Mughal Rulers: Were They Nation-Builders or Objects of Hate?
Nowhere in the world did a pre-modern empire combine as many people and territories under a unified administrative apparatus as the Mughals did.
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Over Two Decades, US’s Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives and Cost $8 Trillion
A new report from the Costs of War Project makes staggering estimates for the human and financial costs of the global forever wars. Also: Since 9/11, US Has Spent $21 Trillion on Militarism at Home and Abroad.
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The Blood Never Dries
It is not just that the territories of the British empire were seized and ruled with great violence; it is important to understand that the rulers of the empire will one day be perceived to rank with the dictators of the 20th century as the authors of crimes against humanity on an infamous scale.
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Iceland’s 35-Hour Working Week Worked. It Could Here, Too.
Between 2015 and 2019, Iceland embarked on two massive trials to test the idea of a shorter workweek. The result was an astounding success for its workers – and a model that deserves to be replicated elsewhere.
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End Is Near: Save India from Climate Catastrophe
Will a rising sea submerge India’s coastal cities and villages in the future? Will climate change affect our monsoon, and the floods and droughts linked to it?
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Farmers Hold National Convention, Announce Bharat Bandh on Sept. 25: Five Articles
The two-day long All India Farmers Convention concluded with a call for Bharat Bandh on Sept 25, 2021; Resolutions passed at the convention; Preparations on for Muzaffarnagar Kisan Mahapanchyat; Karnal lathi-charge; Adani in the Eye of the Storm as Himachal Apple Prices Crash.
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Designed to Kill? Why Go-Ahead for 7 Hydel Projects in Uttarakhand Is Malafide
Will the three ministries – environment, power, jal shakti – who approved these contentious projects, be held accountable for any future ecological disaster?
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Ladakh Stand-off Has Exposed India’s Failed Nuclear Deterrence against China
During the Ladakh stand-off, China not only walked through India’s conventional military capabilities, but also threw its purported nuclear deterrence out of the reckoning.
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A Plea for Liberal Education
I see liberating education as the cultivation of awakened intelligence—not instrumental reasoning. This means the possibility of inner flowering—the integral development of reason and intuition, brain and heart, science and aesthetics, body and soul, and thinking and feeling.
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When History Is Held Hostage: Commemorating the Continuing Sufferings of the Mappila Martyrs of 1921
While religion had a part to play in the rebellion, the movement in fact registered the resistance of the rural poor to acts of oppression and exploitation perpetrated by feudal landlords and the British colonial state.
