Pilgrimage to India: When Martin Luther King Jr followed in Gandhi’s footsteps
After a month-long visit to India in 1959, the civil rights leader was convinced that non-violence was the best way forward for the African-American struggle.
Why Are Adivasis Opposed to Vedanta’s Zinc Smelter Plant in South Gujarat?
The industrial unit, into which Vedanta will pump in an estimated Rs 10,000 crore in phases, is being set up despite opposition from local residents and members of the civil society over its environmental impacts; there are also problems in the way land for the project was allotted.
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Who Authorized America’s Wars? And Why They Never End
Until we pressure lawmakers to repeal that 2001 AUMF and end the forever conflicts that have gone with it, America’s wars will ensure that our democracy and the rule of law as we know it will make any promises of peace, self-defense, and justice ring hollow.
Fighting for Survival, Building for Power
For members of ‘nou pap Dòmi’, a collective within Haiti’s petroChallengers movement, the anti-corruption struggle is a space to imagine the kind of society they seek to create.
Can Humanity Prevent War from Ever Happening Again?
While conflict and war have written much of modern human history, they offer an incomplete narrative. Anthropological evidence suggests war is not innate to humanity. An interview with Doug P. Fry about his work studying peace systems and their potentially global implications.
In the Time of Legitimate Despair, India Needs Unreasonable Hope
It is imperative to ‘be unreasonable’ in a dark time! Not only does it keep hope alive in oneself, but it also inspires it in others, too. Despair may be contagious, but courage is much more so.
Thinking with Gandhi: The Meaning of Moral Courage and the Evil of Inequality
If we think with Gandhi, then we can come to nonviolence only after passing through two other terms first – courage and evil. An account of nonviolence that does not spring from an understanding of courage and evil runs away from what is most thought-provoking in Gandhi.
The Cinematograph Act Always Gave the Govt Too Much Power. That’s Why We Challenged it.
As we stand at the intersection of freedom and state control, the judiciary is the only hope. Though that hope has also faded in recent years, our challenge is to not give up the Sisyphean fight to set governmental authoritarianism at naught.
Remember the Teenager Named Junaid Khan?
His lynching had sparked the #notinmyname campaign. However, four years later communal lynchings no longer seem to shock the public. A scary sign of the times.
Silger Protest Taps into Wider Anger in Bastar Over Security Camps Coming Up in the Name of Roads
Silger has attracted protestors from all over Bastar due to rising friction over the establishment of security camps, ostensibly for the purpose of aiding road construction. Across the seven districts of Bastar division, there have been at least 12 such protests since October last year.