On Thin Ice: How Climate Change Is Wrecking the Himalaya
As temperatures rise, glaciers are retreating, ice and snow are disappearing and water scarcity is rising. An examination of how this is affecting Himalayan communities.
Tuvalu as Metaphor for Black America
The people of Tuvalu are losing access to significant portions of their livable land mass, due largely to the actions of people in the western world, especially the United States.
Justice P.B. Sawant: Obituary; Article: ‘How Much of a Democracy Is India, Really?’
On February 15, 91-year-old Justice PB Sawant breathed his last. In an article written some days before his death, he wrote: In every “democracy” where there is capitalist economic system, there is no democracy at all.
Socialism Is the Only Realistic Solution to Climate Change
Capitalism will not and cannot prevent climate disaster. A socialist response at governmental and societal level is an historic necessity.
The Kisans Are Right: Their Land Is at Stake – Part 3
The model the Modi Government is seeking to impose on Indian agriculture is similar to that imposed on Mexican agriculture since the onset of IMF-dictated ‘reforms’ in the 1980s.
The BJP Government’s Goebbelsian Campaign Against the Farmers’ Agitation
The fighting spirit of the farmers has kept the agitation alive through the past two months. The farmers on the ground at the Delhi siege and those supporting them from the villages assert that this will see their struggle through all the machinations of the propagators of the “Big Lie”.
The Shame of Fortress Delhi
The metaphoric Fortress Delhi crept up on us over years, but the physical Fortress Delhi has been achieved in days.
Budget 2021 Hasn’t Done Enough to Fix India’s Employment Crisis, Say Experts
The budgetary allocation for 2021-’22 for the rural jobs programme is 35% lower than the 2020-’21 revised estimate.
1984, 1989, 2002: Three Narratives of Injustice, and the Lessons for Democracy
Why is it that mass injustice in the face of mass communal crimes has become such an established pattern of state practice in modern India?
As Munawar Faruqui Case Shows, Questioning BJP’s Hindutva Project While Being a Muslim Can Land You in Jail
Several young Muslims have been locked up because they had the temerity to assert their right to equal citizenship.