Reading Tulsidas in the Age of Hindutva
While the Ramcharitmanas has been at the centre of a complex contest of ideas, can a 16th-century text be seen exclusively through the lens of modern politics?
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Empty Tables: How It Feels to Be Hungry
Hunger has continued to be an all-American reality decade after decade, in good economies and bad, even though food should be a basic right. It’s a problem that, in possibly the world’s richest country, no one has been able to solve. Why is that?
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The Federal Budget: Moral or Immoral?
How our government coddles its arms dealers, which account for a record 40% of the world’s weapons exports in the years 2018-22!
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The Bottled Water Industry Is Masking the World’s Failure to Supply Reliable Drinking Water to All
In 2016, the annual financing required to achieve a safe drinking water supply throughout the world was estimated to cost $114 billion, which amounts to less than half of today’s roughly $270 billion global annual bottled water sales.
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Greenland Ice Sheet Nears Point of No Return
A new study using simulations has identified a tipping point for the Greenland Ice Sheet: releasing 1000 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere will cause the southern portion of the ice sheet to melt. We are in danger of crossing this tipping point.
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New Images From Inside Fukushima Reactor Spark Safety Worry
Images captured by a robotic probe inside one of the three melted reactors at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant have triggered concerns about its earthquake resistance in case of another major disaster.
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Pulwama, Modi, Corruption: Full Transcript of Satya Pal Malik’s Interview
Malik, who was governor during the Pulwama terrorist attack, says that the PM has no real problem with corruption. He also says the PM told him not to speak about the Union home ministry’s lapses which led to the devastating attack on soldiers in Pulwama in February 2019.
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Political Radicalism of Ambedkar’s Spirituality
We need to pay close attention to B R Ambedkar’s relentless life-long search for a spiritual path and a spiritual homeground for society, which went way beyond his efforts at transforming India.
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The Chronicle of a Takeover Foretold: Why the Amul-Nandini Controversy Is Important
Anybody who is interested in the welfare of farmers of the Karnataka Milk Federation and preserving and growing the brand Nandini should be alert.
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Muslims Can Live, But They Shouldn’t Look Muslim or Congregate
The message behind the Noida protest by local residents is clear: Muslims are welcome to live in isolation in colonies numerically dominated by Hindus, provided they do not ‘look’ Muslim and do not publicly form a collective.
