Students Rise Up in the US Against Israel’s Genocide of Gazans – 3 Articles
Opposing the War Machine Is Cool Again, and the Empire’s Getting Nervous; War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young; The Nation’s Conscience.
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Ghosts of ’68
Militarized police raids cannot vanquish the ghosts of ’68. Thanks to student organizers, along with a critical minority of professors, intellectuals and human rights activists, people across the US are mobilizing in defence of first-amendment rights and against Israel’s genocide of Gazans. They are making history, and they know it.
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Is India Becoming a $5 Trillion Economy Soon? – Part 1
In this three part series, we examine the economic situation in the country, in early 2024, in the context of the tall claims being made by the Modi Government regarding the state of the economy. In Part 1 of this review, we take a look at the claims being made about India becoming a 5 trillion dollar economy within the next few years.
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Is Redistribution of Wealth in India a ‘Jumla’ or a Necessity?
Who gets how much is a result of the system, education, opportunities, and so on. Many of the rich people have become rich through cronyism, cutting corners, and bending rules.
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The Normalisation of Hate in India – 3 Articles
How Hate Has Been Normalised, Behaviourally and Institutionally, in Modi’s India; Modi’s Hypocritical Doublespeak About Religion and the Constitution; At Rae Bareli, a Picture of Contrasts in Amit Shah and Priyanka Gandhi.
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Manipur Conflict State-Manufactured for Facilitating Corporate Loot
In a statement marking one year of what it calls “genocidal violence” in Manipur, the civil rights network Forum Against Corporatization and Militarization (FACAM) has claimed that the whole “conflict” is premised on the fact that the state is rich in natural resources.
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‘Beti Bachao’: The Times BJP has Supported Sexual Assault Accused
From Prajwal Revanna, Brij Bhushan, Manipur, Kathua and Hathras, the Bhartiya Janata Party has a history of supporting alleged sexual offenders.
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Temple Tourism Trauma: Modi ‘Scraping Away’ Kashi’s Soul One Project at a Time
Since 2014, when PM Modi arrived in Varanasi to contest the Lok Sabha elections and promised to turn Varanasi into Kyoto, the city has been in demolition and construction mode – to corner Hindu votes across the country and in the process benefit corporates and builders. The people of Varanasi are turning out to be the biggest losers in this bargain.
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Unscientific Temper
The ideological penetration of Indian science by Hindutva was starkly illustrated by a series of nine linked tweets issued by the secretary of the Department of Science and Technology last month.
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A Half-Hearted Climate Change Verdict
In M.K. Ranjitsinh and Ors. vs Union of India and Ors., the top court has not looked into several problematic aspects of India’s proposed energy transition.
