How Did Indian Masses Cope With 1897 Plague Pandemic? |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Covid -19 has shaken the globalized world in a manner that it never knew before. Having taken its birth in Wuhan, China its first attack focused on air conditioned travel…
March 2020
Observing Elites Manipulate Our Fear: COVID-19, Propaganda and Knowledge
While humans stand on the brink of precipitating our own extinction, with the prospects of now averting this remote – see ‘Human Extinction Now Imminent and Inevitable? A Report on…
8 Day Journey From Hong Kong To Chile, COVID-19 On My Tail
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek Imagine that you are in Hong Kong, in a city where “you are actually not supposed to be”, in the first place. You are ready…
Technology of Death: The Not-So-Shocking Report on Israeli Weapons Exports
The Middle East region, battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left millions of people stateless, hungry and diseased, is in urgent need for peace, security and reconstruction.…
Coronavirus on East Coast of USA
First, this information at the link below in its second half conforms to the “secret” information that my nephew knows. His is from US government sources that indicate that half…
Hope in Troubling Times
My college is closed, classes are off and examinations have been deferred. We need to go in only if and when there is a need. It is not a holiday…
Mystic Mash …..looks like dog food, tastes like heaven!
It's a fair question: could a culinary offering be seen as “mystic”? I did consider the question utilizing all dimensions then active in my mind when naming the within recipe…
India: The perils of an all-out lockdown
As the novel coronavirus spreads, a double crisis looms over India: a health crisis and an economic crisis. In terms of casualties, the health crisis is still very confined (seven…
COVID-19: Four Suggestions
Just a few days after the outbreak and spread of COVID-19 in China, it became clear that the world economy will be badly hit due to this epidemic. Nearly three…
Coronavirus kills more than 2,600 across Europe in one weekend
The coronavirus pandemic surged across Europe this weekend, with more than 2,600 deaths, the majority of them in Italy, followed by Spain, France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The…
Coronavirus pandemic: 37 million U.S. jobs could be lost but gun sales spur
U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index estimates that some 37 million domestic jobs are vulnerable to layoffs. Hardest hit would be limited- and full-service restaurants, with some 9 million jobs…
Prime Minister’s initiative on Corona- Political parties & Corporates too have to act fast
To Smt Nirmala Sitharaman Union Finance Minister Dear Smt Sitharaman, Kindly refer to my letter dated 20-3-2020 addressed to the Prime Minister on the ongoing fight against COVID19. I…
In Defence of Harsh Mander
We are a group of retired civil servants belonging to the All-India and Central Services from all over India. As a group, we do not subscribe to any particular political…
Clapping Against Coronavirus
No passport, no pan card, no driving license, no ration card, no voter's id, no aadhar card, no records on parents, but Carona has become an Indian citizen. Let us…
Leaders Inspire Through Their Actions
The country is in a lock down now. The fact is it should have happened earlier but better late than never. The prime minister's call for the Janata Curfew was…
Primavera Redefined – (Or life post-corona virus?)
From the womb of the Earth, She rose — Fiery, like the volcanic core, unfolding each limb. soaring, phoenix like, from the ash left behind out of the…
What Americans Don’t Know About Military Families
As each of my husband’s Navy submarine deployments came to an end, local spouses would e-mail me about the ship’s uncertain date of return. They were attempting to sell…
Business as Usual: Coronavirus, Iran and US Sanctions
Never discount the importance of venality in international relations. While pandemics should provide the glue for a unified front in response – we keep being told of fighting this horrendous…
Arundhati Roy And Other Prominent Writers And Activists Express Solidarity With Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha
In August 2018, the Pune Police implicated Prof. Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha with other human right activists and lawyers in the now-infamous fabricated Elgar Parishad case. The police presented…
The Impending Arrest of Prof. Anand Teltumbde Is Undemocratic
AIFRTE Statement on Supreme Court’s rejection of anticipatory bail to Prof. Anand Teltumbde AIFRTE is shocked, outraged and deeply disappointed by the Supreme Court’s rejection of anticipatory bail to its…
Uttar Pradesh leads nationally in Dalit oppression
The crime report released by the National Crime Bureau (NCRB) last year” Crime in India – 2018” has been released with a delay of about one year in which crime…
As in Katrina disaster, the poor are Being left behind in India
Since the Corona crisis is grave, the government’s decision to stop train services throughout the country till March 31 cannot be faulted. But this has grave implications for the poor.…
The Cornavirus Pandemic: Capitalism is questioned
The ramping coronavirus pandemic is questioning capitalism as at least a billion people around the world are confined in homes. Millions of workers have already lost jobs. A bleak future…
COVID-19 Pandemic Slows Down In China
China is slowing down the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. A Beijing datelined AFP said a few days ago: China reported on Tuesday just one new domestic coronavirus infection but…
Coronavirus pandemic: countries massively increase surveillance of phone
As coronavirus sweeps across the globe, governments are stepping up surveillance of their citizens. Some countries are collecting anonymized data to study movement of people more generally, while others are…
Coronavirus: Africa finds extremely rapid evolution of pandemic, says UN
More African countries have closed their borders as the coronavirus’ local spread threatened to turn the continent of 1.3 billion people into an alarming new front for the pandemic. Africa…
Desirable Deaths, Malignant Neglect
Bella Ciao! Bella Ciao! A song which traces its origins to the struggles of working women (rice-weeders) in 19th-century Northern Italy, and which later became an anthem of anti-fascist struggles there, recently…
The Threat Beyond The COVID-19 Crisis
Coronaviruses are a group of related viruses which cause disease in mammals and birds. The SARS-CoV-2 virus causes Covid-19, which is highly contagious and spreads very fast, but is…
COVID-19 Pandemic & Coronavirus Suppression – Should Australian Schools Close?
The world is in the grip of a COVID-19 pandemic that is now impacting relatively poor countries in Africa and South Asia. Rich island continent Australia (population 25 million) has…
The Pandemic Surveillance State
In anticipation of the post-COVID-19 world, bold statements are being made on how we will, as a race, be wiser, even kinder; cautious, and reflective. If history is ever a…
Coronavirus: Myths Debunked, Hiding Information And The Necessary Blueprint
Good morning fellas! I'm just sick and disturbed by what I am seeing in my country. People have gone more mad after the outbreak of the coronavirus. Some are organizing…
The fall of the ‘last Citadel’ of justice: Supreme Court of India
"I am surprised as to how Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who once exhibited such courage of conviction to uphold the independence of the judiciary, has compromised the noble principles on the…
Fear of COVID 19 must not let us ignore the virus of bigoted minds
It was a nice sunny, but chilly afternoon on Saturday, March 15. A perfect day for a rally at Surrey’s Holland Park. The Coalition Against Bigotry (CAB) had organized a…
A Farewell And A Tribute
Certain phases in one’s life remain etched in indelible colours for the simple reason that they are a combination of “the firsts”. For me my 20s were when so many…
Over 620 deaths in Italy on Friday as coronavirus fatalities surge in Europe
Italy, Spain, Belgium and the UK all recorded their largest death tolls in the global coronavirus pandemic in a single day, Friday. In Italy, which now has the highest number…
Coronavirus reasoned post for non-italians. Aka, “your government is not taking this seriously enough”
Number of cases per million inhabitants in various EU countries, compared to the level (10/million) China enacted its block, to date the most effective strategy to fight the infection. With…
Coronavirus,business of sickness and the socialist alternatives
The coronavirus pandemic is battering lives and wreaking havoc in world economy at the same time. This world wide health and economic crisis reveal the inherent structural fault lines within…
COVID-19 crisis calls for urgent overhaul of social security and public health in Jharkhand
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads, a double crisis looms over Jharkhand: a health crisis and an economic crisis. Already, unemployed migrant workers are returning en masse from different states, including…
Coronavirus: The Unfolding of an Epistemic Crisis
Epistemology involves the philosophical analysis of the nature of knowledge and how it informs the ontology of the concepts like truth and belief or how beliefs are formed, internalized and…
Indu Kilam Waxes Lyrical
It was perhaps the twentieth day of the lockdown. I had lost count of dates and days, sitting in my small ten by twelve feet study, like my ancestors the…
Historic Paris Commune Day Greetings To The Working Class
Today, March 18, is a red letter day for the working class and all true friends of the workers in the country and throughout the world. For, on this day,…
Bank Charges Hurt Poor the Most!
In the last few years, banks have begun foisting hefty charges on customers on all the banking transactions. While some of the charges existed before but the new charges have…
COVID-19 May Prove Fatal To Those Exposed To Pollution
According to the experts, the health hazard inflicted on people by long-standing air pollution is likely to impact the fatality rate emerging from Covid-19 infections. Polluted air is known to…
Moralising Hoarding, Panic Buying and Coronavirus
Hoarding as moral aberration and ethical breach: the term has recently become the subject of scorn in coronavirus chatter. In terms of mental disorders, it is “characterized by persistent difficulty…
The Poet as Warrior
(Dedicated to Kai Coggin) W. H. Auden’s poem “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” is often quoted to dismiss the importance of poetry as a form of social justice.…
Understanding the Rise of the BJP
MODINAMA: ISSUES THAT DID NOT MATTER By Subhash Gatade Leftword Books, 2019, pp. 128 , Rs.195.00 HINDUTVA: EXPLORING THE IDEA OF HINDU NATIONALISM By Jyotirmaya Sharma Context, 2019, pp. 190,…
Corona and path to global state of exception: Futility of Solidarity, Civil Liberties
Co-Written by Punsara Amarasinghe And Eshan Jayawardane At this moment the world has indeed been witnessing a plague which looms before humanity as an unmitigated disaster beyond continents, races, religions…
Public Policy and Pandemic Control
Corona Virus (COVID-19) pandemic has already sent shivers in the belly of many governments, even though it is yet to unfold its full sway in many parts of the world.…
Harvest of hate, pandemic hot on the heels of pogroms
Impunity in Indian context differs from region to region and from group to group. When witches were hunted tried and condemned to be burnt at the stake there was no…
The Many Allegories of Parasite: When the Cellars Hit Back
The multi-award winning South Korean movie Parasite is a feast of stunning surprises and irresistibly eloquent symbolism.From the very title and its ambiguity to the hierarchy of three families inhabiting…
Worldwide job losses from coronavirus pandemic expected to reach 25 million
Millions of workers throughout the world are being thrown out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic, creating the conditions for an unprecedented economic and social crisis. The International Labor…
Coronavirus pandemic: Global corporate losses may reach $12 trillion
The economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic will be unprecedented, according to Ray Dalio, the head of one of the world’s largest hedge funds. Ray Dalio says global corporate losses…
Coronavirus pandemic: U.S. doctors demand immediate release of prisoners and detainees
Doctors and medical workers across the U.S. raise the alarm about the coronavirus’s risk to prison populations. Thousands of medics have signed an open letter calling upon the immigration authorities…
Curfewed Days and Curfewed Nights – Let us all be Kashmiris, even for a day?
We cannot be absolutely sure if the “Janta Curfew” (People’s Curfew) advocated by PM Narendra Modi in his speech to the nation about the corona-virus is in earnest (for the…
What is Chandrasekhar Azad’s politics? |SR Darapuri
On March 15, Chandrashekhar Azad announced the formation of a new political party called Azad Samaj Party (ASP) which is welcome as in a democracy every citizen has the right…
Nāad: A Call in Waiting
A stranger in a strange land, Bushra Punjabi reflects on the condition of being away from home and at home within the confines of memory. In such a mode, she…
Coronavirus pandemic hits U.S. and Europe: Biggest factory closing since World War II
The running coronavirus pandemic is hitting the U.S. and Europe. At first, it was service industries including hotels, restaurants and tourism. Now, the manufacturing sector is taking the hit. There…
Wrong Way Go Back – Global Sectoral Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are All In The Wrong Direction
Vehicle drivers are familiar with crucial highway signs saying “WRONG WAY GO BACK”. A detailed analysis shows that global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in all key economic sectors of energy…
America’s Commandos Deployed to 141 Countries And “Criminal Misconduct” Followed
Last October, a group of eight Apache attack and CH-47 Chinook helicopters carrying U.S. commandos roared out of an airfield in Iraq. They raced through Turkish airspace and across the Syrian border,…
A Message To Students In Times of COVID-19
Dear Folks-- [This message is going out to students in my Purdue Northwest University(PNW) courses this semester] I hope each of you are safe and well. I want to say…
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