Why Healthy Forests Mean Fewer Pandemics
COVID-19, SARS, and Ebola were transmitted to humans from wild animals living in tropical forests. Destroying their habitats is killing us.
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Venezuela, the Decolonial Alternative: A Conversation with Ramón Grosfoguel
Grosfoguel talks about the living links between the colonial and the neocolonial systems, the problematic legacy of the colonial past in Venezuela’s present, and US imperialism’s neocolonialism in relation to Venezuela
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Remembering Habib Tanvir on His 100th Birth Anniversary
Over a long, momentous journey, the iconic playwright and director blended an imaginative approach to folk tradition and an inclusive concept of modernity to establish his unique, artistically exciting and enriching Naya Theatre, contemporary in outlook and form.
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Ravana in Malaysia and Indonesia
The Ramayana has been retold by several communities and several people over a period of 2,000 years and over a region that spreads over 5,000 miles. Scholars have found the Ramayana retellings even in faraway places such as Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
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On Teachers’ Day: Remembering Those Teachers Who Taught Students Independence, and Got Penalised
This Teachers’ Day, we must remember the teachers who have been suspended, penalised, arrested, jailed, or forced to quit for being independent and teaching students this independence.
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Udayanidhi Stalin’s Critique of Sanatana Dharma – Two Articles
Udayanidhi Stalin’s statement that he’s prepared to furnish the writings of Periyar and Ambedkar to defend his comments on sanatana dharma indicates the larger context of radical, anti-caste critiques of religion in India, then and now. Also: “The BJP May Defend ‘Sanatan Dharma’, But Can’t Define What it Means”.
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Budget 2023–24: What Is in it for the People: Part 7 – The Budget and Agriculture
The 2023–24 budget for agriculture is simply devastating for farmers — it is as if the Modi Government is taking revenge on farmers for their historic movement that forced the roll-back of the three farm laws. The seventh article in our analysis of Union Budget 2023.
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India’s Fake Growth Story
Indian authorities are downplaying inconvenient macroeconomic facts so that they can celebrate high GDP figures ahead of hosting the G20 summit. But in covering up the growing struggles faced by the vast majority of Indians, they are playing a cynical and dangerous game.
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Why the View Is Different from the Street: The Merits of Democratic Protest
It is easy to feel bleak in the confines of one’s living room, where social media-fuelled anxiety can lead to handwringing and despair. But as anyone who has taken part in a people’s movement in some shape or form can testify, the view is very different from the street.
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Rahul Gandhi in Europe: ‘It’s a Fight – Mahatma Gandhi’s Vision vs Nathuram Godse’s Vision’
Gandhi said, “The BJP’s vision believes that power should be centralised, wealth should be concentrated and the conversation between … people of India should be suppressed. And so, this is the fight between two visions. I like to term it the fight between Mahatma Gandhi’s vision and Nathuram Godse’s vision.”
