Chandan Gowda A young Sajjan horse trader, who had bought a couple of fine stallions at a horse fair and was taking them to sell at another fair in a neighbouring state, had been waylaid at night by Suguna horse vigilantes. They had demanded money to let him pass. When the horse trader refused saying… Read More A Miracle in Shanthinadu
By Claudia Otto and Inke Kappeler Nationwide strikes in Germany — among its worst in decades — are causing huge disruption at the country’s airports, on public transport and at its largest port Monday. The walkouts have been called by two major transport unions in Europe’s biggest economy. Ver.di, one of the unions, has demanded a 10.5% pay raise for… Read More Huge strikes in Germany disrupt flights and trains
Anna Cooban, CNN India’s government is planning to create a state fact-checking unit with the power to order social media platforms to take down content about its activities that it deems “fake or misleading.” In an amendment to rules covering digital and social media published Thursday, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said that the fact-checking… Read More Indian journalists warn of new government assault on press freedom
Who controls the past, controls the future; who controls the present, controls the past: George Orwell, in Nineteen Eighty four The will cannot will backwards… That time does not run backward, that is his wrath; ‘that which was’ is the name of the stone he cannot move. And so he moves stones out of wrath… Read More Rectifying the past
Knowledge is a deadly friend / When no-one sets the rules The fate of all mankind I see / Is in the hands of fools. The wall on which the prophets wrote Is cracking at the seams. Upon the instruments of death The sunlight brightly gleams. When every man is torn apart With nightmares and… Read More King Crimson – Epitaph
Respected colleagues, In the light of the deletions of several crucial themes from school textbooks produced by the NCERT, the following statement has been drafted. You would agree that the entire “rationalization” of textbooks is a process that is questionable and one which has wrongly excluded the informed opinion and expertise of the actual community of… Read More Public statement of historians on changes in school History textbooks of the NCERT
Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian: When Lunatics Run the Asylum I’m proud to have lived through the last 20-odd years at TomDispatch with Noam Chomsky, now a remarkable 94. In the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks and the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, I stumbled into creating this site and, in October 2003, first posted a piece of his… Read More Noam Chomsky: Savage capitalist lunatics are running the asylum
by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago on a superyacht staffed by a coterie of… Read More Justice Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire
White Bird: It’s A Beautiful Day -1968 NB: The NLF marched into Saigon on April 30, 1975. Whatever we did as comrades, was above all motivated by love and solidarity with the heroic Vietnamese people. I remember on that day, rushing to the DRV Embassy on Prithviraj Road and embracing the first Vietnamese diplomat I… Read More Vietnam: Epitaph of a soldier
Across the Atlantic, the suicide rate soared by 30% in the first 20 years of the 21st century. As the ‘war on drugs’ has escalated, so have deaths from substance abuse: in the US, they have grown exponentially since the 1970s, helping to drive the fall in life expectancy… Karl Marx described religion as the ‘sigh of the… Read More The ‘decline of the West’
