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Israel’s Gaza genocide: 5 months on, 100,000 dead and injured. Can we do nothing?
The events in Gaza and occupied Palestine are shocking and depressing. Over 30,000 human lives have been brutally taken away in Israel’s ferocious assault on Palestinians in Gaza, which is now widely being acknowledged as a genocide. Over 70,000 people…
Khan Younis: Returnees Shocked by The Scale of Israeli Destruction
The Israeli army left Khan Younis in total devastation and ruin. Their withdrawal from the second largest city in the Gaza Strip begun last Thursday after completing their terror operations but nobody is quite sure if this is the end…
The growing gulf between what the world needs and what is happening must be bridged before it is too late
Imagine a situation in which some residents of a skyscraper notice a fire that can spread to the entire building and ring the alarm bells. However the manager of the building instead of taking urgent steps to extinguish the fire…
The War on Gaza and the End of Western Moral and Political Hegemony
Five months gone and the US supported Israeli violence and bombardment of Gaza unfolds prodigious lies of terror to have redfined and reshaped the so-called Western political hegemonic mental microscope of power exposing dreadful apparatus of moral and intellectual brimstone and failure of human…
Why This Kansan Won’t be Voting for Biden
“Liberals are doomed to destroy themselves inside out. And they are militantly out of touch with the rest of the world.” That’s from Tamara Nassar—an associate editor of The Electronic Intifada, an online publication focused on Palestine—in response to a…
The Failing Battle for Health and Healthcare in These All Too Disunited States
The slang definition of “unwinding” means “to chill.” Other definitions include: to relax, disentangle, undo — all words that, on the surface, appear both passive and peaceful. And yet in Google searches involving such seemingly harmless definitions of decompressing and…
International Working Women’s Day: A Legacy not to be Surrendered
We all know that 8th March is observed as International Women's Day. The UN also accepted this day in 1975 but they will never reveal the reason and the struggles behind the celebration of 8th March as International Women's Day.…
Stop the Capitalist World to Stop Genocide in Palestine
People around the world have been demonstrating and campaigning in all sorts of ways to stop the genocide in occupied Palestine by the imperialist-created ‘Israel’. The International Court of Justice says Israel is carrying out a genocide and needs to…
Open Letter to The President of India: Release Electoral Bond Data, Replace EVMs With Ballot Papers, Restore The Integrity of Election Commission
Subject: MATTERS PERTAINING TO THE FORTHCOMING GENERAL ELECTIONS IN 2024 Respected Rashtrapati-ji, Respectful Greetings to the Supreme Commander of India’s Armed Forces from an Indian Armed Forces Veteran, who took oath on the Constitution of India, 62-years ago in the…
Israel West Bank Settlement Plans Amount To War Crimes, Says U.N. Human Rights Council
The U.N. human rights office says in a report published Friday that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war crime. New Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are…
India
Open Letter to The President of India: Release Electoral Bond Data, Replace EVMs With Ballot Papers, Restore The Integrity of Election Commission
Subject: MATTERS PERTAINING TO THE FORTHCOMING GENERAL ELECTIONS IN 2024 Respected Rashtrapati-ji, Respectful Greetings to the Supreme Commander of India’s Armed Forces from an Indian Armed Forces Veteran, who took…
Letter to President of India: Resignation by Shri A K Goel, Election Commissioner prematurely raises serious questions on the conduct of ensuing Parliament elections
Kindly order an independent enquiry, pending which the electoral process may have to be deferred To Smt. Droupadi Murmu Hon’ble President of India Respected Rashtrapati Ji,Kindly refer to my letter of 7th March,…
Why Should The Government Be Involved In Religious Affairs?
by Ayush Bajpai, Vishnu Bandarupalli and Sandeep Pandey In the majority decision (4-3) in Abhiram Singh v. C.D. Commachen (Dead) By Legal Representatives, the Supreme Court stated that the ethos…
The Mere Anarchy of Law
India that is more Bharat these days is a democracy,which proclaims to the whole world that unlike socialist dictatorships is ruled by law.It has become quite difficult to understand what…
Majoritarian Nationalism: Undermining Scientific Temper
With Hindu Nationalist BJP in the saddle of power from the last one decade there has been a deliberate promotion of a pattern of policy making in education, which is…
Naveen Patnaik’s return to alliance with the BJP – Political suicide mission or electoral arithmetic?
There are numerous sources of political leadership in Indian politics, spanning from familial political legacies to issues rooted in economics, society, and culture. Political leadership emerges from various quarters, including…
World
The growing gulf between what the world needs and what is happening must be bridged before it is too late
Imagine a situation in which some residents of a skyscraper notice a fire that can spread to the entire building and ring the alarm bells. However the manager of the…
Why This Kansan Won’t be Voting for Biden
“Liberals are doomed to destroy themselves inside out. And they are militantly out of touch with the rest of the world.” That’s from Tamara Nassar—an associate editor of The Electronic…
The Failing Battle for Health and Healthcare in These All Too Disunited States
The slang definition of “unwinding” means “to chill.” Other definitions include: to relax, disentangle, undo — all words that, on the surface, appear both passive and peaceful. And yet in…
International Working Women’s Day: A Legacy not to be Surrendered
We all know that 8th March is observed as International Women's Day. The UN also accepted this day in 1975 but they will never reveal the reason and the struggles…
The Campaign to Free Assange: Reflections on Night Falls
The town hall meeting is the last throbbing reminder of the authentic demos. People gather; debates held. Views converge; others diverge. Speakers are invited to stir the invitees, provoke the…
Capitalism and Mental Health Issues
Capitalism, once hailed as the harbinger of peace, prosperity, and happiness in its quest for global dominance as the sole available alternative, now faces a stark revelation. The recently unveiled…
Globalisation
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…
Corporatizing the World One Small Company at a Time
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…
Corporatisation: Destroying Rural Economy
One of the most significant commitments of last five decade of twentieth century has been to economic growth and trade expansion, and we have been spectacularly successful…
Human Rights
Indian Home Minister; Trial Court Judges; Two Supreme Court Judges; Sanctioning Authority Stand Convicted in Public’s Eyes! – Professor G. N. Saibaba’s Acquittal
by P.S. Sahni & Shobha Aggarwal Countercurrents.org had published our article – within 9 days of Saibaba’s arrest (euphemism for abduction) on 9 May 2014. The article titled: “Professor G.N.…
OP Jindal Global University Students to Continue Struggle Over Suspension And Ban on Student Organisations
Interview of Ramnit, RSL with Editorial Board, Inquilab, The Central Organ of AIRSO on the Issue in OP Jindal Global University Editorial Board: The series of events that took place…
Violation of Human Rights in India in 2023
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Indian government continued with state policies that discriminate and stigmatise religious and other minorities resulting in increasing incidents of communal violence in many parts of…
“Jail, not Bail”: Is the SC setting the clock back?
The non-application of constitutional principles to the interpretation of the UAPA bail provisions is a failure of constitutional justice The Supreme Court in its ruling on 7th February, 2024 in…
Police Case Filed Against Woman Editor Of Magazine In Kerala
by Mrudula Bhavani and P.Ambika A case has been filed against the woman editor of a magazine in Kerala in Kozhikode’s (Calicut) KASBA police station. This time it is against…
Violence in daily life is much more tragic than is commonly realized
Wars are commonly associated with the most fearsome violence. This is often true, but another reality that deserves more attention is that violence in daily life brings death, serious injury…
Imperialism
Empire Decline and Costly Delusions
When Napoleon engaged Russia in a European land war, the Russians mounted a determined defense, and the French lost. When Hitler tried the same, the Soviet Union responded similarly, and…
The October 7th America Has Forgotten
We Americans have been at war now since October 7th, 2001. That was when our military first launched air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to al-Qaeda’s September 11th terrorist attacks in…
War Is Bad for You — And the Economy
Joe Biden wants you to believe that spending money on weapons is good for the economy. That tired old myth — regularly repeated by the political leaders of both parties…
Bombing Muslims for Peace
Like many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played “war” with those old, olive-drab, plastic toy soldiers meant to evoke our great victory over the Nazis and “the Japs”…
Sorry, But Not Sorry in Somalia
In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the misfortune of being born in the wrong place — Cambodia or Gaza, Afghanistan or Ukraine —…
The Military-Industrial Complex Is the Winner (Not You)
2023 was a year marked by devastating conflicts from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine to Hamas’s horrific terror attacks on Israel, from that country’s indiscriminate mass slaughter in Gaza to a devastating civil war in Sudan. And there’s…
Communal Harmony
Hate Speech in India: How to Promote Amity?
India has been ruled by Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party for the last one decade. BJP in turn is progeny of RSS, which has a goal of Hindu Rashtra. It…
After Four Years of Delhi Riots: In Search of Healing and Justice
by Swati Draik, Sumit Kumar Gupta and Badre Alam Khan A memorial tribute on the fourth anniversary of the Delhi 2020 communal carnage was organized by Karwan-e- Mohabbat (people campaign…
Indian Society: Unity in Diversity
For the singular thing about India is that you can only speak of it in the plural.-Shashi Tharoor One feature that is most often noticed about India is its unity…
The Rise of Islamophobia: Future of Indian Muslims
Introduction In 2002, at a difficult period for secular India, a horrific tragedy took place. a terrible episode of targeted murder, particularly of Muslims, that occurred when Gujarat's chief minister,…
Observe Mahatma Gandhi’s Martyrdom Day As A Day Of National Unity, Communal Harmony, Non-Violence And Peace
People’s Initiative to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi on the 30th of January 2024, as a Day of National Unity, Communal Harmony, Non-Violence & Peace.In…
Restoring the Inclusive Idea of India in the Times of Sectarian Nationalism
Satyapal Malik, the ex-Governor of many states stated that the role of Pulwama and Balakot was very much there in the victory of Modi-BJP in the previous 2019 General elections.…
Climate Change
Coastal Cities at High Noon
Antarctica, the massive continent of ice, the size of the continental US and Mexico combined, is breaking apart more and more as a recent scientific expedition discovered unambiguous signals of…
Rising Seas Threaten 30 Percent of the US Population In The Country’s Coastal Regions
Thirty-two coastal cities could face severe flooding due to land subsidence and rising sea levels, according to a recent study published in Nature. An ABC News report (Coastal US cities…
Informal Settlements on the Front Lines of Wildfire Risk in Bogotá
Vulnerable dwellers were disproportionately affected by recent wildfires in Colombia’s capital. As climate change exacerbates El Niño’s impact, affected families regroup amid the threat of additional blazes. “Don’t worry I…
World’s Warmest February, Oceans Break High Temperature Marks
Last month, February 2024, was the world's warmest February in modern times, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) says, extending the run of monthly records to nine in a…
Financial Toll Of Climate Crisis Hitting Women Harder, UN Says
Women in rural areas suffer substantially greater economic losses from the impacts of climate breakdown than men in developing countries, finds a new research by the Food and Agriculture Organization.…
Accelerating Ocean Heat Breaks All-Time Records
North Atlantic Ocean temperature is on a red-hot streak. New research finds ocean temperatures… “have now smashed previous heat records for at least seven years in a row.” (Source: Lijing…
Environmental Protection
Global Pet Craze Is Becoming a Major Contributor to the Extinction Crisis
In 2019, an independent international science group—the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services—announced that about 1 million species around the world are threatened with extinction. The number, based…
67 Countries Banned This Toxic Product –But the EPA Says: “Go for it!”
Sixty-seven (67) countries have banned paraquat, a toxic chemical used to control weeds that was discovered in the 1950s subsequently widely used throughout the world in agriculture. Despite a deadly…
Environment Education In A Government School: My experiences at Hengavalli
Government Higher Primary School, Hengavalli, is located at a village named Hengavalli, in Kundapur Taluk, Udupi District, Karnataka. My friend Poornima studied in this school and her father is the…
Why Ecosystems Need Healthy Populations of Apex Predators to Be Restored
What if restoring ecosystems was as easy as letting nature do what she intends? From the microscopic level, which constantly churns and builds the “living soil”—from where all life originates—to…
GMOs will destroy Indian agriculture, which is Non-GMO and will harm the health of 1 billion Indians and their animals
Hybrid Bt cotton, the only commercialised GM crop in India, has failed conclusively. Based on this failure and the evidence on GM crops to date, the Union of India’s proposal…
The Animal Feed Industry’s Impact on the Planet
The diet of factory-farmed animals is linked to environmental destruction around the globe. In some parts of the continental United States, you might drive through a nearly unchanging landscape for…
Counter Solutions
Debt Forgiveness in the Bronze Age
Whether in the realms of trade or agriculture, the operative principle was that debtors should not lose their economic liberty by being held liable for “acts of God.” When interest-bearing…
The Inspiring Movement to Build for Climate Resiliency
Architects and everyday people are teaching each other to build spaces for community and climate resilience using local, natural materials. The way we build our structures and organize our cities…
Outdated Narratives Have Humanity in a Downward Spiral—It’s Time to Tell ‘Stories for Life’
A short film and narratives project “Stories for Life” seeks to bring about the shift in culture that humanity needs to survive. The stories we do and don’t tell about…
Social Sciences Must Change to be Able to Contribute to Real Progress
If asked to compare a community of forest produce gathering people about 7000 years ago with a most modernized group of people in New York City today, most people would…
How Media Companies Can Meet Their Climate Commitments—and How Readers Can Help
A few simple strategies for recipe curation can help newsgroups achieve their own climate goals. The global shift toward plant-forward diets, particularly in wealthy countries, is consistently recognized as one of the…
Why Small Farming Is Essential for Creating a Sustainable Future
With more farmers today than at almost any point in history, humanity’s future will likely be agrarian. We must imagine that world into being. Let me start this journey with…
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
Combat Patriarchal Mindset at AMU!
The ascendancy of Hindu nationalism in India has led to the sharp demarcation of religio-communitarian boundaries. In response to communal attacks on Islamic identity, the Muslim gentry has reinforced a…
The Political Logic of Militant Feminism
On February 3, 2024, Rishika Singh wrote a report for Indian Express entitled “Indian men are facing a loneliness epidemic and we’re not talking about it enough”. The very title…
Single, but not alone! National Consultation on Single Women
A 3-day consultation on Single Women was organised by Jagori at the India International Centre from 26th- 28th February 2024 in New Delhi with the objectives of refocusing the spotlight…
Story of Atashi… and many more like her
A lot of the news nowadays covers stories of abominable crimes surfacing in a remote rural pocket of West Bengal. While looking at some of them on television, I often…
Feminism(s): Everyday Encounter of its Ideas
Since the past few months, I have been compelled to rethink feminism and why it matters today. The sets of events in the recent past make me encounter these thoughts.…
Why Is Social Media Choked With Misogyny And Homophobia?
Misogyny, homophobia, and transphobic rhetoric are everywhere on the internet today. This is part of a broader rightwing ascendancy and the strengthening of exclusionary ideologies all across the world. YouTube…
Palestine
Israel’s Gaza genocide: 5 months on, 100,000 dead and injured. Can we do nothing?
The events in Gaza and occupied Palestine are shocking and depressing. Over 30,000 human lives have been brutally taken away in Israel’s ferocious assault on Palestinians in Gaza, which is…
Khan Younis: Returnees Shocked by The Scale of Israeli Destruction
The Israeli army left Khan Younis in total devastation and ruin. Their withdrawal from the second largest city in the Gaza Strip begun last Thursday after completing their terror operations…
The War on Gaza and the End of Western Moral and Political Hegemony
Five months gone and the US supported Israeli violence and bombardment of Gaza unfolds prodigious lies of terror to have redfined and reshaped the so-called Western political hegemonic mental microscope of power…
Stop the Capitalist World to Stop Genocide in Palestine
People around the world have been demonstrating and campaigning in all sorts of ways to stop the genocide in occupied Palestine by the imperialist-created ‘Israel’. The International Court of Justice…
Israel West Bank Settlement Plans Amount To War Crimes, Says U.N. Human Rights Council
The U.N. human rights office says in a report published Friday that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war…
‘Surreal, Dystopic’ is How Susan Abulhawa Describes Her Rafah Visit
Top American-Palestinian novelist Susan Abulhawa talks about her harrowing recent two-week trip to Rafah and the southern part of Gaza. Besides her activism, Abulhawa has written three acclaimed novels, the…
South Asia
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, The Pakistani PM Hanged 44 Years Ago, Did Not Get A Fair Trial, Rules Top Court
Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the country’s former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged 44 year ago after being convicted of murder, did not get a fair…
Pakistan: Paradox of Corruption and Criminal Leadership
The Nation Degraded by Complicit Generals and Political Criminals The defiant Generals and indicted political criminals claiming to be the winners of current national elections and custodian of democracy display a…
Hindu nationalism poses a threat to democratic politics in India and Nepal
by Dhruv Rana, Laabhesh Thapa and Sandeep Pandey In India, we can observe how nationalism is a political ideology that holds devotion to one's country as paramount to all other…
Post-Election Puzzle: Pakistan’s Coalition Conundrum
The famous quote by Karl Marx, which has endured throughout history, serves as a constant reminder that history is cyclical and frequently proceeds in a tragicomic rhythm in which serious…
Pakistan: The Elite Who Betrayed the Nation
Corrupt Elite is always Self-Deceptive and Fearful Every dictator is a despot in heart and an enemy of himself and the nation. They contribute nothing to build a nation or…
International Criminal Court & Sri Lanka
There appears to be some confusion as to the scope of functions and jurisdiction of this court. ICC, and more particularly its jurisdiction over Sri Lanka’s alleged war crimes etc.…
Annihilate Caste
Whether delinking religion and making the Scheduled Castes net as religion neutral is Constitutional?
The Constitution (SC) Order 1950 paragraph 3 issued under Article 341 of the Constitution is religion based, which says, “Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph 2, no person who professes a…
Criminal Tribes Act 1871-Denying Dignity to Anti-British Rebels
Indian ‘lower castes and communities’, particularly those, who fought with arms against the British were treated by the English men as uncivilised and barbarous Tribes. Rohilla war took place in…
‘Dereservation’ -Whether the genie is out of the bottle finally
UGC led by Chairman Jagdeesh Kumar refuses to remain beyond controversy for long time. The latest being its draft proposal of 'dereservation' of seats if not a suitable candidate from…
Legal Framework to Empower Property Denied Castes in India
We are meeting today, the day that signifies this convergence of Law and Economics in the form of adopting the Constitution of India 74 years ago in 1949. The person…
Deaf and Blind Dalit MPs in the Indian Parliament
Kursi hai tumhara ye janaza to nahin hai Kuchh kar nahin sakte to uter kyon nahin jaate First of all, I presume that the Dalit MPs have no time to…
Tamilnadu : Drinking water-tank of Vengaivayal dalit colony found with human excreta mixed: no arrests, no breakthrough even after one year
More shocking is this: Despite High Court orders, a CB-CID probe and CM’s assurances in the legislature to nab the culprits, attention of National Commission for Scheduled Castes, no arrests…
Life/Philosophy
Sick, and Sick of It All
Sometimes it takes our bodies to return us to our souls. And our little pains to remind us of the indescribable pain of the savage killing and dismemberment of innocent…
The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time
An interview with renowned archaeologist Gary M. Feinman on the emergence of a global data set from our past that humanity can use to prosper—and avoid the biggest mistakes. The…
Philanthropy of Ordinary People
Philanthropy is generally associated with rich people, but some of the best work for the poor can be done with the help of small donations given by ordinary people. One…
Why this dalit leader’s achievements are significant for panchayat reform
Although several efforts have been made for reforming panchayats, including reservations for weaker sections, nevertheless several problems persist. It continues to be rare for dalits and other weaker sections to…
Discarding Old Theories on the Path to Finding the First Humans Outside Africa
Spectacular archeological finds reveal the true past of the first Europeans. When I began studying human prehistory in the mid-1990s, little did I know that I would witness a paradigm…
Party Vs Movement, and the Way of Consensus
I strongly believe that the oppressed people particularly the working class have nothing without an organisation. I also subscribe to the Leninist principles of organisation. The foremost being that a…
Arts/Literature
Poor Things (2023) review
Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film Poor Things has just been released on digital and Blu-Ray, and this is a film I had been waiting to watch for a very long time,…
Animations: A Multifaceted Pedagogical Agent in International Relations
Introduction In mainstream International Relations, there is a clear binary of hard and soft power; hard power is perceived by states to be more impactful, while soft power is more…
Faces
The world is full.Filled with hardships.Filled with courage.Filled with suffering. EverywhereThere are human faces.Everywhere the pathosOf conscious mortality.Everywhere the pathosOf human faces. The world is full. Filled with struggles and…
Working Inside/Out Films Division: The Discursive Documentary Practices Of Joshy Joseph
Established in 1948, under the patronage of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, the Films Division stands as one of the pioneering institutions in post-independent India that played a crucial…
The First Stone
If it were me in Palestineand I found you on a stretcherin a shell-shocked hospital,I would kneel beside youand take your hand in mine,wipe the blood from your faceand pray…
Ann Frank Meets Hind: The Girl Who Sat Amongst the Corpses
Palestine is a painA constant pain in our necksLike every Muslim is born with the Pain of Palestine in his her heart.Barring UAEians, House of Suads, etcYou fools, allGo and…
Book Review
Barefoot Magic: The Untold Story of Tulsidas Balaram, The Legendary Footballer
Tulsidas Balaram: The Boy, the Hero, The Tormented Footballer. A Biography. by Sudipta Biswas, Hawakal Publishers, Pg: 329, Price: Rs 550 In a country obsessed with multimillionaire male cricketers, superbly…
Women And Cycle In India: Joy, Mobility, Freedom and Empowerment
This is a book to celebrate the Bicentenary of the Bicycle from the perspective of Indian women. To begin with it has a section on the role of bicycles in…
Why I Don’t Rely on Hope
“Where do you find hope?” “How do you sustain hope?” Those are probably the most common questions in response to more than three decades of writing and lecturing about today’s…
Durjan Singh—Biography of an Activist who fought for the Rights of the Poorest
This is a short but very inspiring and interesting biography of a communist activist who struggled for the rights of the poorest people in Bundelkhand region. Keeping in view the…
Eco-socialism, Saral Sarkar’s Writings
Eco-Socialism or “Green” Capitalism?, Collected Writings of Saral Sarkar, Explanations, Elaborations and Interventions, Vols. I and II present most of Saral Sarkar’s political and political-economic essays and articles written in…
Twilight Prisoners:The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India
Siddhartha Deb, Haymarket Books, forthcoming I am an academic-manque, who made it only as far as a master’s in South Asian studies. My master’s thesis was about the rise of…
Editor's Picks
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I have before me the following documents: “Why should Binu Mathew while struggling day and night to make the voices for justice heard, struggle even today with appeals for subscriptions?”…
Netanyahu’s War Cabinet Meeting & its Musings over a People’s Journal and Corporate Press
Netanyahu: Now that a temporary truce is on, brief me about developments at the media front. War Cabinet Member (WCM): Sir, our hit rate is 100% successful. Till 23.11.2023 we…
Adieu, Amma!
My Amma (Malayalam word for Mother) passed away on August 22, 2023 at 3.10 AM. It is always difficult to deal with the passing of a parent, that too one’s…
Farewell to Sasi etta, brother K.P. Sasi
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…
Floods in South Asia and Climate Change
Havoc and misery caused by recent floods in Bengaluru, Pakistan and Assam are not only natural disasters but are man made and due to climate change. Over exploitation of urban…
Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil?
The short answer: No, not even close! Nations of the world are only too aware that fossil fuels need to be phased out for two reasons. First, oil is…
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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