Kisan Mahapanchayat Calls for Harmony, Right-Wing Adds Communal Twist
Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait says “Allahu Akbar”, crowd responded with “Har Har Mahadev” as sign of unity.
Why 30 Minutes of Nature a Day Is So Good for Your Health
Science is showing how immersion in nature speeds healing and acts as an antidote for many ailments.
Don’t Tell Me to Despair About the Climate: Hope Is a Right We Must Protect
I am tired of being told that this world I was handed is irrevocably broken. I understand that the climate leaders from generations past are tired too, and that the decades of work have disheartened some. The youth climate movement deserves hope and optimism regardless.
Assault on Scientific Temper
Article commemorating the murder of Dr. Dabholkar, the well known campaigner against superstition and for scientific temper, on August 20, 2013.
Why Socialism?
Article by Albert Einstein, the world-famous physicist, originally published in the inaugural issue of the renowned US socialist magazine, ‘Monthly Review’ (May 1949), in which he expresses his views on the subject of socialism.
Pilgrimage to India: When Martin Luther King Jr followed in Gandhi’s footsteps
After a month-long visit to India in 1959, the civil rights leader was convinced that non-violence was the best way forward for the African-American struggle.
I Raise My Voice for Adivasis, am I a Traitor?
In this open letter written in August 2018 after he was charged with sedition, Fr Stan Swamy listed all the activities that have made him a ‘Desh Drohi’: “During the past two decades, I have identified myself with the Adivasi people and their struggle for a life of dignity and self-respect….”
In the Time of Legitimate Despair, India Needs Unreasonable Hope
It is imperative to ‘be unreasonable’ in a dark time! Not only does it keep hope alive in oneself, but it also inspires it in others, too. Despair may be contagious, but courage is much more so.
Shahu Maharaj: Why He Matters Today as Much as a Century Ago
At a time when caste supremacy and religious intolerance corrode the idea of India, when power is being used to further sectarian interests, Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj’s legacy lights the path ahead.
Creative Understanding of the UAPA Grants Freedom from Jail for Activists: Delhi HC
Judgments of the Delhi High Court in Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita and Asif Iqbal Tanha’s cases, come as a whiff of fresh air which hopefully the Supreme Court will allow us to breathe.