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The Kirti Kisan Forum, comprising retired IAS, IPS and Army officers as well as civil society members, noted that the peaceful protests brought about unity among the country’s masses and provided a cause which they could all rally behind.
Another year has passed with most of the core issues facing the Bhopal gas survivors remaining unaddressed. Also – Three Ways Dow Discriminates & Dehumanizes.
The repeal of the three farm laws came about not because the PM failed to ‘persuade’ some farmers, but because many farmers stood resolute, even as a craven media devalued their struggle and strength.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke on Nov. 8 at a rally of 100,000 in Glasgow: “The question we must now ask ourselves is: What is it that we are fighting for? Are we fighting to save ourselves and the living planet, or are we fighting to maintain business as usual?”
The drumbeats of celebration that marked 20 years of Narendra Modi’s public life have to be confronted. One has to admit that when the media become an inane chorus, dissent is not easy. At such a time, I remember the dictum of my old philosophy teachers – read the silences of the regime.
The health emergency of the coronavirus is inseparable from the health emergency of extinction, biodiversity loss and climate change.
Of Patel’s numerous contributions to India’s freedom struggle, it is Patel as a Sardar (leader) of the kisans which seems most relevant to us today when, for more than a year now, peasants in northern India have sustained a satyagraha against the Narendra Modi government.
Said Gandhi on that day in 1947, “Indeed, today is my birthday…. This is for me a day of mourning. I am still lying around alive. I am surprised at this, even ashamed that I am the same person who once had crores of people hanging on to every word of his. But today no one heeds me at all…”
Why does the world take notice of Gandhi? A clue may lie in what Albert Einstein said in 1939, “Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.”
Swami Atmabodhanand, the young seer of Matri Sadan in Haridwar, is on an indefinite fast since August 18 demanding an immediate prohibition on rampant sand mining in Haridwar and ban on the four hydroelectric projects in Uttarakhand.
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