With 50,000 COVID-19 Deaths and Highest New Daily Cases in World, India’s Outlook is Grim
The spread of the coronavirus epidemic in India looks almost unstoppable.
‘There Is No God in that Temple, Said the Hermit’
A translation of Tagore’s poem ‘Deeno Daan’ (’Destitute Donation’), that he wrote in 1900.
‘Optimism of the Will’: Palestinian Freedom is Possible Now
While logical analysis of a situation may lead the intellect to despair, the potential for social and political revolutions and transformations must keep us all motivated to keep the struggle going, no matter the odds.
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%.