Territory, Borders, Identities: India’s Conflict with China and Itself
It is a dangerous fallacy to see the the country as a scaled-up version of the individual body. Yet, displacing that equation is extremely hard.
No Reason in Law or Conscience to Hold Varavara Rao: Appeals, and an Article
It is a matter of shame that dreaded criminals in India receive political patronage and are able to remain outside jail, whereas intellectuals like Varavara Rao languish in jail.
Twitter Targets Accounts of News Outlets Covering Unrest in Bolivia
MintPress News, along with a number of independent Bolivian news outlets and journalists covering the unrest there, were all targeted for suspension at the same time.
Covid as Geopolitical Opportunity: India as Player, or Pawn?
The US is using the emergence of Covid-19 crisis as a weapon against its perceived rival, China; and India is becoming an ally of the US in this game.
Cuba’s Resilience Through Economic Crisis Prepared It for COVID Health Crisis
The greatest lesson Cuba gives us from its handling of the Covid crisis is: We can’t give people what is left over after we have given bailouts to the corporates; we must give them what we have.
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COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism
As the world enters the third decade of the twenty-first century, we are seeing the emergence of catastrophe capitalism as the structural crisis of the system takes on planetary dimensions.
Covid-19 and Conspiracy Theories: Two Articles
Trump administration’s zeal in shifting attention from its own bungling of the Covid-19 crisis to putting the blame on China is weakening the global fight against the pandemic.
The Murderous Pseudoscience of “Herd Immunity”
Containing the pandemic requires an investment in social infrastructure that the capitalist class is not willing to make. And so its idealogues are arguing in favour of letting the disease spread …
Covid Lockdown is Seen as a Cover for Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir is also imprisoned in intellectual, political, constitutional, strategic and moral lockdowns.
Three Letters to Chief Ministers that Nehru Wrote
Courtesy: The Wire Staff Different prime ministers choose to communicate in different ways. If tweets, radio broadcasts and speeches at rallies are Narendra Modi’s preferred modes of communication, India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, believed in letters—snail-mail, in today’s parlance. Soon after he assumed office in August 1947, Nehru began a tradition of writing…