Hemant Gokhale: Judge who saw the transition from East Pakistan to Bangladesh
Mr Hemant Gokhale, who retired as a judge of the Supreme court in 2014, is among the more unusual members of the Indian judiciary. He has been an activist since…
June 2023
Examining the Practicality of a Uniform Civil Code in India
India follows a system of legal pluralism that allows different religious communities to be governed by their codes of personal law. This has been seen as a way of protecting…
UP Government’s ‘Bulldozer Raj’ on Gandhian Institutions Condemnable
NAPM calls for resistance against ‘Gujarat to Varanasi Model of Demolition’! 30th June, 2023: NAPM condemns the brazen and disgraceful attempts by the Bhartiya Janata Party Government to arbitrarily occupy…
Seymour Hersh, Forbes, Financial Times, Economist, CNN On War In Ukraine
Kiev’s inability to penetrate Russian defensive lines should serve as a “wake-up call” in Washington, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh warned on Thursday. Citing battlefield statistics obtained from an unnamed source, Hersh claimed that Ukrainian…
Karnataka Assembly Speaker Khader Fareed’s love for a die-hard Hindutva Guru Sri Sri Ravishankar
The 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections was a mile-stone in the fight for saving Indian democracy from the Hindutva onslaught. Congress defeated RSS-BJP convincingly. Though it was a State election but…
To be or not to be a Marxist @South Asian University
by Sandra Elizabeth Joseph, Apoorva Yarabahally, Sukanya Maity and Snigdha Jayakrishnan A response from few members of Aijaz Ahmad Memorial Study circle(AAMSC), in the light of suspension of four professors…
The Saudi Football Seizure
Sports stars are making a heated rush for it, cresting on the money wave, and finding sanctuary in Mammon’s big breasted glory. And that wave is coming, oddly enough, from…
The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Africa
The framework of our civilization is premised on the destruction of the planet. The struggle for environmental justice in Africa is complex and broad. It is the continuation of the…
American Inquisition
Field Notes from the Frontlines of the Government's War on the Left “There must be some kind of way out of here…” As night fell over the South River Forest,…
The Best Decision on Pending Free Trade Agreement between India and EU is — Stop it
A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union and India has been discussed for a long time—first from 2007 to 2013 and then, despite the many problems experienced then…
Masses of Favela in Brazil Resist Attacks
Between the night of June 22nd and the morning of June 23rd inhabitants of the Três Pontes favela, in the western Rio de Janeiro, rose up in revolt after the…
“Put on the brakes” Robotaxi Protest to keep SF Streets Safe!
With the possible addition of 200 more autonomous vehicle (AVS) robotaxis in San Francisco, demonstrators opposed to their deployment vented their frustration this morning outside the offices of the California…
Prigozhin goes into exile but left behind a can of worms
On Monday night, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the nation for the second time with the intention to bring the curtain down on the coup attempt by Wagner “founder” Yevgeny Prigozhin on…
Over 120 million Americans under air quality alerts as wildfires continue to rage across Canada
Over 120 million people, or more than a third of the US population, were under air quality alerts in over a dozen states spanning from the Midwest to the East…
#Shout is scathing indictment on patriarchy and misogyny
“I don’t think rape is about sex. It is about violence and the need for power… “We talk of sexual violence. We don’t talk enough about patriarchy. We don’t talk…
The 1823 Monroe Doctrine and its First Consequences for Global Politics: The Making the U.S. to be a Global Empire
The Doctrine (1823) The doctrine was presented by the 5-th U.S. President James Monroe (1817−1825) in 1823 as an official warning to (West) European powers that any European policy of…
The Partition of the Sub-continent and the Bifurcation of Bengal: The Part Told Least [Part 5: Sketch of a jab and resistance]
The mainstream abstains from discussing two aspects of the partition, a dagger-act: the harm to people's struggle for a democratic, dignified life free from injustice and exploitation, and resistance by…
Riots Hit France
Riots sparked by the death of a teenager in a police shooting continued into the early hours on Thursday. More than 70 people have been detained in Paris suburbs. The…
Narendra Modi’s US visit – a bonanza to hit the box office for the 2024 Lok Sabha election
Our Prime Minister chose the right time - may be after consulting his astrologers - to visit the US. With around eight months left for the next parliamentary polls, and …
Is Ukraine being pushed towards long-term indebtedness and subservience?
Ukraine’s people desperately need a future based on welfare and peace, and this is what all of their sincere friends would desire, but in reality Ukraine is being driven towards…
Archaeology Is Flipping the Script on What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica
by Gary M. Feinman and David M. Carballo Recent archaeology emerging from ancient Mesoamerica is flipping the script of public understanding about the people and institutions that inhabited this world:…
Take Strict Action Against Those Who Spread Communal Tension: Uttarakhand Mahila Manch
On 26 June, 2023, a four-member team led by Uttarakhand Mahila Manch from Dehradun visited Purola town in Uttarkashi district. The team consisted of Kamla Pant, Geeta Gairola, Ranjana Padhi…
Hiramani Munda (Asha Di) has been convicted with life imprisonment with fabricated charges
Hiramani Munda (Asha Di) has been convicted with life imprisonment in the 'NIA and ATS Special Court, Lucknow' on 9th June 2023 under different sections of UAPA and section 120B,…
Canadian Sikhs Mourn The Killing Of Hardeep Singh Nijjar
The brazen murder of the President of Surrey-Delta Gurdwara on Sunday, June 18 has left many of us devastated. Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a tireless community activist and a hardworking…
The Partition of the Sub-continent and the Bifurcation of Bengal: The Part Told Least [Part 4: Two opposing forces]
Two class forces were standing opposed to each other in the land: on the one hand, there was the force of the exploiting classes – the landed and capitalist classes,…
MEP Mick Wallace – ‘What are the working-class people of Ukraine dying for?’
US neoconservatives like Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken are using Ukraine as the linchpin of their strategy to undermine and destabilise Russia. Since the start of the conflict in…
Climate Change and Its Impact on Child Marriage in Bangladesh
by Aerica Rishiraj, Raktimava Bose, and Omar Raad Chowdhury Climate change is often discussed in terms of rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and threats to food security. But there…
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant’s call to erase Portuguese history lands off the mark
Last week, Goans woke up to their newspapers carrying rather uncanny news. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had summoned Goans to eradicate all signs and vestiges of Portuguese rule, and to…
Wildfires, Indigenous People and Very Sad History
In recent years wildfires have spread uncontrollably over very vast areas in American and Australian continents, causing immense losses including loss of human and animal life and endangering environment in…
Hungary’s PM Calls for Ceasefire in the Ukraine Conflict
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called for a ceasefire in the conflict between Moscow and Kiev as soon as possible. He warned that otherwise Ukraine will “lose a huge amount…
We’re Having a Violent Meltdown: The Human Costs of Global Warming — and of Our Response to It
Several times in recent weeks I’ve heard people suggest that Mother Nature has been speaking to us through that smoke endlessly drifting south from the still-raging Canadian wildfires. She’s saying that she…
‘We Will Not Surrender’: The Extraordinary Palestinians of Jenin
On June 19, a large Israeli military force raided the northern Palestinian town and refugee camp of Jenin from multiple directions. Not only did the raid fail, it backfired, and…
Nauru’s Refugee Stain: Australia’s Continued Offshore Processing Regime
The last refugee, for now, has left the small, guano-producing state of Nauru. For a decade, the Pacific Island state served as one of Australia’s offshore prisons for refugees and…
Cruelty-Free Fashion: Growing Leather Without Animals
It’s now possible to grow leather without raising and killing animals. A warehouse filled with huge gleaming silver vats hums around the clock, as billions of yeast cells work to…
Canada Decodes Law and Justice to Torture Prisoners in Solitary Confinement: The Case of Mohammad Momin Khawaja
Imagine that you are incarcerated for 20 years of which you had spent 1400 days in a solitary cell having no contacts with anyone except your prison guard. Imagine that…
Sea Monsters Threaten the World With Their Tridents
Sometimes you wake up from a dream to realize it is telling you to pay close attention to the depth of its message, especially when it is linked to what…
Fabricated charges on Brazil Peasant Leader Luzivaldo de Souza Araújo and brother Roelio
Democrats worldwide should in no uncertain terms defend the freedom of Brazilian peasant Luzivaldo de Souza Araújo, 42 years old, and his brother Robélio, 30 years old.They are languishing behind…
Understanding and embodying the commons to save the world from multiple crisis
Last year, I had the opportunity to work with the youth from the indigenous/ tribal more aptly called the Adivasi communities in India in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve across the…
Why we think that the ‘problems’ in Adipurush are deliberate choices
The past few months have been a topsy turvy ride for the Hindi cinema with several films falling like nine pins and at the same time few films taking everyone…
The Partition of the Sub-continent and the Bifurcation of Bengal: The Part Told Least [Part 3: No map?]
How the colonial masters left this land? Two descriptions below tell their exit. Yasmin Khan writes in The Great Partition: The making of India and Pakistan: “[There were no] maps…
Iraq Invasion Was Based On Lie, Admits John Kerry
Ubaydi, north-west Iraq. A boy clings to his father after his mother and the rest of the family fled. US marines took over the town the day before the…
Once More on Manipur
Listening to Karan Thapar's numerous interviews with Meitei and Kuki interlocutors on the Manipur situation,I carried away the impression that it is not possible to acquire a clear idea of…
This philosophy professor shows what is wrong with our language, education policy
There are outstanding autobiographies by dalit or Buddhist writers in Marathi. Sharad Baviskar’s acclaimed autobiography Bhoora is very different, it gives you so many insights into issues of language and…
Coal block auctions- Prior consent of the local tribal Gram Sabhas mandatory under PESA and FRA
To Shri A L Meena Union Coal Secretary Dear Shri Meena, I refer to the notification issued by your Ministry on June 14, 2023, proposing the auction of 98 coal…
The Enemies of Social Change and Unethical Scholarship
On May 17 suddenly I got a video on my watsapp. When I opened it I saw the title "Kancha Ilaiah shepherd: Bharat Vikhander". Two supposedly experts on my work, Sharada…
Human Rights’ Precise Violation in Sub-judice Matters: Some Reflections
by Dr Mohit Kumar Gupta & Ashish Kumar Singh Human Rights are the ‘legal soul’ of an individual. If perhaps they could be made ‘soul’ only. The violation of these…
East & West Germans
Perhaps our all new AI colleague deepai.org had eastern Germany’s well-known Bauhaus in mind when creating the above photo. To the unsuspecting observer, AI’s impression might even look a bit…
Naseem 1995 in India 2023
PM Modi said in a press conference that the religious minorities in India do not face any discrimination and that India’s democracy remains faultless during his infamous visit to the…
Trained to Hate
Sunday evening. It was cold outside and my wife and I decided to light the fire and settle down to watch a movie. We searched, as you do, through the…
Babbling about Prigozhin
A lot of nonsense is being spouted by a bevy of spontaneous “Russian experts” in light of the Prigozhin spray, a mutiny (no one quite knows what to call it),…
Increasing Urgency of Unconditional Ceasefire in Ukraine Conflict to Avoid Catastrophe
While the many-sided destruction that has taken place and is taking place in the Ukraine conflict is a matter of deep concern, there are two related matters which should cause…
Canada‘s System of Social Welfare and We, the People Aspiring for Change and Social Justice
Reflections on Human Equality of Social Life The social welfare system includes applying the structures, ideologies, and approaches in the study of social welfare to real world challenges and issues.…
Manipur’s Killing Fields: A Tale of Greed, Identity Politics, Radicalization and State Collusion
“We are afraid to open our mouths. There is nothing we can do for ourselves. It is those outside the state who must speak up for us,” a Christian academician…
Manipur: A land in trouble
An overview of Manipur's three-way ethnic conflict between Meitei, Naga and Kuki groups, which started since the era of British rule and the Anglo-Kuki war of 1917-19 during World War…
A Muslim Man Lynched To Death On Suspicion Of Carrying Beef In Nashik
A Muslim man was beaten to death (lynched) for allegedly transporting beef in Nashik, Maharashtra another one seriously injured. The two victims identified as Afan Ansari aged 32 and Nasir…
Self-employment opportunities offer lives of dignity for transgenders
Transgender rights are a heated topic across forums in the country and make for long panel discussions and boardroom conversations. Rules under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019…
Lessons in Freedom: Agroecology, Localisation and Food Sovereignty
Industry figures and scientists claim pesticide use and GMOs are necessary in ‘modern agriculture’. But this is not the case: there is now sufficient evidence to suggest otherwise. It is simply not necessary…
Imphal – A Historic Turning Point?
Manipur, with its capital at Imphal, is bordered by Nagaland, Assam, and Mizoram. To its east is part of India’s sensitive international border with Myanmar (formerly Burma), increasingly under covert…
The Partition of the Sub-continent and the Bifurcation of Bengal: The Part Told Least [Part 2: Uncontrolled dominion]
V P Menon, as he told about himself in The Transfer of Power in India, “[i]n one capacity or other, from 1917 […] was continuously associated with the constitutional development…
The AI Robot’s C-word
With the equally rapid developments of both artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, perhaps one day, we might see a self-confident robot like the one seen in the 2004 Hollywood movie,…
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