Toxic Agenda
No one should be shocked. This is just one more instance of the peddlers of Hindu supremacy being unscrupulous in the pursuit of their goals.
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Curricular Wars and Averting Auschwitz
Education through rewritten textbooks, proscription of materials and textualised hate towards the Jews was central to the Nazi plot and storyline. The war for global domination and extermination began, as it were, in curricular battles.
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Film as Propaganda: the Months between June 2023 and May 2024 – Two Articles
After the ‘Kashmir Files’ & ‘Kerala Story’, now movies on the Godhra violence, Tipu Sultan, ’72 Hoorain threaten social peace. Also: ‘Teaser of Film on Savarkar: Lies Galore’.
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Women & Mobility: Why Karnataka’s Shakti Scheme Is More Than Just a ‘Freebie’
The zero bus fare scheme for women in Karnataka, launched by the newly elected Congress government in the state, has ruffled quite a few feathers on social media.
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Against the Sea: Rising Sea Levels in Ratnagiri Turn Farm Lands into Mangrove Forests
As sea levels rise, low-lying agricultural fields across the coast of Ratnagiri are increasingly being inundated with saltwater, making way for saline tolerant species like mangroves but at the cost of local livelihood.
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Citizens’ Fight to Restore Goa’s Ecology: Revitalising Agriculture in Mining-Affected Areas
The tenacity and initiative exhibited by the residents of Pissurlem and Shirgao serve as inspirational examples for other communities affected by mining. Villagers can reclaim their lands, restore their environment, and regain self-sufficiency, if they stand together and commit to change.
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Jawaharlal Nehru’s ‘Whither India’ (1933) Remains as Relevant Today as It Was Then
In August 1933, Nehru wrote a series of articles published in a pamphlet titled “Whither India?” As our country is still struggling with poverty, inequality of income and agrarian distress, this pamphlet remains as relevant today as it was 87 years ago when it was published.
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Two Portraits of Tamil: Decoding the Iconography, Identity, and Ideology
The ruling dispensation’s push to homogenise culture and impose one above all others has been relentless. In this iconographic analysis, the author highlights what happens when there is an attempt to impose one culture on another.
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The Emergence of a New Non-Alignment
A new mood of defiance in the Global South has generated bewilderment in the capitals of the Triad. Governments that had long been pliant to the Triad’s wishes, such as the administrations of Modi in India and Erdoğan in Türkiye (despite the toxicity of their own regimes), are no longer as reliable.
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The AMLO Project
Any assessment of AMLO and MORENA must recognize the difficulties of restarting a welfare state with a dilapidated administrative apparatus and reinvigorating a working class that has been all but defeated as a collective agent.
