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To remember Russell is to remember the indispensable role of hope in the face of despair, the necessity of resistance when the specter of fascism is with us once again, and the moral obligation to imagine and fight for a world yet to be born.
After Israel’s protracted genocide in Gaza, the ceasefire delivers a devastating victory for the Palestinian resistance and a smug defeat for Israelis, who were forced to cough up unprecedented concessions, leaving Hamas whole and the strip unoccupied.
Farmers from Punjab have protested at the Khanauri and Shambhu borders since February 2024, demanding legally guaranteed minimum support prices for crops. Agitation has intensified with Jagjit Singh Dallewal’s fast-unto-death and three farmer suicides, as the Centre maintains its wait-and-watch policy.
What the RSS chief said a few days ago is that India indeed got political independence in 1947 and real freedom came with the consecration ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
Gandhi’s disapproval of ‘Hindu water’ and ‘Muslim water’ and superstitions and hypocrisy of sadhus on the occasion Kumbh Mela in 1915 offers lessons in the context of the 2025 Kumbh Mela. Also: Will the Ganga be able to heal or nourish anyone for very long after the Kumbh Mela?
The narrative that the transparency activists and applicants are troublemakers must be challenged.
Anti-colonial third world nationalism is entirely different from the nationalism that developed in Europe in the 17th century. It is best reflected in the difference between the nationalism of a Hitler, which is descended from European nationalism, and that of a Ho Chi Minh, which exemplifies anti-colonial nationalism.
The protests might be sparked by irregularities in a public examination, but they point to larger, deeper developmental issues in the State.
More than 24,000 ‘instructors’—teachers on contract—are paid Rs 7,000 per month to teach classes one to eight in Uttar Pradesh, making up 4% of government school teachers. Many now moonlight as salesmen, tailors, rickshaw drivers and workers in a state with India’s fifth lowest literacy rate.
People around Arshinakeri (Koppal Dt, Karnataka) are concerned about government’s proposal to construct a nuclear power plant (NPP) in their vicinity. They fear for their health and safety due to nuclear contamination from the NPP proposed there.
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