Bhopal: A Toxic Tragedy Continues
Thirty-six years after the horrific gas leak, Union Carbide’s defunct pesticide plant continues to contaminate soil and groundwater.
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Reading about Mussolini’s Italy in Modi’s India
There are uncanny parallels between the Italy of the 1920s and the India of the 2020s.
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A Hindu Papacy?
In India, we appear to have succumbed to some ultramontane form of Hinduism, though in this setting, the Prime Minister is the figurative Pope.
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Kashi-Mathura: Will Temple Politics be Revived?
The success of right wing forces to increase their clout through the Ram Temple campaign may prompt them to go in this direction, which is detrimental to the progress and development of the country.
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Tablighi Jamaat: Vindicated, Finally
Bombay High Court quashes the FIRs against 29 foreigners and six Indian members of the Tablighi Jamaat and chastises the police for “non-application of mind”, hopefully drawing the curtain on the sustained vilification of the largest Muslim organisation in the country.
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The World Bank: An ABC
A new form of decolonization is urgently required to get out of the predicament in which the World Bank has entrapped the world in general.
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Against Advertising
Advertising is a constant feature of our everyday lives. As a result, we often ignore its real and unsavoury function: capitalist propaganda par excellence.
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Hong Kong in Revolt
Hong Kong leftist intellectual Au Loong-Yu retraces the development of the protest movement in his place of birth over the past two decades, setting them within the context of broader political trends in mainland China and beyond.
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Homage to Sree Narayana Guru and Landmark in Kerala’s Social History
Gurudevan created a revolutionary climate in this stagnant part of India with his espousal of equality, justice and the virtues of unity and ‘organisation’.
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‘Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories’: Remembering Amílcar Cabral
96 years after the birth of revolutionary Amílcar Cabral, his life, struggle and contributions continue to guide us.
