‘We Must Reclaim Land as a Commons with Shared Use Rights for Both Men and Women’
The noted environmentalist offers candid takes on India’s agrarian crisis, sustainable agriculture, and gender equality in farming.
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Wooing Corporate Interests? Nagaland Move to ‘Massively Rely’ on Non-Native Palm Oil
A report on a virtual meeting organised by the civil rights organisation Kezekevi Thehou Ba says that the “bid to push oil palm cultivation in the North-East” has rung “alarm bells” in the ecologically fragile and biodiversity rich region.
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Disruptive Impact of ‘Unviable’ Ken-Betwa River Link Project for Bundelkhand Region
Villagers are protesting against the Ken-Betwa River Link Project, that is likely to lead to cutting down of 3 to 4 million trees and displacement of people of 21 villages. The project will be highly disastrous for the Bundelkhand region already suffering from several acute problems.
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‘We Have Been Made to Vanish’: Hidden by Screens, Delhi’s Poor Feel Pinch of G20 Curbs
The narrative around the G20 events is set largely around infrastructural improvements and state-of-the-art facilities. But the costs of such glitter and glitz are largely borne by the most underprivileged and working population of the city living in informal settlements or slums.
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Indian Institutes of Savarnas: Graveyards for Marginalised Students
Data collected by the APPSC shows that reservation is violated in faculty composition of all IITs. In IIT Delhi, only 2% of faculty are SC, 1% ST, and 7% OBC. The remaining 90% positions are filled by savarnas. Same is the case for IIT Bombay where 94% are savarnas, with just 2% OBC, 3% SC, and 1% ST.
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BNSS Introduces Handcuffs and In-Absentia Trials, Widens Preventive Detention and Police Custody
The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita Bill has introduced very few Sections to justify a new Bill instead of an amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973. While it indigenises labels, it also introduces certain new provisions that go against the grain of the Indian Constitution.
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Jiban Narah’s Poetry, A True Voice of Assam
Jiban Narah is easily one of the finest Indian poets writing in Asomiya today.
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A ‘New Africa’ Rises – 2 Articles
It’s essential for exploitative neocolonialism to keep resource-rich African nations from using their own resources to grow their own economies. But now the African dominoes are finally saying, “The game is over.” Is true decolonization finally on the horizon? Also: “Mass Protests Against French Troops Intensify in Niger as the Deadline for Their Withdrawal Approaches”.
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A Coup and a Catastrophe: the Politics of the Battle of Chile 50 Years on
Fifty years after the socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown by a bloody military coup, an analysis of the events and their lessons for socialists.
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Online Blog | Terrorism | USA
How 9/11 Bred a “War on Terror” from Hell
The author describes how the U.S. has turned much of the planet into a global free-fire zone. The so-called “war on terror” has resulted in the deaths of nearly a million people and the “indirect deaths” of perhaps 3.6 million more.
