Shobhit Mahajan Hindustan Times, October 29, 2024 A week before the prospective groom’s family were to visit my uncle’s house, the preparations had started. The outside and the drawing room were quickly whitewashed, the furniture cleaned and polished, the flower pots in the garden got a fresh coat of geru (red ochre powder) and the… Read More NAAC Lessons on How not to assess a Varsity.
Consumption of world’s wealthiest people also making it increasingly difficult to limit global heating to 1.5C The high carbon emissions of the world’s richest 1% are worsening hunger, poverty and excess deaths, a report has found. Owing to luxury yachts, private jets and investments in polluting industries, the consumption of the world’s wealthiest people is also making… Read More Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam
NB: The USA is celebrating its democracy; whilst at the same time enabling ethnic cleansing – not by forced migration but by mass murder. ‘The Entire Population of North Gaza Is at Risk of Dying’: UN Relief Official. This is a horrifying spectacle that the world is watching helplessly. It signifies the total collapse of… Read More The West’s Support For Genocide Is Destroying The World As We Know It / 335,500 Gaza Dead Estimate: Voting For Kid-Killing Kamala Means Complicity in Genocide
Tom Engelhardt He’s the man of the hour (and you can choose your hour), win, lose, or draw. I mean, who can deny it? Certainly not the crowd at his debate with Kamala Harris that, as he reminded us recently, absolutely “went crazy” over what he had to say. (And it couldn’t matter less that the event… Read More The Empire Is Going Down: But What Isn’t?
The world is changed by your example, not your opinions: Mother Teresa Avay Shukla These days Mr. D.Y. Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India, is talking of, and worrying about, the legacy he will leave behind when he retires from the job next month. And well he might. He was elevated to this position at perhaps… Read More A LEGACY THAT IS BEST FORGOTTEN
A new generation across the UK is demanding political representation. But this unstoppable force is meeting an immovable object, the Labour Party… The real politics happens outside parliament. We’ve already witnessed huge protests take shape against the massacre in Gaza, and the coming years could see mass movements and industrial unrest over cuts and living… Read More Forget Corbynism 2.0. Something bigger is happening on the British left
Zionism will be looked upon as one of the greatest disasters in Jewish history GAZA casualties, live statistics Gabor Maté CM (born January 6, 1944) is a Canadian physician. He has a background in family practice and a special interest in childhood development, trauma, and potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health, including autoimmune… Read More GABOR MATE interview: Zionism will be looked upon as one of the greatest disasters in Jewish history
With myriad crimes committed against those invaded and occupied in the Middle East, those spied upon everywhere, and those trying to expose these abuses, not a single perpetrator has ever been prosecuted or even investigated… If the impunity of genocidal Israel on its current rampage through the Middle East puzzles you, keep in mind that… Read More Julian Assange again risks his life defying the CIA and Pentagon to testify against them to a 46-nation gathering in Europe
As some reviewers of Rand’s novels recognized, and as Popoff stresses, Rand’s thought draws on Nietzsche’s idea of the superman. Just at this time, Popoff points out, Superman comics also achieved widespread popularity. Since the caped man of steel was created by two young American Jews, who were doubtless inspired by a desire to overcome… Read More Atlas Schlepped
In a world ravaged by war and sexual violence, a new edition of the great psychoanalyst’s works is a reminder of his continuing relevance Jacqueline Rose In 1935, Sigmund Freud wrote to a distraught mother that her son’s suspected homosexuality was no cause for lament, “nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation. It cannot be… Read More What Sigmund Freud can teach us about the Middle East and #MeToo
