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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Two reports by UN agencies – Mental Health Atlas 2024 and World Mental Health Today (both published in 2025) – found that over one billion people live with a mental disorder. Most of those who suffer these maladies live in low- and middle-income countries. The most common ailments are anxiety and depression, with women disproportionately impacted.
A discussion with historian Bryan Palmer on his book, a three-volume history of colonialism and capitalism in Canada. The books address how a craving for capital on the part of early European empires resulted in colonial dispossession, which then proved a foundation on which capitalism as a system was consolidated.
Freshwater is a renewable resource, but we’re depleting stores faster than nature replenishes them. What’s more, nature is replenishing these stores more slowly as the planet warms and weather patterns become more extreme. We’ve already crossed a “planetary boundary” for freshwater change, with too much human pressure on this resource to maintain a stable Earth system.
Climate change has a new partner in its quest to alter life as we know it: Nuclear, the power buzzword for the AI Holy Grail of human submission to digital electrons mimicking human brainpower.
This article gives an overview of the progress made by China in recent years with regard to clean energy, and poses the question: why is it that China, rather than the advanced capitalist countries, has emerged as the world’s only ‘green superpower’?
How Gaddafi’s vision for Arab unity and African independence made Libya a sovereign threat to the global order, and why his legacy still looms over the battle for multipolarity.
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