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On a weekend of coordinated protests across Europe calling for and end to the war in Ukraine; Also – “Despair and Joy in Berlin”: on the biggest peace rally in Berlin in many, many years.
Victor Grossman on 70 years since his defection to the DDR: “I still look back with a mixture of nostalgia, regret and also pride at its many hard-won achievements …”
A historian of science highlights the crucial achievements of non-Western scientists and thinkers.
On the hundred year anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth, Sean Ledwith examines the life and work of America’s greatest radical historian
However much the Sangh parivar may try now to impose its intolerant religious diktats by using her name, Kali in Bengal had been traditionally worshipped as a goddess of rebellion against all such repressive orders.
Written during the pandemic, these six poems stage the myriad everyday theatres of the self, the family, the domestic, the personal, the public, the political, the national, and even the civilisational, where caste and gender interlock to determine intimate pasts and futures of inequity and exclusion.
On the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence, we, as responsible citizens, should have been flagging the issues of hunger, dwindling health parameters, poverty and lack of quality education which make many of our fellow citizens less free.
At the call of Samyukta Kisan Morcha, thousands of farmers began a three-day protest on Friday in different parts of Western Uttar Pradesh. The farmers are voicing support for their counterparts in Lakhimpur Kheri who are on a 72-hour-long dharna since Thurdsay to press for various demands.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Constitution Amendments that led to the three-tier Panchayati Raj structures. The 73rd Amendment further led to legislation for its extension into tribal areas and the Forest Rights Act. On how have these legislations fared over the past 30 years.
After dropping two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945, killing between 100,000 and 200,000 civilians, top U.S. government officials lied, claiming there was “no radioactive residue” in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and that Japanese reports of deaths due to radiation were “propaganda.”
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