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Preoccupation with this blind metric’s fall as the barometer of well-being hides the reality of a deliberate pauperization that began much earlier and has gathered speed says Ashoak Upadhyay…[Read More]…
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In stark contrast to the ruthlessness of capitalism and states exploiting the pandemic for the accumulation of profit and power ordinary people especially the young are defining the borderless world of caring: two pages from an unfolding saga. …[Read More]…
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In this vivid recall of game-fixing by South Africa cricketers in the mid-1990s and some of whom now oppose support for Black Lives Matter, Ashwin Desai glimpses the spirit of Nelson Mandela that both torments and offers hope of redemption.…[Read More]…
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Students in India grapple with the challenge of online learning, In Kashmir? Evita Rodrigues looks at the plight of students struggling to learn under lockdowns and clamp downs much before the pandemic. …[Read More]…
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A short fiction that reads like a perennial reality for an oppressed minority this tale by Asghar Wajahat portrays the psychological damage that even talk of violence can have on the vulnerable. …[Read More]…
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India’s rating on Press Freedoms measured by an index for 182 countries has slipped over the last year and stands way low. The world’s largest democracy must accept the RSF report and improve its ranking, says Raoof Mir. …[Read More]…
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While a 0.125 micron organism has brought the World to its knees and mankind is in a race to find a vaccine to contain the COVID19 virus Girijaa Upadhyay reflects on the mutating nexus between Man and Nature …[Read More]…
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In a pioneering study, Jan Sahas did a rapid assessment report through a telephonic survey with 3,196 migrant workers that portrays abysmal conditions of life, extreme vulnerabilities in the pandemic; conditions that call out our moral irresponsibility, official indifference towards a vast majority of the working poor.…[Read More]…
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Combating the pandemic requires immediate responses in terms of universal health and treatment facilities and strategies to reduce the possibilities of recurrence. Vikalp Sangam offers a view. …[Read More]…
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The momentous anti-CAA protests offer fresh evidence that India is defined by diverse expressions of solidarity coalescing into both a unity of shared suffering and a celebration of that diversity says Ashoak Upadhyay.…[Read More]…
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Protests against citizenship legislations are historic, defining moments for India and the world; they have created political space for a humanism long considered irrelevant, says Ashoak Upadhyay.…[Read More]…
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The narratives about the Indian economy have flattened out to a plot about a number, a statistic, a means that has become an end erasing the people that count, or should, says Ashoak Upadhyay.…[Read More]…
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Both Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, authors of novels about dystopic futures penned thoughts on Gandhi that reflect their own visions of possible freedoms from the worlds they had created. …[Read More]…
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After all that book-learning, what do you get? Massive shots of macho-nationalist adrenalin to help ease into unstable jobs that nurture helplessness and hatreds says Aneel Simran.…[Read More]…
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Meta-narratives that merge the folk, the tribal and the mainstream in people’s memories rephrase binaries of good and evil, high and low, godly and demoniac says Murali Sivaramakrishnan.…[Read More]…
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It’s bad enough that the punitive powers of the State have been unleashed on Julian Assange. Worse, the mainstream press, ‘guardian’ of free speech has thrown him under the bus, says Padmaja Challakere. …[Read More]…
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India just voted itself into tears, fears, nullity; the ‘festival’ of democracy says Sarosh Bana ends in a toxic blend of personality and poisoned nationalism.…[Read More]…
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The ‘festival of democracy’ has turned out into a demonic nightmare of lynch-mob discourse and a spectacle of lies, says Ashoak Upadhyay.…[Read More]…
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The ‘iron cage’ of rationality, utility and control has stripped learning of creativity, Ananda and the play of imagination says Ashoak Upadhyay. And yet, in this ‘nullity’ you can hear voices of resistance and recovery as wisdoms of alternative futures.…[Read More]…
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The years 1913 through 1923 represent a very significant period in B.R. Ambedkar’s life marked as it was by passion for learning and a dawning inclination for activism. The decade can be divided into four segments that reflect these two impulses driving self-definition.…[Read More]…
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In this apogean vision of possible futures Kothari and Joy offer imagine a world in the next century. Dare to dream!…[Read More]…
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Wall Street and President Trump may chest-thump about the uptick in the economy and jobs but the sense of paradise remains an illusion for many as Philip Alston found on his journeys across America. …[Read More]…
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Laughter has always been treated as a pathological condition when it issues from women and mocks male power. The sound of this “telluric music” Ashoak Upadhyay says is part of the subversive-comedic that can be used to express dissent and self-hood.
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Does ‘Mitra’ presage a utopia of programmed, ethnically cleansed humanoids? Could Ms. Trump and PM Modi imagine a world of robots? Can we? Ashoak Upadhyay mashes fact and fiction for a goofy trip down that road.…[Read More]…
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Seventy years on, India’s tryst with destiny seems as fanciful as a trip to the moon for many Indians. Anoop Babani tells the story of the Great Divide that rips through the republic.. …[Read More]…
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Numbers, numbers and more numbers from around the world! Who said numbers don’t tell stories? Anoop Babani’s jaw-dropping indices illustrate the way we live and the way we should not. …[Read in Full]…
