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Farewell to Sasi etta, brother K.P. Sasi

Farewell to Sasi etta, brother K.P....

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Sea ice is formed when chunks of the Greenland ice sheet break off and flow into the ocean.

The Ocean Heat Bomb Ignites

For the first time that scientists can recall,...

Shadow of Covid  lingers over the erstwhile Kingdom of Cooch Behar     

Shadow of Covid  lingers over the ...

The princely state of Cooch Behar merged with...

Congress Party Win In Karnataka

Congress Party Win In Karnataka

Indian National Congress received a resounding...

Environment

  • Businesses and environmental consciousness in contemporary times
    Pema Choden Bhutia | 25/04/2023
  • Water Scarcity: Issue in Tourist destinations?
    Pema Choden Bhutia | 24/04/2023
  • The growing crisis of the Colorado River: A sign to us all
    Kim Scipes | 24/04/2023

Featured Stories

  • Congress Party Win In Karnataka

    Congress Party Win In Karnataka

    by Countercurrents Collective — 13/05/2023

    Indian National Congress received a resounding victory in Karanataka Assembly Elections. Congress is now leading in 136 seats in the 224 seat Assembly. The ruling far-right Hindu nationalist party BJP is leading in 64 seats and Janata Dal (Secular) in 20 seats. Congress is set to form the government. The Karnataka elections hold broader implications for national politics. The outcome[Read More…]

  • Pelling’s Water Crisis: Addressing Surging pressure during Peak Tourist Season

    Pelling’s Water Crisis: Addressing Surging pressure during Peak Tourist Season

    by Pema Choden Bhutia — 13/05/2023

    Pelling, the second most popular tourist destination after its main capital Gangtok is experiencing severe water scarcity, especially during the peak tourist season. The high demand for water during this time requires frequent and substantial supplies. This shortage adversely affects hoteliers, restaurant owners, and the tourism industry. Additionally, with the growing tourism sector, the increasing number of accommodation units raises[Read More…]

  • U.S. Is Interfering In Türkiye’s Elections, Says Interior Minister

    U.S. Is Interfering In Türkiye’s Elections, Says Interior Minister

    by Countercurrents Collective — 13/05/2023

    The U.S. is meddling in Türkiye’s upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, Ankara’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu claimed on Friday. Speaking to CNN Turk, Soylu weighed in on the decision by presidential candidate Muharrem Ince, who leads the opposition Homeland Party, to drop out of the race on Thursday ahead of Sunday’s vote. Ince attributed the withdrawal to a “slander campaign,” which[Read More…]

  • Sea ice is formed when chunks of the Greenland ice sheet break off and flow into the ocean.

    The Ocean Heat Bomb Ignites

    by Robert Hunziker — 13/05/2023

    For the first time that scientists can recall, sea surface temperatures that always recede from annual peaks are failing to do so, staying high   Global warming and extensive overfishing have damaged ocean ecosystems well beyond recognition from only a few decades ago. Still, on its own accord, the ocean stood tall for over 3 billion years. But, alas, in[Read More…]

  • And The Heavens Opened…

    And The Heavens Opened…

    by Jafar M Ramini — 13/05/2023

    An innocuous phrase, meaning how welcome is the rain as it falls upon this earth beneath, full of goodness and sustenance, the nourishment of life. Not on Gaza. Four days ago, when the people of Gaza heard the thunder in the heavens and looked towards the sky they saw surveillance drones, Apache helicopters and F-35 war planes bulging with state-of-the-art[Read More…]

  • Peace for Environment Protection—Great Opportunities Missed Earlier Can Still be Realized

    Peace for Environment Protection—Great Opportunities Missed Earlier Can Still be Realized

    by Bharat Dogra — 13/05/2023

    Many thoughtful people of world very rightly say today that the resolving of climate change and other inter-related serious environmental problems should get exceedingly high priority today as these threaten the basic life-nurturing capacity of our planet. Several of them, although not all, also realize that it is no less important to ensure peace in the world due to four[Read More…]

  • CRIMES and COMPLICITY!

    CRIMES and COMPLICITY!

    by Cedric Prakash — 13/05/2023

    The first eleven days of May 2023 have, in many ways, been a defining period of Indian history! Plenty has happened in a rapid-fire stream of events. Ironically, each one of them are indicators of how crimes and the criminalisation of society has become the ‘new norm’; these include, the May Day rallies with a focus on the four labour[Read More…]

  • A small tweak in our current nomination process can save our democracy!

    A small tweak in our current nomination process can save our democracy!

    by Dr Satinath Choudhary — 13/05/2023

    Our current election system is FPTP (first-past-the-post) system. Under this system, all parties interested in fighting an election in a constituency Nominate a Single Candidate for an upcoming Election (NSCE), as their nominee. This has many severe drawbacks. The drawbacks can be ameliorated by letting a party Nominate Many Candidates as its Nominees (NMCE). The sum of votes collected by[Read More…]

  • Is the Military-Industrial Complex Not Just the Means but Also an Important Cause of Forever Wars?

    Is the Military-Industrial Complex Not Just the Means but Also an Important Cause of Forever Wars?

    by Bharat Dogra — 12/05/2023

    The military industrial complex is comprised of the arms industry and defense contractors, their supporting research establishment, lobbyists and assets. In recent years the military industrial complex of many countries has expanded rapidly, particularly in the case of the USA whose military-industrial complex is much more immense and vast than that of any other country. The military industrial establishment of[Read More…]

  • U.S. Default Would Embolden China, Says Pentagon Chief

    U.S. Default Would Embolden China, Says Pentagon Chief

    by Countercurrents Collective — 12/05/2023

    U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and other senior Pentagon officials have urged U.S. lawmakers to extend the federal borrowing limit, insisting a default on the national debt would be devastating for America’s reputation and “embolden” China. Testifying at a Senate Defense Appropriation hearing on Thursday, both Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley spoke in support of the[Read More…]

India

Congress Party Win In Karnataka

Congress Party Win In Karnataka

13/05/2023 — Countercurrents Collective

Indian National Congress received a resounding victory in Karanataka Assembly Elections. Congress is now leading in 136 seats in the 224 seat Assembly. The ruling far-right Hindu nationalist party BJP is leading in 64 seats and Janata Dal (Secular) in 20 seats. Congress is set to form the government. The Karnataka elections hold broader implications for national politics. The outcome[Read More…]

  • Pelling’s Water Crisis: Addressing Surging pressure during Peak Tourist Season

    Pelling’s Water Crisis: Addressing Surging pressure during Peak Tourist Season

    13/05/2023 — Pema Choden Bhutia
  • CRIMES and COMPLICITY!

    CRIMES and COMPLICITY!

    13/05/2023 — Cedric Prakash
  • A small tweak in our current nomination process can save our democracy!

    A small tweak in our current nomination process can save our democracy!

    13/05/2023 — Dr Satinath Choudhary
  • Indian Telecom’s Spectacular Rise and the Nature of Monopoly Capital in India

    Indian Telecom’s Spectacular Rise and the Nature of Monopoly Capital in India

    12/05/2023 — Rahul Varman

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

U.S. Is Interfering In Türkiye’s Elections, Says Interior Minister

U.S. Is Interfering In Türkiye’s Elections, Says Interior Minister

13/05/2023 — Countercurrents Collective

The U.S. is meddling in Türkiye’s upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, Ankara’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu claimed on Friday. Speaking to CNN Turk, Soylu weighed in on the decision by presidential candidate Muharrem Ince, who leads the opposition Homeland Party, to drop out of the race on Thursday ahead of Sunday’s vote. Ince attributed the withdrawal to a “slander campaign,” which[Read More…]

  • Is the Military-Industrial Complex Not Just the Means but Also an Important Cause of Forever Wars?

    Is the Military-Industrial Complex Not Just the Means but Also an Important Cause of Forever Wars?

    12/05/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • U.S. Default Would Embolden China, Says Pentagon Chief

    U.S. Default Would Embolden China, Says Pentagon Chief

    12/05/2023 — Countercurrents Collective
  • Aqueous Matters: Europe’s Water Crisis

    Aqueous Matters: Europe’s Water Crisis

    12/05/2023 — Dr Binoy Kampmark
  • What Happens When LTAI (Less Than Artificial Intelligence) Gives Way to AI?

    What Happens When LTAI (Less Than Artificial Intelligence) Gives Way to AI?

    12/05/2023 — Tom Engelhardt

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

There is room for Fascism in Democracy: Siddique Kappan

There is room for Fascism in Democracy: Siddique Kappan

07/05/2023 — Rejaz M Sydeek

Siddique Kappan, a 43-year-old Malayali journalist and Delhi unit secretary of the Kerala Union of Working Journalists was arrested near Mathura toll plaza on October 5th, 2020, with student activists Atikur Rahman and Masood Ahmad, and the cab’s driver, Mohammad Alam. He was en route to Hathras to report on the gang rape and murder of a Dalit girl (the[Read More…]

  • Image Credits- Ye_Jinghan, Unsplash

    Mental Health of Prisoners—An issue of Deep Concern but also Persistent Neglect

    05/05/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • World Press Freedom Day Rally held outside Indian visa office in Canada

    World Press Freedom Day Rally held outside Indian visa office in Canada

    05/05/2023 — Press Release
  • Dead Man Walking: One Poet’s Struggle for Freedom of Speech in Bangladesh

    Dead Man Walking: One Poet’s Struggle for Freedom of Speech in Bangladesh

    04/05/2023 — William Nicholas Gomes
  • Condemn the raid on activists in Jharkhand by NIA

    Condemn the raid on activists in Jharkhand by NIA

    04/05/2023 — Campaign Against State Repression

Imperialism

We STILL Don’t Get It:  It is an Empire, Folks!

We STILL Don’t Get It:  It is an Empire, Folks!

20/04/2023 — Kim Scipes

In mid-March 2023, David Swanson published a very interesting article:  “Iraq and 15 Lessons We Never Learned.” There were some things in there I agreed with, some I disagreed with, others I might want to debate.  Still, I appreciated his effort to pull together ideas from these experiences. However, there’s one thing that he did not put out (although he[Read More…]

  • America’s Wars

    America’s Wars

    20/03/2023 — John Scales Avery
  • The Monroe Doctrine Is Soaked in Blood

    The Monroe Doctrine Is Soaked in Blood

    07/02/2023 — David Swanson
  • 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

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

Sea ice is formed when chunks of the Greenland ice sheet break off and flow into the ocean.

The Ocean Heat Bomb Ignites

13/05/2023 — Robert Hunziker

For the first time that scientists can recall, sea surface temperatures that always recede from annual peaks are failing to do so, staying high   Global warming and extensive overfishing have damaged ocean ecosystems well beyond recognition from only a few decades ago. Still, on its own accord, the ocean stood tall for over 3 billion years. But, alas, in[Read More…]

  • Peace for Environment Protection—Great Opportunities Missed Earlier Can Still be Realized

    Peace for Environment Protection—Great Opportunities Missed Earlier Can Still be Realized

    13/05/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  •  Nuremberg trials for imperiling mass extinction of species

     Nuremberg trials for imperiling mass extinction of species

    08/05/2023 — Dr Andrew Glikson
  • Map showing where record breaking heatwaves are most likely. 

    Record-breaking Heatwaves Likely To Cause Most Harm In Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, and Central America

    03/05/2023 — Countercurrents Collective
  • Our Rapidly Changing Climate Mitigation Situation

    Our Rapidly Changing Climate Mitigation Situation

    03/05/2023 — Bill Henderson

Environmental Protection

Businesses and environmental consciousness in contemporary times

Businesses and environmental consciousness in contemporary times

25/04/2023 — Pema Choden Bhutia

Environmental degradation is a significant issue caused by human activities like overconsumption[i], industrialization and deforestation[ii], leading to unsustainable economic growth. The negative consequences of environmental deterioration are widespread and include pollution, biodiversity loss, animal extinction, deforestation and desertification, global warming, and numerous additional issues [iii], and it is crucial to manage the ecosystem properly to prevent further damage. Environmental degradation[Read More…]

  • Water Scarcity: Issue in Tourist destinations?

    Water Scarcity: Issue in Tourist destinations?

    24/04/2023 — Pema Choden Bhutia
  • The growing crisis of the Colorado River: A sign to us all

    The growing crisis of the Colorado River: A sign to us all

    24/04/2023 — Kim Scipes
  • Abuse of science against victims of environmental crime – active role of APPCB

    Abuse of science against victims of environmental crime – active role of APPCB

    16/04/2023 — Press Release
  • Sankey Road, Bengaluru – Governments are hostile to peaceful protests

    Sankey Road, Bengaluru – Governments are hostile to peaceful protests

    07/04/2023 — S G Vombatkere

Counter Solutions

Navigating the Polycrisis–Life in Turbulent Times

Navigating the Polycrisis–Life in Turbulent Times

05/05/2023 — Michael Lerner

How can we explain the explosive emergence of global awareness of the polycrisis over the past year, 2022-2023? Three years ago, almost no one had heard of the polycrisis. What happened? What Is the Polycrisis? First, let’s roughly define the polycrisis. Some claim it is nothing new. We believe the polycrisis is new. We believe a confluence of environmental, social,[Read More…]

  • Core Issues for Creating A Better and Safer World

    Core Issues for Creating A Better and Safer World

    27/04/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • Polycrisis? What Polycrisis?

    Polycrisis? What Polycrisis?

    26/04/2023 — Paul Arbair
  • Global Polycrisis as a Pathway for Economic Transition

    Global Polycrisis as a Pathway for Economic Transition

    25/04/2023 — Zack Walsh
  • One World, Earth without Borders: Solutions for Times of Survival Crisis

    One World, Earth without Borders: Solutions for Times of Survival Crisis

    20/04/2023 — 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

Sexuality, Marriage and State

Sexuality, Marriage and State

20/04/2023 — Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Modern nation-states were established to secure citizenship rights and ensure egalitarian and democratic governance based on constitutional rules and regulations shaped by the values of secularism and science. These principles are central to governance and public administration. States and governments can manage various conflicts during the governance process for greater common good by adhering to constitutional values based on science[Read More…]

  • Men, masculinities, and gender equality

    Men, masculinities, and gender equality

    27/03/2023 — Sada
  • Silent mountains of Uttarakhand

    Silent mountains of Uttarakhand

    10/03/2023 — Priyanka Minj
  • Woman is born with Identity? Or Woman creates her own Identity?

    Woman is born with Identity? Or Woman creates her own Identity?

    08/03/2023 — Dr Shama
  • Woman creates life …. But still without RIGHTS??

    Woman creates life …. But still without RIGHTS??

    08/03/2023 — Orusa Karim

Palestine

And The Heavens Opened…

And The Heavens Opened…

13/05/2023 — Jafar M Ramini

An innocuous phrase, meaning how welcome is the rain as it falls upon this earth beneath, full of goodness and sustenance, the nourishment of life. Not on Gaza. Four days ago, when the people of Gaza heard the thunder in the heavens and looked towards the sky they saw surveillance drones, Apache helicopters and F-35 war planes bulging with state-of-the-art[Read More…]

  • Khader Adnan celebrates with his children during a rally honoring him following his release from Israeli prison, near the West Bank city of Jenin on 12 July 2015. Adnan died Tuesday after 86 days of hunger strike against his renewed imprisonment. Shadi HatemAPA images

    ‘My Family, My People’: How Khader Adnan Unified Palestinians from His Prison Cell  

    10/05/2023 — Dr Ramzy Baroud
  • An encounter with Tel Aviv University (Canada) at the Marriott Hotel in Toronto

    An encounter with Tel Aviv University (Canada) at the Marriott Hotel in Toronto

    10/05/2023 — Rima Najjar
  • The On-Going Palestinian Nakba

    The On-Going Palestinian Nakba

    09/05/2023 — Jafar M Ramini
  • B’nai Brith Canada & CIJA, Palestinians are not alone and they are not afraid

    B’nai Brith Canada & CIJA, Palestinians are not alone and they are not afraid

    05/05/2023 — Rima Najjar

South Asia

Pakistan Goes to Anarchy and Self-Destruction

Pakistan Goes to Anarchy and Self-Destruction

11/05/2023 — Dr Mahboob A Khawaja

Truth has its own Language The suspicious, paranoid and much hated illegitimate Sharifs, Bhuttos and the Generals are unleashing blind terror against the masses of Pakistan. The unprecedented abduction of Imran Khan, the former PM by the paratroopers from the High Court in Islamabad signals tragic tensions of missing logic and failed systems of political governance and accountability. Since April[Read More…]

  • JUST-IS denounces Political Terror against the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan

    JUST-IS denounces Political Terror against the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan

    08/05/2023 — Press Release
  • A Game of Thrones in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The Master Mind and Cover-up of Investigations in Easter Bombing in Sri Lanka

    A Game of Thrones in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The Master Mind and Cover-up of Investigations in Easter Bombing in Sri Lanka

    28/04/2023 — Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake
  • Death came from the sky: One massacre, too many

    Death came from the sky: One massacre, too many

    26/04/2023 — Amit Sengupta
  • Urgent Steps Needed for Peace and Relief to People in Myanmar

    Urgent Steps Needed for Peace and Relief to People in Myanmar

    16/04/2023 — Bharat Dogra

Annihilate Caste

Migration is essential to spread Ambedkarism

Migration is essential to spread Ambedkarism

02/05/2023 — Vivek Sakpal

Migration has played a crucial vital role in the development and evolution of humankind. Exchange of idea’s, knowledge, cultures, food, medicines, economics….. religion, philosophy, and ideologies etc together contribute to this process. Conquest and War, Trade and Commerce and Ecology and Environment were principal reasons for people to migrate in earlier history. Today, it has been replaced with opportunities of[Read More…]

  • Neo-Buddhists have progressed more than Hindu Dalits

    Neo-Buddhists have progressed more than Hindu Dalits

    25/04/2023 — SR Darapuri
  • Who ‘stagnated’ the Ambedkarite ‘movement’?

    Who ‘stagnated’ the Ambedkarite ‘movement’?

    23/04/2023 — Vivek Sakpal
  • Copies of Manusmriti burnt on the birth anniversary of Ambedkar in Canada

    Copies of Manusmriti burnt on the birth anniversary of Ambedkar in Canada

    19/04/2023 — Press Release
  • Ambedkarites need to be content creators

    Ambedkarites need to be content creators

    17/04/2023 — Vivek Sakpal

Life/Philosophy

Empowering Locals: The Vital Role of Local Businesses in Ecotourism Development

Empowering Locals: The Vital Role of Local Businesses in Ecotourism Development

11/05/2023 — Pema Choden Bhutia

This paper considers the involvement of locals in various ecotourism businesses, which are an essential component of successful ecotourism initiatives in different areas.     Ecotourism has the potential to contribute to poverty reduction, employment generation, improved living standards, and long-term economic sustainability. The crux of the argument in this note is that the participation of locals in ecotourism practices offers greater[Read More…]

  • Bhagat Singh, ‘the common hero of the subcontinent’

    Bhagat Singh, ‘the common hero of the subcontinent’

    10/05/2023 — Divikumar
  • Bhagat Singh after he was arrested for the first time at the age of 20. Courtesy: Chaman Lal and Life & Legend of Bhagat Singh (A Pictorial Volume).

    Bhagat Singh is an important symbol of resistance against injustice and oppression: Interview of Professor Chaman Lal

    10/05/2023 — Rohan Datta
  • Towards an Alternative Education Path

    Towards an Alternative Education Path

    10/05/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • Mental Health, Clinical Examination and Social Examination

    Mental Health, Clinical Examination and Social Examination

    08/05/2023 — Bharat Dogra

Arts/Literature

The Háifoss waterfall in the heart of Iceland. (Photo: Moyan Brenn/flickr/cc)

There Is No Escape From Telling

11/05/2023 — Edward Curtin

By the lake’s lapping shore above the town and the railroad tracks, my wife and I stopped and marveled, struck stone silent by two dazzling Baltimore Orioles, clawed together as they tumbled, wrestling in the green morning breeze above our heads.  They perched upon a branch and sang a morning hymn, an ode to joy and the spring’s morning glory. [Read More…]

  • Letter from a Feline Friend

    Letter from a Feline Friend

    04/05/2023 — Farnaz Fatima
  • Is Michelangelo’s David obscene?

    Is Michelangelo’s David obscene?

    03/05/2023 — Prakash Kona
  • Pinpricked Hands

    Pinpricked Hands

    01/05/2023 — Maliha Iqbal
  • Reconciliations….

    Reconciliations….

    01/05/2023 — Gary Corseri

Book Review

Bridging Narratives: Exploring Play

Bridging Narratives: Exploring Play

10/05/2023 — Mitali Chakravarty

Review by Mitali Chakravarty of Sanjay Kumar’s Performing, Teaching and Writing Theatre: Exploring Play, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing About a hundred years ago, Tagore had tried to close social gaps with his work in Sriniketan. He had tried to bridge the chasm that separated ‘villagers’ with no access to technology and education and the ‘town dwellers’ with access to[Read More…]

  • Homo Deus: From Being Masters to Marionettes

    Homo Deus: From Being Masters to Marionettes

    08/05/2023 — Soumyanetra Munshi
  • Book Review: Renaissance and the 1857 Rebellion in the Hindi region

    Book Review: Renaissance and the 1857 Rebellion in the Hindi region

    07/05/2023 — T Vijayendra
  • Imperialism, from its origins to the Great War it caused

    Imperialism, from its origins to the Great War it caused

    04/05/2023 — Jacques Pauwels
  • Flaming Forest, Wounded Valley-Stories from Bastar and Kashmir By Freny Manecksha 

    Flaming Forest, Wounded Valley-Stories from Bastar and Kashmir By Freny Manecksha 

    23/04/2023 — Harsh Thakor

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27/12/2022 — Satya Sagar

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