Anti NRC-CAA-NPR Door to Door Campaigns in Pune
For the last two and half months, India has witnessed massive rallies & protests against NPR NRC & CAA. There has been at least one protest in Pune, every single…
March 2020
Breathing Fire: Toxic fires of Jharia spell death and disease for villagers
A significant proportion of coal production in India is credited to Jharia mines in Jharkhand state in the east of the country. For the communities in Jharia, coking coal is…
Questioning The 2003 Citizenship Rules: The Villain of NPR-NRC
Why examine the 2003 Citizenship Rules? During the tenure of Vajpayee’s BJP-led NDA-1 government, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity…
Melbourne’s North East Link Super-Highway Project – Environmental Vandalism & Australian-Killing Perversion
Beautiful Melbourne (capital of Victoria), that vies with Vancouver and Vienna for being the most liveable city in the world, is threatened with a fiscally, morally and environmentally perverse $16…
Why This Year’s ‘International Women’s Day’ Should be Dedicated to Shaheen Bagh
The entire world has observed the combination of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) as a factor for breeding a huge number of stateless people in…
Who are the terrorists in the coup’d etat of President Trump visit?
It was a coup and the unraveling of events now in 2020 Delhi and in Gujarat genocide of 2002 has striking resemblances. The inductive and deductive process of reasoning…
Delhi Violence: Genesis of Carnage
They say ‘history repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a farce’. In case of India, communal violence not only keeps repeating itself, the pattern of the tragedy…
My good town
I live in a stable neighborhood. It has single family homes, one multiple family home and two homes for two families as far as I know. Many of the homes…
The Walking Machine
Last time when I was travelling for a seminar, I was surprised at the kind of crowd in Bangalore airport. It was usual for people to stand waiting in at…
Corporations are Human Creations. We Can’t Let Them Threaten Our Survival
We live in a world in extreme crisis. By the estimates of the Global Footprint Network, the human species currently consumes at a rate 1.7 times what Earth’s regenerative systems can…
Coronavirus, Synchronous Failure and the Global Phase-Shift
Five years ago, the Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future, an independent panel of distinguished scientists, issued a landmark report warning that over the next century, the world…
Remembering Clara Zetkin on March 8
Clara Zetkin, one of the daughters of the working classes, is as bright as ever in the annals of working people’s struggles for rights – rights to life and dignity.…
They played Ashtapada
a muslim with his eyes blinded was recognized by the direction his face lay turned towards the qibla1 bloodstains whispering war on his cheeks like line breaks of a romantic…
Crimes in Afghanistan: Fatou Bensouda’s Investigative Mission
It seemed an unlikely prospect. The International Criminal Court has tended to find itself accused of chasing up the inhumane rogues of Africa rather than those from any other continent. …
The natural world and humans
No surprise is here in this set of images. It’s the economy and the scale issue. Around 7.8 humans are now alive of which many look for work vs.2…
Internationalised Mechanism Is The Only Way Forward In Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s unilateral withdrawal from Resolution 30/1 is a clear rejection of human rights and accountability and displays total disregard for UN, UNHRC, UNHRC Core Group, UN Member States and…
YESterday once more: Yes Bank, Harshad Mehta, and the ravages of Finance Capitalism
The stories of Yes Bank’s troubles, close on the heels of the crisis in DHFL, come as traumatic reminders to many of us. Add to this the cases against…
The perspective from ‘Below’ and Feminist Literature in the Social Sciences
“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved”. (BR. Ambedkar) In the remembrance of the International Women’s Day, Sarojini Naidu Centre…
Alarm
Any narrative of Delhi Riots '20 just communal is dangerous for all but some are keen to say so ever The jackals after sheep herd people of riot hit zones…
This is not just a gender gap: It’s a power gap
25 years after the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action set out a clear path on how to achieve gender equality, the world has witnessed remarkable progress. However, the Report…
Significance of Shaheen Bagh: From Event to Symbol
On 12th December Constitutional Amendment Act (CAA) was notified and immediately after notification, student protests began in Jamia, AMU and JNU. Students were subjected to brutal treatment by Delhi and…
After Delhi violence, AAP weakens its potential in Punjab
Since the boost to AAP in national politics initially came from winning 4 parliamentary seats from Punjab during the 2014 General Election while everywhere else in the country most AAP…
Book Review: Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora
The book comprising of seven chapters gives a comprehensive but shuddery description of how during the intervening night of 23rd and 24th Feb. 1991 the district Kupwara’s twin villages, Kunan…
Fearlessly Forever !
Today, it rained in Delhi. Tonight, the rains would wash the stains Of blood on the streets filled with pain. The earth would absorb the red And little green grass…
Global Warming on a Rampage
Global warming is not waiting around for the signatories to the Paris climate accord ‘15 to go to net zero emissions 2030/50. Sorry, those bold plans are way too little…
Lives In Painting
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…
SYRIZA’s betrayal of Greece is a spectre haunting the left
'Super Tuesday’ in the 2020 presidential election season is over and Senator Bernie Sanders’s time as the unlikely frontrunner for the Democratic nomination may have stopped just as quick as…
Writings in the Northwest Wind: The Poems of Zhou En Lai
Zhou En Lai was a man like any other; with hopes and dreams; failures and successes. In his heart beat the throb of humanity for a better world; under strain…
The Importance of Critical Thinking
You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. The saying…
Towards a Gender Sensitive Society
“If you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a whole nation: - Dr James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey International women’s day is to…
Marginalised?
Marginalised? Who said we are marginalised? We are humans walking side by side. Women, Men and Children Dalits, Tribals and the Abused — Who said we are…
Two Leading Malayalam News Channels Banned From Airing For 48 Hours For Reporting The Delhi Riots
Two leading Malayalam news channels, Asianet News and Media One and are banned from airing for 48 hours from 7.30 PM this night on account of their reporting on Delhi…
Is There Hope?
The ABF House stands on a corner, halfway up Sveavägen, in the centre of Stockholm. Across the street is the party headquarters of the Social Democrats. Two doors along, the…
Turkey’s sultan retreats from Idlib adventure
The sultan of Turkey has come to his realization: “Operation Spring Shield”, the sultan’s adventure in the Idlib, Syria, is harmful. Within days of embarking on the adventure – intrusion in…
The Earth Sign: Greeting Each Other in the Age of the Coronavirus
In these rapidly changing times, we need to change our behavior in many ways My students doing the "Earth sign" or the "Gaia Sign" while floating in space. It is…
Katie Hill’s tell-all book: “She Will Rise”
Katie Hill, then a Democratic Party candidate from California's 25th Congressional district, in 2018. Former congresswoman,Katie Hill, a Democrat from California may have been down but not gone. In the…
Universal access to sexual and reproductive health services is a human rights imperative
The Asia Pacific region is home to more than half of the global population and many low-income countries. While the region is witnessing rapid economic growth, gender inequalities persist and…
Coronavirus: Countries are not grasping reality of threat, warns WHO chief as 300 million students sent home worldwide
World Health Organization (WHO) officials have warned that some countries are not taking the coronavirus crisis seriously enough, as outbreaks surged across Europe and in the U.S. where medical workers…
Dehi Riots: Khureji Crackdown Fact Finding Report
Date of Visit: 29th February 2020 Team: Ashutosh, Harjot, Harshita, Nasir and Rahul Brief Overview of the Situation in Khureji Khas Since the 14thof January 2020, Khureji Khas in North…
Profile of a predator
I have tried to provide a warning to others about their staying away from psychopaths. Of course, it is impossible in some circumstances, such as my sister and my knowing…
Wake-up Call to Soren Government: Thousands gather in Ranchi to demand rejection of NPR in Jharkhand
Thousands of people, from across Jharkhand, gathered at Raj Bhawan (Ranchi) today to demand that the Hemant Soren government rejects NPR and stops all NPR-related activities. Many people’s organisations (partial…
Tropical forests are now carbon source, not carbon sinks
The world’s tropical forests are no longer carbon sinks because of human activity, and these forests now emit more carbon than these are able to absorb from the atmosphere as…
Eastern Mediterranean: A microcosm of regional and global battles
The Eastern Mediterranean has become a flash-point for the meshing of geopolitics, the struggle for regional hegemony, battles for control of resources, religious soft power rivalry, and blatant interference in…
The Great Indian Liberal Trap
Today, worldwide people/citizens have lost the spaces of freedom of expression. The dissent or a slight deviation of an individual from ‘largely accepted discourse’ which has ‘liberal’ labels are seen…
Toilet Paper Blues: Coronavirus and Pandemic Pantries
Fears of imminent apocalypse tend to be midwives to absurdity. The stockpiling fever that has gripped various populaces in response to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has taken various forms. …
An Open Letter to Harsh Vardhan Shringla (Indian’s Foreign External Affairs Secretary)
Dear Mr. Shringla: I write this open letter to question you most respectfully why you told a seminar in Dhaka on 2nd March that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) passed…
Crisis Solution – Return the Region to United Nations Resolution 181
The Palestinian plight has had significant attention, and that attention has not resolved the situation. Does the solution lie elsewhere? Is the solution with the international community, in its becoming…
A Terrifying Scenario: Coronavirus in ‘Quarantined’ Gaza
What if the Coronavirus reaches the besieged Gaza Strip? While the question carries great urgency for all Palestinians living under Israel’s military occupation, the Gaza situation is particularly complex and…
The kleptomaniac
Watch out, I recommend, for narassistic psychopaths in your life. Often they are kleptomaniacs, who do everything to destroy others and gain something for themselves. I should know since my…
Your Beloved!!
Call her for once,call her by her name, Another birth you may not born, To call her once again!! Hope and despair goes hand in hand, Whom you choose,'tis your…
Song of Requiem For the 46… and Counting
Beneath a pile of charred rubble sodden with splattered blood hanging on precariously to the half rotten dead in the drain killed in the name of God now a bait…
Indian Resistance Against Hindutva Fascism
Hindutva fascism is no more an imaginary political depiction of reactionary and right-wing Narendra Modi led BJP/RSS government in India.These reactionary forces are the original anti nationals of India. Any…
A third or more of all species could be gone by 2070
Within 50 years, a third of all plant and animal species could be caught up in a mass extinction, as a consequence of climate change driven by ever-rising temperatures. What is…
Indigenous people may be the Amazon’s last hope
by Robert T. Walker, Aline A. Carrara, Cynthia S. Simmons, & Maira Irigaray Brazil’s divisive President Jair Bolsonaro has taken another step in his bold plans to develop the Amazon…
Time for BJP to stop hate politics and start preparing for COVID-19
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across the world, there are increasing questions being raised about the measures - or more accurately, the lack of measures - the BJP…
Perverse leadership in ‘immunity via collective failure’ globally
An open letter to Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland Minister Freeland, an open letter regarding 'there's nothing inconsistent about the federal government's commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions while promoting…
Canadian Punjabi Press Club condemns attacks on journalists in Delhi and threats against Sherwani
The members of Surrey-based Punjabi Press Club of BC (PPCBC) have unanimously condemned recent attacks on journalists in the national capital of India. In a monthly meeting of the club…
“No stepping out” is the life-influencing message of breast cancer survivor
International Women's Day special I was born and brought in a happy family in New Delhi. I had a twin sister and a younger brother. Both my parents were working.…
On the movies Parasite, Joker and of Class Struggle
Sitting in the movie halls watching Joker and later Parasite in the order of release, these two seemingly different Oscar winning movies bring forth differing and varied emotions.…
‘Do wear masks but don’t think you’re safe’: Top Soviet virologist & WHO expert explains Covid-2019 & debunks popular myths
As coronavirus fears spread, a world-renowned virologist has explained when Covid-2019 will fade away and, whether medical masks are of any use. Around the world, public anxiety grows, with people…
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