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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
During the pandemic that has taken everything from millions, top 1% households continue to gain wealth – in the USA alone, billionaires have collectively gained over $1 trillion. Also: “Landmark Study Shows $427 Billion Lost Each Year to Tax Dodging by Corporations and the Rich”.
The Pentagon has already submitted briefs to the incoming Biden administration arguing that Washington must escalate its drive to assert imperialist hegemony over the lands to its south as part of its preparations for a global confrontation with China.
U.S. Presidents of both parties unleashed the CIA in the Congo to do the dirty work of greedy corporations, causing misery, mutilations and massacres of such magnitude they dwarfed even the wildest accounts depicted in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
Our deeply troubled world today badly needs the essential message of peace, simplicity, equality and inter-faith harmony which Guru Nanak spread with so much skill and courage.
Engels’ sharp critique of the patriarchal family and the institution of marriage remains extremely powerful today.
An essay to mark the the 140th year of his birth: Some people find joy in jewels, some in a happy family, some in big mansions and some in luxury; the joy of reading good literature is greater than these joys and purer than them.
On November 26, India witnessed the biggest organized strike in human history, against the recent neoliberal reforms pushed through by the Narendra Modi government.
The real disappointment for citizens facing an unprecedented assault on their basic democratic rights is not that the Modi regime is behaving the way it is. The disappointment is with the Supreme Court.
The continuing drought in framing farmer-friendly policies has to end. The farmers’ march should be seen as a wake-up call to make appropriate policy corrections to set the historic imbalances right, and thereby bring back the pride in farming.
The founder-editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India discusses the demands that should be discussed in the special session of Parliament the farmers are demanding.
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