Let us eat our way to the Revolution!
A few days ago, as Navratri overlapped with Eid, I found myself staying with a Bengali friend’s family in a pocket of Uttar Pradesh on the edge of New Delhi.…
Satya Sagar
Trump, as America’s Gorbachev
He’s not as affable, well-meaning and certainly not at all a truth-seeker of the same kind. In terms of his potential historical impact though US President Donald Trump is destined…
America’s ‘Year Zero’ Moment
They are not clad in black pyjama-like fatigues or have a ‘krama’ – the Cambodian traditional scarf- around their necks. Nor are they particularly young and idealistic. And yet, in…
Understanding the Rise of Javier Milei
Javier Milei, an outspoken right-wing libertarian economist, took Argentina's political establishment by storm when he was elected to the country’s parliament in 2021. A former radio show host and media…
2024: Rebuilding the Global Left
Writing about the passing year, a friend of mine recently lamented the state of the world, expressing a very bleak view of the future. It was doom and gloom everywhere…
What Would Jesus Do in Gaza?
Note: Bereft of any ideas of my own and in complete desperation I asked an AI software program, ‘What would Jesus do in Gaza?’ The result was this article in…
“If we burn, you burn with us!”
As anyone who has watched the hugely popular Hunger Games series of movies can testify, the dystopian, totalitarian nation of Panem it depicts is eerily similar to the world we…
Echoes of Mullivaikal in Gaza
The daily death and destruction in Gaza has evoked painful memories for Tamils everywhere of a similar carnage half a world away in Mullivaikal, the coastal village that became the…
Give Israel and Palestine EU Membership And Implement A Marshall Plan
A two-state solution, with both Israel and the newly formed nation of Palestine getting automatic membership of the European Union. Plus, a Marshall Plan-like initiative funded by the US, UK…
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