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Although he belonged to the ruling class, he did not subscribe to their elitism and a narrow divisive view of the religion. He established close relations with the underprivileged castes and poor people. He also lived as a poor man, in simplicity and poverty.
On the life and times of this radical figure.
The intelligence of plants has long been a theme of literature, philosophy, and Indigenous narrative. In “White Pine,” excerpted here, Robin Wall Kimmerer describes Indigenous reverence for trees, which are “respected as unique, sovereign beings equal to or exceeding the power of humans.”
The climate movement in the streets of Glasgow is aware that the science is clear and the solutions to the climate crisis are readily available. It is only political will that is lacking. This must be supplied by ordinary people, through creative, dramatic action and mass mobilization.
Melting glaciers, wildfires, droughts, deadly heatwaves, floods, hurricanes, loss of biodiversity. You do report these things, sometimes. But the climate crisis is much more than just this. If you want to truly cover it, you must also report on the fundamental issues of time, holistic thinking and justice.
Julian Assange is a truth-teller who has committed no crime but revealed government crimes and lies on a vast scale and so performed one of the great public services of my lifetime. Do we need to be reminded that justice for one is justice for all?
Fascism is not a useful term for majoritarianism in India because given the defining precedent of Nazi Germany, it implies a big bang, death-camp climax. This is both wrong and a distraction from the real danger. Majoritarianism in India is not premised on a final solution.
Is Facebook trying to move away from its sullied past and present to migrate to an alternate universe, the metaverse Facebook will create so we forget about the hate-filled Facebook pages that fuel its ad-driven business empire?
If education in India is to serve its true purpose, then it must have a content oriented towards serving India’s needs. But globalised capital would like the educated middle class, from which it employs its personnel, to be as alike everywhere as possible. Modi’s NEP is seeking to serve its needs.
It is not in India’s interests to needlessly annoy a host of countries in the region and from outside the region such as Turkey, Iran, Qatar, China, Pakistan — and even Russia. The bottomline is that the government must explain how India benefits out of this joyride in Quad-2.
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