Remembering Maulana Azad: A Votary of Hindu–Muslim Unity
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Remembering Maulana Azad: A Votary of Hindu–Muslim Unity

Firoz Bakht Ahmed In the Shahjahanabadi old city of Delhi, between the Jama Masjid and the Red Fort, both monuments reminding of the Mughal pristine glory, a green and glossy patch covers an area where once stood the houses of the Muslim nobility. They were leveled after the Indian revolt against the British in 1857….

Recalling the Million+ Victims of America’s Endless ‘War on Terror’
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Recalling the Million+ Victims of America’s Endless ‘War on Terror’

Dave Lindorff September 17, 2019: Now that the flags are back, waving from the tops of flagpoles across the country, and the maudlin paeans to the close to 3,000 lives lost in the airplane attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, it’s time we gave a thought to the…

On October 2, 1947, Why Did Gandhi Say He Was Ashamed That He Was Still Alive?

On October 2, 1947, Why Did Gandhi Say He Was Ashamed That He Was Still Alive?

Courtesy: The Wire The plans to officially mark Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary are on course. At the ground level, however, the ugly face of communalism continues to rear its head in one virulent incident after another. It was an issue which agitated Gandhi until his dying breath and, in fact, was uppermost in his…

Impoverished Economics? Unpacking the Economics Nobel Prize
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Impoverished Economics? Unpacking the Economics Nobel Prize

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven This week it was announced that Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the Economics Nobel Prize (or more accurately: the ‘Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel’). The trio of economists were awarded the prize for “their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. On social media…

Grassroots Communication Fights Back! A Conversation with Jessica Pernia
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Grassroots Communication Fights Back! A Conversation with Jessica Pernia

Cira Pascual Marquina [Jessica Pernia is a founding member of Tatuy TV, a community television station in the Venezuelan city of Merida. The Tatuy TV team, which is committed to defending Chavez’s communal project, produces a variety of audiovisual and written reports on the struggles of working-class Venezuelans. In this interview Pernia, also a journalism…

Gandhi’s Idea of Cleanliness and Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

Gandhi’s Idea of Cleanliness and Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

Sandeep Pandey Mahatma Gandhi’s spectacles are being used as an emblem for Government of India’s sanitation campaign Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA). Even though Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, the ideological parent of ruling Bhartiya Janata Party, abhors Gandhi’s ideology, yet Narendra Modi has decided to use Gandhi as a symbol for his drive for cleanliness. First, he…

FDI in Coal: Why Our Mineral Resources Should Remain in Public Hands
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FDI in Coal: Why Our Mineral Resources Should Remain in Public Hands

Courtesy: News Click Joan Robinson, the well-known economist, had drawn attention to a fundamental difference between foreign direct investment (FDI) in the manufacturing sector and in a sector that extracted an exhaustible resource, such as a mineral product. This difference can be illustrated with an example. Suppose in both sectors profits worth Rs 100 are…

The Return of Fascism in Contemporary Capitalism
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The Return of Fascism in Contemporary Capitalism

Samir Amin It is not by chance that the very title of this contribution links the return of fascism on the political scene with the crisis of contemporary capitalism. Fascism is not synonymous with an authoritarian police regime that rejects the uncertainties of parliamentary electoral democracy. Fascism is a particular political response to the challenges…