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• The Blazing Inequality: heatwaves & their impact on women
 | Arundhati Singh Tiwari


  20 April 2024

  April 16, 2024
  The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a warning regarding a considerably hot summer in 2024 with more heat wave days in this session. As the planet continues to grapple with the escalating climate crisis, one of the most pressing challenges we face is the increasing frequency and intensity of heatwaves. These extreme weather events, characterized by prolonged periods of excessive heat, pose grave risks to human health, livelihoods, and well-being. However, as (…)

• India’s First Metadata case: Deactivating and Omitting Citizenship? Part 5 | Gopal Krishna

  20 April 2024, by Gopal Krishna

  I will give my blood but will not allow the roll out of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise based on National Population Register (NPR) and Aadhaar Numbers Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister, West Bengal reaction to the deactivation of Aadhaar Numbers at a Press Conference, February 19, 2024 As on 17.01.2018, approx 68.6 Lakh Aadhaars are in deactivated state. There is no system of maintaining year wise records of deactivations. Maintaining such a database is not required under (…)

• State Violence and Transformation of Public Spaces in Kashmir | Arup Kumar Sen

  20 April 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The abrogation of Article 370 in 2019 brought about a historic shift in the constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir. However, Kashmir witnessed deep-rooted transformations over a long period of time, particularly with the onset of armed struggle in the Valley in the late 1980s. Very recently, I chanced upon a paper by Gowhar Yaqoob, presented in a symposium on Violence and Democracy, jointly convened by the British Academy and the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in New (…)

• Democracy, Distrust and Epistemic Disobedience | Cássius Guimarães Chai

  20 April 2024

  

The prestigious Academy of Social Sciences of China, its Legal Institute, and other Sino-Republican institutions invited us to participate in the critically important 3rd International Forum on Democracy and Shared Human Values, a significant event held on March 20 in Beijing. Professor Ash Narain Roy and other illustrious social scientists, humanists and think tank representatives also took part in the forum. This gathering of about three hundred researchers and professors of law, (…)

• A ’Social Atmosphere’ is Being Created to Discredit the Congress as an Irrelevant Political Party | Arun Srivastava

  20 April 2024

  Arun Srivastava
  Suddenly, precisely for a week, the media has started writing off, rather disparaging Congress, attributing it as political party having no national perspective and also deprecating Rahul Gandhi as a meek challenger to charismatic and strong leader Narendra Modi. The most curious narrative that has been set on the roll is, the Congress will dissipate and even lose its national identity and status, as the main opposition.
  Certainly, this has not as a surprise. The Godi (…)

• Enduring Significance of Utkal Gaurab Madhusudan Das | S N Sahu

  20 April 2024, by S N Sahu

  On 28th April this year the birth anniversary of Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Das is being celebrated. On that day in 1848 he was born and his many splendoured legacy which, among others, encapsulated his pioneering initiative to launch a movement for establishment of Orissa (now Odisha) as separate British province on the basis of language constituted a significant step not just for Odisha but the whole of India. That movement led by him brought together Odia speaking areas forming part of (…)

• Green Manifesto | Asha Gopinathan

  20 April 2024

  I write this as a very concerned citizen who has been following the environmental crisis on the planet closely. I do not claim to be an ‘ expert’ and am open to a critique of what I have written below from people who work closely at the ground with these issues along with the affected communities. I see this as a beginning blue-print for a people’s manifesto which we should present to our politicians and make them accountable to us. As I am currently based in Kerala, many of the examples (…)

• Recognizing the “De” in Degrowth | Alexander Dunlap

  20 April 2024

  Why do degrowth intellectuals publicly neglect combative self-defense against “growth” projects? The connection between degrowth and anti-capitalist, autonomist and (ecological) anarchist movements exists, and it can be strengthened by acknowledging the legitimacy of a diversity of tactics as necessary pathways towards degrowing the techno-capitalist system and protecting habitats form infrastructural invasion.
  Degrowth is about reducing total material and energy throughput, which entails (…)

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  Prime Minister Modi, Provide Jobs & Health Care, Dont Eulogize the Atomic Bomb | IDPD

  20 April 2024

  Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD)
  Date: 16.04.2024
  Press Note
  Nuclear weapons do not serve as a deterrent - IDPD
  Prime Minister Modi’s statement eulogizing nuclear weapons is flawed
  Nuclear weapons do not serve as a deterrent; instead, their presence poses a persistent threat of escalation to nuclear war. This was said by Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) in reaction to Prime Minister Modi’s statement. In the news published in the media, the Prime (…)

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  Statement on Scientific Temper Feb. 28, 2024 at Kolkata

  20 April 2024

  Adopted at “Campaign for scientific temper culmination program and National convention for declaration on scientific temper” held on 28th Feb 2024 at Kolkata
  Statement on Scientific Temper in the Current Context
  Executive Summary There is an urgent need for a renewed commitment to evidence-based reasoning, critical thinking and a scientific approach in India, especially amidst growing socio-political movements that challenge a scientific temper and universal knowledge production based on (…)