Resisting the forces of fear
Turn, turn any corner Hear, you must hear what the people say You know that somethin' is goin' on around here It surely, surely, surely won't stand the light of…
Life/Philosophy
Role of School as an Agency of Social Change : Some Reflections
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” (Nelson Mandela). There are varied perspectives exist among the scholars with regard to the role of…
K.P.Sasi: A Tribute-Loss of a dear, brave friend
Today (25 December 2022) came to know about the sad demise of my dear and close friend K.P.Sasi. I came across this creative brilliant person when I was working for…
Farewell to Sasi etta, brother K.P. Sasi
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…
Pluralism and acceptance – The senselessness of separation
“You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy, not religion.” Anonymous This anonymous quote that I received as…
Joma Sison passes on but his legacy will Continue
Professor Joma Sison expired in the night of December 16th. Joma died peacefully after a period of confinement in a hospital in Utrecht, The Netherlands last night at around 8:40…
The death of Qazi Ahmad Naeem Qureshi an irreparable loss to the labour movement of Pakistan
Qazi Ahmad Naeem Qureshi,was a manifestation of the spirit of the historic student movement, which started from the plate of the National Students Federation, a revolutionary organization of students confronting…
Courage – an essential Trait to Survive Uncertainty and Thrive in a Changing World
According to Heraclitus, “the only constant in life is 'change'.” Our world has been changing constantly. So have been our lives. Recently the pace of such changes has been faster,…
On Education in India
Every academic year comes to an end with the graduation of students who are ostensibly ready to take up a new set of challenges and goals. Many of them have…
On late Dilip Kumar birth Centenary memories of his roles championing Progressive causes
Today we celebrate the birth centenary of late thespian Dilip Kumar. Not only was he arguably Hindi cinema’s finest actor ever but as an artist he was an epitome of…
Hierarchy, Dominance and Distress
Human beings are the most capable among the millions of life-forms on earth, but unfortunately their numerous capabilities cannot contribute adequately to reducing distress because of some highly undesirable traits…
In memory of Zoya Kosomdemyanskaya and Edith Lagos who laid their lives to battle tyranny
Zoya Kosomdemyanskaya –birth centenary year On November 29th, in 1941, Soviet partisan Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was mercilessly hanged at the age of 18 by German fascist soldiers during World War II.…
Five Characteristics of Neoimperialism
by Cheng Enfu & Lu Baolin Building on Lenin's Theory of Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century Neoimperialism is the specific contemporary phase of historical development that features the economic globalization…
Remembering Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was one of the world’s most famous and perceptive communist historians. He pioneered a distinctive shape to method of historical research. exploring areas untouched. Around two months…
International Disability Day
"The persons with disability do not need sympathy they need the dignity and honour that they deserve" It is the 3rd of December, and the day is observed as the…
Meet the Man Who Turned Disability into Ability
“He will be good for nothing without his arms. It is better that he dies otherwise who will take care of him?” was the reaction of Shreenarayan’s father when the…
What does it mean to be human? An Anarchist/Humanist Perspective
If you feel pain then you are alive. If you feel the pain of others then you are human. Leo Tolstoy Similar profound statements…
Why Does Our Skin Wrinkle in Water?
The pruning up of fingertips when we bathe or swim is a phenomenon of the human body that is so common and yet little understood. Despite many decades of scientific…
Jagdish Tirodkar: The departure of a gentle socialist
As a consequence of my fledgling activism in my student life to my dedicated commitment towards socialism till now, I found umpteen occasions to meet and interact with many people…
In memory of Aijaz Ahmad
Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) who passed away on March 9 at Irvine, California earlier this year, was a truly original Marxist thinker, who applied Marxist concepts to interpret various events of…
Remembering Surinder Kaur’s Great Contributions to Punjabi Music on Her Birth Anniversary
She may have left us 16 years ago, but on her birth anniversary November 25, Surinder Kaur is being remembered very fondly by her countless admirers in India, Pakistan, Canada,…
Professor Joma Sison and CPP
Professor Jose Marie Sison ranks amongst the most accomplished Marxist leaders, and writers, to have landed their feet into the Communist movement. Few leaders have contributed so much to shape…
Cricket in India and England, upper class dominance
Duncan Stone’s new book Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket has important lessons for Indian cricket and sports. It does not merely challenge the orthodoxy of English cricket,…
The Absence of Scientific Temper in the Land of Bose, Raman, and Salam
[I must begin with a “thank you” to the Indian Diaspora of Washington DC* and to Razi Saheb for letting me say a few words here. It is an honour…
Forever Young: Staughton Lynd
My dear friend Staughton Lynd died Thursday five days before what would have been his 93rd birthday. It is no overstatement to say that Staughton inspired millions of people around…
Macliing Dulag: The Man Who Died Defending the Cordillera, Its People, and Its Lands
If you mention the name of Macliing Dulag to a Cordilleran, you are going to arouse three possible responses. One, the person has no idea who Dulag was. Two, the…
History vis-a-vis Fiction: A Fascinating Dialectic
The much contested debate pertaining to the relationship between Literature and History dates back to the classical times. Beginning with Aristotle, there have been constant efforts to identify the links…
Sarabha to Saibaba: an unending story of state repression
November 16 marks the 107th martyrdom day of a towering revolutionary of the Indian freedom struggle. Kartar Singh Sarabha was executed in 1915 in British India for waging a war…
Alarming Data on Child Mental Health is a Wake-up Call for Honest Look at Social Malaise
If 1 out of 2 high school girls feel persistently sad or hopeless and one out of six students plan suicide in a year, isn’t it time for a society…
Millions Suffer as Junk Food Industry Rakes in Profit
Increased consumption of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) was associated with more than 10% of all-cause premature, preventable deaths in Brazil in 2019. That is the finding of a new peer-reviewed study in the American…
Jeremy Seabrook Has Brought Deep Sympathy and Brilliant Insights to Writings on the Unprivileged
There are few writers who have displayed such consistency and continuity in their writings on justice and concerns of the unprivileged as Jeremy Seabrook. His writings on these and other…
What Was Humanity’s First Cultural Revolution?
We live in a fast-moving, technology-dominated era. Happiness is fleeting, and everything is replaceable or disposable. It is understandable that people are drawn to a utopian vision. Many find refuge…
Memorial meeting for late civil liberties activist Japa Lakshma Reddy
Paying homage to stalwart and martyr of Civil Liberties Movement, Japa Lakshma Reddy, a public meeting under the supervision of Civil Rights Association Joint Karimnagar District Committee, was held on…
Allama Iqbal: Religion and Revolution
November 9, 2022, was the 145th birth anniversary of Allama Muhammad Iqbal – a globally renowned South Asian Muslim poet, and philosopher. The contemporary period of renewed cultural atavisms has…
Tribute to Chandra Pulla Reddy on 38th death anniversary
On November 9th yesterday, we commemorated the 38th death anniversary of Chandra Pulla Reddy, one of the most dedicated Communist revolutionaries of India. Confronting the darkest waters he combated revisionism…
Guru Nanak Birthday is a Time to Remember and Take Forward His Message of Social Justice, Harmony and Peace
by Bharat Dogra and Madhu Dogra A true mark of greatness is that the message conveyed by a person by work as well words, conduct as well as character, brings…
Shyam Benegal: The Master
Shyam Benegal ranks amongst the most defining architects of the art movement in Hindi cinema. Few directors transcended such layers in manifesting feudal or social oppression or displayed mastery at…
Widely pervasive mental health problems indicate a dysfunctional society requiring wider social reform
If very high and increasing mental health problems are reported from any society, then the most obvious response is to increase the availability of mental health services. However, if despite…
Tribute to E.H.Carr on 40th death anniversary
Today on November 3rd, we commemorate the 40th death anniversary of E.H.Carr who made an outstanding contribution as a liberal historian and gave a new dimension to method of historical…
Herman Daly passes away
Herman Daly passed away on 28th October. He was an ecological economist who championed steady state economics. In 1996, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "defining a path…
Tribute to Shamser Singh Sheri on 17th death anniversary
On October 30th we commemorate the 17th death anniversary of late Shamsher Singh Sheri. Shamser Singh Sheri is arguably the most defining figure of the Communist Revolutionary of Naxalite movement…
Tribute to Hrishikesh Mukherjee on birth Centenary
Late Hrishikesh Mukherjee more popularly known as ‘Hrishi Da’ just celebrated his birth centenary last month. Hrishi Da ranks amongst India’s most progressive and innovative film makers, exhibiting mastery in…
Emperor Akbar : The Forgotten Mughal
History is small fry to seasoned craftsmen like the RSS who can come up with dummies that look more authentic than the real. There is no better testimony to this…
Contractors are vandalising public parks in the name of beautification
Saw Aaditya Thackeray, the young, embattled Shiv Sena leader at a public event last week. He was cheerful, showed no sign of stress. Seems to have taken the recent political…
Helping Laura
There is not much that I can do for Laura except to extend myself in a loving way to her. I learned of her through a mutual friend and decided…
The Last Temptation of Things
Zero Waste Solution, Wareham, MA PHOTO: DAVID RATCLIFFE “I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.” – Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical…
The Attrition of Reason
(1) The so-called 'Western powers' in a rash bid to turn the Ukraine offensive into a nightmare for Russia and shell-shock the comity of nations that desperately yearn for peace…
Tribute to late Satya Narayan Singh
21st October marked the 38th death anniversary of Satyanarayan Singh (SNS). He was one of the pioneering leaders of the revolutionary party CPI (M-L), which was formed demarcating from the…
Occupational Diseases Pose Very Serious Threat to Health and Welfare of Workers
Occupational diseases constitute a much more serious risk to the health and welfare of workers than is normally realized. The International Labor Organization and the World Health Organization got together…
Tribute to SAR Geelani on 3rd Death Anniversary
It has been three years since Sayed Abdul Rahman Geelani known as SAR among his friends, at the age of 50, suddenly and much too soon, left us, on 24…
US Abortion Rights: Who Would Kill the Gander that Goosed a Golden Egg?
The suffering of US women under the iron heel of abortion is intensifying, especially for women of color. This makes it imperative to closely examine possible paths forward. As a…
Extensive Survey Brings Out High Levels of Alienation and Stress of Workers
There has been growing concern in recent years regarding the extent to which workers and employees are stressed in their work and have strong feelings of alienation. In this context…
Tribute to Jean Luc Goddard
Jean Luc Goddard who left us at age of 91 on 13th September, ranks amongst the greatest film makers ever .Godard, was a filmmaker, critic, essayist, polemicist, philosopher, scientist, a…
Workers Pay Very High Price of Industrial and Workplace Accidents
Accidents are a leading cause of human distress. However most discussion has been concentrated on road accidents while occupational accidents which affect mostly the working class have received comparatively…
Do you know that Research was always the core function of Ancient Museums?
When we talk about any museum, the first thing that comes to our mind is something that is, perhaps, old, past, historical, etc. But besides this, there are a few…
Veteran Communist Leader Tara Singh Chalaki passes away
On the morning of October 12, 2022 veteran communist revolutionary leader from Punjab, Tara Singh Chalaki passed away at his home in Mohali. For a considerable period he was ailing,…
Tribute to Nikolai Alexandrovich Semashko who pioneered Health System of USSR
Nikolai Alexandrovich Semashko was an outstanding scientist and was major architect in Soviet health care, the first People's Commissar of Health of the RSFSR, Academician of the USSR Academy of…
Remembering Ram Manohar Lohia on his death anniversary
Socialist thinker Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, whose death anniversary is today, often used to say that the life force of true democracy lies in the reversal of governments. He did…
Kumar Shiralkar – A comrade who steeled himself for the revolution
Kumar Shiralkar, activist, served the adivasis and other oppressed people for decades with great devotion and selflessness.. He in turn was so much loved by the adivasis that after his…
In memory of K.Balagopal on 13th Death anniversary
We commemorate the 13th death anniversary of K. Balagopal (1952-2009). Earlier this year we celebrated his 70th birthday. A mathematician, civil rights activist rolled into one and one of post-independent…
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