Himachal’s Four-Lane Highways to Hell
For years, India’s highway authority has cut away at the mountain state’s slopes to make wider roads for traffic. The result has been cataclysmic landslides.
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Data: Rise in Attacks on Christians in India, Up Four Times in 11 Years (2012-2022)
There have been 525 attacks against Christians in India just in the first eight months of 2023. This year will likely cross the violent record set in 2022, and in 2021 before that.
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India’s ‘Alternative to Hong Kong’ Proceeds in Lush Nicobar Island, as Govt Ignores Pleas of Local Tribals
Over the past 17 years, a Nicobarese tribe inhabiting an island of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago for about 50,000 years has pleaded with the union government to return them to the ancestral land they lived in before the 2004 tsunami. But the government is planning to build massive tourism facilities on the island, so it has ignored their pleas.
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The Story of How Modi Government Turned its Back on Forest Conservation to Favour Corporate Interests
The Modi government persisted in finding ways to open up forests for commercial plantations, beginning shortly after taking office and ultimately achieving it through recent amendments to the Forest (Conservation) Act that damages the rights of tribal people, official documents reveal.
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What Ashoka University Can Learn from Gandhi, Tagore and Nehru’s Thoughts on Academic Freedom
The all-out assault on the autonomy of Ashoka University and its regrettable capitulation to such menacing interferences reminds one of British rule, when universities of pre-independent India were being controlled by the colonial government directly or indirectly.
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What Does a Dupatta Mean for a Young Woman?
Patriarchy starts from homes, not the streets. Families, especially mothers, impose salwar-kameez and dupatta on young girls and women, as soon as they turn 12 or 13. But they never have a conversation with their sons about respecting women or even their own sisters.
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Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger Form Alliance to Challenge French Neocolonialism – 2 Articles
The three governments have created an alliance to establish “an architecture of collective defense and mutual assistance for the benefit of our populations.” It is not merely a military pact; they have also agreed to develop an economic agenda to benefit their peoples, and decolonise the region of French influence.
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Sri Lanka’s Dangerous Domestic Debt Restructuring
In exchange for an emergency loan, the IMF has imposed a series of conditions that have significantly exacerbated Sri Lanka’s wage and cost-of-living crises. Sri Lankans have once again taken to the streets in protest.
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AMLO Government Cancels Extortionate Public-Private Partnerships for 9 Public Hospitals
AMLO government has cancelled public-private partnerships for nine public hospitals by simply offering to pay just over 5% of the outstanding debt and fees owed to the companies involved. This is in sharp contrast to Europe – where many governments are gutting their public healthcare services.
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The South China Sea’s Resource Wars: It’s Not Only About Fossil Fuels
Despite its vast size — 1.3 million square miles — the South China Sea has become a microcosm of the geopolitical tensions between East and West, where territorial struggles over abundant natural resources may one day lead to environmental collapse.
