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.…
Umang Kumar
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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