We Also Made History
Originally published in Marathi in 1989, Meenakshi Moon and Urmila Pawar’s ‘We Also Made History’ details the history of women’s participation in the Dalit movement led by B.R. Ambedkar.
Analysing Mamata Banerjee’s Decisive Victory in Bengal – Four Articles
‘No to BJP, But Yes to What?’: Why Bengal’s Decisive Mandate Reflects Courage; Battle for West Bengal: Mamata Lost but TMC Won, Modi-Shah Duo Humiliated, Left-Congress Washed Out; Key Economic Lessons Learnt from the West Bengal, Kerala Electoral Results
Time for India to Cancel Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project
France remains desperate to sell its severely troubled EPR nuclear reactors to India, even though its own project at home and at both the sites outside of France have had severe cost and time overruns and continue to face safety issues.
Modi Govt and Its Lack of Concern for the Working Class
While there have been measures of universal support in the US following the pandemic, i.e. to every household, no such measures have been adopted in India despite the pleadings of a host of economists, civil society organisations, and political parties.
United States: For a Fighting Approach, Not Factionalism — An Interview with Kshama Sawant
The most prominent independent elected socialist in the U.S., Kshama Sawant, recently announced, that she and other members Socialist Alternative would be joining the Democratic Socialists of America. This is the important backdrop to this interview.
Nawal El Saadawi’s Intellectual Life Reflected Eight Decades of Arab Society and Culture
The Egyptian feminist writer and activist (who was also a physician and psychiatrist) died on March 21 at the age of 89.
Why Steinbeck’s ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ Remains the Most Memorable Saga of Displaced Farmers and Migrating Workers
The novel was very effective in drawing attention to the injustices faced by displaced farmers in the wake of the great depression and the dust bowl phenomenon. We in India are all too familiar with this overwhelming reality of our times, and this is all the more reason for remembering this story.
For Resolving Farming Crisis, Some Small Farmers Show the Way with Big Achievements
Some inspiring stories of the ingenuity, innovativeness as well as traditional wisdom of ordinary hard working farmers, and also of some organisations who could provide conducive conditions in which the potential of these undoubted abilities of farmers could be realized.
Killer Prince
The Saudi offer of a ceasefire in Yemen on 22 March was an acknowledgement by Riyadh and its backers in Washington that they had lost the war.
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Erdoğan Starts a Political Earthquake in Turkey
Significant developments are underway in Turkey. Most ominously, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has moved toward the banning of one of the country’s main opposition parties, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).