Even After a Century, Water Is Still the Marker of India’s Caste Society
For Dalits, water is not a natural beauty, the nectar of life or a life-nurturing agent, but a ‘caste burden’.
Gandhian Politics in Contemporary India
Gandhians are facing an unprecedented challenge today. Their world-view, icons, agenda of nation-building, institutional set-up and campaigns and programs are being challenged from all sides by a Hindu-centric political force.
Brazil’s Ex-President Dilma Rousseff: US-China Conflict Is Neoliberalism vs Socialism
President Dilma reiterates the need for Brazil to integrate with the rest of Latin America, to break its dependency on the US, to develop a truly sovereign foreign policy, and work closely with China – a country which is willing to work with other countries on the basis of equality.
Who Was Edward Said? Biographically Interpreted and Existentially Recollected
Remarks on 30 June 2021 at the opening on the Book Launch of Timothy Brennan’s ‘Places Of Mind: A Life Of Edward Said’. An attempt to grapple with the complexity and contradictory character of Said, who was at once engaging, paradoxical, theatrical, seductive, critical, provocative, who could be on occasion defensive and even enraged.
Born 200 years ago, What Is Fyodor Dostoevsky Telling Us Today Through His Novels?
Dostoevsky’s books – with their unique mix of dark comedy and pathos – are notoriously gloomy. Yet they can be oddly uplifting. In them he tested the very limits of human freedom: in prison he bore witness to the darkest sides of human nature; in his later years in freedom he agonised over our natural dogmatism and self-destructiveness.
Globalization from Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan Until Today: Part 1
This study covers the period from the 15th to the 21st century, focusing on the dramatic effects of capitalist globalisation.
Imperialism and Super Exploitation
A review of John Smith’s Imperialism in the 21st Century. This “powerful and searing indictment of the exploitation of billions of people,” argues that “the huge low wage proletariat that has emerged in the last 30 years is the key to the profits of imperialism.”
The Dark History of Population Control
Book Review of ‘Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population’, by Matthew Connelly, Harvard University Press: A story of how some people have tried to control others ruthlessly and manipulatively, without having to answer to anyone, in ways that are shocking.
World Gathering of Peoples for Our Mother Earth and Against the Climate Crisis – Conclusions Document
Measures and actions proposed by the Global Encounter of Peoples for our Mother Earth and against the Climate Crisis to curb the climate disruption and restoring the balance with our Mother Earth.
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What Is Socialism for the Twenty-First Century?
Socialism for the twenty-first century is not a statist society where decisions are top-down and where all initiative is the property of state office-holders or cadres of self-reproducing vanguards. It rejects a state that stands over and above society and squeezes “the living civil society like a boa constrictor”.