First Books, Then People: How a Barbarous Nazi Act Resonates Even Today
Ninety years ago in Germany, Nazis in many cities burned books by writers deemed “un-German”.
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Khader Adnan, Who Yearned to Live Free, Dies in Israeli Prison
Khader Adnan died after 86 days of refusing food in protest against his detention by Israel. But if Israel broke and finally destroyed Adnan physically, it did not do so spiritually. “Our freedom is the most precious thing we have,” Adnan explained in an essay published in a book.
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On Women Who Refused to Live in Silence and Be Consigned to Oblivion
Excerpt from Eduardo Galeano’s book ‘Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History’, whose paperback edition has just come out.
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Indulging in Bluster with China, the Modi Government Is Overplaying its Foreign Policy Hand
Believing its own rhetoric of major power status, and hence China’s peer competitor, India thought it could, like the US, combat, compete and cooperate on its own terms with China. But is that true?
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The Human Rights Situation in the Indian Sub Continent
An unabridged version of the presentation made at the 36th session of UNHRC.
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The Principles of Democracy Can’t be Scarified at Altar of Majoritarianism
Former Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court Justice Mathur’s keynote address at the 11th Rajasthan state convention of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties in Bhilwara on April 1 and 2.
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Freedom of Expression: Driver for All Other Human Rights
The World Press Freedom Index 2022 had ranked India 150 out of 180 countries in the world. Given the state of Freedom of Speech and Expression in the country today, it is doubtful whether India has any chances of improving on its pathetic 150 ranking of the previous year.
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Why Pune’s Citizens Are Up in Arms About a Riverfront Development Project
Along with eating into the riverine vegetation along the Mula-Mutha river, the riverfront development project that aims to address flooding and make the river more ‘accessible’ to people will not really do so, say activists.
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Alluri Sitarama Raju, Unique Revolutionary, Remembered on His Death Anniversary
On 7 May 1924, Alluri Sitarama Raju (4 July 1897– 7 May 1924), a unique revolutionary involved in the Indian independence movement, was killed by the British armed forces. He was one of the few Indian revolutionaries who had developed a mass base and a mass movement.
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India: Climate Change Causing Freak Weather and Heat Waves
The Indian Metrological Department (IMD) is predicting serious heat waves in the three-month period till end-May. They are expected to have wide-ranging impacts in India ranging from fatalities and hospitalisations to low productivity, loss of education and economic losses.
