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Farewell to Sasi etta, brother K.P. Sasi

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

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A Climate of Betrayal

A Climate of Betrayal

“All grimly true, but they can be sure that...

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...

DIPAM’s hasty moves to disinvest the government’s residual share in HZL highly imprudent and against the public interest

DIPAM’s hasty moves to disinv...

To Smt Nirmala Sitharaman Union Finance Minister Dear...

Environment

  • Stop Plastic Pollution as We Commemorate 50th World Environment Day 2023
    A K Merchant | 04/06/2023
  • Thoughts on World Environment Day
    Bharat Dogra | 04/06/2023
  • World Environment Day in India: Doing Justice with the Day 
    Mohd Ziyaullah Khan | 02/06/2023

Featured Stories

  • DIPAM’s hasty moves to disinvest the government’s residual share in HZL highly imprudent and against the public interest

    DIPAM’s hasty moves to disinvest the government’s residual share in HZL highly imprudent and against the public interest

    by E A S Sarma — 07/06/2023

    To Smt Nirmala Sitharaman Union Finance Minister Dear Smt Sitharaman, It is reported  that Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) plans to conduct roadshows this month for disinvesting the government’s residual equity share of 29.54% in HZL. It is a matter of serious concern that DIPAM should display such undue haste to sell the government equity in HZL[Read More…]

  • A Climate of Betrayal

    A Climate of Betrayal

    by Dr Andrew Glikson — 07/06/2023

    “All grimly true, but they can be sure that they won’t be recorded for their crimes in history – because there won’t be any history” (Noam Chomsky) No words can express the betrayal of humanity and nature as represented by the ease in which originally progressive parties and ‘leaders’ can reverse their original environmental credentials by supporting coal and gas[Read More…]

  • Deserving Each Other: The PGA Tour-LIV Golf Merger

    Deserving Each Other: The PGA Tour-LIV Golf Merger

    by Dr Binoy Kampmark — 07/06/2023

    Described as acrimonious, divisive and disruptive to golf, the LIV Golf Tournament, launched with the aid of former world number one Greg Norman and an enormous well of capital fronted by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), will now unite with the enemy.  The announcement that the PGA Tour and LIV Golf would be merging would only have shocked the[Read More…]

  • The World Economy Is Changing—the People Know, but Their Leaders Don’t

    The World Economy Is Changing—the People Know, but Their Leaders Don’t

    by Richard D Wolff — 07/06/2023

    The year 2020 marked parity between the total GDP of the G7 (the U.S. plus allies) and the total GDP of the BRICS group (China plus allies). Since then, the BRICS economies grew faster than the G7 economies. Now a third of total world output comes from the BRICS countries while the G7 accounts for below 30 percent. Beyond the[Read More…]

  • Tribute to Chris Hani on 30th martyrdom Anniversary

    Tribute to Chris Hani on 30th martyrdom Anniversary

    by Harsh Thakor — 07/06/2023

    This year, on April 10th, we commemorated the 30th martyrdom anniversary of the assassination of Chris Hani. His life story and death was as intriguing as the greatest of revolutionaries, making a profound impact on South Africa’s political history. Without doubt one of the most dedicated impactful and creative political activists of South Africa, who shook apartheid. He was assassinated[Read More…]

  • Proper Treatment of Rail Accident Victims Demands Long-term Commitment and Support

    Proper Treatment of Rail Accident Victims Demands Long-term Commitment and Support

    by Bharat Dogra — 07/06/2023

    Nearly 1000 people have been injured in the recent extremely tragic train accident in Odisha; various new reports have mentioned a figure ranging from 800 to 1100 injured persons. There have been assurances at the highest level that the government will make very good arrangements for their treatment. However it is important to remember that many injuries suffered in rail[Read More…]

  • What the Kailasa Con Job Reveals About the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh

    What the Kailasa Con Job Reveals About the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh

    by Pieter Friedrich — 07/06/2023

    The international wing of the fascist RSS dupes American elected officials The New Jersey city of Newark was caught in an embarrassing situation in March 2023. Just two months previously, the city signed a “sister cities” agreement with the United States of Kailasa, but when the truth finally emerged after the 12 January 2023 signing, the embarrassment was two-fold: not[Read More…]

  • Release activists incarcerated in Bhima Koregaon Case

    Release activists incarcerated in Bhima Koregaon Case

    by Campaign Against State Repression — 07/06/2023

    June 6th became a day of one of the most audacious attack by the Brahmanical Hindutva Fascist state on the Democratic rights and political activists and began new era of rampant use of UAPA and conspiracy cases, which was, although known to the working class, the peasantry and the oppressed, have been largely unknown to the Urban democratic movement. June[Read More…]

  • The writing is on the wall: Farmers warn Parliamentarians

    The writing is on the wall: Farmers warn Parliamentarians

    by S G Vombatkere — 07/06/2023

    In a move without precedent, Indian farmers have warned all Members of the Indian Parliament in a letter in both Hindi and English, to raise their voices in Parliament to express the demands of the farmers. The farmers, writing under the banner of Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) have accused the Union Government of not carrying out the promises made in[Read More…]

  • The End Stage of American Empire

    The End Stage of American Empire

    by William J Astore — 06/06/2023

    All around us things are falling apart. Collectively, Americans are experiencing national and imperial decline. Can America save itself? Is this country, as presently constituted, even worth saving? For me, that last question is radical indeed. From my early years, I believed deeply in the idea of America. I knew this country wasn’t perfect, of course, not even close. Long[Read More…]

India

DIPAM’s hasty moves to disinvest the government’s residual share in HZL highly imprudent and against the public interest

DIPAM’s hasty moves to disinvest the government’s residual share in HZL highly imprudent and against the public interest

07/06/2023 — E A S Sarma

To Smt Nirmala Sitharaman Union Finance Minister Dear Smt Sitharaman, It is reported  that Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) plans to conduct roadshows this month for disinvesting the government’s residual equity share of 29.54% in HZL. It is a matter of serious concern that DIPAM should display such undue haste to sell the government equity in HZL[Read More…]

  • Proper Treatment of Rail Accident Victims Demands Long-term Commitment and Support

    Proper Treatment of Rail Accident Victims Demands Long-term Commitment and Support

    07/06/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • What the Kailasa Con Job Reveals About the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh

    What the Kailasa Con Job Reveals About the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh

    07/06/2023 — Pieter Friedrich
  • The writing is on the wall: Farmers warn Parliamentarians

    The writing is on the wall: Farmers warn Parliamentarians

    07/06/2023 — S G Vombatkere
  • End the culture of impunity and arrest accused Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh now

    End the culture of impunity and arrest accused Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh now

    06/06/2023 — Press Release

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

Deserving Each Other: The PGA Tour-LIV Golf Merger

Deserving Each Other: The PGA Tour-LIV Golf Merger

07/06/2023 — Dr Binoy Kampmark

Described as acrimonious, divisive and disruptive to golf, the LIV Golf Tournament, launched with the aid of former world number one Greg Norman and an enormous well of capital fronted by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), will now unite with the enemy.  The announcement that the PGA Tour and LIV Golf would be merging would only have shocked the[Read More…]

  • The World Economy Is Changing—the People Know, but Their Leaders Don’t

    The World Economy Is Changing—the People Know, but Their Leaders Don’t

    07/06/2023 — Richard D Wolff
  • Leaders of South American nations pose for a group photo during the South American Summit at Itamaraty palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. From left; Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, Suriname's President Chan Santokhi, Guyana's President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, Bolivia's President Luis Arce, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez, Chile's President Gabriel Boric, Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso, Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benitez, Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou and Peru's Prime Minister Alberto Otarola.

    Brasilia summit: Lula and Maduro reboot regional integration

    06/06/2023 — Francisco Dominguez
  • Diluted Sovereignty: A Very Australian Example

    Diluted Sovereignty: A Very Australian Example

    06/06/2023 — Dr Binoy Kampmark
  • Conflict, Migration, and Demography in Russia and Its Border Regions

    Conflict, Migration, and Demography in Russia and Its Border Regions

    06/06/2023 — John P Ruehl

Globalisation

Tossing Neoliberalism into the Dumpster

Tossing Neoliberalism into the Dumpster

20/05/2023 — Robert Hunziker

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 couldn’t come soon enough as institutions of government are sucking up more and more angry exhaust fumes from constituents, as well as encountering a world trade map with China bullying[Read More…]

  • Corporatizing the World One Small Company at a Time

    Corporatizing the World One Small Company at a Time

    25/01/2023 — Sally Dugman
  • 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

Human Rights

Release activists incarcerated in Bhima Koregaon Case

Release activists incarcerated in Bhima Koregaon Case

07/06/2023 — Campaign Against State Repression

June 6th became a day of one of the most audacious attack by the Brahmanical Hindutva Fascist state on the Democratic rights and political activists and began new era of rampant use of UAPA and conspiracy cases, which was, although known to the working class, the peasantry and the oppressed, have been largely unknown to the Urban democratic movement. June[Read More…]

  • Five years behind bars for five activists

    Five years behind bars for five activists

    06/06/2023 — Peoples Union for Democratic Rights
  • Five Years Since The First Arrests In Bhima-Koregaon Case

    Five Years Since The First Arrests In Bhima-Koregaon Case

    06/06/2023 — Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation (CDRO)
  • Inquiring into the action taken and justice delivered on the matter of police firing on protestors in Tuticorin

    Inquiring into the action taken and justice delivered on the matter of police firing on protestors in Tuticorin

    17/05/2023 — Press Release
  • There is room for Fascism in Democracy: Siddique Kappan

    There is room for Fascism in Democracy: Siddique Kappan

    07/05/2023 — Rejaz M Sydeek

Imperialism

The End Stage of American Empire

The End Stage of American Empire

06/06/2023 — William J Astore

All around us things are falling apart. Collectively, Americans are experiencing national and imperial decline. Can America save itself? Is this country, as presently constituted, even worth saving? For me, that last question is radical indeed. From my early years, I believed deeply in the idea of America. I knew this country wasn’t perfect, of course, not even close. Long[Read More…]

  • Seven Reasons Why the Present Phase of Imperialism is the Most Dangerous Ever

    Seven Reasons Why the Present Phase of Imperialism is the Most Dangerous Ever

    03/06/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • The Wars We Don’t (Care to) See – Aggression Made Easy

    The Wars We Don’t (Care to) See – Aggression Made Easy

    31/05/2023 — Norman Solomon
  • Imperialism is Inherently Incompatible with Peace, Environment Protection and Happiness

    Imperialism is Inherently Incompatible with Peace, Environment Protection and Happiness

    17/05/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • 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

Communal Harmony

Who are the Muslims and Christians in India: Understanding the ‘Hindu’ fear of Muslims and Christians

Who are the Muslims and Christians in India: Understanding the ‘Hindu’ fear of Muslims and Christians

24/05/2023 — T Vijayendra

  We have been seeing attacks on Christians and Muslims in India for the last few years. Several Indians are worried about it and fear for the future of democracy in India. People wonder what the logic of all these attack is. How can nearly 80% of ‘Hindus’ feel threatened by some 13% Muslims and some 2% Christians? Why are[Read More…]

  • 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
  • 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

Climate Change

A Climate of Betrayal

A Climate of Betrayal

07/06/2023 — Dr Andrew Glikson

“All grimly true, but they can be sure that they won’t be recorded for their crimes in history – because there won’t be any history” (Noam Chomsky) No words can express the betrayal of humanity and nature as represented by the ease in which originally progressive parties and ‘leaders’ can reverse their original environmental credentials by supporting coal and gas[Read More…]

  • Looking for Home in an Overheating World – If Emissions Continue, Will We All Be Migrants Someday?

    Looking for Home in an Overheating World – If Emissions Continue, Will We All Be Migrants Someday?

    05/06/2023 — Jane Braxton Little
  • GM Crops Likely to Worsen Climate Change Related Problems for Farmers

    GM Crops Likely to Worsen Climate Change Related Problems for Farmers

    30/05/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • Next 5 Years Will Smash Global Temperature Records, Says WMO

    Next 5 Years Will Smash Global Temperature Records, Says WMO

    25/05/2023 — Countercurrents Collective
  • Capturing Carbon With Machines Is a Failure—So Why Are We Subsidizing It?

    Capturing Carbon With Machines Is a Failure—So Why Are We Subsidizing It?

    25/05/2023 — Richard Heinberg

Environmental Protection

Stop Plastic Pollution as We Commemorate 50th World Environment Day 2023

Stop Plastic Pollution as We Commemorate 50th World Environment Day 2023

04/06/2023 — A K Merchant

There is widespread acknowledgement that the present-day structures of society are ill-prepared to address the needs of humanity in its current travails. Therefore, cooperation and reciprocity should be our highest priority. The stronger the ties of fellowship and solidarity, the greater will be the power of constructiveness and accomplishment in all the planes of human activity. In the economic sphere[Read More…]

  • Thoughts on World Environment Day

    Thoughts on World Environment Day

    04/06/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • World Environment Day in India: Doing Justice with the Day 

    World Environment Day in India: Doing Justice with the Day 

    02/06/2023 — Mohd Ziyaullah Khan
  • Plastic Pollution in Destinations: A Growing Threat to Environmental Sustainability

    Plastic Pollution in Destinations: A Growing Threat to Environmental Sustainability

    01/06/2023 — Pema Choden Bhutia
  • Supremes Declare War on Wetlands

    Supremes Declare War on Wetlands

    29/05/2023 — Robert Hunziker

Counter Solutions

Forget GDP growth, it’s sustainable wellbeing we need to aim for

Forget GDP growth, it’s sustainable wellbeing we need to aim for

29/05/2023 — Robert Costanza

I’ve just been to a three-day conference on sustainable prosperity in Europe, attended by thousands of people. In a stirring opening address, the speaker said governments must stop misusing GDP growth as their goal and move swiftly and urgently to sustainable wellbeing within planetary boundaries. They got a standing ovation. The young leader of a climate and social justice movement[Read More…]

  • Special Significance of the Next Decade in Human History, and a Campaign Linked to This

    Special Significance of the Next Decade in Human History, and a Campaign Linked to This

    29/05/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • Walter Seymour Allward‘s Veritas (Truth) outside Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Canada. By Colin Rose – originally posted to Flickr as Truth, CC BY 2.0

    How do we know what is true?

    25/05/2023 — Richard Eckersley
  • Our Times Call for Managing Complexities, Not Solving Problems

    Our Times Call for Managing Complexities, Not Solving Problems

    23/05/2023 — April M Short
  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution And The ‘Energy Transition’ Hoax: III – Hydrogen Energy

    The Fourth Industrial Revolution And The ‘Energy Transition’ Hoax: III – Hydrogen Energy

    21/05/2023 — T Vijayendra

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

Eradicate Dowry, Eliminate Dowry Violence

Eradicate Dowry, Eliminate Dowry Violence

01/06/2023 — Adv Dr Shalu Nigam

On 22 May 2023, a woman who married six months ago was burned alive in Sawai Madhopur Rajasthan for dowry. Her father stated that she was severely tortured for a motorcycle and Rs 50,000[2]. 22-year-old Lovepreet Kaur, a resident of Ludhiana, Punjab, got married to Gurinder Singh on 24 June 2022[3]. On 18 April 2023, within ten months of her[Read More…]

  • Sexism descrimination concept as a struggling woman with the burden of pulling a heavy female 3D illustration symbol falling behind a group of running businessmen or men as an unfair gender bias icon.

    Gender Discrimination: A Serious Concern

    14/05/2023 — Masood Ali Mir
  • Sexuality, Marriage and State

    Sexuality, Marriage and State

    20/04/2023 — Bhabani Shankar Nayak
  • 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

Palestine

A Man Without a Strategy: How Netanyahu Is Provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank

A Man Without a Strategy: How Netanyahu Is Provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank

03/06/2023 — Dr Ramzy Baroud

After signing a military decree on May 18, allowing illegal Israeli Jewish settlers to reclaim the abandoned Homesh settlement located in the northern Occupied West Bank, the Israeli government has informed the US Biden Administration that it will not turn the area into a new settlement. The latter revelation was reported by Axios on May 23. This contradiction is hardly[Read More…]

  • Raising the Palestinian flag in Daley Plaza Center, Chicago: A powerful symbolic gesture

    Raising the Palestinian flag in Daley Plaza Center, Chicago: A powerful symbolic gesture

    31/05/2023 — Rima Najjar
  • Ever Again – Setting the Stage for the Genocide of the Palestinian People

    Ever Again – Setting the Stage for the Genocide of the Palestinian People

    26/05/2023 — Dan Lieberman
  • Not On Our Dime!’: Why US Democrats Are Growingly Challenging Israel

    Not On Our Dime!’: Why US Democrats Are Growingly Challenging Israel

    25/05/2023 — Dr Ramzy Baroud
  • Apartheid Israel Among World’s Leading Countries For Militarization, Violence, Abuse And Genocide

    Apartheid Israel Among World’s Leading Countries For Militarization, Violence, Abuse And Genocide

    16/05/2023 — Dr Gideon Polya

South Asia

Whose Sentiments are Hurt?

Whose Sentiments are Hurt?

26/05/2023 — Subhash Gatade

Whose Sentiments are Hurt? This poser is slowly being raised – may be – in rather muted terms in this part of the world. Right from Karachi to Patiala or Uttarakhand to B’desh concerned citizens or victims of this bogey, one finds there is an increasing audience to this query. You could easily listen to it among the Ahmadiya Jamaat[Read More…]

  • Sri Lanka: Dilly-Dallying Tactics To Keep The Ethnic Problem Alive And Kicking

    Sri Lanka: Dilly-Dallying Tactics To Keep The Ethnic Problem Alive And Kicking

    18/05/2023 — Thambu Kanagasabai
  • Pakistan Goes to Anarchy and Self-Destruction

    Pakistan Goes to Anarchy and Self-Destruction

    11/05/2023 — Dr Mahboob A Khawaja
  • 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

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

Tribute to Chris Hani on 30th martyrdom Anniversary

Tribute to Chris Hani on 30th martyrdom Anniversary

07/06/2023 — Harsh Thakor

This year, on April 10th, we commemorated the 30th martyrdom anniversary of the assassination of Chris Hani. His life story and death was as intriguing as the greatest of revolutionaries, making a profound impact on South Africa’s political history. Without doubt one of the most dedicated impactful and creative political activists of South Africa, who shook apartheid. He was assassinated[Read More…]

  • Transreality 

    Transreality 

    05/06/2023 — Mark Kirkwood Callingham
  • Black Panther and the need to dream for a better world

    Black Panther and the need to dream for a better world

    05/06/2023 — Vidyadhar Date
  • Do we All need Religion? An Introspection

    Do we All need Religion? An Introspection

    02/06/2023 — Santosh Kumar Mamgain
  • A Response to The New York Times’ Ritualistic Denunciation of Mao’s Cultural Revolution…

    A Response to The New York Times’ Ritualistic Denunciation of Mao’s Cultural Revolution…

    30/05/2023 — Raymond Lotta

Arts/Literature

Teaser of Film on Savarkar: Lies Galore

Teaser of Film on Savarkar: Lies Galore

05/06/2023 — Dr Ram Puniyani

Currently as the rightwing wing ideology is gaining ground many a films have already come to promote divisiveness, to glorify the icons of communal nationalism or to demonize the particular communities. In recent times we have seen films on these lines, be it Padmavat, or one on Prithviraj Chauhan, ‘Gandhi Virudh Godse’, ‘Kashmir files’ and ‘Kerala story’. Many of these[Read More…]

  •  And We Are Much More Than Our Uterus. (In Solidarity With the protesting wrestlers)

     And We Are Much More Than Our Uterus. (In Solidarity With the protesting wrestlers)

    03/06/2023 — Moumita Alam
  • Now I Am Ravana’s Head

    Now I Am Ravana’s Head

    28/05/2023 — Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
  • Waheeda Rehman

    Why Phalke Award Has Eluded Classic Hindi Cinema Heroines

    27/05/2023 — Bharat Dogra
  • ‘The Kerala Story’ – A flawed narrative by an uninformed filmmaker

    ‘The Kerala Story’ – A flawed narrative by an uninformed filmmaker

    24/05/2023 — Dr Ranjan Solomon

Book Review

Book Review: Marginalised but not Defeated

Book Review: Marginalised but not Defeated

31/05/2023 — Amit Sengupta

Marginalised but not Defeated Tarun Kanti Bose Uppal Publishing House Price: 1,295 Year: 2023 Pg: 277  The book, like the author, a seasoned public interest journalist, travels far and wide, among ordinary and invisible people, in remote regions, across the fragmented landscape of India. Tarun Kanti Bose writes about the demography, topography, society, politics and culture, and the anthropology and[Read More…]

  • A critical approach to the exploration of Identity & Violence: An attempt by the young researchers of EDRU 

    A critical approach to the exploration of Identity & Violence: An attempt by the young researchers of EDRU 

    29/05/2023 — Protik Bardhan
  •  Brotherhood and Friendship in a time of War- Reflections on The Mercenary, by Jeffrey E. Stern

     Brotherhood and Friendship in a time of War- Reflections on The Mercenary, by Jeffrey E. Stern

    28/05/2023 — Kathy Kelly
  • Book Review – A Reader on Financial Inclusion

    Book Review – A Reader on Financial Inclusion

    27/05/2023 — Jayant Bijapurkar
  • Grand Delusion – The Rise and Fall of American Ambitions in the Middle East

    Grand Delusion – The Rise and Fall of American Ambitions in the Middle East

    23/05/2023 — Jim Miles

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