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Lawyer and famed writer Banu Mushtaq explains why she believes Muslim students shouldn’t have taken the hijab fight to court, how the Sangh Parivar destroyed the credibility of public intellectuals and appropriated the legacy of Basava, a 12th century Lingayat saint who envisaged a casteless society.
The court should have recognised that educational spaces in a plural and diverse society ought to reflect its plurality and diversity, and facilitating the freedom of choice and expression is one crucial way to achieve that.
In this interview, world-renowned public intellectual Noam Chomsky delves into the phenomenon of irrational political panics in the U.S., with an emphasis on current developments on the foreign policy front — and the dangers of seeking to maintain global hegemony in a multipolar world.
The Biden administration did not end the Afghan war, but continued it by other means, which are turning out to be more violent and destabilizing. The economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies are causing widespread, severe hunger in this desperately poor country.
A new draft agreement between Argentina and the International Monetary Fund has eschewed austerity. It will allow the Argentine economy to grow while the government continues its efforts to reduce poverty and gradually bring down inflation.
Since the mid-1990s, coups taking place in the Sahel region are not only not contested, but they are also seen as an opening into a new politics of liberation. They could signal a return to a long period of tumult, equally they could also be an opening for a different kind of politics.
Three scientists associated with the IPCC are discouraged and are criticizing governments for not doing enough about climate change. We propose that scientists studying natural phenomena and processes are ripe for collaborative relations with social scientists, including socialist investigators.
First published in 1944, ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ is an investigation of the notorious relationship between the Atlantic slave trade and the emergence of European industrial capitalism from the 16th through the 19th centuries.
The anti–Vietnam War movement cut across the civilian-military divide, with active-duty soldiers abroad and stateside defying their commanders and refusing to fight. Those soldiers played a key role in bringing the brutal war to an end.
The film is exploitative in the extreme, made to rouse emotions and build up a particular mood against Indian Muslims. Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri is emerging as the favourite filmmaker of the BJP and has received the party’s full support.
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