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In his foreword to Kavitha Iyer’s book ‘Landscapes of Loss’, P. Sainath writes about the commodification of water and the thriving ‘thirst economy’ in the Marathwada region.
More than 30,000 Cuban health professionals are currently in 66 nations, helping them in the fight against the pandemic. Another 30,000 doctors who have graduated from Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine are also serving in countries around the world.
Human beings are not good or bad in any absolute sense. We are complex beings with the capacity for both selfishness and generosity, kindness and cruelty, and so on. The sort of society we live in makes a huge difference to how this potential is expressed.
Reports from mahapanchayats at Lakhnaur (Saharanpur district), Munderwa (Basti district), Barabanki (eastern UP), and Barnala (Punjab). With harvesting season coming, focus shifts on youth and workers to keep Delhi morchas running.
For over two weeks, the Myanmarese people have been organizing militant protests against the military coup that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Also, an interview with Stephen Campbell, an expert on the labour movement in Myanmar and Thailand.
Millions of workers took part in the general strike on February 24, according to the South African Federation of Trade Unions which called for the labour action.
Ahmedabad hosts a Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram, the iconic monument where values and foundation of Indian democracy evolved through decades of freedom movement. Now the city also hosts a five star Narendra Modi stadium, a new monument named after our seven star prime minister.
A year has passed since the Delhi riots, but victims still long for justice, as the state continues to launch a vilification campaign against activists.
Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against activists like Disha Ravi.
The BJP has mounted a sustained attempt to dismantle all democratic institutions within the University so that democratic resistance to the saffronisation and auctioning off of higher education is broken.
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