I once fought for pensions inside a public institution. Years later, I began to wonder whether we were asking the wrong question. Most people spend their working lives worrying about…
Bad days are ahead for Bengal. The electoral battle that Mamata Banerjee fought with the central forces of Amit Shah, deployed at the request of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar,…
Occupied Hebron (QNN)- Israeli forces murdered a Palestinian teenager on Wednesday during a raid in the city of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank. Local sources identified the victim…
Israeli forces continue to raid and seize control of vessels participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla, one of the largest pro-Gaza maritime aid missions in recent years. Organizers report that…
This is the second article in a two-part series. Here the author shares some of the work being done at the Aotearoa Permaculture Workshop (APW) and Resilio Studio to strengthen…
There is a direct line that runs through human history, connecting unchecked self-importance to elitism, domination, and the worst of brutalities. Can it really be that simple? Self-importance is usually…
Pop culture has long memorialized the Warner Brothers cartoon gag in which Wile E. Coyote, lured by his nemesis, the Roadrunner, races off a cliff. Instead of immediately falling, Coyote…
“This is the night time, humans are afraid and running here and there , A giant robot chasing them to use his power of “vanish” them” —This looks like a…
Rae Bareli appears impressive on paper. Over the last two decades, the district has seen a rapid expansion in the number of colleges and higher educational institutions. From the district…
How the Iran–U.S.–Israel conflict exposes the fragility of India’s foreign policy and the unequal burden of its economic fallout The 2026 Iran-U. S-Israel conflict has significantly disrupted India’s strategic and…
Rodents and harmful insects are spreading throughout the Gaza Strip according to the Gaza Center for Human Rights (GCHR). The situation is being worsened by the fact that Israel contines…
When Israel was being created, Mahatma Gandhi had clearly said that Palestine belongs to the Arabs just as England belongs to the English and France to the French. In other…
There used to be a maidan near the old bus stand in the city where I grew up. Children played there in the mornings, vegetable vendors set up in the…
Although progressives are rightly concerned about US-coerced compromises and concessions, it is equally important to understand the resilience and continuing successes of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. Focusing only on the half-empty…
In the run-up to the 2024 election, Donald Trump promised “We will close the border. We will stop the invasion of illegals into our country.” A year later, it was…
Iran’s decision to opt for diplomatic deliberations with its strong ally Russia and a few countries in the region, prior to being engaged in negotiations with United States bears its…
An author may write many books, but some books are of the kind that can only be written once in a lifetime. Such is the recent book by James W.…
India has a new status symbol. It does not come with a car or a postcode. It comes with three letters on a school gate: I, B. The International Baccalaureate…
Look at the irony of world history: the month of April is associated with both the birth and death of Hitler, as well as the rise and fall of fascist…
With the second phase of polling in West Bengal concluded, the noise of exit polls has reached its peak. What stands out, however, is not clarity but uncertainty. Some projections…
B. R. Ambedkar, a prominent Indian social reformer, jurist, and the principal architect of the Indian Constitution, was deeply critical of the philosophical foundations of Hinduism. In works such as…
To, The Chairman,State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), Andhra Pradesh 3rd Floor, AP MARKFED Building, APIIC Colony Road, Auto Nagar Vijayawada – 520007 Subject: Environmental Clearances to (i) M/s Vizag…
On 27 April 1975, J. C. Daniel passed away in obscurity. Today, he stands as the foundational figure of an entire cultural universe—Malayalam cinema—whose roots trace back to one man’s…
This article presents a comprehensive sociological analysis of religion as a social institution, examining its meanings, origins, functions, organisational forms, and its changing position in modern society. The discussion is…
Gaza (QNN)- At least six Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, including a paramedic and a nine-year-old boy, as Israel…
The Wake Up Kerala State Committee strongly condemns the Kerala High Court’s decision to initiate suo motu proceedings against the hartal organised by 52 Dalit organisations in Kerala. The hartal…
Gaza (QNN)- A 9-year-old Palestinian boy was killed on Tuesday in an Israeli strike east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, marking another violation of the so-called ceasefire amid continued…
When we speak of poverty in political or academic discourse, we often tend to treat it as a neutral phenomenon, as though it falls upon everyone equally and in the…
In 2025, Australia offered the world’s first ‘climate refugee’ visas to the citizens of Tuvalu—an island at almost certain risk of sinking beneath the waves in the not-so-distant future. Indeed, two…
This is the first of two articles, in which the author explores global food systems, social change and how they intersect. The industrial food system Our food system is extremely…
Geneva – The death of the young man, Ahmed Al-Ayada Al-Dayeh, in a detention centre operated by the Internal Security in Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria is deeply concerning. Available information…
US lackey and Zionist-perverted Australia has sought to hide the carnage of the Gaza Genocide (875,000 Gazans killed by violence and deprivation in the first 2 years) [1, 2] by…
You may perhaps have heard the name of Felani Khatun. She was only fifteen years old—the same Felani Khatun whose dead body was found hanging from the barbed wire fence…
Inside a shopping mall, the temperature is held at 22°C. A few kilometres away, a construction worker mixes concrete on ground that crosses 48°C before noon. He will work until…
On a cold evening in Srinagar, a mother waits outside a locked room as her son trembles inside. Not long ago, he was a college student with clear ambitions. Today,…
A Tragedy That Keeps Repeating On April 7, 2026, Manipur witnessed yet another heartbreaking incident. A rocket projectile struck a home in Bishnupur, killing a fouryearold boy and his newborn…
“The one who restrains himself in power is greater than the one who conquers in anger.”- Ali ibn Abi Talib, Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 CE until 661 China…
What do we (anti-Zionist) Jews talk about when we talk about Zionism? In my youth, I was induced, and there was not a countervailing assertion proffered, that Zionism was both…
The Thought of an Algerian Genius Confronting the Barbarity of the Contemporary World PART I — THE MAN, THE WORK, THE WEAPONS OF UNDERSTANDING ABSTRACT Malek Bennabi (1905–1973) is the…
The modern border is no longer a line. It does not begin at the Rio Grande, nor does it end at a wall. It is not confined to checkpoints, fences,…
America’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been receiving lots of scrutiny right now from journalists and ordinary citizens like me — and for good reason! Detaining people en route to their…
The BJP's public consumption of fish during the election campaign is intended to appeal to Bengali voters and demonstrates the party's efforts to tailor its strategy to local cultural preferences.…
On April 24, seven out of ten Rajya Sabha members of the Aam Aadmi Party announced their merger into the Bharatiya Janata Party. Rajya Sabha Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan accepted this…
May Day is the day of international solidarity of the working class all over the world. This year it comes in the background of a year and more of turbulent…
“When the powerful describe others as failures, it is often to conceal their own contradictions.” When Donald Trump described India as a “hellhole,” outrage followed with predictable intensity. Yet outrage,…
As Conflicts Start Getting Entangled, We Should Learn from the Great African War of 1998 -2003 to Avoid Bigger Tragedy There are increasing indications that beyond the various existing conflicts…
Unwittingly, Narendra Modi on Monday unravelled his plan to hand over Kolkata to his favoured capitalist, Adani, on the pretext of turning the City of Joy into the City of…
LLMs (Large Language Models) have become the defining keyword of AI. What the internet was to the 1990s, AI is to the second quarter of 2026. While the United States…
From a child’s simple question to a deeper truth about noise, lawlessness, and the absence of deterrence on India’s roads A few weeks ago, while driving through Delhi with my…
Hate mongers have now manufactured a phrase ‘corporate jihad’ aimed at defaming educated Muslim youth Recently Nashik was in the news twice. First Ashok Kharat, a fraud posing as a…
Is the AI standing as an enemy to many, not only workers, but to all of humanity except the class identified as capitalists or profit-seekers? Is it going to hurt…
Efforts to restore nature language are already taking shape in education, art, and everyday observation. One of the most widely recognized examples emerged from the controversy surrounding the Oxford Junior…
When plants face biting cold, floods or parched soil, they can’t run away or seek shelter like animals. Instead, they have to develop ways to overcome and survive them until…
Global military spending hit a record $2.887 trillion in 2025—the highest level ever recorded and the 11th consecutive year of growth, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported Monday.…
A long time back, while reading an article or transcript of some lecture by Romila Thapar on Emperor Ashoka, wherein, in passing, she had mentioned that the emperor had warned…
Israeli soldiers continue to commit suicide in what is becoming a disturbing phenomenon that is becoming linked to Israel’s war on Gaza since October 2023, and now the war ongoing…
Both Iran and Israel reject the Enlightenment’s universalist project — yet only one requires the elimination of another people. The Misunderstanding — Iran Is Not Medieval The 1979 Iranian Revolution is routinely mischaracterized in…
After the start of air strikes against Iran by the United States and Israel on February 28, 2026, Iran successfully blockaded the Strait of Hormuz and restricted shipping traffic through…
Intellectual giants are in painfully short supply in the Trump administration, but if there was anyone who might lay claim to cerebral weight of any sort, Elbridge Colby might be…
The human stomach is ancient, designed for safe and limited food. Stomach has not evolved, but the food available to stomach has evolved in quantity and quality. This is a…
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