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.
It’s This Way
A poem.
Fascinating Fifty Five Faces of the Indian Freedom Struggle
This article was written by Anand Kumar as an introduction to Qurban Ali’s book, ‘Founders of the Socialist Movement in India’: “This volume brings us face-to-face with fifty five fascinating faces of the founders of the Congress Socialist Party and their contributions.”
No ‘International Conspiracy’ Against Vishwaguru
Neither is India a superpower economically or militarily nor is it on the road to becoming one against whom ‘conspiracies’ are hatched to destabilise it.
Displacement in Delhi: In the Capital, This Is How Farmers are Treated
The vegetable fields of farmers living next to the Yamuna river, who ploughed the floodplains adjoining the Yamuna in Delhi for generations, are only the latest casualties in the effort to make Delhi a ‘world class’ city where the riverfront is real estate up for grabs.
Hindutva Development Model vs Dravidian Rights-Based Welfare: Looking Beyond the ‘Freebies’ Debate
Hindutva has reduced citizens to passive political subjects where people devote themselves to the leader’s ascribed duties towards the nation’s development.
How the ICHR Is ‘Inventing History’ Under the Modi Government
In an exhibition purporting to showcase the dynasties of medieval India, organised by the Indian Council of Historical Research last month, no Muslim ruler found mention. Experts have raised questions on the intentions of the Council.