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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The world is more dangerous than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the battlelines between the nuclear weapons states and governmental and civil society anti-nuclearism has never been more definitively drawn. A dialogue between two renowned anti-nuclear activists.
2021 Arctic Report Card Tells a Human Story of Cascading Climate Disruption; What if the Doomsday Glacier Collapses?; Climate Crisis at the Top of the World: Global Orders and Catastrophic Change.
First-hand accounts of the impact of the US sanctions on a coffee and cocoa growing commune in the Venezuelan Andes.
The Kirti Kisan Forum, comprising retired IAS, IPS and Army officers as well as civil society members, noted that the peaceful protests brought about unity among the country’s masses and provided a cause which they could all rally behind.
“Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us.” These words of Jean-Paul Sartre should echo in all our minds following the grotesque decision of Britain’s High Court to extradite Julian Assange to the United States where he faces “a living death”. This is his punishment for the crime of authentic, accurate, courageous, vital journalism.
The very existence of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act undermines constitutional principles such as the right to life and liberty.
The political formations and other organisations who were deviously engaged in the destroying Babri Masjid on 6th December 1992 are celebrating the day as Saurya Divas. In doing so they are celebrating the “egregious violation of the rule of law”.
According to the World Inequality Report 2022, the levels of wealth and income inequalities in India are among the worst that prevail in the leading countries of the world.
Press Release: The Shaheen Bagh movement never ended, it continues to inspire us in our ongoing struggles to defend democratic rights and assert equal citizenship. On its 2nd anniversary, let us remember this powerful struggle, and organise solidarity actions across the country on 16 Dec 2021.
A recent report by International IDEA, an inter-governmental think tank, finds that “70% of the global population now live either in non-democratic regimes or in democratically backsliding countries”. The report cites Brazil, India and the United States as the biggest backsliders globally.
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