The farmers have increasingly seen their political identities being marginalised due to growing economic complexity, writes P B Mehta The central government may, by hook or crook, ride out the current Punjab-based farmers’ agitation. But the underlying logic of the situation can sow the seeds of a long-term crisis. The existential stakes in this agitation… Read More Winds from Punjab: By Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Farmers from India’s Punjab state have begun entering Delhi to protest reforms they say are against their interests. Thousands of them marched to Delhi, where barricades at the border led to clashes with police. But they are now being escorted by the police to a protest site where they say they will continue demonstrating. The… Read More Thousands of protesting farmers enter Delhi defying water cannon and police crackdown
Modi hai to mumkin hai [It is possible, if Modi is there]. So Hon’ble Narendra Modi Ji, either implement what you propagate Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas [Together, for everyone’s growth, with everyone’s trust] by taking action against the persons who are working against the ethos of the orders and directions issued by the Central… Read More Press Release KPSS Fast Unto Death – DAY 6
Sometime after midnight on October 21, Elisha Sunday Ibanga answered a phone call from his older brother’s number. The person on the other end of the line — a stranger — broke the news that Ibanga’s brother, Victor, had been shot dead at the Lekki toll gate, in Lagos, Nigeria, where he had been peacefully… Read More 'They pointed their guns at us and started shooting' – How a bloody night of bullets and brutality quashed a young protest movement
Joe Biden will have to navigate a path for the most ambitious climate agenda ever adopted by a US president through not only stubborn Republican obstruction but also an emergent youth climate movement that is already formulating plans to hold him to account. A record turnout of young voters, a cohort riven by anxiety over… Read More Oliver Milman – A youth group helped Biden win. Now they want him to fix climate crisis
For 14 nights they have marched, enraged by a near-total ban on abortion that has stirred a generation to stage the largest mass demonstrations that Poland has seen since Solidarność toppled the communist regime in the 1980s. Until soaring coronavirus numbers and a looming national lockdown made it almost impossible, up to a million people nightly defied… Read More 'A backlash against a patriarchal culture': How Polish protests go beyond abortion rights. By Jon Henley and Kasia Strek
After the truth-shower 