Red Alert: Only One Earth
A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Making Peace with Nature (2021), highlights the ‘gravity of the Earth’s triple environmental emergencies: climate, biodiversity loss, and pollution’.
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Six Months on, India’s Protesting Farmers are Creating History – Two Articles
As important as what they are fighting for, is how they have chosen to fight. Plus: Even after braving police action, concrete barriers, iron spikes, suspension of water and electricity, what makes the protesting farmers stay on?
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Legendary Environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna Passes Away – Two Obituaries
The 94-year-old environmentalist succumbed to COVID-19 on May 21, 2021, at AIIMS in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. With his demise, India has lost one of the finest environmentalists and social workers, who had also been a part of India’s freedom movement.
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Coming of Spring
The more the government tries to tighten its grip on dissent by cutting out all communications and shutting genuine dialogues, the more are the new bonds being created by the farmers’ movement. Many flowers may be cut, but Spring can no longer be prevented from coming.
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Stand Up for Palestine – Two Articles
All You Nations Sleeping; A New Hope Emerges in Palestinian Resistance to Sheikh Jarrah Evictions: In spite of violent repression, popular support continues to grow for Palestinians facing eviction from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and has sparked a new wave of resistance in Palestine.
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‘We are Witnessing a Crime Against Humanity’
It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complain.
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Swaraj – Unto the Last
Why Unto the last? Because: No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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‘Forbes’, India and Pandora’s Pandemic Box
In a year the GDP contracted 7.7%, as we brace for another round of ‘reverse’ migrations and as farmers wait unheeded at the gates of Delhi, Indian billionaires reached record levels of wealth.
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Rafale Deal Gets Murkier with Yet Another Exposé
The silence of both French and Indian governments, and regulatory agencies, on the three-part series by French investigative portal, Mediapart, is telling indeed.
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Refugees are Not Illegal
The influx of people from Myanmar in the wake of the military coup do not consist of illegal migrants but refugees escaping the brutalities of a military rule. In accordance with basic principles of international human rights, India should extend all humanitarian assistance to them.
