B.R. Ambedkar’s Views on Women Question and Current Electoral Politics
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B.R. Ambedkar’s Views on Women Question and Current Electoral Politics

Ambedkar’s commitments and struggles towards gender justice and women’s empowerment have not been seriously explored in the mainstream academic circles and public sphere at large. This essay is an attempt to engage with Ambedkar’s views on women’s question.

Global Warming: Situation Is Getting Worse, More Worse, Dangerously Worse – Five Articles
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Global Warming: Situation Is Getting Worse, More Worse, Dangerously Worse – Five Articles

Buckle Up! The Arctic’s Sizzling; Greenland Ice Sheet Is Losing Ice Faster Than Forecast and Now Irreversibly Committed to At Least 10 Inches of Sea Level Rise; ‘Dangerous Heat Waves’ to be More Frequent and More Sustained in Near Future; Drought Has Become a Truly Planetary Disaster in 2022; Day of the Dead.

How True Is the Health Minister’s Claim that India’s Doctor-Population Ratio Exceeds WHO Guidelines?

How True Is the Health Minister’s Claim that India’s Doctor-Population Ratio Exceeds WHO Guidelines?

Ayush doctors were included to inflate the number. Further, the country does not have accurate data on the number of practicing healthcare professionals. A 2021 study found that the density of active health workforce in India is just a little over one-fourth of the WHO’s recommended threshold of 44.5 skilled health workers per 10,000 population.

How Marxists Brought Science to Politics and Politics to Science
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How Marxists Brought Science to Politics and Politics to Science

We need to understand the links between science, politics, and commercial interests. For Marxists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these were some of the most important questions to be addressed in their work. The cross-fertilization between Marxism and science had major implications for the development of both.

What is Socialist Feminism?
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What is Socialist Feminism?

There is a fundamental interconnection between women’s struggle and class struggle. All those women’s struggles which build collective confidence among women are important to building class consciousness; and all those class struggles which seek to build the social and cultural autonomy of the working class are necessarily linked to the struggle for women’s liberation.