Why Gandhi Still Matters
Why does the world take notice of Gandhi? A clue may lie in what Albert Einstein said in 1939, “Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.”
Press Release: India Put on Sale by the Ruling Regime at the Centre
The so called ‘National Monetisation Pipeline’ announced by govt is nothing but a nefarious design to hand over all infrastructural assets to private hands virtually free for revenue generation by them without any obligation of capital cost and share a small part of that huge revenue with the Govt.
Corporatization of Agri and Retail Trade Will Cause Huge Employment Crisis
In the name of economic reforms, the government is promoting corporate interests: the farm laws are meant to benefit large agribusiness corporations; 100% FDI in food retail will enable companies such as Amazon to enter food retail, and destroy small and medium retail traders.
The Digital Davids
Neither NewsClick nor Newslaundry has altered the tenor of its reporting in the period between the two visits by the Enforcement Directorate and the income tax authorities this year. Both news portals expose politics, governance and the media establishment on a range of issues.
Post-Historical Political Necrophilia in Assam
In Assam, a Muslim body was not only gunned down, but a government photographer decided to humiliate it by jumping and kicking that body. After displaying such necrophilia, the photographer was hugged by some of the policemen present.
Re-Reading Rumi in the Time of the Taliban
There has been no better time for the world than now to discover the wisdom of Rumi without doing away with its religious context.
Feminist Icon Kamla Bhasin: Four Obituaries
Poet, scholar and activist Kamla Bhasin died on September 25 at the age of 75. For academics and students alike, she became an icon, and a touchstone for claiming feminism with innovative newness.
Hundreds of Thousands Take to Streets Worldwide for ‘Uproot the System’ Climate Strikes
“The climate crisis has not disappeared,” said Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. “It’s the opposite—it’s even more urgent now than it was before.”
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They Didn’t Have to Die: U.S. Capitalism Fails to Contain Covid-19
There’s nothing equal about disease under capitalism. It wasn’t inevitable that one out of 35 people older than 85 in the U.S. died of COVID-19.
How Corporations Won the War on Terror
Based on a report he did on the subject for the Center for International Policy and Brown University’s Costs of War Project, Pentagon specialist William Hartung offers a vision of wartime “success” that may be unparalleled amid the catastrophe of this country’s endlessly losing wars.