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Like the subversiveness of the epic, Devy’s Mahabharata is responding to our contemporary crisis in a schizophrenic India that continues to be fed by Hindutva pride: to offer a corrective text in the times of mass euphoria as to what Bharat has to be.
Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish and naturalized German revolutionary socialist; Manuela Sáenz fought by the side of Simón Bolívar to unify South America; Harriet Tubman fought during the US Civil War as a leader of Black and white troops fighting for freedom.
Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world. People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit, said scientists in the latest IPCC report, released on 28 February 2022.
Climate justice activists encounter a quandary in India. It is currently the third largest emitter of carbon in the world, behind China and the United States. On a per capita basis, however, India emits only 1.7 tons, which places it far behind the United States (14.4), China (7.1), France (4.3), or even Thailand (3.6).
Climate change impacts will continue to increase, reducing the window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future, if drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are further delayed, a new report warns.
As the BJP pulls out its old tactics of creating a spectacle of an emergency, the students returning from Ukraine have seen through the fraud and refused to play ball.
From the prime minister down, lies, fakery and bogus claims are growing at an alarming rate, and what is more, are believed.
The Delhi High Court is soon to deliver a verdict on petitions arguing that marital rape should be a crime. Millions of Indian women are affected by spousal sexual violence. Counsellors and experts narrate how the absence of legal protection is forcing survivors into a cycle of sexual abuse and silence.
According to a recent Pew survey, although eight out of 10 Indians said that gender equality is “very important”, at the same time, 80 per cent of those surveyed agreed that when jobs are in short supply, men deserve greater rights to employment than women.
The author describes how White leaders of the women’s suffrage movement were influenced by Indigenous political structures and culture, and how some of this influence took place around Seneca Falls in upstate New York, site of the first U.S. convention for women’s rights.
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