The infantilizing social control of the university. Rita Koganzon When I was a graduate teaching assistant at Harvard University a decade ago, one of my students missed a final exam because he forgot to set his alarm. I didn’t learn about this because he told me, in person or even by email; nor did he… Read More The Coddling of the American Undergraduate
People’s Archive of Rural India Ulopi Biswas was declared a ‘foreigner’ despite the family’s Indian citizenship and her own papers that prove her nationality. She was declared a D-voter, and went through a trial at Bongaigaon Foreign Tribunal in 2017-2022 to prove her citizenship. Kulsum Nissa and Sufia Khatun, who are out on bail from… Read More Facing history and ourselves
The wealth concentrated in the richest 1% of India’s population is at its highest in six decades and the percentage share of income exceeds that of countries including Brazil and the United States, research group the World Inequality Lab found. Since India, which won its independence in 1947 from Britain, opened its markets to foreign investment in 1992, its… Read More India’s richest 1% has highest concentration of wealth in decades, study shows
Martin Luther King Jr’s 1967 speech condemning the Vietnam War offers a powerful moral compass as we face the challenges of our time Michelle Alexander / The Nation This moment feels different. Something new is in the air. Of course, everything is always changing. Impermanence is the way of life. Philosophers, theologians, and poets have reminded us… Read More Only Revolutionary Love Can Save Us Now
By ALFRED MCCOY Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial America. Great Britain confronted serious colonial crises in India, Iran… Read More Facing three global crises, the American empire may be nearing final collapse
Dear Friends, I am posting links to select recent articles, discussions and interviews. Discussion in Hindi on the Electoral Bonds Issue. HindiSatya.com on March 16. https://www.youtube.com/live/aXZXvim0OpM?si=RF4rNTKXPJfoAijt Discussion on Electoral Bonds and Why SBI wanted to delay giving the data. TV6 https://www.youtube.com/live/of4mjNS58DE?si=xsmc9On0RBGJqQ6G How Robust is India’s Growth. The Leaflet. March 5 https://theleaflet.in/gdp-data-for-q3-2023-24-the-mystery-of-a-robust-growth/ Nehru’s Contribution to Indian Economic Development. Outlook March 4 https://www.outlookindia.com/national/economic-modernist-to-populist-personalism-how-india-developed-post-independence… Read More Arun Kumar: Articles and talks on poverty, farmers, the budget and electoral bonds
Members of Pakistan’s Scheduled Caste communities are making inroads in the country’s political landscape and being honoured at the highest levels. But without affirmative action, systemic change and implementation of laws and court orders that uphold rights, their struggle for equality continues. By Shaeran Rufus SOURCE: Sapan News www.sapannews.com Kishore Kohli*, 39, an agricultural labourer in Pakistan… Read More Pakistani Dalits struggle for dignity in their land of birth
God is too big for just one religion: Laxminarayan Ramdas The funeral and final rites of Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas, PVSM, AVSM, VrC, VSM (Retd.), were performed with full Navy honours at the Swarg Vatika in Trimulgherry, here on Saturday. He is survived by his wife, Lalita Ramdas, his three daughters and their spouses, and three… Read More War hero Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas given funeral with Naval honours
The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible; By Robin Lane Fox By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt “The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God,” Daniel Webster declared more than a century ago. But is the Bible true?… Read More Books of The Times; Viewing the Bible as Truth and Tale (1992)
First posted August 09, 2019 Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. Is religion a force for peace or war? Or to borrow a phrase from the title of Christopher Hitchen’s recent book, God Is Not Great, does religion really poison everything, including the possibility of living in a… Read More Brian Victoria: Holy War – Toward a Holistic Understanding
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