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Bharat Dogra The year that dawns on January 1 2020 is no ordinary year. Several leading scientists and scientist groups have repeatedly said that the life-nurturing conditions of our planet are badly threatened. Due to a number of factors this year is going to be a very important year if time-bound solutions of this survival…
Baldev Singh Mann On the night of September 25, 1986, Baldev Singh Mann, a communist–activist fighting the extremists in Punjab, was killed while on his way to his village, Chinna Bagga, in Amritsar district, to meet his one–week–old daughter. Reproduced below is the letter he wrote to his daughter the day she was born….
Shamsul Islam The Quit India Movement, also known as ‘August Kranti’, was a nationwide civil disobedience movement for which a call was given on August 7, 1942 by the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee. It began on August 8, with Gandhi giving the ‘Do or Die’ call in his ‘Quit India’…
Courtesy: The Wire and PTI Top poets and writers including Javed Akhtar, Rahat Indori and Vishal Bhardwaj have described attempts to paint Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s revolutionary “Hum Dekhenge” as anti-Hindu and pro-Islam a “ridiculous” and “narrow-minded” attempt. They were responding to IIT-Kanpur forming a committee to inquire into a complaint against the recitation…
Press Release: Ham Bharat ke Log For the last one week, Uttar Pradesh is under a reign of terror. Uttar Pradesh government is employing unlawful and lethal tactics to harass and intimidate the citizens that are protesting against Citizenship Amendment Act (“CAA”) and National Register of Citizens (“NRC”). The authorities are brazenly targeting Muslims,…
Prem Shankar Jha On December 22, India reached a crossroad in its tortured journey towards nationhood. For the first time in more than five years—and 17 years, if we count his time as chief minister of Gujarat—Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a step back from a policy that he had previously committed himself to….
Dilip Simeon I write this primarily for the young protestors of today, as well as those who might be confused by the government’s (and the Sangh Parivar’s) propaganda. It is necessary to see how ill-informed, illogical and deceitful this propaganda is, because it is being propagated by responsible persons bent upon creating more tension…
Samrat Chakrabarti It began simply and without fuss. On the night that Jamia Millia Islamia was attacked, ten women walked out of their homes and onto the road next door that connects Delhi with Uttar Pradesh with a resolve not to move, come what may. These women who describe themselves as jahil and…
Harry Magdoff Probably the passage in the Communist Manifesto most frequently cited these days is a portrayal of the global spread of capitalism: “All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are being destroyed. They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all nations, by industries…
Paul Brown When countries run short of food, they need to find solutions fast, and one answer can be urban farming. That was the remedy Cuba seized with both hands 30 years ago when it was confronted with the dilemma of an end to its vital food imports. And what worked then for…
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