Guinea’s Plight Lays Bare Greed of Foreign Mining Companies
Guinea has the world’s largest reserves of bauxite and is the second-largest producer (after Australia) of the essential mineral for aluminum. All the mining is controlled by MNCs.
Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha: Youngest Ghadar Party Hero Executed at Age 19
November 16 marks the 106th martyrdom day of one of the youngest heroes of the freedom movement, which right-wing forces have been demeaning these days.
The Ends of Justice: a Case of Bilkis Bano
A lone woman’s painful struggle for justice, and the recent remission granted to 11 convicts who had assaulted her during the 2002 Gujarat riots, sits, disturbingly, at the centre of this poem.
Gandhi’s Life and Struggle: Impact of Jesus Christ
Gandhi succeeded in uniting all people of all religions. This was because he saw religion as morality, as values. He learnt from all religions. One of his core beliefs was from Jesus Christ: the doctrine of love; love not only for your neighbour but also for your enemy.
As We ‘Beautify’ Our Country, Our Children Inherit the Results of Our Sham Green Clearances
While we may not be around to watch our children enjoy or squander what we saved, nature’s wrath will prove to be more or less instant.
Freebie Capitalism
Bad loan problems at state-run banks have so far been resolved through massive taxpayer-funded bailouts. There must be a revaluation of a broken credit culture that virtually protects big borrowers.
“Truth and Reconciliation Require the Shedding of Aggressive Masculinity”
Doniger, author of several acclaimed works and a distinguished translator of Sanskrit texts, talks to writer Githa Hariharan about the book translated by her, ‘After the War’ (Speaking Tiger, 2022), which is a new translation of the final parts of the Mahabharata.
After Bolsonaro’s Failures, Why was Brazil’s Election So Close?
Bolsonaro is arguably even crazier than Donald Trump. He mishandled the COVID situation even worse than Trump, and he and his allies are up to their eyeballs in corruption. Yet he came within 2% of Lula? Given the amount of support the far-right politics has, what does it mean for the future of Brazil?
Of, By, and For the Elite: The Class Character of the U.S. Constitution
The founding fathers of the US Constitution feared and hated the concept of democracy. They derisively referred to it as “tyranny of the majority.” The constitution that they wrote reflects this, and seeks to restrict and prohibit involvement of the people in key areas of decision making.
The Great American Power-Shift
Both explanations offered by the corporate-financial establishment — for the rise of Trumpism and for widening inequalities — leave out the increasing concentration of political power in the corporate and financial elite, which has been able to influence the rules on which the economy runs.