2021

RESTLESS AS MERCURY:
My Life As a Young Man
by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Edited by Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Aleph Book Company | January 2021 | 400 p
ISBN: 9788194874140
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As I read the preface by Gopalkrishna Gandhi to Restless as Mercury: My Life As A Young Man, I was reminded of what his elder brother and professor of philosophy Ramchandra Gandhi told me 30 years ago. Back in 1991, we were working together to make Jagran aur Gavahi: Tees (…)

MUSINGS - 28 July 2021
Come August and its Gulzar saab’s birthday. Born on 18 August 1934 in the Undivided Punjab, he’s going strong. That grace, that attractive-poetic-romantic look to him hasn’t ebbed. He looks a shayar and also converses like a shayar with that gentle strain to his voice.
There’s something or everything so very different about Gulzar saab, that’s difficult to describe or even pinpoint. Its not just the way he dresses so very elegantly in the white cotton (…)

You shot for peace live.
They shot the peace dead.
Your lens lensed through suffering human.
Their prudence stands for counting dead human.
Yet another casualty,
Yet another peace catalyst quieted.
Yet another message to enemies.
Who are the enemies?
Your lens that clicked blew off many a violent mind.
It sparkled for solace.
Oh! Afghans, how long you endure?
How many you endure?
The Communist, jehadist, islamist
The UN, the USA, the NATO
The religion, the neighbours, the (…)

A pinch of breeze and few drops of chlorophyll
A whirlpool of emotion riding on a mint leaf
Simmering bark of an aging oak smoking anger in disgust
The oozing droplets of blood from its trunk splash parched lands
Slowly percolating through the midribs in the ground
Mother Nature is widowed by those who still vow to keep her elated and green
Her so called husbands plundered her first
Young and old, who were fed by her and basked in her glory, shot bullets through her very (…)

Indian Languages Newspapers Association
Delhi Press Building
E-8 Jhandewala Estate
New Delhi 110055
Press Release
Indian Languages Newspapers Association is deeply concerned that the Newspapers, their owners, editors, correspondents, feature writers are being subjected to Income Tax Raids, Phone Tapping through new kinds of soft wares, frequent criminal cases filed from multiple places if the newspapers have written what is not liked by those in power. Newspapers are backbone of (…)

United Nations Secretary-General
26 July 2021
Note to Correspondents: United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide welcomes the adoption by the General Assembly of an International Day for Countering Hate Speech
The United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, welcomed the adoption by the General Assembly on 21 July of resolution A/75/L.115 on “Promoting interreligious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance in countering hate (…)

We the undersigned civil society organizations and independent experts are alarmed at the media revelations that NSO Group’s spyware has been used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale. These revelations are a result of the Pegasus Project and are based on the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets. The project is a collaboration of more than 80 journalists from 16 media organizations in 10 countries coordinated by Forbidden (…)

CWCC Statement on the Rioting
covid19 working class campaign 25/07/2021
The events of last week shook up South African society, especially when sections of the masses in the provinces of Gauteng and Kwa-Zulu Natal entered the fray. The sheer scale of the events had the effect of compelling all classes – the ruling class, both capital and the ANC state, the middle classes and organisations of the working class – to nail their colours to the mast. Unsurprisingly, the ruling class and the (…)

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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 24, 2021
The week began with major news of hack-in of phones using Pegasus spyware provided by NSO an Israeli Defence company (which licenses its technology to Governments only for counter-terrorism); this hacking of personal phones happened world wide on the journalists and on politicians etc. An international consortium of seventeen news media sites and newspapers in coordination with the Paris based Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International (…)