Capitalism Is Making You Lonely
Long before the coronavirus pandemic, we were amid a growing crisis of loneliness. The problem isn’t social media, popular culture, or city living — it’s capitalism.
Leaked Report of the IPCC Reveals that the Growth Model of Capitalism Is Unsustainable
The second draft of the IPCC Group III report, focused on mitigation strategies, states that we must move away from the current capitalist model to avoid surpassing planetary boundaries and climate and ecological catastrophe.
Seven Medalists at Tokyo, Seven Hundred Crowd the Podium
The Indian athletes at Tokyo gave it all they could but a familiar ugliness has surfaced after the event. Officials, politicians, and sponsors are jumping on to the bandwagon of the medallists, while some who failed face the wrath of officials.
Neo-liberalism and Nationhood
There are crucial differences between the anti-colonial nationalism of the third world countries and European bourgeois nationalism. That is why the third world countries adopted a dirigeste capitalist development strategy, that insulated peasant agriculture from domestic and foreign capitalists. Neoliberalism is undermining this.
Hands that Deliver Food are Struggling to Feed Themselves
Despite the new labour reform codes covering gig workers and providing them social security benefits, the exploitation of food delivery executives, especially after the pandemic, continues. With the codes still not implemented, they stare at a dark future.
UGC Framework – a Communalised Caricature of Indian History
The University Grants Commission’s draft history syllabus has dropped books by well-known historians, such as DD Kosambi, R S Sharma, DN Jha and Irfan Habib. The objective seems to be to glorify mythology rather than history, as also deny any Dravidian links to Harappan culture.
Why the Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference Is Not ‘Hindu-phobic’
The event seeks to bring a long-delayed global awareness about the operations of an exclusionary and discriminatory ideology.
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Remembrance Must be an Act Affirming Man’s Humanity, Three Haunting Partition Classics Tell Us
Though unlike one another in tone and texture, ‘Adaab’, ‘Toba Tek Singh’ and ‘Garm Hawa’ have the same point of departure: that religion as the primary marker of identity is as irrational as it is abhorrent.
Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation
A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the United States. Most of this nonsense hides a number of important truths.
Afghanistan Redux: Malala Yousafzai, White Feminism and Saving Afghan Women
Malala’s “voice” has been turned into its opposite in the capitalist neocolonial economic model that extracts what is of use to it and puts it to a different purpose to serve its own agendas. She is now serving at the behest of her “handlers”—the white feminists who are poised to “save brown women from brown men.”