How Did Gandhi Win? Lessons from the Salt March
Gandhi’s demands were ridiculed and his settlement with the British disappointed many. But the Salt March was a key symbolic win that spurred India’s independence movement toward victory.
Farmers Prepare for Historic Bandh on Sept 27 – Four Articles
Ground Down by Hardship, Farmers Ready for Historic Bandh on Sept 27; Mass Mobilisation of Farmers in UP for Bharat Bandh; Reports from Punjab and Odisha; Farmers’ Protest Spreads to Avadh and Purvanchal.
From Remote Villages to Metro Cities, Scheme Workers Strike Work for Regularisation of Services
Led by the Joint Platform of Scheme Workers Federations, ASHAs, along with workers engaged in anganwadis, mid-day meal scheme and National Health Mission also demanded a legislation on ‘right to universal healthcare’.
How A Year of Covid-19 Financially Dented India’s Middle Class
For Indians who had newly joined the growing middle class, the economic crisis following the pandemic has dealt a severe blow.
Warming in the Himalayas Is Pushing the Indian Subcontinent Towards Water Insecurity
As climate change will impact water availability in the Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra, megacities like Delhi and Lahore will face the brunt, finds a study.
Muslim Stereotyping in Hindi Films: ‘We Cannot Allow Ourselves to Forget What Constitutes Us’
The representation of Muslims in cinema is complex: it involves both surrender and pushback, says renowned film scholar Ira Bhaskar.
Remembering Occupy Wall Street 10 Years Later: The Movement Moment that Revived the U.S. Left
Ten years ago this fall a protest movement took root in Lower Manhattan that transformed how we think about inequality and reinvigorated the Left.
Defending the Legacy of Chile’s 2019 Uprising
The social movement left is having an outsized impact on Chile’s Constitutional Convention — combined with pressure from the streets, another Chile is possible.
Mexico Got Rid of a Prominent Columbus Statue. Neo-Colonial Economic Policies Should Fall Next
The statue of an indigenous woman will soon replace a prominent statue of Christopher Columbus in the heart of Mexico City. While is a strong symbolic attack on colonialism, the Mexican government should do more to challenge neo-colonialist policies driven by today’s foreign powers.
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Wendell Berry on Capitalism, Advertising, Greed, and the Good Life
“We live in a time when technologies and ideas are adopted in response not to need but to advertising, salesmanship, and fashion. The first duty of writers who wish to be of any use even to themselves is to resist the language and the ideas of sales talk, no matter from whose mouth it issues.”