Heroism and Compassion Amid the Horrors of Partition
On the acts of courage, which symbolised the syncretic heritage of the subcontinent, amid the communal savagery that marked the Partition of India.
‘Bofors Pales Into Insignificance’: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Ravi Nair
Interview with journalists Ravi Nair and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta on the much talked about Rafale deal, the many unanswered questions related to it, the scrapping of a previous deal, and the unilateral decision of the Prime Minister in this matter. Excerpts from their interview to Frontline.
On 40 Years of the Nellie Massacre in Assam
It’s been 40 years since over 2,000 Muslims were slaughtered in Assam’s Nellie town. The ghosts of Nellie continue to haunt India even today every time we overlook an incident of hate speech or let perpetrators of violence to go scot-free.
In Defence of an ‘Old’ Man
In 2002, there must have been ministers that thought K. Subrahmanyam – who was well over 70 at the time – had been ‘vicious’ in calling a democratically chosen leader an ‘asura’. Mercifully, none of them attacked him for being old.
Making Aadhaar-Based Payments Compulsory for NREGA Wages Is a Recipe for Disaster
A recent order of the Ministry of Rural Development has created a situation where a majority of NREGA workers cannot be paid. Also: NREGA Sangharsh Morcha’s open letter to the Ministry of Rural Development, refuting the ministry’s recent claims on the status of the MGNREGA Scheme.
Caste | Indian Politics | Print Edition | USA
Seattle Bans Caste-Based Discrimination
Seattle made history Tuesday as the first city in the U.S. to expressly ban caste-based discrimination after an outpouring of input from South Asian Americans.
Guantanamo: Who Are the Real Monsters?
For anyone in their mid-20’s or younger, Guantanamo must seem like a normal part of the American landscape, rather than the grotesque constitutional aberration that it is.
Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa: The Power of Resistance
Article in memory of Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), who was murdered 27 years ago by the military dictatorship in Nigeria in complicity with Shell oil company.
Listening to the Forest
The urgency to address the relation between the militarized-capitalist-supremacist mindset and the living body of the earth looms larger all the time. The latter includes you and me, our beloved human families, friends, communities, and peoples, and also our non-human kith and kin.
The Fragile Sanctity of Being Female
From workplaces to household responsibilities to partnership equations, women are rising up the ranks to ask for an equal space. But society won’t have it. So we have suppression, oppression and pushback in overt and covert ways.