Minority Places of Worship Were Attacked in India and Pakistan. Guess Which Country Took Action?
The comparison highlights just how far India has moved away from its ideals of secularism.
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2020 Witnessed the Deliberate Destruction of Democratic Rights Organisations in India
The year 2020 has also been marked by the destruction of the democratic rights organizations of India, as part of a vicious plan of the BJP government to irreparably shrink the democratic space for a future that we can only tremble to think about.
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Elsevier and Wiley Declare War on Research Community in India
Three academic publishers have asked the Court to block the websites Sci-Hub and Libgen in India, which provide free downloads of research publications and books. Without access to the journals available on these websites for free, it is almost impossible to do quality research..
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Indigenous Movements and the Struggle for Defense of Land in 2020
On top of the existing violence and institutional impediments, this year was particularly taxing for the defenders of land and environment as they had to face double whammy of COVID-19 pandemic and the intensification of neoliberalism using the pandemic as an excuse.
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Blows Against the Empire – 2020 In Memoriam
Not only did the imperialist system prove incapable of handling COVID-19 in a reasonable manner, it has also hastened the crumbling of the US empire. A chronology of 2020’s most salient events.
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‘We Did It!’: Eruption of Joy as Argentine Senate Passes Bill to Legalise Abortion
This is a victory for the women’s movement in Argentina, which has been fighting for its rights for decades.
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Patriarchy and the Pandemic: Disentangling the Web of Oppression
A discussion with Renata Porto Bugni to understand the impact of the pandemic on women and the LGBTQIA+ community.
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The Contagion of Capital: Financialized Capitalism, COVID-19, and the Great Divide
Comprehending the basic parameters of today’s financialized capitalist system is the key to understanding the economic stagnation plaguing the production system as well as the accumulation of wealth by a few.
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Why the BJP’s Attempt to Appropriate Rabindranath Tagore Goes Against the Nobel Winner’s Own Beliefs
In works like ‘Home and the World’, ‘Gora’ and ‘Where the mind is without fear’, the Nobel Laureate demonstrated his opposition to aggressive nationalism.
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Covid, Brexit and Dreadnought: UK Slides into Economic and Social Turmoil
Britain, led by a poseur whose self-esteem is akin to that of the equally repellent Trump, is in a parlous economic condition, and is suffering from social rupture of a viciousness unknown in recent history.
