NB: One criminal and sleazy con-man; the other with the blood of over 140,000 Palestinians murdered or wounded by American-supplied Israeli munitions on his hands. One liable for life imprisonment for instigating violent insurrection; the other fit for trial as enabler of genocide; and thereafter for confinement in an old age home for mass murderers.… Read More The twin black holes of America
*PSF stands in solidarity with the teachers and staff at TISS* Statement issued by Progressive Students’ Forum, Date: 29 June 2024 After repeatedly targeting its students and curbing the campus democracy, the present TISS administration, under the BJP-led union government, has unleashed an attack on its employees as well. Recently, it has been learnt that… Read More Condemn the Mass Termination of around 100 Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff at TISS under the Union Government
NB: Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a novella about the life of a school teacher, Mr. Chipping, written by English writer James Hilton, and published in 1934. I think it must be among the most beautiful love stories ever told. It also reminds us of the tremendous power of the human soul. My father took me… Read More Goodbye Mr Chips
NB: What is happening to Indian education is nothing short of organised crime. My heartfelt sympathy is due to the young people who are forced face so much tension and travail for absolutely no fault of theirs. It is not surprising that lacs of Indian students do their best, at great expense, to get educated… Read More Methodical destruction of the education system
Reports suggest that the weapons pipeline from India to Israel has surreptitiously kept flowing to meet war-shortages, in effect aiding genocide in Gaza GAZA casualties, live statistics Bharat Bhushan Both in the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars, India has projected itself as a potential peacemaker. Now, it turns out that India has been stoking the war in Gaza by supplying… Read More India is firing the engine of war while preaching peace
While Aipac and their allies can eliminate nearly any adversary if they throw $20m at a primary election, this is not a sustainable strategy…. the fact that this win, and this amount of spending, was even necessary should give advocates of Israel serious pause. The election represents Aipac’s attempt to rebuild a dam that has… Read More The AIPAC-funded candidate defeated Jamaal Bowman. But at what cost?
Both centralisation and privatisation have dismantled the future of higher education in India and the lack of moral positionality of the state has come out as a catastrophe for millions of students who aspire to follow higher education pathways. Vidyasagar Sharma Amidst the ongoing controversy surrounding the University Grants Commission-National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (UGC-NEET) examination, the… Read More The Commodification of Indian Education and Loss of Moral Accountability
The theologian and journalist suggests that slaves in the Roman empire contributed to the core texts of Christianity in this refreshingly readable book God’s Ghostwriters by Candida Moss Peter Stanford Graham Greene, who wrote so much about Catholicism in his novels, was regularly asked whether he was still a believer. It was listening to the… Read More God’s Ghostwriters: did enslaved scribes write the New Testament?
Baobabs can live for more than 1,000 years, acting as the keystone species in dry forest environments in Madagascar, a swathe of continental Africa, and northwest Australia. Known as “mother of the forest” and “the tree of life,” nearly every part of the tree can be used by humans and animals, meaning they’re of enormous… Read More An answer to a mystery surrounding these 1,000-year-old trees
Reports surface days before UN summit on Afghanistan that will exclude Afghan women and debate on women’s rights Ahmad Ahmadi*, Zahra Nader and Farshid Aram* Teenage girls and young women arrested by the Taliban for wearing “bad hijab” say they have been subjected to sexual violence and assault in detention. In more than one case the arrests… Read More Afghan girls accuse Taliban of sexual assault after arrests for ‘bad hijab’
After the truth-shower 