“I plan to add all the videos I take at the borders. Can’t promise consistency but can certainly promise that there is more to come. Not just from me but from this movement…” https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhQJ7xZ2HU2punZW1FeLFhR51a6tkNfTS Ravinder Kaur: Has Modi finally met his match in India’s farmers? The government’s hopes of turning India into the world’s workshop… Read More Indian Farmers' Protest – Work in progress videos
Guwahati: Padmashree Awardee and India’s ‘Forest Man’ Jadav Payeng has signed an agreement with Fundacion Azteca on December 7, to collaborate on environmental works in the North American country. Fundacion Azteca is a Mexican non-profit organisation that promotes social responsibility, specifically towards environment. The agreement has been signed during the Ciudad de Oas Ideas (CDI)… Read More Assam's 'Forest Man' Jadav Payeng to plant trees in Mexico
Prosecutors in Italy have charged four members of Egypt’s national security agency over the kidnapping and murder of the Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni in Cairo. Tariq Saber, Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim, Capt Uhsam Helmi and Maj Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif are accused of kidnapping the young student in 2016, and Sharif is also accused of… Read More Italy charges Egyptian security agency officials over murder of Giulio Regeni // Hundreds have died in Egyptian custody, says report
The pandemic has illuminated deprivation, inequalities and political unrest, while reminding us of the power and beauty of nature and humanity.. A fitting symbol of this global pandemic would be a magnifying glass. For while the virus ended and upended so many lives, and spawned a whole new vocabulary – social distancing, furlough, herd immunity,… Read More Jonathan Freedland – The magnifying glass: how Covid revealed the truth about our world
Members of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) and doctors across the country are staging protests Friday against the Centre’s move allowing postgraduate practitioners of Ayurveda to be trained in performing surgical procedures. On November 19, a government notification listed out specific surgical procedures that a postgraduate medical student of Ayurveda must be “practically trained to… Read More Indian Medical Association strike over ‘Ayurveda surgeons’: 30,000 from Gujarat join protest, AIIMS doctors wear black band
A Call to Spy is a rare World War II film that doesn’t seek to strike awe and fear — the requisites now to win battles. Quite in character with its heroes, a group of largely unheralded women spies (“the headless”, as they were called) who helped Resistance efforts in a France occupied by Hitler’s… Read More Shalini Langer – A Call to Spy: Radhika Apte-starrer is un-showy and un-bombastic
This report is an attempt to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of the state of contemporary rural India. It focuses on the key structural factors, especially policies and trends, that have marked rural India’s economic and ecological conditions. Through this report we wish to share alternative ideas, paradigms and methodologies to address these entrenched… Read More STATE OF RURAL AND AGRARIAN INDIA REPORT 2020. By the Network of Rural and Agrarian Studies
MIND OF STATE, Episode 10: Justice, Rage & Peace Civil Rights Activist Eric Ward — Exec Director of the Western States Center and Senior Fellow of the Southern Poverty Law Center — was an inspiration to speak with on White Supremacy, White Nationalism, Authoritarianism and how we combat these threats to our democracy https://apple.co/2W9rDdH… Read More MIND OF STATE, Episode 10: Justice, Rage & Peace. By Civil Rights Activist Eric Ward
“No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the Central Government or the State Government, or any officer of the Central Government or the State Government or any other person in respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or of any rules or… Read More P. Sainath: Did You Think the New Laws Were Only About the Farmers? // SCBA president says farm laws 'unconstitutional', offers free services as lawyer to agitating farmers
“ये आंदोलन सिर्फ किसानों का ही नहीं है हम सब का है जब भी देश पर कोई संकट आया है तो सरदारों ने हमारी मदद की है आज सरदारों को हमारी जरूरत है आज हम सबको इन का साथ देना चाहिए चलो दिल्ली चले हम..” Singhu Border पर पंजाबियों का ये रंग देखकर आप भी… Read More Singhu Border पर पंजाबियों का ये रंग देखकर आप भी कहेंगै-सरदार जी तुसी ग्रेट हो // Amit Shah के NO के बाद अब क्या करेंगे किसान ? आंदोलन करते रहेंगे? Ajit Anjum
