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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In his 15 August speech, PM Modi elevated V.D. Savarkar to the pantheon of freedom fighters of the Indian freedom movement. A comparison of PM’s idolization of Savarkar with the writings of Savarkar and records of his activities available in the archives of the Hindu Mahasabha.
On the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence, we, as responsible citizens, should have been flagging the issues of hunger, dwindling health parameters, poverty and lack of quality education which make many of our fellow citizens less free.
At the call of Samyukta Kisan Morcha, thousands of farmers began a three-day protest on Friday in different parts of Western Uttar Pradesh. The farmers are voicing support for their counterparts in Lakhimpur Kheri who are on a 72-hour-long dharna since Thurdsay to press for various demands.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Constitution Amendments that led to the three-tier Panchayati Raj structures. The 73rd Amendment further led to legislation for its extension into tribal areas and the Forest Rights Act. On how have these legislations fared over the past 30 years.
After dropping two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945, killing between 100,000 and 200,000 civilians, top U.S. government officials lied, claiming there was “no radioactive residue” in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and that Japanese reports of deaths due to radiation were “propaganda.”
As working class families the world over struggle to afford basic necessities amid historic inflation, driven by the pandemic and the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine, the world’s largest multinational oil corporations are announcing record profits.
Measured by the federal poverty line, about 37 million Americans live below the poverty line—that’s about 11 percent of the population. But this leaves out many millions more Americans who live one emergency expense away from poverty.
We hear a lot about work in the media but hardly ever about what effect it has on the minds and bodies of those who do it, and why it is organized in a special way, radically different than in most of human existence.
For centuries, the wreckage has piled up in Colombia – the dead and disappeared, the ‘nobodies’ discarded in the course of its uneven development. Now a storm is finally blowing in from Paradise. The task of the left – alongside Petro and the Pacto – is to guarantee that the storm does not bring darkness and sweep it all away.
Over the last twenty years, China has gained recognition for its efforts to reduce pollution and remediate the effects of industrialization within its borders. In another effort towards this, communities are returning to grassroots projects that present an alternative to unchecked globalization.
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