Pilgrimage to India: When Martin Luther King Jr followed in Gandhi’s footsteps
After a month-long visit to India in 1959, the civil rights leader was convinced that non-violence was the best way forward for the African-American struggle.
Gandhi’s Ideas Against Use of Violence to Achieve Political Objectives Ring True Today
Violence stamps the body politic with its cloven hoof; it reduces isolated acts of resistance to spectacle and diminishes the political public to an audience.
The New ‘Republic of Fear’
The law in India has been weaponised by the state as the most effective tool of persecution of all those who dissent. We are now in a paradoxical situation where constitutional values professed by the state are being violated in the name of upholding the law.
The ‘Love Jihad’ Bogey in Kashmir Is Another Attempt to Deny Women Freedom of Choice
This hate propaganda assumes that adult women who consent to relationships with Muslims are gullible and must be rescued by gallant men.
How Assam is Turning Beef into a Federal Issue
Assam’s new Cattle Preservation Bill violates Article 48 of the Constitution and will give a fillip to vigilantism.
Eleven People Are Dying of Hunger Every Minute—Outpacing Covid Fatalities: Oxfam
From the recently released Oxfam report: “The Hunger Virus Multiplies: Deadly Recipe of Conflict, Covid-19, and Climate Accelerate World Hunger”. Plus an extract from the latest annual UN report – “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World”.
Billionaire Dynasties: Vampires on Humanity
The first decades of the 21st century have been a gilded age for the world’s super-rich. While the mass of humanity has struggled through successive economic crises, accelerating environmental breakdown and now a devastating global pandemic, billionaire wealth has risen to dizzying heights.
No Climate Future Without System Change
The climate movement can challenge the capitalist system that threatens to destroy the conditions for life and civilisation on this planet only in international cooperation with the workers’ struggle, the women’s struggle, the fight against racism, and other movements.
India Must Halt Mass Eviction that Threatens to Leave 100,000 Homeless – UN Experts
“We call on India to urgently review its plans for razing Khori Gaon and to consider regularizing the settlement so as not to leave anyone homeless,” the experts said. “No one should be forcibly evicted without adequate and timely compensation and redress.”
Over 60 Lakh Central and State Govt Posts Lying Vacant
Filling up these posts itself would contribute to reducing the raging joblessness that has haunted India in the past several years, but the government does not seem to care.