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September 28, 2019 marks the immortal revolutionary martyr Bhagat Singh’s 112th birth anniversary. On this occasion we are publishing the following article on Bhagat Singh. Introduction Shahid Bhagat Singh is widely recognised as perhaps the most famous and respected revolutionary of the freedom movement of India. Although he, along with his two comrades Sukhdev and…
Arundhati Roy’s “Introduction” to Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Edition titled “The Doctor and The Saint” appears to have been written more to attack Gandhi than to assess the contemporary relevance of this great book and/or the life and works of its author—Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. Therefore, Ambedkarites might find some reasons to ignore the article….
I shall be taking up two intertwined themes: one is the recognition of what we have begun to call the Other, with a capital ‘O’. The second is the interface of this Other with established society and religion, which I shall be calling the Self, with a capital ‘S’. The interface naturally covers an unending…
Interview with S’bu Zikode [Land has always been central to the nationalist imagination in South Africa. But, after apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) did not act to democratise governance in the former Bantustans (land designated for black South Africans under apartheid), or to undertake serious land reform in the vastly larger areas under the…
(Third Shambhu Dutta Memorial Lecture, Organized by Transparency International India at IIC, September 9, 2019.) Preface to the Lecture I am grateful to Transparency International India for asking me to deliver the Third Shambhu Dutta Memorial Lecture. It is held in the memory of Shri Shambhu Dutta (1918-2016), the founding father of Transparency International India….
I’m Bonnie Faulkner, on behalf of Guns and Butter. Michel Chossudovsky is an economist and the Founder, Director and Editor of the Center for Research on Globalization, based in Montreal, Québec. He is the author of eleven books, including The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, War and Globalization: The Truth Behind September…
Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena (We give below the English translation of Hindi poet Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena’s celebrated poem, Deshgaan (An Ode to the Nation), to commemorate his 36th death anniversary. Deshgaan was part of a poetry collection written between 1976 (when the Emergency was still on) and 1981. The political and moral concerns voiced in this…
Greta Thunberg, the young climate crisis activist on September 23 opened the United Nations Climate Action Summit with an angry condemnation of world leaders for failing to take strong measures to combat climate crisis. Below is her full speech. This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on…
The week from September 20 till September 27 has been designated as the week of the ‘Climate Strike’. It is an unprecedented event in its ambition to disrupt business as usual. Thousands of events are taking place around the globe to demand that world leaders pay attention to the looming climate catastrophe that threatens our…
“Dr. Doom” fellow students joked as we walked out of our department seminar. It was 1998 and the presenter was Richard Gammon, a co-author of the first IPCC report. I didn’t share my fellow University of Washington grad students’ joke. I was uneasy, wondering about the timing of forecasts and feedback loops. My grad school…
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