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• Development Disgrace; Rich Gods, Goddesses, Poor People and Religious Expenditure in Odisha | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  5 January 2024

  “If gods, goddesses, and their abodes require state and government support for their survival and revival, citizens must abandon such gods, goddesses, governments, and electoral politics surrounding them. Instead, they should focus on their own development based on science, secularism, and human solidarity enabled by technology."
  The BJD led Government of Odisha under the leadership of Chief Minister, Mr Naveen Patnaik is pandering to Hindutva majoritarian politics by spending huge amount (…)

• The Path to Low-Carbon Cities: The SEED Formula | S N Tripathy

  5 January 2024, by S N Tripathy

  As the world undergoes unprecedented urbanization, the relationship between urban areas and carbon emissions has become a central concern in the ongoing climate crisis. Combating pollution necessitates distributing pollution guides and standard operating procedures among diverse governmental departments and agencies. These resources should not merely be accessible but should also seamlessly integrate into the fabric of urban existence.
  Crucially, the impact of pollution is (…)

• Zero Debt Companies are Financially Stable: A Myopic View | Dhameja, Dhameja & Khatter

  5 January 2024

  Two main sources of funds which companies normally tap include equity and debt; in addition, for existing companies their internal funds are preferred sources. Every source has a cost, internal funds though don’t have explicit cost, shareholders expect return as that of equity, and debt has relatively low cost due to the tax exemption. Debt can be in the form of borrowings or through issue of bonds or debentures, borrowings are relatively procedurally simple and less costly.
  Debt adds to (…)

• Nepali journalists’ solidarity with Gaza colleagues counters dominant narrative | Himali Dixit

  5 January 2024

  Nepali mediapersons gathered on the first day of the new year to mourn the killing of Palestinian journalists, to break the silence, and to stand for a press that speaks out.
  As dusk settled on ancient terracotta palaces in a historic town square of Kathmandu Valley on the first day of the new year, a group of Nepali journalists read out loud the names of Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks over the past two months.
  “Duaa Sharaf, Yasser Abu Namous, Nazmi Al-Nadim...” (…)

• Beating Swords into Ploughshares, or What A No-war Future May Involve | Bharat Dogra

  5 January 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  At a time when existing and potential wars dominate the attention of world leadership to such an extent, it may appear very unrealistic to discuss a future for humanity in which there are no wars. Yet this must be a very important part of our thinking, the reason being that if at all the life-sustaining conditions of our planet are to be saved, this is unlikely to be possible without humanity being able to agree on some version of a future without wars. Hence instead of dismissing the idea (…)

• Gene editing has arrived | Merlin Crossley

  5 January 2024

  Focus on 2024
  The world’s first precision gene editing therapy for sickle cell disease has been approved for use in the UK and US.
  The UK and US have both approved a gene editing therapy to overcome the genetic mutation that causes sickle cell disease, but the treatment is expensive.
  A new gene therapy has just been approved as a treatment for the inherited blood disease, sickle cell disease, in the UK and the US.
  What makes this therapy unique is that it uses a gene-editing (…)

• Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom | Fredy Perlman (1983)

  5 January 2024

  [First appeared in Fifth Estate, issue number 310 (Vol. 17 No. 3)] Source: www.marxists.org
  Escape from death in a gas chamber or a Pogrom, or incarceration in a concentration camp, may give a thoughtful and capable writer, Solzhenitsyn for example, profound insights into many of the central elements of contemporary existence, but such an experience does not, in itself, make Solzhenitsyn a thinker, a writer, or even a critic of concentration camps; it does not, in itself, confer any (…)

• Between ‘historic compromise’ and terrorism - Reviewing the experience of Italy in the 1970s | Toni Negri

  5 January 2024

  From: Le Monde diplomatique, September 1998
  Toni Negri was one of the historic leadership of the Italian revolutionary group Potere Operaio (Workers’ Power) and is currently serving a prison sentence in Rebibbia prison, Rome. Negri gave himself up on 1 July 1997 after 14 years’ exile in Paris in a bid to close a chapter in his own personal “judicial history” and that of other far-left militants still in exile. Originally sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment for “armed insurrection against (…)

• Dear Isaac, Don’t You remember? | Murzban Jal

  5 January 2024

  Dear Isaac,
  Don’t you remember?
  The joyous beauty of our youth
  When we sang and ran up the hills?
  Dear Isaac
  Don’t you remember?
  The chilled winds blowing into our faces
  And how we laughed together?
  Dear Isaac
  Don’t you remember?
  How they came
  With the crooked cross, leather jackets and jackboots
  Goose-stepping throwing us both
  In the furnace of hell?
  Dear Isaac
  Don’t you remember?
  How they stamped
  The Star of David on your jacket?
  And don’t you remember,
  Dear Isaac? (…)

• Christ Came On Christmas

  5 January 2024, by Sagari Chhabra

  The earth never knows names as America, England, Israel; but states are created with territories soaked in blood, races marked: white, brown, black in exact order, there is no disorder.
  The victors are heroes declaring their story amidst blazing bugles; the colonized have no story to tell, for we live within a well; we speak in a language not our own, our land is taken, our culture is primitive, we appear alive but are smouldering within.
  It does not matter that Columbus came and (…)