Pew Survey on Religion Shows Indians are Hypocrites
The claim of Indians that they respect all religions does not square up with their attitudes towards religious communities to which they do not belong.
The Cinematograph Act Always Gave the Govt Too Much Power. That’s Why We Challenged it.
As we stand at the intersection of freedom and state control, the judiciary is the only hope. Though that hope has also faded in recent years, our challenge is to not give up the Sisyphean fight to set governmental authoritarianism at naught.
Let’s Have Some Power with Our Pride
Every civilised country grants dignity, rights and protection to citizens regardless of identity. It is about time India does so too. For this, it is important that LGBTQIA+ leaders enter electoral politics because without political power their pride will always be challenged.
Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-state
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a death knell to so many industries in Afghanistan. Charities and aid agencies have even warned that the economic dislocation could spark widespread famine. But one sector is still booming: the illicit opium trade.
The New Cold War on China
Just as the USA declared a Cold War against the Soviet Union and China in the 1940s-50s, as part of a grand strategy to secure its global hegemony in the immediate post-Second World War era, today it is declaring a New Cold War on China in the interest of maintaining that same imperial hegemony.
Living on a Sci-Fi Planet
Once upon a time, who could have imagined that humanity would inherit the kinds of apocalyptic powers previously left to the gods or that, when we finally noticed them, we would prove eerily unable to respond?
The G7’s Tax Reform Could Entrench Global Inequality
The tax proposal decided at the G7 Finance Ministers’ meeting last weekend has been hailed as ‘historic’ and ‘transformative’. But in its present form, it is, unfortunately, neither.
Germany’s Namibia Genocide Apology and the Limits of Decolonizing the Past
On the ramifications of the recent agreement between the German and Namibian governments for special “reconciliation and reconstruction” projects to benefit the Ovaherero and Nama communities that were directly affected by colonial genocide.
Critical Race Theory: What It Is and What It Isn’t
In the USA, “Critical race theory” has, in recent times, become a catch-all phrase among legislators attempting to ban a wide array of teaching practices concerning race.
Critique of the Misunderstanding Concerning Marx’s Base-Superstructure Spatial Metaphor
A clarification of the famed and famously misinterpreted spatial metaphor of the economic foundation and the political-legal superstructure.