The many uses of Aurangzeb
In the small-town I grew up in, in Bengal, the traveling theater, jatra, was a much awaited form of entertainment. The topics of the plays enacted were often varied and…
Umang Kumar
The “historic comeback” of Donald Trump – Shock and Awe
Donald Trump is first and foremost his own mouthpiece, his own champion, his own chronicler. He owns his narrative from start to end. So, when he characterized his victory in…
Fifty degrees in Delhi and the Man from Darbhanga
He found some fame, a few lines in newsprint, only after he passed away. He was labeled the "first victim" of this year's fierce heat wave in Delhi. "Delhi heat…
The fierce and unbending spirit of the pro-Palestine campus protests in the US
Major newspapers and newssites are slowly relegating pro-Palestinian campus protest news to less visibility. The encampments on campus are being cleared, one by one, and protest sites are being swarmed…
Deliverance and Divergence – Dr. Ambedkar’s bold retelling of the Buddha story
In seeking to understand the deep-rooted realities of social exclusion and discrimination, Dr. Ambedkar did not hesitate in recasting the traditional narrative of the Buddha story, an account and teaching…
Journeys to Gaza – with Mahmoud Darwish and Joe Sacco
Arguably Palestine's national poet, Mahmoud Darwish has always been very dear to the Palestinian people. This author remembers attending a tribute to the poet after his passing away in 2008.…
The Israeli moral posturing in the Hamas-Israel confrontation
In a popular Israeli TV serial, which followed intertwined lives of Israelis, and Palestinians of the West Bank, one of the protagonists is an Israeli male who has a Palestinian…
Dr. Ambedkar and Buddham Sharanam
Dr. Ambedkar had exposure to Buddhism early in his life by means of a Marathi book on the Buddha gifted by one of his teachers. Yet his path to formally…
Pathogens, Pandemics, Protests – and The Dialectical Biologist
Remembering the science and activism of Richard Levins in the time of corona The resurgence of infectious disease is but one manifestation of a more general crisis: the eco-social distress…
Police Brutality – Theirs and Ours
The brutal killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has thrust the issue of police brutality on the consciousness of the whole world. There have been expressions of protests throughout the…
The Killing Of George Floyd And The Long History Of Police Brutality In The US
Innocent brothers and sisters it’s time to wake up, wake up, wake up Brothers and sisters it’s time to say something, do something, make ’em Mmm I wonder, how…
Live and Let Die – The new mantra of learning to live with the virus
About a month ago, when, as it seems now, the covid-19 world was still young and economy reopenings were still few, Mike Davis, the American labor organizer, wrote an ominous…
The Deaths of Migrant Workers in India : Moral distancing in the time of social distancing
How should ordinary citizens understand the nature of responsibility in the case of the recurring deaths of migrant workers that they are witnessing? So many have died on the road,…
Hubris, Chutzpah and the United States : Covid-19 and treading the thin ice of American Individualism
The world watches in stupefaction as the numbers of those infected and dead in the US has continued to grow at an alarming rate. The superpower is on its knees.…
May The First and the Force be with you
When the lockdown extension was announced, to continue till May 3, a lot of the “twitterati” jumped on the opportunity to show off their Star Wars meme familiarity. In a…
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