Urgent Measures Needed to Rescue the Indian Health System; Health Status Is Shocking
The pandemic has unravelled India’s broken health care system and we must implement urgent reforms to fix it.
The Mystery Behind the Aarogya Setu App
The creation of an exclusive, State-driven, contact tracing enhancer for smartphone users in India during Covid times has multiple faults. The primary one is that there is considerable mystery about where the data is being stored and to what extent it is protected.
Eleven States Survey Finds Acute Situation of Hunger Across the Country
The preliminary results from a study carried out by Right to Food Campaign and Center for Equity Studies in 11 states show that the situation of hunger is quite serious.
India’s Gulf Strategy Is Chasing Chinese Phantoms
Beijing’s strong statement supporting the Palestinian cause comes at a time when the narrative in India, scripted by the pro-US, pro-Israeli lobbyists in the media, has crystallised that Palestine cause is dead and India must ‘move on’.
Stop Modi Govt From Dismantling the Post Matric Scholarship Scheme
Press Release, demanding that the government ensure the implementation of the Constitutional guarantee of educational justice to the more than 60 lakh SC and ST students in the country.
Socialist Election Win Masks Deeper Problems
The largest political bloc in Venezuela is the mass of Chavistas who have disaffilitated themselves from the ruling party, while supporting the government against the onslaught by the US and imperialist powers.
Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity
Treating water as a tradable commodity puts a basic human right into the hands of financial institutions and investors.
Is this the Golden Age of Ram’s Kingdom?
Modern jurisprudence in India can be compared with justice that prevailed during Lord Ram’s reign. While there are many differences with these ancient precepts, commonalities in both legal codes are interesting.
Remembering Munshi Premchand on His 140th Birth Anniversary: The Jamia Connection
Premchand wrote his last story ‘Kafan’ in the Jamia campus. It was written at the request of Professor Aqeel, editor of Jamia Millia Islamia’s in-house magazine.
The CIA’s Secret Global War Against the Left
Forty-five years ago, under a cloak of secrecy, Operation Condor was officially launched: a global campaign of violent repression against the Latin American left by the region’s quasi-fascist military dictatorships. The US government not only knew about the program—it helped to engineer it.