Life is going to return to normal,” Joe Biden promised on Thursday in a Thanksgiving address to the nation. He was talking about life after Covid-19, but you could be forgiven if you thought he was also making a promise about life after Trump. It is almost impossible to separate the two. To the extent voters gave… Read More Robert B Reich : Beware going 'back to normal' thoughts – normal gave us Trump
How well does the BJP understand the politics of Punjab? The answer will be, I am afraid, very poorly. Definitely the Modi-Shah BJP does not understand Punjab, Punjabis, their politics, or even more specifically, the Sikhs. Or, they wouldn’t have dug themselves into such a hole (pun intended) over their handling of the Punjab farmers’… Read More SHEKHAR GUPTA: Shambles over farmers’ protest shows Modi-Shah BJP needs a Punjab tutorial
The farmers have increasingly seen their political identities being marginalised due to growing economic complexity, writes P B Mehta The central government may, by hook or crook, ride out the current Punjab-based farmers’ agitation. But the underlying logic of the situation can sow the seeds of a long-term crisis. The existential stakes in this agitation… Read More Winds from Punjab: By Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Farmers from India’s Punjab state have begun entering Delhi to protest reforms they say are against their interests. Thousands of them marched to Delhi, where barricades at the border led to clashes with police. But they are now being escorted by the police to a protest site where they say they will continue demonstrating. The… Read More Thousands of protesting farmers enter Delhi defying water cannon and police crackdown
Modi hai to mumkin hai [It is possible, if Modi is there]. So Hon’ble Narendra Modi Ji, either implement what you propagate Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas [Together, for everyone’s growth, with everyone’s trust] by taking action against the persons who are working against the ethos of the orders and directions issued by the Central… Read More Press Release KPSS Fast Unto Death – DAY 6
P.G. Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, was the most English novelist imaginable. His comic world was old-fashioned well before he died 45 years ago – crammed with disapproving aunts in hats, eccentric aristocrats and wealthy young men about town getting into scrapes. But he has countless fans around the world – not least… Read More PG Wodehouse: Why India still holds a flame for the English author. By Vincent Dowd
Two new films about tending the earth offer very different worldviews Early on in Gather, a new documentary about Native Americans searching for food sovereignty, we follow Nephi Craig on a tour of a former gas station on the White Mountain Apache Nation in eastern Arizona. Craig, a White Mountain Apache/Navajo chef, points to an empty refrigerated… Read More Maddie Oatman: Netflix Doc Wants to Fix Our Food System With Capitalism. “Gather” Argues That’s How It Broke.
I never seemed to have time to study the birdlife around me before; I just liked the idea they were around and I enjoyed their dawn chorus over the years. In a fairly small space I am pleased to be visited regularly by many species of bird. My friendly robins follow me around listening to… Read More Charmed in lockdown: garden birds by Denis Thorpe – in pictures
“All I wanted to do when I started was change the world, and now, 60 years on, I’ve succeeded,” says the 84-year-old artist. “But it’s worse now than when I started, we’re really living in a hell of a year, aren’t we?”…. When the Welsh artist Ralph Steadman picks up the phone, he sounds a bit paranoid.… Read More Ralph Steadman: 'We're really living in a hell of a year, aren't we?' Interview by Nadja Sayej
Amanda Marcotte: Trump leaves a lasting legacy: The right’s open embrace of terrorism In any sensible society, Kyle Rittenhouse would be shunned across the political spectrum. The 17-year-old Illinois resident stands accused of shooting three people, killing two of them, during an August Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Whatever the specific facts of that incident, the… Read More Amanda Marcotte: Trump's lasting legacy: The right's open embrace of terrorism / Epidemiologist warns of “contagion” of violent speech coming “from the White House” / Damon Linker: America is buckling
After the truth-shower 