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• The Invisible Price Tag: Why Destroying Nature Makes GDP Look Good | Saanvi Maheshwari

  8 September

  Imagine a homeowner burning down their living room walls to keep the fireplace going through winter. For a few hours, the house is warm. Measured strictly by room temperature, the strategy succeeds. But once the fire dies, the house is uninhabitable. The owner destroyed their primary asset for a few hours of fleeting comfort.
  This is precisely how modern national accounting treats planet Earth.
  For nearly a century, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the total monetary value of all finished (…)

• Need is Intergenerational Solidarity, Not Generational Exceptionalism | Rasni Bai & L T Om Prakash

  8 September

  The recent protests in Jantar Mantar and across the country, spearheaded by students, put the spotlight on Gen Z and their distinctive style of activism. The protest has changed the public’s perception of youth from passive digital natives to active participants in democracy. Although critics raise concerns about ad hoc activism, emotional rhetoric, and the protesters’ viral symbolism, a widespread narrative holds that Gen Z is fundamentally different from earlier generations, and the (…)

• The Toto Paradox of West Bengal: Moving People, Stalling Aspirations | Abhijit Ghosh

  8 September

  Across West Bengal, today, mobility has a new sound—the soft, electric hum of the e-rickshaws, popularly known as “toto”. The toto has become one of the most visible signs of technological change in everyday transport. Carrying passengers from villages to markets, railway stations and schools, it has expanded mobility at relatively low cost. Yet behind this transformation lies a less visible question: does the rise of the toto represent economic progress, or does it reflect an economy (…)

• To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’ —Open letter

  8 September

  On one side, you face the domination of the Islamic Republic; on the other, the imperialist forces that republic claims to stand against
  20 Aug 2026
  August marks the anniversary of the 1988 mass executions in Iran, a horror that echoes in the country’s current surge in death sentences. It also marks the 19 August anniversary of the UK- and US-orchestrated coup against the prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. Amid the current, indiscriminate waves of US-Israeli military assaults (…)

• Form-of-Life | Giorgio Agamben

  8 September

  The ancient Greeks did not have only one term to express what we mean by the word life. They used two semantically and morphologically distinct terms: zoé, which expressed the simple fact of living common to all living beings (animals, humans, or gods), and bios, which signified the form or manner of living peculiar to a single individual or group. In modern languages this opposition has gradually disappeared from the lexicon (and where it is retained, as in biology and zoology, it no longer (…)

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  Letter to Chief Minister of UP regarding illegal house arrest of leaders and workers of the Communist Party of India (Aug 31, 2026)

  8 September

  Communist Party of India
  We hereby release the text of the letter written by Communist Party of India General Secretary D. Raja to Shri Amit Shah, Hon’ble Home Minister, regarding illegal house arrest of leaders and workers of the Communist Party of India in Uttar Pradesh. Sd/-
  Roykutty
  Office Secretary
  ******
  New Delhi,
  August 31, 2026
  To,
  Shri Amit Shah,
  Hon’ble Minister for Home Affairs,
  Government of India,
  New Delhi.
  Sub: Illegal House arrest of leaders and (…)

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  Statement on Assault on Women Journalists by Delhi Police | Editors Guild of India (Sept 6, 2026)

  8 September

  September 5, 2026 | New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India (EGi) strongly condemns the detention and alleged assault on journalists Shaheen Khan and Nafisa Khan, working for 4PM News Network, by Delhi Police personnel attached to the Saket Police Station. The two women journalists were covering the inauguration of a new wing at the Max Hospital in Saket, an event which was attended by Home Minister Amit Shah and Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta.
  The journalists have charged that when they (…)

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  Video: Jairus Banaji speaks on The Political Culture of Fascism (2016)

  8 September

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  Jairus Banaji speaks on "The Political Culture of Fascism" | #StandWithJNU by Stand With JNU https://youtu.be/Ea67qXnP-1Y?si=IryttLy6X27wso16

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  Music: Baila Como Es - Tito Puente

  8 September

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  Baila Como Es by Tito Puente - Topic https://youtu.be/SJwH_5_jsHQ?si=b50KWgLgdi8Zs_fO

• Some Materials On Gandhi And Business | Anil Nauriya

  25 August, by Anil Nauriya

  The current Prime Minister of India once made a statement likening his association with certain business tycoons with the relation that Mahatma Gandhi had with businessmen and industrialists such as G D Birla. In this context, it is useful to recall a few facets about Gandhi’s association with persons from the commercial world. 1. Even when he was in South Africa, Gandhi placed less importance on the relentless pursuit of business profit by individuals than on their sacrificing (…)