How Movements Can Turn Public Support Into Lasting Change
How do activists harness the too-often fleeting momentum from “movement moments” to create historic social change?
Save Country and Constitution from the Current Government
In a call to all progressive lawyers, Justice P.B. Sawant says that the powers that be are inimical to the Indian Constitution that is a culturally and socially transformative document
A Reminder That People Do Not Dissolve, Governments Do: Three Articles
The govt is trying to dissolve that very section of the people who are asserting their citizenship rights. But people do not dissolve except in moments of poetic irony, governments do. Two articles. And a statement by concerned civil servants on assault on Article 19 of the Constitution.
UN Experts Call on India to Release Anti-CAA Activists
UN experts call on India to immediately release human rights activists who were arrested for protesting against the CAA; NAPM also demands the immediate release of KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi and withdrawal of all ill-conceived charges foisted against him.
Gandhi’s Last March: A Parable for Today
It is difficult not to imagine Gandhi in the time of COVID-19. For him, there was no consideration that could permit any compromise with truth and concern for the poor.
Standoff in Ladakh Needs Political Solution
Indian democracy abjectly failed to sustain strategic communication with Beijing, which is undoubtedly the most consequential relationship India would have for decades to come.
The Path Beyond Extinction and Escape: Return to Earth, Regenerate and Share
Message for World Environment Day, June 5: Only as one earth community and one humanity, united in our diversities, can we escape the destructive, ecocidal, genocidal rule of the 1%.
India Unlock 1.0: Three Articles
The Modi government is moving to unlock the economy, even though the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise rapidly and has crossed more than 1.5 lakh. Is the new mantra of the government ‘Live and let die’?
Feel a Little Shame for the Lost Soul of the Nation
I am ashamed of my social milieu which lauds the leader for dismissing the cataclysmic sufferings of almost 5% of our population as “tapasya”, as if they had a choice.
Analysing the Fiscal Cost of Modi’s Rs 20 Lakh Crore Package: Three Articles
If there is no additional borrowing, there can be no additional expenditure and, logically, no fiscal stimulus. Direct fiscal stimulus from the Centre will only be a little over 1% of India’s GDP, not 10% as projected by PM Modi. Three articles.