Hathras Rape – Three Poems
In a land where / Dalits cannot rule, they cannot rage, or even mourn. / This has happened before, this will happen again.
From Khairlanji to Hathras, Rape Story Repeats Itself for Dalit Women
India cannot ignore the context of caste and see Hathras, Balrampur, Khairlanji or thousands of other assaults merely as sexual crimes.
Gandhi’s Swadeshi and Our Civilisational Pandemic
In the call for an ‘atmanirbhar’ Bharat to overcome the COVID-19 crisis is a visceral appeal to Gandhi’s swadeshi. However, in spirit and intent, it’s a violation not just of Gandhi’s swadeshi but of everything he stands for.
What Swaraj Meant to Gandhi – and Why the Government Wants to Bury that Vision of Freedom
The ideas of justice and the primacy of the individual form the bedrock of the Gandhian world view.
The Revolutionary Beethoven
In the year of the great composer’s 250th birthday, we can retune our ears to pick up the subversive and passionately democratic nature of his music.
When Men Legally Controlled Women
100 years after the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, when women got the right to vote in all 50 states, the gains made by women in the USA are under siege. Let us continue the fight, we have so much more to achieve, says Jill.
Palestinians Are Not Numbers: On the Future of the Palestinian Discourse
Numbers are not meant to tell the story of the human condition, nor should they ever serve as a substitute for emotions.
Charlie Chaplin and Karl Marx in Conversation
Marx called his version of human nature species being. Modern Times is really about species being—our fundamental needs, our drive not to be dehumanized, the survival of our spirits as well as our bodies, the full expression of this limited creature.
This Vanishing Moment and Our Vanishing Future
Reading about John Hersey’s Hiroshima experience in a world that somehow refuses to grasp, even on an increasingly apocalyptic planet, what nuclear war truly means.
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Two: Running Low on Oxygen
The ocean is losing its breath, with deadly effects on marine life and the biogeochemical cycles that shape the entire biosphere.