April 22: Birthday of Our Mother Earth
Celebrating the birthday of Mother Earth means to think and celebrate the difficult existence of Mother Earth herself, with identity, dignity, rights, her own stories.
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While Celebrating Ambedkar as a ‘National Hero’, We Must Not Forget His Central Thesis
It will be a disservice to Ambedkar and to his intellectual oeuvre if we neglect the fundamental questions of caste and untouchability, and applaud him as an abstract national hero. Remembering Ambedkar demands that we advance the struggle to annihilate caste.
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Increasing Tendency of Police to Attack Journalists Is Very Disturbing: Editors Guild of India; Also – Statement by Press Club of India
On April 2, the police in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh had arrested, stripped and humiliated a local journalist and some members of the civil society, in retaliation to their reporting on BJP MLA and his son; “Arrest Communal Hooligans; Release Jailed Scribes,” Says Press Club of India.
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Bhagat Singh Is Not the Man the Right Wants You to Think He Is
An excerpt from Revolutionary Passions shows that Bhagat Singh – who the Hindu Right tends to project as an antidote to the Congress and Gandhi – not only had close relations with Congress leaders, but was also critical of Hinduism.
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Sedition Then and Now: Gandhi’s Great Trial 100 Years On
The law is now being deployed for the political end he was willing to die to prevent – the establishment of a Hindu Raj.
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Budget 2022-23 What Is in it for the People, Part V – Proposal for an Alternate, People-Centric Budget
If the government partially withdraws some of the concessions / subsidies / transfers of public wealth being given to the rich, and imposes some additional taxes on them, it can raise enough additional revenues to finance a big hike in its social sector expenditures.
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On the Recent Events in the Ukraine
While Putin’s actions are a reaction to the events of the past three decades, they do not justify the invasion of Ukraine. Neither is the resurrection of the institutions of global militarism (such as NATO) justified, that have contributed so much to the creation of the problem. The popular movement for peace needs to be rekindled.
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Noam Chomsky: US Military Escalation Against Russia Would Have No Victors
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an unprovoked and unjustified attack that will go down in history as one of the major war crimes of the 21st century, argues Noam Chomsky. But at the same time, it must not be forgotten that there would have been no basis for the present crisis if there had been no expansion of the NATO alliance following the end of the Cold War.
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‘There Is No Need to Fear Anyone or Anything:’ Karnataka Student on How She Faced a Hindu Mob Alone
Muskan Khan, a 19-year-old student, lived an ordinary life in the south Karnataka town of Mandya before an extraordinary moment of courage and resistance brought her national fame and converted her moment of bravery into an iconic image. She talks about her hijab, her values and everyone’s freedom to choose in this interview.
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They Cannot Silence Dabholkar, Pansare, Kalburgi, or Gauri Lankesh
Dabholkar, Pansare, Kalburgi, and Gauri can be killed by guns, but their words and thoughts can never be silenced.
