Protest in Iran: Historical and International Contexts
Falk addresses the events surrounding Mahsa Amini’s September 13th detention and reported death three days later as well as the meaning of her Kurdish identity.
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China’s Path to Socialist Modernization
One of the main themes of the congress this year was “rejuvenation” of the country through “a Chinese path to modernization.” In his report to the congress, Xi Jinping, the CPC’s general secretary, sketched out the way forward to build China “into a modern socialist country.”
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Writing on War
Noam Chomsky: “Chris Hedges has been an incomparable source of insight and understanding, both in his outstanding career as a courageous journalist and in his penetrating commentary on world events.” In this article, Chris once again returns in a deeply personal way to war in his time.
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Walking for Truth: Snapshots from the Bharat Jodo Yatra – 3 Articles
A long walk is a political act of perseverance. It renounces the lure of instant gratification and advocates caution over hurried conclusions. It seeks consensus through conversations instead of demanding make-believe acceptance through oratory and theatrics. It believes in sanity over frenzy. There are signs that it will work eventually.
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Fact Check: Is the Government Right to Criticise India’s Low Ranking on the Global Hunger Index?
The Union Ministry of Women and Child Development has dismissed the index, which ranks India 107 out of 121 countries, as ‘erroneous’. Factchecker examines the Ministry’s arguments.
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MBBS in Hindi? But Why Were Engg Courses in Hindi Dropped a Year After Launch?
Madhya Pradesh claims to have become the first state to fulfil PM Modi’s vision to start medical and technical education in Hindi. But it is silent on why the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi University, set up with much fanfare in 2011 by the Chouhan government to provide technical, medical, and engineering courses in Hindi, is now on the verge of closure.
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Nod to Herbicide Tolerant GM Mustard Will be Strongly Resisted: Union Govt Warned
In a letter to the Union Minister for Environment and Climate Change, the civil society organisation has objected to recent steps being taken to give permission for commercial cultivation of GM mustard, stating that the biosafety assessment of GM mustard has been ignored.
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What the Story of Two Families Says about the Unchanging Reality of Living on the Streets of Mumbai
Thousands of families have occupied pavements in the city for decades and continue to do so, despite knowing that their shelters can torn down any day.
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Power Dynamics? Local Healthcare Dubbed Non-Scientific, ‘Needing’ Allopathic Nod
Civil society organizations and healers’ networks have been advocating to bring the indigenous and local healthcare traditions into the main fold of healthcare provisioning. However, allopathic medicine continues to create distrust in indigenous and local healthcare tradition systems.
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Dangerous New COVID-19 Variants Threaten Massive Fall-Winter Surge
The next global wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has begun. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimates that 21 million people were infected globally on 19 October, up 23 percent from the most recent trough of 17 million infections on September 27.
