Paula Marantz Cohen: Talking Cure: An Essay on the Civilizing Power of Conversation Reviwd by Danny Heitman As we’ve often been told, the art of conversation is on life support, ravaged by the excesses of technology. Hooked to our phones and laptops, or so the theory goes, we’ve lost the true gift for gab. Sherry Turkle,… Read More The Joys of Spirited Conversation
250 musicians are Rockin’ In A Free World! Lyrics There’s colors on the streetRed, white and bluePeople shufflin’ their feetPeople sleepin’ in their shoesBut there’s a warnin’ sign on the road aheadThere’s a lot of people sayin’ we’d be better off deadDon’t feel like Satan, but I am to themSo I try to forget it… Read More Rockin’ in the Free World
The deadly effects of ideological extremism in the Middle East for the past few decades have caused governments and journalists to focus on it. The Arabic word is al-taṭarruf. I was interested, however, to see the word put to a different purpose in a Sky News Arabia article , where it is used to refer to extremely high… Read More Climate Change: the New Mideast Extremism / Severe Consequences of new Oil, Gas and Coal Production
Each side claims it is wronged more and harmed worse. One community, the Kuki, is forced to prove its Indianness and patriotism. The other, the Meitei, is forced to hide its unease and let advocates mumble about its umbilical relation with the mainland’s Hinduism, even if it at times requires the community to be falsely… Read More How Manipur Is Forced To Parade Their Losses To An Ignorant India
Jake Johnson Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday reiterated his call for the Biden Justice Department to take legal action against the fossil fuel industry, arguing that oil companies have violated a range of federal laws in their campaigns to mislead the public about climate change. “Like the tobacco industry before them, the fossil fuel companies’ actions represent… Read More Bernie Sanders says Big Oil must pay for ‘extraordinary damage it has caused’
Julian Zelizer, CNN By refusing to accept the results of an election that was proven to be legitimate and actively trying to overturn the results, Trump put our democracy in grave danger. By seeking this indictment, as well as the one involving Trump’s handling of classified documents, the Department of Justice has broken with the precedent… Read More Trump’s indictment reverses a 50-year precedent
At a convention in Delhi, the speakers called for a white paper on the Pulwama/Balakot incidents and the spike in communal violence across several states. Major political parties that are part of the Opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc on Tuesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government of compromising national security… Read More Citizens, Opposition Leaders Flay Modi Govt for ‘Compromising’ National Security
John P. Ruehl One of the underlying principles of the UN Charter is the protection of the sovereign rights of states. Yet since 1945, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (Soviet Union/Russia, France, UK, U.S., and China) have consistently used military force to undermine this notion. And while acts of seizing territory… Read More A brief neocolonial history of the five UN Security Council permanent members
गुरुग्राम दंगों की आशंका को नज़दीक से देख रहा है बल्कि दस साल से देखता ही आ रहा है। जिस मानेसर की पहचान मारुति, होंडा, जैगुआर फिटिंग, जिंदल स्टील प्लांट से हुआ करती है, मैन्यूफैक्चरिंग सेक्टर से हुआ करती है, वहां के मज़दूरों के जागरूक संघर्ष से हुआ करती है,उसकी जगह अब एक नया मानेसर… Read More Ravish Kumar: गुरुग्राम बन गया है मोनूग्राम Gurugram is now Monugram / Sikh community rescued Sohna mosque residents
The Modi government’s dangerous politicisation of the Indian Army SUSHANT SINGH The scenes were unusual, the response extraordinary. At around 2 pm on 24 June, an army column arrested 12 members of a Meitei separatist group, the Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup, in Itham, a village in Manipur’s Imphal East district. Among them was Moirangthem Tamba,… Read More Lock Step
After the truth-shower 