The Indian government has brought in new rules that allow it to cancel pensions of retired bureaucrats who have served as high-ranking officers in some of the most coveted government jobs… Julio Ribeiro, a retired police officer said the new rules send the message that an officer should “not speak up and be pliant”. “They… Read More IAS, IPS and IFoS: Is India stifling criticism by retired bureaucrats?
William Astore I still remember how, soon after the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush boasted that this country had “the greatest force for human liberation the world has ever known.” I also remember how, in a pep talk given to U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2010, President Barack Obama declared them “the finest fighting force that the world has… Read More Perpetual wars and the ‘greatest fighting force in human history’
Daniel Johnson on the life and work of Max Weber, whose controversial views on democracy still resonate today First posted August 28, 2020 As a young freelance of my acquaintance, exceptionally gifted, tells me that she has abandoned journalism in favour of a teaching post at a university. “I don’t think I’d be able to… Read More Daniel Johnson: Myths of the Prophet Max
If, as a teacher, you become overly cautious before you utter a word, if you worry that a student is recording your lecture, or the administration is continually monitoring your every move, how can you teach Marx, Gandhi, Ambedkar, Tagore, Iqbal, Manto and Premchand freely, spontaneously and creatively? Avijit Pathak The primary reason I could… Read More After Pune teacher’s arrest: Fear and surveillance in the classroom
France has retained a quasi-empire in Africa by stealth, and it is under threat like never before. Nabila Ramdani Retreats from crumbling empires are inevitably characterised by hastily arranged evacuations. Panicked civilians make their way to rickety airport terminals, in the hope of an emergency flight out of the chaos. This was the postcolonial scene… Read More The Niger crisis shows France’s quasi-empire in Africa is finally crumbling
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First posted August 06, 2019 NB: An insightful essay. In the ideas contained in Weber’s inaugural lecture on his appointment to the chair in political economy at Freiburg (1895) he comes across as an economic nationalist in favour of colonial expansion; and the closure of Germany’s eastern border to ‘cheap’ Polish labour migrants. He also used… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Reading 1919 in 2019
The climate crisis is not about a single photogenic weather event. The climate crisis is war, it is poverty, it is radicalisation, it is the disappearance of the habitat families have lived in for generations, and it is the geopolitical and security fallout of collapsing ways of making a living. The result is a movement… Read More The lesson from the Greece wildfires? The climate crisis is coming for us all
First posted September 09, 2014 America has over 4,800 nuclear weapons, and we don’t take terrific care of them. It’s terrifying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1ya-yF35g See also: Maybe there is a God after all: US Air Force nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961 Noam Chomsky – How Many Minutes to … Hiroshima Day 2014. If some extraterrestrial species… Read More Funny and very scary: John Oliver on Nuclear Weapons
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