Where’s the Water?
Climate change is clobbering water resources and testing the nerves of the world, especially megacities.
A World of Inequality
A central feature of neo-liberal capitalism, which has ruled the global economy since the 1990s, is to deepen and widen inequalities. It makes a tiny minority indecently richer while leaving the majority in the lurch.
Homelessness a Permanent Feature in the USA; Housing a Right in Cuba – 2 Articles
‘Housing, Not Handcuffs: The Moral Response to Homelessness’: The city of Grants Pass, Oregon, USA has outlawed resting or sleeping anywhere on public property with so much as a blanket to survive in cold weather, even when no beds in shelters were available. Also: ‘I Witnessed an Alternative to the U.S. Homelessness Crisis in Socialist Cuba’.
Letters for a Nation: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to Chief Ministers
Nehru wrote to his Chief Ministers on the 1st and 15th of each month and he had written 400 letters from 1947 to 1963. Three letters from “Letters for A Nation: From Jawaharlal Nehru to His Chief Ministers (1947-1963)”, edited by Madhav Khosla.
Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife
Several months after Feynman’s death, while working on what would become ‘Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman’ — the masterly biography plumbing the wellspring of Feynman’s genius — James Gleick discovered something of arresting strangeness and splendor.