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Ishmeet Nagpal Recently I read about a heart-warming story from my birthplace Ludhiana (Punjab) about Sikh residents of village Hedon Bet who refuse to let anyone demolish the 100 year old Mosque in their village despite having no Muslim residents. The village elders stated that the Mosque is the house of God and no…
Peter Koenig The west has colonized, exploited, ravaged and assassinated the people of the Global South for hundreds of years. Up to the mid-20th Century Europe has occupied Africa, and large parts of Asia. In Latin America, though much of the sub-Continent was “freed” from Spain and Portugal in the 19th Century…
Ian Angus While I was writing this article, the press reported: A maternity hospital in Romania shut down because thirty-nine newborns were infected by a drug-resistant superbug. Eleven staff members were found to be carriers. In Gaza, the wounds of thousands of Palestinians shot by Israeli soldiers are infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and…
Courtesy: The Wire Staff Bajaj Group chairman Rahul Bajaj on Saturday, November 30, raised concerns over the ability of the Narendra Modi government to accept criticism, its lack of action against mob lynchings and BJP MP Pragya Thakur’s recent remarks on Nathuram Godse to a crowded room of India Inc elite and top ministers…
Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil The assault on Dalit gender equality activist Bindu Ammini, by a fervent Ayyappa devotee, reveals the fragility of the Hindu nationalist male ego and a deals a chink to the Hindutva armour. Like other nativist and anti-pluralist projects, Hindutva is premised upon the restoration of a primeval order that involves…
Fr. Cedric Prakash Exactly, seventy years ago on November 26, 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India adopted and gave to “we, the people” a landmark Constitution. ‘The Constitution of India’ is the sacred book of every Indian citizen; it is a bulwark of fundamental rights and directive principles, which are a prerequisite for any…
Tanya Wadhwa The resistance of the Colombian people, against the right-wing government of President Iván Duque and his policies of neoliberalism, war and violence, continues. On November 27, under the banner of ”Against Duque’s neoliberal package, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the International Monetary (IMF) and the World Bank. For…
Alison Bodine Chile despertó! (Chile Has Woken Up!) Piñera, renuncia! (Piñera Resign!) These are some the powerful chants that have echoed throughout the streets of cities small and large in Chile during mass protests that began in October 2019. Poor, working and oppressed people and students have united to demand dignity and human rights…
Fabio Resmini Ecuador is facing some of its darkest days. The country is trapped with a highly unpopular president who has betrayed his mandate and proved his willingness to shed blood to implement a conservative economic agenda. Last October, the Moreno government unleashed a wave of repression to stifle widespread opposition to IMF-dictated policies….
Subhash Gatade (Presentation made at Dept of Social Work, Delhi University, during their programme centred around 1st Ambedkar Memorial Lecture.) “If Hindu Raj does become a fact, it will no doubt, be the greatest calamity for this country. No matter what the Hindus say, Hinduism is a menace to liberty, equality and fraternity….
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