They Cannot Silence Dabholkar, Pansare, Kalburgi, or Gauri Lankesh
Dabholkar, Pansare, Kalburgi, and Gauri can be killed by guns, but their words and thoughts can never be silenced.
Budget 2022–23: What Is in it for the People – Part I
The 2022–23 union budget should have spelt out an economic strategy for reviving the economy and tackling the unemployment and poverty emergency gripping the country. But the FM does not even show cognizance of the problem.
A Citizen of the World (Still) Speaks
Martin Luther King’s speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence”, is a detailed analysis of the politics of colonialism and the cruel absurdity of war, as well as a deep plunge into the human future, pulsating with complex sanity and more relevant than ever 50-plus years later.
Rahul Echoed Gandhi and Ambedkar When He Said India Is a ‘Union of States’
It is evident that those who are criticising the Congress leader are not aware of Gandhi and Ambedkar’s views on nationhood.
India’s COVID-19 Deaths 6-7 Times Higher Than Official Figures: Analysis
India’s cumulative COVID-19 deaths were six to seven times higher than reported officially, according to a recent analysis published in the Science journal on January 7, 2022.
Islamophobia Is Taking its Most Lethal Form in India: Noam Chomsky
Celebrated thinker Noam Chomsky said the “pathology of Islamophobia”, now growing throughout the West, was “taking its most lethal form in India where the Modi government is systematically dismantling Indian secular democracy and turning the country into a Hindu ethnocracy”.
In Karnataka, As it Did in the Segregated US South, Bigotry Will Hurt the Majority too
Majoritarianism does not leave the majority untouched.
Capitalism: Great for the Rich, Shit for the Poor
Capitalism has generated the highest level of economic inequality in human history. The ten richest people in the world own more than the bottom 3.1 billion people, according to the latest research by Oxfam, a British charity, and their fortunes have doubled during the pandemic.
Putin is Playing a Strong Hand on Ukraine…as Long as He Doesn’t Invade
Doomsday predictions by the US and UK that Russia is about to invade Ukraine are rejected by military experts in Kyiv, who deny that the Russian army has the numbers or the equipment to stage such an attack.
Full Text: ‘If Netaji Had Been Alive No One Would Have Dared to Issue Calls for Genocide’
In this interview with Karan Thapar, Netaji’s grandnephew Sugata Bose said the freedom fighter would have been “quite dismayed” to see how the minorities are being discriminated against in today’s India.