play in the life of upper caste liberals: A review of Ek Mamooli Aadmi (An ordinary man)

    A play in the life of upper caste liberals: A review of Ek Mamooli Aadmi (An ordinary man)

    31/07/2022 — Akshat Jain

Book Review

Famine, Disease And War

Famine, Disease And War

10/08/2022 — John Scales Avery

Malthus’ “Essay on The Principle of Population” T.R. Malthus’ “Essay on The Principle of Population”, the first edition of which was published in 1798, was one of the the first systematic studies of the problem of population in relation to resources. Earlier discussions of the problem had been published by Boterro in Italy, Robert Wallace in England, and Benjamin Franklin[Read More…]

  • Of George Monbiot, mathematical modernism and the case for agrarian localism

    Of George Monbiot, mathematical modernism and the case for agrarian localism

    10/08/2022 — Chris Smaje
  • Review: “Four Seasons in Rome” – US Genocide-Ignoring Exampled

    Review: “Four Seasons in Rome” – US Genocide-Ignoring Exampled

    06/08/2022 — Dr Gideon Polya
  • Book Review – “Why Do You Fear Me So Much-Poems and Letters From Prison”

    Book Review – “Why Do You Fear Me So Much-Poems and Letters From Prison”

    06/08/2022 — Harsh Thakor
  • New Free E-Book: Sacrificing The Earth For The Economy

    New Free E-Book: Sacrificing The Earth For The Economy

    02/08/2022 — John Scales Avery

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