How Should We Remember December 6?
How can we hope to become one people if a single event or a date evokes two disparate and antagonistic memories in two sections of the country?
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‘One-Nation-One-Election’ Destructive to Our Federal Structure
The Prime Minister’s arguments lack sincerity and are being used only to divert attention from the many flaws in our electoral laws and practices, including those relating to safeguards in the use of EVMs and to the use of post-election defections to gain power.
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The Poem for His Mother that Got Salil Tripathi Suspended from Twitter
An outrageous act of censorship against one of the most important advocates of free speech.
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Manglesh Dabral: Poet and Editor Who was the Voice of the Marginalized
An obituary; and two poems by Mangesh Dabral, translated into English.
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Support the Struggle of the Farmers: It Is Our Struggle Too
The farm laws will lead to the corporatisation of agriculture and its control by foreign agribusiness corporations. Our very food sovereignty and thus the sovereignty of the country itself is at stake.
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Banking License to Corporates — A Very Bad Idea
Can we hand over our public sector banks to the very same very same delinquents, defaulters & dodgers who are responsible for the losses being incurred by these banks?
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The Heroism of Khudai Khidmatgars in Today’s India
The documentary maker explains the context to a short film he has assembled about arrested communal harmony activist Faisal Khan.
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Real Power Is with Centre, Which Holds the Purse-Strings
Post 2014, two centralisations – of political and economic power – continue to reinforce each other, with profound consequences for the country and potential to define popular narrative in days ahead.
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The Last Straw: Civil Society Must Step In
Each citizen, as Havel once said about totalitarianism, must become iconic of protest from body language to symbolism. When indifference and prejudice becomes a monstrosity of legal indifference, civil society must reinvent democracy as a new politics of caring.
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Want to Avoid Pandemics? Eliminate Factory Farming
Packing huge numbers of animals together in confined quarters is what gave birth to earlier pandemics like H1N1, HIN5, SARS-CoV-1 and now SARS-CoV-2. It will go on happening, so long as industrial farms continue to exist.
