Demonizing Kashmiris!
(The greatest achievement of the present central government has been demonizing of Kashmiris throughout India!) The incidents of beating Kashmiri students in different institutions in India have been spreading like…
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Trump Henchman coming Trump College of Law Over my dead body unopposed!
Iran Is ‘Not Alone’: Interview With Andre Vltchek
Andre Vltchek interviewed by Mostafa Afzalzadeh Q – M.A.: Why do you think the western countries are trying to use people against Iran and not use military force? What is…
Trump’s National Security Strategy: A Strategy Of Thuggery And Intimidation
During his national security speech last Monday, December 18th Trump introduced his administration’s new “America First” national security strategy in a surprisingly unaccustomed calm and calculated mannerism that is…
CNN Breaks Story On Slave Trade In Libya; French Government Voices Concern For African Migrants
The world we find ourselves in is complex and full of contradictions. It is easy to fall for rudimentary textbook propaganda based on simplistic dichotomies, such as ‘the good guys…
A Triumph Of Accountancy: The Paradise Papers
This was another case of the big and the powerful undercutting the tax systems of the world. But could anyone be genuinely surprised at the revelations to come out of…
Populism And The Current Crisis In Liberalism
The vacuum populism creates for itself after digging the grave of liberalism reveals that it faces its own ‘crisis of replacement’. It is the same paradox which Gramsci had faced,…
UN Must Take A Leaf From The Global Grassroots BDS Movement
Among ongoing outrageous actions and in defiance of international law, Israel’s HabayitHayehudi party has just approved a plan for annexing the remaining occupied Palestinian territory “while either facilitating the…
The Flawed Institution: Australian Marriage And The Same-Sex Debate
It’s a pretty curious thing to see: marriage being defended at all. Like slavery, and not necessarily inconsistent with it, marriage is an institution. It embraces codes. It imparts obligations,…
Walk For Pluralist India Held In Vancouver
A Walk for Pluralist India against growing attacks on religious minorities under Modi government was held here on Sunday evening. Organized by the Indians Abroad for Pluralist India (IAPI), the…
Hadiya Case: A Potpourri of Conversion, Marriage And Security Case
The case related to annulment of interreligious marriage between a Muslim groom and Hindu turned Muslim bride by the Kerala High Court has caught the imagination of the entire…
Stopping Hate Crimes!
There are two states that I think are best in my country, USA. That’s here in MA where I live and VT. My state is called the pinko (meaning communist)…
UK Indians March For Communal Harmony
In a massive show of strength hundreds of Indians living in United Kingdom gathered at Tavistock Square to express their disapproval of the politics of hatred and growing incidents of…
Surayya Badruddin Tayyabji: The Woman Behind Indian National Flag
When the people of the country hoist flag and celebrate ' independence ' they rarely think about the woman who was responsible in designing the flag. The hindutva forces rarely…
India, United By Blood : Pune Stands Up For Communal Harmony
This year, the country celebrates the 75th Anniversary of one of the most glorious chapters of our Freedom Struggle, the Quit India Movement, that was launched on August 9, 1942.…
Heroes and Sheroes of Plural India – Akshay Brahmachari
This article is part of a series called “Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India” under #AnHourForCommunalHramony campaign to celebrate the Heroes and Sheroes who struggled to shape modern India in…
Rana Ayyub To Be Honoured In Surrey
Courageous author and journalist Rana Ayyub - who exposed the involvement of the Indian officials in the systematic killings of Muslims will be honoured by Radical Desi in Surrey, Canada…
Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India: Savitribai Phule
This article is part of a series called “Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India” under #AnHourForCommunalHramony campaign to celebrate the Heroes and Sheroes who struggled to shape modern India…
To Mark The 75th Anniversary of Quit India Movement/August Revolution “Anti-Constitutional Elements Quit Power” Rally
9th August 2017 will be the 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement. To mark the occasion, the Socialist Party has decided to organize “Anti-Constitutional Elements Quit Power” rally in…
Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India: Nangeli
This article is part of a series called “Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India” under #AnHourForCommunalHramony campaign to celebrate the Heroes and Sheroes who struggled to shape modern India…
An Open Letter To The Heads Of All Churches And Other Christian Leaders
We, as Indian Christians, are concerned at the steady shift we see in our country from a pluralist, secular, democracy to a Hindu Rashtra. What used to be fringe, has…
Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India:Suresh Bhagat and Girija Devi, Muhammad Zahir And Others
I am dedicating this piece to all the common people who, in their small but significant ways have stood up for peace and communal harmony that unequivocally underlines the cultural…
Lokayat And Socialist Party (India) Celebrate Independence Day With Various Programmes
FREEDOM WEEK PROGRAMS: August 9 - 15 This year, the country celebrates the 75th Anniversary of one of the most glorious chapters of our Freedom Struggle, the Quit India Movement,…
Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India : Pujari Laldas
He was the chief priest in the Ram janmabhoomi temple and he vehemently opposed the actions of hindutva forces responsible of demolition of Babri Masjid and the riots that followed…
Rally In Solidarity With #NotInMyName Held In BC, Canada
The first public rally by Indians Abroad for Pluralist India (IAPI) in Surrey on Sunday evening received a welcoming response. Organized in solidarity with #NotInMyName campaign against ongoing violence against…
Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India: Fatima Sheikh
This article is part of a series called “Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India” under #AnHourForCommunalHramony campaign to celebrate the Heroes and Sheroes who struggled to shape modern India…
Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
This article is part of a series called "Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India" under #AnHourForCommunalHramony campaign to celebrate the Heroes and Sheroes who struggled to shape modern India in…
Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India: Komuram Bheem
This article is part of a series called #HeroesAndSheroesOfPluaralIndia under #AnHourForCommunalHramony campaign. This series will celebrate the Heroes and Sheroes who struggled to shape modern India in all its plurality.…
Rally For Pluralist India In Canada
Sunday, July 30, 5.00 PM Surrey City Hall Plaza 13450 104 Avenue, Surrey, BC There has been a systematic attack on the rich pluralist society and culture of India since…
Musings On The Eve Of Hindu Rashtra
You can smell it at a distance, in the burnt out, blackened frames of torched homes and vehicles from yet another communal pogrom. You can see it in the…
Come Visit My Home, Be My Guest
Visit My Home, Be My Guest is a simple campaign directed to change the preconceived notions and opinions that we hold about people of other community, class, caste, religion, sexual…
Wilfred Owen, We Need Your Voice Today!
Experssing the horror of war Wilfred Owen and his mentor, Siegfried Sassoon were two poets who eloquently described the horrors of World War I. They met in a military hospital,…
Simplified Proposals To Resolve The World Conflagrations, Part II – Syria
The American Revolution has characteristics that guide understanding of the Syrian insurrection. In both situations, ardent and semi-popular groups rebelled against injustices and hoped to create new regimes. In…
Trump Is Tragically Off Course
Last spring Donald Trump was widely viewed as a petulant oddity in the primary race. Nonetheless, he won the electoral vote; and here we are – an unprepared commander-in-chief who…
Microfinance Needs To Realign Its Focus
Today, microfinance -- an approach to financial inclusion based on providing small loans and other financial services to poor people, primarily women -- is a global multi-billion dollar industry with…
Trump Fires Acting Attorney General, Pushes Ahead With Ban On Refugees
US President Donald Trump fired the acting attorney general, Sally Yates, an Obama administration holdover, after she defied instructions to defend Trump’s executive order banning the entry of refugees and…
Chaos At The Airports: Blocking Trump’s Executive Order
The diary of this particular US administration is bound to be heavy with incident. Executive orders are now coming out of the Trump administration at pace, and the question of…
Trump: The Defeat Of Science
Defeats are supposed to teach people how to do better; in theory. In practice, it often happens that defeats teach people how to become masters in blame-shifting. With some exceptions,…
The Women’s Boat To Gaza Activists Are Free And Undeterred
“If you’re listening to this, then you will know that myself and all the women who sailed on the Women’s Boat to Gaza have been arrested and are in detention…
Congress’s Take On The Heroin Epidemic
A heroin epidemic is on fire all across America. Heroin deaths shot up from 1,779 in 2001 to 10,574 in 2014 as Afghan opium poppy fields metastasized from 7,600 hectares…
Claims Of Exoneration: The Case Of Slobodan Milošević
Every age needs its cult of demonology. It creates a social target of unified indignation and moral outrage. Finally, we can find a figure, prey upon it, and feel good…
National Fish Workers Forum Passes Resolution Against New Commercial Ports And Demands Scheduled Tribe Status For Fisher People
The Annual Executive Committee meeting of National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) was held on August 11th and 12th at the Govt. Guest House, Pondicherry. The following are the decisions made and…
Still The Political Project Calls To Us
“But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.”—Friedrich Nietzsche, The New Idol,Thus Spoke…
Neoliberal Australia Re-elects War Criminal, Climate Criminal, Pro-Apartheid, Child-abusing Coalition Government
In July 2016 a substantially ignorant, greedy, racist, pro-Zionist, US lackey, extreme right-wing and neoliberal Murdochracy Australia re-elected (albeit by a wafer-thin margin) a mendacious, corrupt, anti-equity, anti-science, anti-environment,…
MDR-TB Treatment Regimen: Short Indeed Is Effective
WHO recently announced new recommendations to speed up diagnosis and improve treatment outcomes for multi drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) through the use of a novel rapid diagnostic test…
The Ethics Of Asylum In Early Muslim Society
This paper examines the historical events related to asylum for Muslim refugees in the formative years of Islam and its impact upon the development of the first Muslim community…
Ruby Rai And The Joke Called Juvenile Justice
The Bihar police have arrested Ruby Rai, a 17-year-old girl, under Sections 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, and 120(B) of the India Penal Code on 26 June 2016 and have…
Towards A TB Free India: It Cannot Be A Lone Battle
(CNS): India carries the highest global burden of TB - a curable disease that kills one Indian every 90 seconds. There are 2.2 million new cases of TB in…
Big Brother’s Virtual Reality
A billboard for Comcast pitches a lineup of “reality” shows, with this caption, “Recommended for you. Because real reality is boring.” In contemporary America, real reality is also less…
Exciting Artifacts Discovered On Second Expedition To Antikythera Shipwreck
Stories about shipwrecks on the regular trade routes round the world have always been exciting news. And most of us are only familiar with the Titanic and the treasures unearthed…
$50 Oil Doesn’t Work
$50 per barrel oil is clearly less impossible to live with than $30 per barrel oil, because most businesses cannot make a profit with $30 per barrel oil. But is…
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