November 2002. It was an unusual audience at the Music Academy in Chennai, drawn there by an unusually eloquent speaker. The giant hoardings in the city calling attention to a ‘Communal Harmony Meet’ had drawn my attention too, having just returned from Gujarat after listening to painful personal stories from the victims of the ‘riots.’ I had dropped everything else[Read More…]
Zakir Naik Quotes from the Quran, He Quotes from the Vedas, He Quotes from the Upanishads, from the Puranas, He Quotes from the Bible, Torah, Guru Granth Sahib etc etc. ie He Quotes from almost all Religious scriptures. His debates include ‘Similarities between Islam and Hinduism’, ‘between Islam and Bible’ and so on –He has a fantastic memory and can[Read More…]
This time Eid celebrations, for me, were hollow, void and barren, not because that I could not make it to my home on eid, but more so because of the fact that the preceding month; the holy month of Ramzan, has witnessed series of tragic/unholy attacks from Orlando, Istanbul to Dhaka and Masjid-e-nabwi in Medina. These traumatizing terrorist attacks have[Read More…]
Ukraine Update: Four Regions In Southern Ukraine Vote To Join Russia 
Anirban Biswas – A Man of Unrelenting Dreams 
90th anniversary of the Poona Pact 
English India In The Making 
Implications of Netaji’s statue at India Gate 
22 Organisations protest against imposition of Section 144 in Sangrur 
Four Straight Years of Nonstop Street Protest in Haiti 
Creating the Good Anthropocene: Towards a Socialist Future 
Yes, to Water, No to Oil! 
Paradigm for peace applied to Russia, Ukraine and the US – Finale Part I 
Remembering Shankar Guha Niyogi on his death anniversary 
Birth anniversary of shaheed Bhagat Singh 
Introducing Giorgia Meloni: How the United States Opened the Door for Fascism’s Return to Italy 
We Have Seen This Movie Before: The Fascists Have Arrived 
To All Who Care about Humanity’s and the Planet’s Future – Petition Campaign 
Outlook Is Darkening: Warns EU Central Bank 
UK Pound Absolutely Hammered As It Slides To Its Lowest Level Against U.S. Dollar Since 1971 
India should care for its elder citizens 
Whitewashing at Shinzo Abe’s State Funeral 
Manual Scavenging: Deep Rooted Problem In India 
Shankar Guha Niyogi and experiments of revolutionary creation 
Why Are Wild Horses Brutally Uprooted From Public Lands While Private Livestock Can Stay? 
Open Letter to the MAGA Crowd 
Avoiding a War without a Winner: How we Could Ease the Deadly US-China Dispute 
Indian Diaspora becoming vanguards of assertive Hindutva 
Away with all Babadom? A Peace Proposal that Can Give More Immediate Results in Ukraine 
Aadhaar number database, a tool for electoral ‘surveillance’ 
The Narmada Sardar Sarovar Project – The truth about the dam(ned) delay 
Starting A Dialogue 
Defying Warning, Iranians’ Anti-hijab Protest Continues For 10th Night: 57 Deaths 
From Exodus to Marvel: A Brief History of Hollywood’s Justification of Israeli War Crimes 
Towards Understanding Injustice, Inequality, Violence and Social Problems Blocking Human Progress 
The AGE of FLOWERS 
Russian Holiday; A War Time Travelogue 
Shaheed Hospital, created and nurtured by workers, is an inspiration for people’s movement for health for all 
In memory of Darshan Singh Canadian on martyrdom anniversary 
Europe’s Unquestioning Following of USA on Ukraine is as Harmful for its Own Interests as it is for World Peace Is the USA Scoring Self-Goals With Its Ukraine Policy? 
Should We Abolish Examinations? 
Havoc and misery caused by recent floods in Bengaluru, Pakistan and Assam are not only natural disasters but are man made and due to climate change. Over exploitation of urban land and water resources by greedy private real estate developers perhaps the chief cause of floods. Media relentlessly focused on flooded upscale villas, their swanky automobiles of super rich in[Read More…]
