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• Crisis of Capitalism | Govind Bhattacharjee

  18 September 2020

  by Govind Bhattacharjee *
  Abstract: Despite its many flaws, capitalism has survived many challenges, showing a remarkable resilience for adaptation. But the current pandemic has thrown it into a crisis that calls for resetting its very premises. The pandemic that has mutilated economies, lives and livelihood across the globe and shows no sign of abetting as yet has also taught us that our needs are actually rather limited and that we do not need elaborate production machinery to produce (…)

• Moment of History | Suranjita Ray

  18 September 2020, by Suranjita Ray

  The nomination of Kamala Harris, the first Asian American woman of colour as the Democratic Party’s Vice-Presidential candidate is historic. It marks a moment of celebration for immigrant communities and the black community in particular across all sections. Increasing pressures on Joe Biden to choose a woman of colour after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May 2020 reveal the upsurge of minority politics. Not only have black voters played a significant role in Harris’s (…)

• ‘Black Lives Matter’: Slavery and Racism in the historical context | Ish Mishra

  18 September 2020

  Racism, like communalism, Brahmanism (casteism) and the gender, is not an attribute of biology but an ideology that is constructed, reconstructed, nurtured and perpetuated in the day-to-day life and intellectual discourses

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  1917 Poster of Liberty League Negro Americans meeting notice

  18 September 2020

• ‘Forty Rules’, Gita, Commusings and the question of Inner Change | Kobad Ghandy

  18 September 2020, by Kobad Ghandy

  Why did socialist societies reverse, inspite of being economically far more just? Why did some of their leaders become dictators? Why does money and power corrupt the best of persons? Why do comrades willing to give their lives for revolution, become, at times, the worst autocrats within the organisation, with even a little power? In short why does human nature change for the negative with power (money), and how can we acquire positive values needed, not only to bring and sustain an (…)

• The Stranded Migrants: Plights, Predicaments and Paybacks | Nupur Pattanaik

  18 September 2020

  Deprivation, Unemployment, poverty migrants across the world are stranded in different places after the evacuation and unlock measures with strict protocols we come across that there are also several migrants who have not reached their destination due to insecurity of jobs and utter fear of poverty and loss of livelihood due to the pandemic. The lockdown to accommodate the proliferation of COVID-19 has led to an astounding humanitarian catastrophe which the state has grappled to manoeuvre. (…)

• SSR Drama, Silencing of young voices, Pamela Rooks lives on ... | Humra Quraishi

  18 September 2020, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  September 16, 2020
  In Mumbai, Sushant Singh Rajput’s death is turning into a full-fledged political war between the BJP and the Opposition. Its also being ‘used’ by starlets and socialites to get into the political arena and grab all possible mileage. An ambitious lot are to be seen all over on the small screen, coming with their politically-tilted theories. Pathetic! And here, in the national capital, the investigation in the North East Delhi pogrom is turning out to be more (…)

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  Criminalising and Silencing Dissent: Delhi Police Investigations into the February Violence - Text of Press Release by Concerned Citizens | Sept 16, 2020

  18 September 2020

  PRESS STATEMENT released on 16th September 2020 Press Club of India, New Delhi,
  We have gathered here today to express our collective anguish at the sheer brazenness with which the Delhi police has turned the investigation into the February violence in Delhi into an inquisition of the anti-CAA protests. Just two days ago, Umar Khalid was taken into custody and booked under UAPA and several other criminal sections, thereby adding to the list of anti-CAA protestors languishing behind bars. (…)

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  Conduct a Fair investigation into the violence in North East Delhi in end February 2020 - Letter From PUCL To Commissioner of Police, Delhi Police

  18 September 2020

  PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES (PUCL) 332, Patpar Ganj, Opposite Anand Lok Apartments, Mayur Vihar I, Delhi 110 091 Phone 2275 0014 PP FAX 4215 1459 Founder: Jayaprakash Narayan; Founding President: V M Tarkunde President: Ravi Kiran Jain; General Secretary: Dr. V. Suresh E.mail: puclnat[at]gmail.com& pucl.natgensec[at]gmail.com
  14th September 2020
  To:
  Mr SN Srivastava, IPS Commissioner of Police, Delhi Police Headquarters, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi (…)

• Gaia Versus the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Dorion Sagan

  18 September 2020

  Greg Ruggiero interviews Dorion Sagan
  19 Aug 2020
  A SINGLE STRAND OF coded protein packed in a fatty shell — so small that it is almost immune to gravity — is changing humanity as we know it. What is happening? If we approach this question from the perspective of ourselves alone, it appears that we are under attack. But there are many other perspectives to consider, including the planet’s, whose interconnected ecosystems may be far more “intelligent” than our technologies. Could it be (…)