Swami Agnivesh – The Man Who Sought to Retrieve the Colour Bhagwa from Opportunists: Three Obituaries
He devoted his life to India’s most marginalised and to the cause of secularism.
Governments Continue to be Silent as Climate Change Unfolds – Three Articles
Northern California is currently experiencing three of the four largest fires in the state’s history, burning over 2 million acres; global biodiversity is in steep decline, warns the Living Planet Report 2020; and when it comes to rising sea levels, it’s already too late.
A Nation in Tatters
Letter to Editor.
A Crack in the Earth
Opening before us / A crack in the Earth – a poem.
Sangeet Martand Pandit Jasraj: Music of the Planet – Two Tributes
With a clear singing style, subtle innovations and a stress on devotion that transcended faith, Pandit Jasraj (1930-2020) redefined the way the world looked at Hindustani classical music.
How Tipu Sultan and Haidar Ali Inspired America’s Founding Fathers in Their Quest for Freedom
While fighting for independence, the fledgling United States looked far away to the Kingdom of Mysore for inspiration.
Remembering A People’s War Against Imperialism and Fascism
September 3, 2020 marks 75 years since the Japanese army formally surrendered to China. More than 25 million Chinese civilians and soldiers perished in their struggle against imperialism and fascism, accounting for a full one-third of global fatalities during the Second World War.
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A 70-Year War on ‘Propaganda’ Built by the CIA
Propaganda is vital in times of war because it is absolutely imperative that the people, who often need to make the greatest sacrifices and suffer the most, believe that such a war is justified; and that the “enemy” is sub-human.
Wealth Inequality Rising in the World – As Marx had Foreseen Would Happen in Capitalism
A very small elite owns the means of production and finance and that is how they usurp the lion’s share and more of the wealth and income.
A “New” Democracy?
We are witnessing the transformation of the regime of democracy, that had brought us the promise of liberté, egalité, fraternité political, social and economic, to its very opposite: the highest concentration of economic, political and therefore social powers ever in history.