Letter to the readers, Mainstream, March 25, 2023 India: Lurches Closer to “Opposition-Mukt Democracy”!? | Sukla Sen Budgets 2023-24 Punjab Haryana compared | Sher Singh Sangwan Upcoming 2023 Karnataka Assembly Elections | PS Jayaramu Regenerating The Forest Ecosystem: Few Concerns | Suranjita Ray Saffron Clad Babas in Odisha’s Politics | Radhakanta Barik A Discourse on State of India’s Democracy | Arup… Read More Mainstream, March 25, 2023
In the last two weeks, parliament has been witness to majoritarian bullying like never before. The Opposition’s demands for immediate discussion on the Adani scam were bludgeoned into submission by the Treasury benches, who instead demand an apology from Rahul Gandhi. Jawhar Sircar Seventy-three years may not be enough to pronounce a judgement on whether… Read More Disruption by the Ruling Party Signals a New Low for India’s Parliament
Sitting in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, a humble port town is home to one of the world’s most remote post offices, which holds mail for yachters from all corners of the globe. Fernando Teixeira and Izabela Cardoso The Azores islands, an archipelago in the centre of the Atlantic Ocean that makes up an… Read More Horta on Faial: one of the world’s most extraordinary post offices (see video)
First posted June 10, 2014 “When we killed the sea whales,” Roddy Morrison, from Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, remembers, “they used to make a noise, like a crying noise. They seemed so friendly, and they’d come round and they’d make a noise, and when you hit them, they cried really… It is difficult to recover… Read More South Georgia: The lost whaling station at the end of the world
Oscar Holland, CNN In her striking images of the Faroe Islands, a remote archipelago between Iceland and her native Norway, photographer Andrea Gjestvang depicts islanders and livelihoods that are as tough and unforgiving as the windswept landscape. Fishing trawlers travel through frigid seas. Clouds roll over craggy mountains and cliffside villages. Clothes and boots are stained… Read More Cold, remote and short of women: A portrait of life on the Faroe Islands
Calling PM Modi a ‘classless megalomaniac’, Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury said she will now file a defamation case against PM Modi for his alleged ‘Surpanakha’ comment made in Parliament in 2018. “Let’s see how fast courts will act now…’ The former Union minister said tweeting the old clip of Narendra Modi asking the Rajya Sabha… Read More Renuka Chowdhury to file defamation against PM Modi over ‘Surpanaka.’ ‘Lets see how fast courts act now’
Brian Ferry: Roxy Music Do I ever wonder?More than words can sayHeaven knows it’s hard enough to prayLet me tell you something There’s a change in meEven now you’re gone you’ll always beMy only loveDoes it seem so funny For a fool to cry?Do you know the meaning of goodbye?There’s a river flowingBy a willow… Read More My only love
First posted January 20, 2017 Earlier I published several reports on Bálint Magyar’s theory of the mafia state. In fact, I devoted three consecutive posts, the first of which appeared on June 18, 2013, to his description of Orbán’s system of government as a new kind of autocratic regime. Magyar’s analysis of the current Hungarian political system elicited widespread… Read More Bálint Magyar: Systemic characteristics of the post-communist mafia state
Bharat Bhushan The belligerence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s MPs against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is not letting Parliament function. This is unprecedented, and especially galling because Parliament needs to pass the Budget in this session, irrespective of whether Gandhi apologises for comments made in the United Kingdom on the erosion of democracy in India. Forget his… Read More Why the ‘Mother of Democracy’ brooks no criticism
कुँवर नारायण एक अजीब-सी मुश्किल में हूँ इन दिनों / मेरी भरपूर नफ़रत कर सकने की ताक़त / दिनोंदिन क्षीण पड़ती जा रही An uncanny paradox grips me these days / My capacity for fulsome hatred seems to be weakening every day अँग्रेज़ी से नफ़रत करना चाहता / जिन्होंने दो सदी हम पर राज किया… Read More एक अजीब-सी मुश्किल / My Uncanny Paradox
