A Vision for India: Nehru’s Idea of Modern Nationhood
It is necessary to revive the four key dimensions of Nehru’s vision for a modern nationhood — democracy, secularism, socialism and non-alignment.
A New Left Party Shakes Up Germany – 2 Articles
A new political party in Germany has been launched in Germany. It aims to draw a clear line between Berlin’s belligerence towards Russia and how the weight of that stance falls most heavily on the German working class through deindustrialization and austerity.
Modi’s Drifting Flagship Schemes and Failed Guarantees
At least 142 schemes in the last 10 years have been launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. With new schemes being announced every other day aimed at boosting Modi’s cult, there has been no evaluation or scrutiny of these programmes.
New Research Raises Fresh Doubts About India’s River Linking Plans
A long-standing plan to shift water between rivers in north-central India powers on, despite new science that casts doubt on its efficacy, and concerns over major ecological impacts.
Global Warming Slices and Dices Greenland
One more UN Conference of the Parties, COP28, has flopped. The short-term financial interests of a few have again won over the health, lives and livelihoods of most people living on this planet. Meanwhile, new research has identified extremely disturbing deep trouble brewing in Greenland.
What Ashoka University Can Learn from Gandhi, Tagore and Nehru’s Thoughts on Academic Freedom
The all-out assault on the autonomy of Ashoka University and its regrettable capitulation to such menacing interferences reminds one of British rule, when universities of pre-independent India were being controlled by the colonial government directly or indirectly.
Modi’s US Visit: Beyond Optics, the Substance Is Not Much to Crow About
The US effort is to wean away India from its present conciliatory approach towards China as soon as possible, and gradually secure a foothold for US forces on the sub-continent as contemplated in the Joint Statement. Also: “Modi’s US Visit Has Increased India’s Vulnerabilities”.
Brasilia Summit: Lula and Maduro Reboot Regional Integration – 2 Articles
In a blow to US hegemony, the revival of Unasur at a summit of 13 Latin American leaders demonstrates the region’s shift back to the left and the rehabilitation of Venezuela. Also: “South America Is Back, and Venezuela Is Helping Lead the Way”.
The Indigenous People, Again
It is not strange that the US, Canada, and Australia do not sympathize with the Palestinians because they themselves were settlers too who wiped out whole cultures and confiscated their land.
The Foxconn Uprising in Zhengzhou
Foxconn’s case is extraordinary because it is an extreme case in which the contradiction between capital accumulation and people’s social reproduction has led to a massive crisis. It is also ordinary because such a contradiction, is a built-in feature of our current global capitalist system