Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity
Treating water as a tradable commodity puts a basic human right into the hands of financial institutions and investors.
Is this the Golden Age of Ram’s Kingdom?
Modern jurisprudence in India can be compared with justice that prevailed during Lord Ram’s reign. While there are many differences with these ancient precepts, commonalities in both legal codes are interesting.
Remembering Munshi Premchand on His 140th Birth Anniversary: The Jamia Connection
Premchand wrote his last story ‘Kafan’ in the Jamia campus. It was written at the request of Professor Aqeel, editor of Jamia Millia Islamia’s in-house magazine.
The CIA’s Secret Global War Against the Left
Forty-five years ago, under a cloak of secrecy, Operation Condor was officially launched: a global campaign of violent repression against the Latin American left by the region’s quasi-fascist military dictatorships. The US government not only knew about the program—it helped to engineer it.
The Voracious Reader
For Fidel, reading was a source of knowledge and intellectual pleasure. We must foster this irreplaceable passion.
Marx Didn’t Invent Socialism, Nor Did He Discover It
An examination of the historical context in which Marx made his contributions to economics and history.
Support the Struggle of the Farmers: It Is Our Struggle Too
The farm laws will lead to the corporatisation of agriculture and its control by foreign agribusiness corporations. Our very food sovereignty and thus the sovereignty of the country itself is at stake.
Banking License to Corporates — A Very Bad Idea
Can we hand over our public sector banks to the very same very same delinquents, defaulters & dodgers who are responsible for the losses being incurred by these banks?
The Heroism of Khudai Khidmatgars in Today’s India
The documentary maker explains the context to a short film he has assembled about arrested communal harmony activist Faisal Khan.
Real Power Is with Centre, Which Holds the Purse-Strings
Post 2014, two centralisations – of political and economic power – continue to reinforce each other, with profound consequences for the country and potential to define popular narrative in days ahead.