Keeping Count: Two Poems
Keeping Count; Lost Home.
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Toxic Chemicals Engulf the Planet
The planet has become a toxic soup of tested, untested, and inadequately tested chemicals that includes deadly toxins. Far and away, it exceeds global warming emissions. Despite it being such a pressing issue, it has not been publicly recognized as such.
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Stan Swamy’s Endurance Has Left a Message for the World
The Archbishop, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, writes that 84-year old Father Stan Swamy who had spent decades serving the tribal people of Jharkhand, has been arrested on trumped up charges and confined to jail for nearly a year now. As he battles illness, his endurance has left a message for the world.
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‘Release the Bhima Koregaon 16 Immediately’: Nobel Laureates, EU MPs Write to Indian Authorities
The signatories, including Noam Chomsky and Olga Tokarczuk, sought that the temporary order to release prisoners in light of COVID-19 be applied to these political prisoners as well.
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Why the Supreme Court Must Declare Sedition Law Unconstitutional
The noted lawyer analyses recent case law on the rampant misuse of Section 124A of the IPC, which provides for the offence of sedition, as well as questions the reasoning of the Supreme Court in its landmark Kedar Nath Singh judgment, to argue for the repeal of the sedition law.
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With its Strident NEP Opposition, Stalin’s DMK Asserts Dravidian Credentials
The vocal, sustained and fiercely vehement opposition of the DMK to the New Education Policy ever since its draft released in 2019, has been barely a matter of surprise to close watchers and chroniclers of the Dravidian movement.
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Covid-Induced Online Education Hurts Poor Families
Online classes have become the main mode of learning for millions of school students across India due to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, majority of children in small towns and rural areas are not able to attend these classes, due to high costs and connectivity problems.
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In Madhya Pradesh’s Buxwaha Forest, a Diamond Mine Could Claim Two Lakh Trees
The project is facing resistance due to ecological concerns and also because the locals fear it would lead to loss of livelihood.
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Making Drugs and Vaccines Accessible, Affordable – Where does India Stand?
Due to the IPRs, countries struggle to access supplies of drugs and vaccines, especially at affordable rates. While at WTO, India has put forth the TRIPS waiver proposal, domestically it continues to oppose grant of compulsory licenses.
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Is the Centre’s New MSP Over 50% of Farmers’ Comprehensive Cost? Nope.
The difference between the MSP declared for ten kharif crops and that calculated according to the Swaminathan Commission formula ranges between Rs 611 per quintal to Rs 2,027.5 per quintal, depending upon which one of the ten crops is chosen.
