Relief Now! An Urgent Appeal for Immediate Assistance to Migrant Workers
This is an urgent appeal for assistance to migrant workers who are unable to reach their homes due to the current lockdown – free food, medical care and sanitation at…
March 2020
Does Religion Matter? Communal Violence in India
The carnage or to put it more precisely the anti Muslim violence in Delhi (February-March 2020) has shaken us all. Analysts are burning midnight oil yet again to understand the…
Coronavirus- Even the name is scary
While adding a bit of dark humor to the pandemic, Mumtaz, a painter by profession said “The virus won’t do anything but the name seems scary”. I replied with a…
Disease Distancing, Not “Social Distancing” | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Ever since the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced national lock down on March 24, 2020 to fight Covid--19 and declared that “Social Distancing” is the only solution to save India…
Barbaric Decisions: Coronavirus, Refusing Bail and Julian Assange
“To expose another human being to serious illness, and to the threat of losing their life, is grotesque and quite unnecessary. This is not justice, it is a barbaric decision.”…
Short-Term And Long-Term Futures
We see clearly what is near to us There is a remarkable contrast in the way that governments around the world have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and the way…
Rehabilitation Center Life: The Good And The Bad
My favorite parts of being in a a rehabilitation place were fivefold: First, I loved helping hurt others. What a blast it was after learning to walk again at the…
America is Now Democratic Socialist: The Failure of Neoliberal Free Enterprise
Take careful notice – as of March 2020, the United States is operating as a more than strict Democratic Socialist system. The government is regulating aspects of American life —…
As Corona Crashes Capitalism, Whatsapp Sings of Conspiracies
As more and more people die of COVID-19, WhatsApp is busy knitting conspiracy theories looking for traces of biological warfare amid this Coronavirus Crisis. Good old right started it, with…
Uneducated Literates or Literate Hypocrites?
In the time of COVID-19, there is a dire need of differentiating between education and literacy. A well-established misconception in our society is that the two terms are considered synonymous…
Need For Creative, Long Term Alternatives In View Of COVID-19
As India and the world face a completely unprecedented crisis due to the spread of COVID-19 virus, the first and immediate response must be health and treatment facilities, physical distancing,…
We Won’t Go Back to Normal, Because Normal Was the Problem
It is hard to remember that just a few weeks ago; our country was in motion, a moving anarchy that is how many westerners call India. There were protests all…
Total coronavirus cases in United States surge past Italy, China
The United States is rapidly becoming the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic. The number of cases in the country rocketed past both those in Italy and China. The US…
Home!? What Home!!!???
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Why is the U.S. so exceptionally vulnerable to Covid-19?
The United States has become the new center of the global coronavirus pandemic, with over 86,000 cases, more than China or Italy. More than a thousand Americans have already died, but this is surely only the very…
Migrant workers- A humanitarian crisis triggered by the lockdown
To Smt Nirmala Sitharaman Union Finance Minister Dear Smt Sitharaman, I have suggested several measures to be taken by the government to counter the spread of COVID19 and the relief…
From crisis to change of power in Madhya Pradesh
The way the month-long political impasse in Madhya Pradesh concluded with the Bharatiya Janata Party's Shivraj Singh Chouhan taking oath as the 4th term chief minister, points out to…
Kashmir and the globalisation of Coronavirus
Kofi Annan, the former Secretary General of the United Nations, has said ,"Globalisation is a universal truth, to criticise the globalisation means to criticise the nature". The society we live…
Coronavirus Pandemic: Global cases cross 500,000 with more than 24,000 deaths
Coronavirus cases surpassed 530,000 worldwide, with more than 24,000 deaths while the U.S. now leads the world with more than 85,500 confirmed coronavirus, officially COVID-19, cases, overtaking China and Italy.…
Weaponising Idiocy: Milk-Drinking Ganesha to Taali Bajao
Yad ihasti tad anyatra, yan nehasti na tat kavcit. ‘Whatever is here might be elsewhere, but what is not here could ever be found’.—The Mahabharata, 1.56.33, from Meera Nanda’s The God Market: How Globalisation…
Kerala is a Beacon to the World for Taking on the Coronavirus
Co-Written by Vijay Prashad & Subin Dennis K.K. Shailaja is the health minister in the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala, the state in the southwest of India that has…
The Coronavirus and the Real Threats to American Safety and Freedom
Americans are facing “A Spring Unlike Any Before.” So warned a front-page headline in the March 13th New York Times. That headline, however hyperbolic, was all too apt. The coming of…
The Virus of Sanctions: Flattening the Curve
The violence of this disease was such that the sick communicated it to the healthy who came near them, just as a fire catches anything dry or oily near it.…
Recognizing and Resisting the Hasbara Pandemic
Steady media reports on the rising number of the novel Coronavirus infections and its human toll have contributed to a global psychology of fear where entire populations are succumbing their…
Novel Pandemonium
COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease) is novel in many ways. It has affected 155 countries till date with ever-changing case numbers (283,00 worldwide) and mortality rate pegged at 1 percent with inter-country…
How To Save The Nation Sitting At Home | Kancha Ilaiah Shepehrd
We are all house arrested now because of Coronavirus for our own safety. We do not know how to live like this. In India and in many countries during lock…
The Real Pandemic Danger Is Social Collapse
As the Global Economy Comes Apart, Societies May, Too As of March 2020, the entire world is affected by an evil with which it is incapable of dealing effectively and…
A viral climate of fear
Where the virus may potentially claim the lives of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, global heating above 4oC is bound to claim the lives of billions, yet…
Lives In Poetry
Human history as cultural history We need to reform our teaching of history so that the emphasis will be placed on the gradual growth of human culture and knowledge, a…
Coronademic: Venezuela’s drives obstructed
The entire human world is fighting to defeat a demon today. It’s coronademic – coronavirus pandemic. The fight demands a globally concerted, unified effort. Venezuela should not be left lurching…
Lockdown or Curfew?
India is passing through the second stage of the most serious health crisis in its recent history. How we respond to it as a society is crucial to mitigating the…
Support The Farmers To Ensure Uninterrupted Food Supply Chains
URGENT SUGGESTIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA WITH REGARD TO SUPPORT TO FARMERS, THEIR LIVELIHOODS AS WELL AS TO ENSURE UNINTERRUPTED FOOD SUPPLY CHAINS To: Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister…
Capital punishment, armed conflicts and terrorist actions amidst Coronavirus
When I read the news that the four men who were found guilty of the horrific rape crime in Delhi in 2012 were hanged to death in a Delhi prison,…
The danger of the far right today
With right-wing politicians, like Hungarian premier, Viktor Orbán, not slow to blame ‘foreigners’ for the coronavirus crisis, the looming world downturn could provide new opportunities for the far right to…
WHO Director General Requests Global Humanitarian Response In The Face Of COVID-19
The World Health Organization Director General said on March 25, 2020: Now is the time for solidarity in the face of this threat to all of humanity. He said the…
Climbing the Deadly Curves of COVID-19 and Capitalism
Co-Written by Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox An embroidery work illustrating the early course of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States—more images of which are posted here at…
Our leaders are terrified. Not of the virus – of us
You can almost smell the fear-laden sweat oozing from the pores of television broadcasts and social media posts as it finally dawns on our political and media establishments what the…
Yogi Adityanath In The Time Of Lockdown
Letter to the Prime Minister To Shri Narendra Modiji Prime Minister Dear Shri Modiji, You have rightly announced a nationwide lockdown, invoking powers under the National Disaster Management…
In the wake of Covid-19, We Must Reclaim our Secular and Inclusive Legacy
Faizan Mustafa in his recent piece, appeared in The Indian Express, March 21, 2020 titled, “Let us be frank on Secularism” argues that some kind of Hindu Rashtra (which…
BJP and Israel: Hindu Nationalism is Ravaging India’s Democracy
It was only a matter of time before the anti-Muslim sentiment in India turned violent. A country that has historically prided itself on its diversity and tolerance, and for being…
Poetry In The Time Of Resistance
It has been more than three months since the protest against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is happening across the country. The protest has achieved its reach across the national boundaries.…
COVID-19: Misinformation, Education And The Need For Clarity
The recent explosion of COVID-19 cases in the South East Asian region has contributed to the globally growing pandemic that has impacted our global social order and may have many…
The History of Bioweapons And Why Coronavirus Isn’t One
Humans have always been the masterminds of what doesn't belong to humankind just to satisfy innate desires of being superior to the other. Wars have been created not to dismantle…
Coronavirus Pandemic: Countries start hoarding food
Countries have started hoarding food, threatening global trade while Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, is seeking money from public for his staff’s relief fund. The richest man has faced…
Am I not good enough?
Being a 90s kid was way different than being a kid of today; I mean when I see my 4-year old niece, I feel like how the definition of fun…
In the wake of 21-days lockout, JJM demands immediate expansion of welfare, testing and health services in Jharkhand
Jharkhand, like most of India, has woken up late to the COVID-19 pandemic and is yet to provide adequate social security to the people. Although no COVID-19 case has been…
Being Kashmir – From Janta Curfew to Total Lockdown
On Tuesday Mar 24, prime minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day total lockdown across India to “break the chain” of the coronavirus spread. The lockdown kind of a feeling has…
Coronavirus and the Prison Industrial Complex
The legacy of the coronavirus pandemic, at least in so far as responses are concerned, is thickening by the day. Behavioural changes are being urged, language is rapidly evolving (spot…
Corona and Blind Faith
A strong unquestionable faith drives a small segment of people within every religious group. Facts don't matter to them, and now, they are challenging the ban on gatherings to minimize…
COVID-19 Amid Misplaced Priorities
Co-Written by Mohd. Asif Shah & Ayaz Nabi Malik Ideally human being was created as…
A Planet of Missing Beauties – In Memoriam
The other morning, walking at the edge of a local park, I caught sight of a beautiful red cardinal, the first bird I ever saw some 63 years ago. Actually, to…
Islamic Economy
I’ve been requested to write a second part about the basic principles and benefits of an Islamic economy and answer some questions. The first part The Global Casino Economy has…
House of Mirrors – Justin Trudeau’s Foreign Policy
House of Mirrors - Justin Trudeau’s Foreign Policy. Yves Engler. RED Publishing, Saskatoon/BlackRose Books, Montreal. 2020. Some book covers are better than others, and that of Yves Engler’s House of…
Europe’s coronavirus death toll passes 10,000
More than 10,000 people have been killed by coronavirus across the European continent. The gruesome milestone has been reached just five weeks after the first death was recorded on the…
COVID-19: Emergency Package Of 3.75 Lakh Crores Urgently Needed
Appeal for Emergency Measures to Deal with COVID 19 Crisis- Letter sent to Central and State Governments from concerned citizens Dear Sir/Ma’am, The COVID 19 pandemic continues to be a…
Covid-19: Analysis of the Global Pandemic as on 20 March 2020
The 2009 swine flu pandemic caused by a new strain of H1N1 virus infected as many as 1.4 billion people across the globe and killed between 151,700 and 575,400 people,…
In The Name Of Coronavirus | Sandeep Pandey
The President of India Ram Nath Kovind has written an article on coronavirus reminding us that we are merely biological organisms, dependent on other organisms for survival and that humankind’s…
Hubei, China’s first locked-down province to reopen on March 25
The War Against Coronavirus is being successfully waged in countries. Thousands of scientists in countries are working round-the-clock while drugs are being tested at different levels including clinical test by…
Let Rationality Prevail: Follow International Ethical, Legal & Medical Guidelines Before Conducting Vaccine Trials On Coronavirus Patients
Co-Written by Dr. P.S. Sahni & Shobha Aggarwal As the coronavirus pandemic unfolds globally shrill voices are being raised – even by the well intentioned – to ensure that vaccine…
Lessons from a crisis
In Chinese the word ‘crisis’ apparently is spelt with two characters. The one suggests danger and the other opportunity. Such understanding of a crisis has never looked more meaningful than…
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