‘Garm Hava’ Gave Space for Indian Muslims in Mainstream Films
The legendary director speaks to Sidharth Bhatia about his early career as an art director and how ‘Garm Hava’ came to be made.
The Poet in the Republic
Plato had banished poets from his utopian republic, fearing their lies. India is doing the opposite.
The Forgotten History of the Jewish, Anti-Zionist Left
A conversation with scholar Benjamin Balthaser about Jewish, working-class anti-Zionism in the 1930s and ’40s.
Monolithic Concept of Ramayana is anti-Ramayana
Nepal Prime Minister Oli has initiated a debate that what is known as Ayodhya in India is not original and the original Ayodhya is in Nepal.
Making Indian Cities Habitable: The Legacy of Patrick Geddes
The social & environmental problems of a rapidly urbanising India were anticipated a century ago by the Scottish town planner Patrick Geddes.
75 Years After Trinity: The Human Cost of Nuclear Tests
Talk of new U.S. testing deeply concerns those who have first-hand knowledge of nuclear devastation.
Thawing Arctic Permafrost; Greta Thunberg and Others Release Letter Demanding Action on Climate Emergency – Two Articles
The letter cites recent United Nations scientific reports from which “even a child can see that the climate and ecological crisis cannot be solved within today’s system.”
Colombia’s Disappeared
Hundreds of thousands of people in Latin America have been disappeared, mostly by state security forces (lavishly funded by the US); Colombia accounts for a substantial number of these …
The Great American Firewall: On the Question of Censorship
It should not surprise anyone that China would take protective measures against the threat of U.S. imperialism in the realm of cyber technology.
U.S. and Israel Wage War of Sabotage Against Iran
The U.S.-Israeli strategy is “a series of short-of-war clandestine strikes.”