Hindutva Politics and the Indian Economy
“Hindu Rashtra” is not a Hindu State, in the sense of promoting the interests of the Hindus. It is an authoritarian-fascist State which promotes the interests of a corporate-financial oligarchy.
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Manu for Modern Times
Attempts at criminal law reforms are part of the Sangh Parivar’s long-term and sustained agenda of bringing about a paradigm shift in the popular perspective on nationhood. It wants the criminal law system to be moulded on the lines of the Hindutva treatises of governance.
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Latin America Heads for a Great Confrontation with Imperialism
In the lands whose original names were desecrated by European invaders, and which are now called ‘Latin America,’ the forces of empire are approaching a reckoning with the forces of indigenous and proletarian resistance.
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Over a Thousand Scientists and Academics Express Concern Over NIA Actions in Bhima-Koregaon Case
1,039 scientists and academics condemn the NIA action in the Bhima Koregaon/ Elgar Parishad case; and say that instead of investigating those actually responsible for the violence, the NIA is focusing on rights activists, lawyers and academics.
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Academics, Rights Activists Condemn Umar Khalid’s Arrest, Accuse Delhi Police of ‘Witch Hunt’; Senior Police Officers Call Investigation Biased
Noted personalities across India have slammed the arrest of former JNU student leader under anti-terror law UAPA in the Delhi violence case; Nine former IPS officers call the investigation “partisan and politically motivated”; Umar Khalid’s statement before his arrest.
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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.
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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.
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A Nation in Tatters
Letter to Editor.
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A Crack in the Earth
Opening before us / A crack in the Earth – a poem.
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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.
