While traveling through Lucknow, one is bound to come across e-rickshaws and autorickshaws driven by women. The picture of women driving e-rickshaws/autorickshaw across Uttar Pradesh, a state notorious for patriarchy and crime against women, is bound to surprise onlookers. Behind this effort to create livelihood opportunities for women is HUMSAFAR, a Support Center set up for women in 2003[Read More…]
In memory of contribution of Soviet Military Commander Sidor Kovpak 
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Transition Town Movement – Local Action in the Wake of Global Emergency and Collapse 
Biden & Blinken “The Dr Strange Love Duo” of WWIII’s Nuclear Winter 
On Understanding Generative AI as a Corporate-Fascist Weapon 
U.S. Tells Another Bedtime Story to Scare Away Normal Relations With China and Cuba 
Where Are the World’s Water Stresses? 
Why American Voters Should At Least Listen to What Robert Kennedy Jr. Has to Say 
It’s Always About Protecting Our Children 
BJP’s Communal Politics Has Deepened Historical Conflicts in Manipur 
Letter to Bishops of India from Fr Cedric Prakash 
Deadly wildfire smoke spreads across much of northeast US 
Book Review: The Story of a People’s Movement 
Recession In Eurozone While UK Faces Highest Inflation In Developed World 
Patriotic Criminals and Anti-National Criminals 
Remembering NTR the politician in his centenary Year 
The US Shouldn’t Stand in the Way of an Ambitious Global Plastics Treaty 
France’s Global Warming Predicament 
The Spark 
Vanishing of Many Stretches of Aravalli Hills Will Prove Very Costly 
The End of Title 42 and the Triumph of the Border-Industrial Complex 
A New Direction for the World Bank? 
Conspiracy! Whose Conspiracy? 
Wrestlers’ struggle for justice : Will it endure? 
‘Digital India Bill’: Some things to worry about 
Electricity wasted in Mumbai as energy supply is cut off for hours in towns 
Samalkha Nestle Workers Union stage protest against preventing formation of Union 
Odisha rail accident- BSNL’s commendable performance- Should India diminish its public sector, allow private oligarchs to profiteer? 
Wildfire Smoke Chokes Canada and Eastern US 
Terracidal But Ignored Carbon Debt From Gas Exploitation By The World & Climate Criminal Australia 
China and Palestine: No To ‘Piecemeal Crisis Management’ 
Can China and the United States Establish Mutual Respect to Lessen Tensions? 
How Empire Fabricates Atrocities 
For Balanced Progress, Indian Railways Must Get Their Priorities Right 
Determining Scheduled Area: An Update 
The new Parliament house may be dangerously undemocratic 
Ranajit Guha: A duality of literature and history 
DIPAM’s hasty moves to disinvest the government’s residual share in HZL highly imprudent and against the public interest 
A Climate of Betrayal 
Deserving Each Other: The PGA Tour-LIV Golf Merger 
Our beloved K.P.Sasi is no more. Filmmaker, cartoonist, writer, mentor, friend and above all tireless activist championing the cause of every underdog, Sasi breathed his last, mid-afternoon this Christmas day – after battling a medical condition for months. I remember the last time I met him, almost exactly a month before he passed away, at the ayurvedic healing center in[Read More…]
