Record Number of Billion-Dollar Disasters Struck U.S. in 2020
In 2020 the U.S. experienced a record-smashing 22 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters that killed at least 262 people and injured scores more.
Changing Political Scenarios: a Conversation with Marco Teruggi
Examining both continental geopolitics and the dynamic of regional social movements, Teruggi – a prominent journalist – offers a rich interpretation of Venezuela’s recent electoral process.
India’s Season of Dissent: an Interview with Poet Karthika Naïr
Karthika Naïr talks of Shaheen Bagh and of her poem “Ghazal: India’s Season of Dissent”, of the politics of literature, and of how literary texts can “respond” to violence, grief and pain.
Sugathakumari (1934 – 2020): Her Inclusive Vision and Deep Empathy Set Her Apart
Sugathakumari not only produced some of the most iconic works of Malayalam poetry during her illustrious poetic career spanning almost six decades, she was also a leading social activist.
Marx on Exploitation: an ABC for an Unequal World
Exploitation begins with the terms on which workers sell their labour power to capital. Marx saw that 140 years ago, and it hasn’t changed since.
India’s Farmers Provide an Object Lesson in Democratic Mass Action
Where mobs flail to a tune set into motion by some dog-whistle, refuse reasoned debate, take recourse to abuse, vilification, threat, and finally, the strong arm, democratic mass actions bank on the power of knowledge.
Where Is Justice? Most Farmers and Informal Workers have No Pension After Toiling All Their Life
At a time when highly dubious projects worth tens of thousands of crores have been cleared recklessly, the pension offered by the Union government to elderly citizens is just Rs. 200 per month, and this too only for about 27% of senior citizens who need this.
Why are People Going Hungry if India has Surplus Foodgrain Stocks?
A country that ranks 94 among 107 countries in the Global Hunger Index can’t be said to be self-sufficient in foodgrains. The surplus stocks are due to shortage of purchasing power in peoples’ hands.
Two Press Releases
NAPM condemns right-wing violence targeting Muslim community in MP; and also condemns the forced evictions in Sathyavani Muthu Nagar and Thangavel Street, Chennai in the midst of the pandemic.
Minority Places of Worship Were Attacked in India and Pakistan. Guess Which Country Took Action?
The comparison highlights just how far India has moved away from its ideals of secularism.