Freedom
A poem.
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‘They Can Exploit Only Bhagat Singh’s Emotional Quotient, Not the Ideological Quotient’
Professor Jagmohan Singh is one of the prominent conscience-keepers of our times. He is also Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s nephew. Naren Singh Rao spoke to him about Bhagat Singh’s ideological legacy and the current concerns regarding his appropriation by the Hindu Right.
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What Is the Rs 20,000 Crore Figure Rahul Gandhi Spoke of in Adani’s ‘Shell Companies’?
A Financial Times report claimed “offshore companies linked to the Adanis” invested at least $2.6 billion in the group between 2017 and 2022. Also: The way Rahul Gandhi has been hounded over the last month shows that the BJP is unnerved. However, Gandhi has refused to buckle under pressure.
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At Mahapanchayat in Delhi, Farmers Vow to Build Bigger ‘Andolan’ for Democracy
With the general elections a year away, farmers’ unions say they will build more pressure on the government to resolve their issues and ‘will take their movement to its logical end’.
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MGNREGA Flounders in Fund Crunch and Tech Trap Squeeze
Mandatory digital attendance has led to 10% decline in work. Also: Press Release by the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha.
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Gigs, Scams, Ghost Work: India Tech Sector’s Dark Side
With few jobs, India’s youth are turning to the gig economy, scam call centres and AI microwork – for low wages and few protections.
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In Moscow, Xi and Putin Bury Pax Americana
What has just taken place in Moscow is nothing less than a new Yalta. This is the first time in arguably five centuries that no political leader from the west is setting the global agenda. It’s Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin that are now running the multilateral, multipolar show.
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The Vast Power of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
The real needs of humanity haven’t changed since Ike’s time. Whether in 1953 or 2023, more guns won’t serve the cause of peace. They won’t provide succour. They’ll only stunt and starve us, to echo the words of H.G. Wells, while imperiling the lives and futures of our children.
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A World Gone Wrong
The world is desperate for peace. Many see war as an opportunity for profit, and not as the abdication of the human spirit it truly is. In the meantime, millions of lives continue to be lost and families irreparably destroyed, while the mercenaries of war increase their profits.
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The Indian Ease with Translation and Multilingualism
It cannot be understood by an ideology that thinks of every “other” as an enemy within.
