How Three Women Turned into Environmental Defenders in India
Mildred, Meena, and Rose Xaxa: These women fight for their own communities’ land, forests and water. In the process, they clash against the might of the state and often risk their lives.
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Caste | Caste | India | Online Blog
The Weight of the World and Vikram Harijan’s Shoulders
The Allahabad University professor is battling police cases, varsity raps on his knuckles and volleys of harassment over his comments against the caste structure of Hinduism. But he is unrelenting.
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Extreme Weather Events Occurring with Increasing Frequency in India and USA – 2 Articles
‘Extreme Weather in India: A Disaster Nearly Every Day’: India has seen a disaster nearly every day this year – from heat and cold waves, cyclones and lightning to heavy rain, floods and landslides. Also: ‘US Has Faced a Record 23 Billion-Dollar Extreme Weather Disasters in 2023’.
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Einstein and the Indian Minds: Tagore, Gandhi and Nehru
This article chronicles Einstein’s connections with these three men, and shows how Einstein saw some of his ideas and ideals in the Indian mind embodied, to varying degrees, in Tagore, Gandhi and Nehru.
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Culture | India | Online Blog
Diwali for Ram, Krishna, Lakshmi, Yama, Asuras and Ancestors
In north India, Diwali commemorates the return of Ram, while south India celebrates the defeat of Narakasura. Western Diwali involves a business-related renewal and in eastern India, the focus shifts to ancestor worship. These varying traditions underscore the diversity of Hinduism across different regions.
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Culture | India | Online Blog
Ghazal
A four-line ghazal that came to the attention of people in Calcutta when he recited it during the Eid celebrations in May this year.
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The Decline of Our Institutions – 3 Articles
‘The Supreme Court Never Fails to Disappoint’: For all its comments favouring the petitioners, it does not go against the government in its orders. ‘SC “Appears to Foster” Culture of Secrecy, Does Not Seek Electoral Bond Details from SBI’; ‘Decaying Institutions and Diminishing Democracy of the Indian Republic’.
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Capitalism | Economy | Fascism | India | Indian Economy | Indian Politics | Online Blog
How the Modi Government Is Dismantling India’s Federalism, Politically and Fiscally
States’ access to resources is seemingly conditional on having a “double-engine sarkar”, even as governments’ space for economic policy is shrinking.
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India’s BRICS Quandary Deepens
India is no longer enamoured of the BRICS as a vehicle challenging the US-dominated international institutions when Delhi is content with being a status quoist so long as Washington embraces it as its “indispensable partner”.
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After 26/11 Mumbai Attacks, India Has Weaponised Economic Transactions for Mass Surveillance
The tragedy in India is that an external threat to security has seen the state weaponise all forms of governance systems against its own citizens.
