How T.M. Krishna Turned Emperor Ashoka’s ‘Environmental’ Messages into Music
Historian Nayanjot Lahiri and the musician discuss their collaboration to reimagine Ashoka’s words through a contemporary prism.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Israel | Online Blog | Palestine
UN Declares Famine in Gaza: A Crime of Zionism and Imperialism – 2 Articles
‘U.N Declares Famine in Gaza: No Middle Ground on Genocide’; ‘Famine and Mass Murder in Gaza: A Crime of Zionism and World Imperialism’: The Gaza genocide is not a cancerous growth on an otherwise healthy society but a symptom of the inner malignancy of capitalism.
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Genocide Prevention: What Can be Done Should be Done; Protests in Tel Aviv – 2 Articles
‘Genocide Prevention: What Can be Done Should be Done by Persons, Governments and the UN’; ‘Protests in Tel Aviv, Army Reservists Refusing to Serve: in Israel, More of Us are Saying No to This Endless War’: Opposition to the starvation campaign and the new assault on Gaza City is growing – and so is support for military ‘refusers’.
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Antarctica on Alert; Global Floods Beckon Noah; Ocean Overheating – 3 Articles
‘Massive Ocean Regime Shift, Alarming’; ‘Global Floods Beckon Noah’; and: ‘Antarctica on Alert!’.
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China | India | Online Blog | USA
Trump Divorces India; Modi and Xi Break the Ice – 4 Articles
‘Honeymoon Over: Trump Divorces India’; ‘Washington’s Nightmare: Modi and Xi Break the Ice’; ‘A Reset in India-China Ties?’; and: ‘A Productive Visit: On India-China Ties’.
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Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra – 3 Articles
‘The Yatra of Ranjha’s Resolve: Rahul Gandhi’s Quest for India’s Soul in Bihar’; ‘In Bihar, Voter Adhikar Yatra Spurs Discussion on Issues Beyond Just Voting Rights’; ‘A Common Bihari’s Words Capture India’s Struggle to Save Democracy’: These are not the words of some opposition leader, but of an anonymous man of humble origin from an ‘Extremely Backward Class’ in Bihar.
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Democracy on a Precipice; Making Sense of the 130th Constitution Amendment Bill – 2 Articles
‘Democracy on a Precipice’: Modi and Shah have turned their attention to the last freedom that remains: the right to decide who will rule through free and fair elections; ‘In Numbers: Making Sense of the 130th Constitution Amendment Bill’.
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In Today’s India, Some Will Not be Indians No Matter How Many Documents They Possess
With processes like the revision of electoral rolls and the NRC, the State is going further down the path of sorting out who can and cannot belong in New India.
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India’s Cotton Conundrum: Modi Government Sacrificing Interest of Farmers – 3 Articles
‘India’s Cotton Conundrum: When Policy Turns Farmers Into Casualties’: India’s cotton crisis is not inevitable. It is political. And it demands urgent course correction. Also: ‘By Ending Import Duty on Cotton Amid US Pressure, Modi Govt is Sacrificing the Interests of Indian Farmers’; and: ‘AIKS Calls Upon Farmers to Protest Decision to Scrap 11% Import Duty on Raw Cotton’.
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This Diwali Gift Won’t Relieve the Economic Slump
The Government proposes to reduce the rates of GST. This is a tacit admission that the low consumption levels of the people are the underlying cause of the slump in the economy. However, the manner in which this rate reduction is being carried out will not boost aggregate demand, but in fact slightly dampen it further.
