Cuba’s Vaccine Shield and the Five Monopolies that Structure the World
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Cuba’s Vaccine Shield and the Five Monopolies that Structure the World

We live in a time of ‘three apartheids’ – those of food, money, and medicine, which are a result of the control that a handful of monopoly companies exercise over the global economy. Cuba’s development of five different vaccine candidates, which it plans to export to countries around the world, challenges the medicine apartheid.

Thinking with Gandhi: The Meaning of Moral Courage and the Evil of Inequality
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Thinking with Gandhi: The Meaning of Moral Courage and the Evil of Inequality

If we think with Gandhi, then we can come to nonviolence only after passing through two other terms first – courage and evil. An account of nonviolence that does not spring from an understanding of courage and evil runs away from what is most thought-provoking in Gandhi.

Lakshadweep: The New Administration’s Call and the Impending Ecological Crisis
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Lakshadweep: The New Administration’s Call and the Impending Ecological Crisis

This article is an attempt to bring forth the ecological and environmental disasters that await over a fragile ecosystem, as a consequence of the new rules and regulations of the recently appointed administrator of Lakshadweep, Praful Khoda Patel.