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Siddharth Varadarajan Let us set aside the anger and revulsion, disbelief, helplessness and perhaps even fear that many of you would have felt over Sunday night’s events at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and let us also postpone the question of who those masked thugs were that beat up students and faculty, and destroyed public property…
Jake Johnson The 500 richest people in the world, all of whom are billionaires, gained a combined $1.2 trillion in wealth in 2019, further exacerbating inequities that have not been seen since the late 1920s. That’s according to a new Bloomberg analysis published last week, which found that the planet’s 500 richest people…
Tanya Wadhwa The new Argentinian President Alberto Fernández, within 13 days of assuming office, has taken a number of measures to reverse the socio-economic crisis created by the previous right-wing government of Mauricio Macri. The new President, who hails from the Frente de Todos (Front for All), a coalition of center-left parties, took office…
Courtesy: Telesur Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro announced on January 2, 2020 that the Venezuelan Great Housing Mission achieved its 2019 goal by completing the delivery of 3 million dwellings to the Bolivarian people as planned. “Despite the imperialist economic, trade and financial blockade, which robbed us of so many resources in 2019, the…
Jahnavi Sen The Narendra Modi government wants to know all about us—where we and our parents were born, where we live, what we do, details of our family members, our mobile numbers and so on. For a country of more than 133 crore people, that is a massive (and massively expensive) exercise. But the…
Bharat Dogra The year that dawns on January 1 2020 is no ordinary year. Several leading scientists and scientist groups have repeatedly said that the life-nurturing conditions of our planet are badly threatened. Due to a number of factors this year is going to be a very important year if time-bound solutions of this survival…
Baldev Singh Mann On the night of September 25, 1986, Baldev Singh Mann, a communist–activist fighting the extremists in Punjab, was killed while on his way to his village, Chinna Bagga, in Amritsar district, to meet his one–week–old daughter. Reproduced below is the letter he wrote to his daughter the day she was born….
Shamsul Islam The Quit India Movement, also known as ‘August Kranti’, was a nationwide civil disobedience movement for which a call was given on August 7, 1942 by the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee. It began on August 8, with Gandhi giving the ‘Do or Die’ call in his ‘Quit India’…
Courtesy: The Wire and PTI Top poets and writers including Javed Akhtar, Rahat Indori and Vishal Bhardwaj have described attempts to paint Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s revolutionary “Hum Dekhenge” as anti-Hindu and pro-Islam a “ridiculous” and “narrow-minded” attempt. They were responding to IIT-Kanpur forming a committee to inquire into a complaint against the recitation…
Press Release: Ham Bharat ke Log For the last one week, Uttar Pradesh is under a reign of terror. Uttar Pradesh government is employing unlawful and lethal tactics to harass and intimidate the citizens that are protesting against Citizenship Amendment Act (“CAA”) and National Register of Citizens (“NRC”). The authorities are brazenly targeting Muslims,…
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