Sports, Whatever the Cost!
On why sporting events get special treatment during the pandemic (hint – it’s not just for the fans).
While Media Amplifies Unrest in Venezuela, Millions Revolting in Colombia
Alan MacLeod, Whitney Webb Many of the massive anti-neoliberal protest movements that exploded across the globe last year have pressed on into 2020, especially those that rose up throughout Latin America. Many of those demonstrations—clearly newsworthy due to their enormous size, composition, and motives—were and continue to be ignored by prominent English language news…
The Wars No One Notices
Stephanie Savell I’m co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, founded by Catherine Lutz and Neta Crawford in 2011, on the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan. Their goal: to draw attention to the hidden and unacknowledged costs of our counterterror wars in…
Is the World About to Witness the End of the War in Afghanistan?
M.K. Bhadrakumar The manner in which US President Donald Trump’s administration is ramming a peace settlement down Afghanistan’s throat is disconcerting. Delhi’s silence is more so. One shudders to think that comprador elements in the Indian establishment could be silently collaborating with the US project, in the shadow of Trump’s recent trip to visit…
Why there is No Good News for India’s Healthcare
Bharat Dogra Over the last two years, the most common comment on allocations for the health sector in the union budgets was that there has been “some increase” in it. However, any headline that really captures the wider reality would have said that the ‘government has fallen behind health commitments by over Rs 30,000…
Modi Govt Continues Neglect of Dalits, Adivasis
Subodh Varma In the past five years, Dalit communities have been deprived of a staggering Rs 272 thousand crore while Adivasi communities have suffered a loss of Rs 114 thousand crores due to drastic under-allocation in successive Budgets. This emerges from an analysis of Budgetary allocations done by National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights…
The Trump and Modi Show: Of Tangri Kebabs and Cannibal Cows
Madhumita Dutta, Sirisha Naidu Indians love eating their tangri kebabs, i.e., barbequed chicken drumsticks, and the Americans are eager to sell them the millions of tons of chicken legs they have piled up in their freezers. The leaders of the two of the biggest so-called democracies are magnanimously obliging both sellers and clients during…
Is the Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb, So Intrinsic to Delhi, Being Made Irrelevant?
Ishmeet Nagpal Delhi has historically been a prime example of the Ganga–Jamuna or Ganga–Jamuni Tehzeeb; with its iconic Khariboli language (a mixture of local dialects), being home to the literary and music traditions of the North India region, and being the birthplace of Qawwali and the Delhi Gharana. Today, Delhi is the epicentre of…
Exploring Citizenship
Dunu Roy There is no doubt that the Delhi elections have been comprehensively lost by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), but the sub-text is that it improved its vote share from 32.2 per cent in 2015 to 38.5 per cent this time. The Aam Admi Party (AAP) kept its share of 54.3 per cent in…
When It Comes to Curbing Dissent, Karnataka Is Going the UP Way
Monobina Gupta The recent spate of retaliatory actions against anti-CAA protesters in Karnataka are a replication of mechanisms honed by the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh. The fact that both the state governments relentlessly targeting protesters are led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is ominously significant. Considering the horrifying images flooding…