2023

What about we rave for a while What about we fix our eyes beyond the infamy to surmise another possible world The air is clean from all venom that doen’t come from the human fears and from the human passions On the streets the automobiles will be crushed by the dogs People won’t be driven by the automobile nor will they be programmed by the computer nor will they be bought by the supermarket nor will they be watched by the TV either The TV will stop being the most important member of (…)

September 1, 2023
Indian sports journalist Aayush Puthran’s book Unveiling Jazbaa spotlights the daunting challenges faced by women cricketers in Pakistan, making their victories on the world stage all the more remarkable
By Noor e Emaan
In the summer of 2017, my sister and I joined the Kinnaird Cricket Club at the main grounds of Kinnaird College for Women in Lahore, Pakistan. I remember the cool shade of the trees in contrast with the sudden harsh heat of the open ground as we walked (…)

24 Feb 2019
Shame on those scientists who are unwilling to embrace the importance of philosophers
Last week it was revealed that Edinburgh University’s David Purdie had discovered a letter from Albert Einstein in which the great scientist notes the importance of 18th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume in developing his theory of special relativity.
Without having reading Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature, Einstein wrote: “I cannot say that the solution would have come.” (…)

August 30, 2023
When London faced the bubonic plague in 1665, many people desperately sought a way to protect themselves and their loved ones from getting sick. One widely adopted method consisted of mixing two small cloves of garlic in a pint of fresh milk. People believed that drinking this cocktail in the morning, on an empty stomach, would prevent the feared disease.
Like those living through the great plague of London
Unfortunately, despite laboratory studies showing that garlic (…)

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 2023 (IPS) - Just after a band of mercenaries tried to oust the government in the Maldives back in 1988, I asked a Maldivian diplomat, using a familiar military catch phrase, about the strength of his country’s “standing army.”
“Standing army?”, the diplomat asked with mock surprise, and remarked perhaps half-jokingly, “We don’t even have a sitting army.”
With a population of about 250,000, around that time, the Maldives was perhaps one of the few countries with no (…)

(Text adopted in the eighteenth national conference of the Progressive Writers’ Association (Jabalpur, 20, 21 and 22 August, 2023)
Forty-three years ago in this city of Jabalpur, participating in the national conference of the Progressive Writers’ Association, we the writers of all the Indian languages, as guardians of the glorious tradition and legacy of the progressive writing movement, had committed ourselves to protect the ideals of democracy, secularism and socialism. Today, when we (…)

The Editors Guild of India is disturbed by the registration of First Information Reports (FIRs) by the Manipur Police against the President of the Guild as well as the members of the fact-finding team that had visited Manipur to study and document media’s coverage of ethnic clashes in the state. The Guild is further shocked by the intimidatory statements made by the Chief Minister of Manipur, Mr. N Biren Singh, in response to the report.

Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD)
Date: 04.09.2023
Dear Madam/Sir,
PRESS RELEASE
A team of Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) comprising of Dr Arun Mitra, President, Dr Shakeel ur Rahman, General Secretary, Dr Ravindranath, Senior Vice President, Dr Shanthi, Secretary, Dr Rajani, Secretary visited relief camps in valley and hills of Manipur on 1st and 2nd September 2023 in both Meitei and Kuki areas to assess the health conditions in the relief camps.. The (…)

TRANSITION TOWN MOVEMENT: Local Action in the Wake of Global Emergency and Collapse by T. Vijayendra, Usha Rao and Shreekumar
2023, Sangatya, Pp 80, Rs. 50/-
Manchi Pustakam Email: sureshkosaraju[at]yahoo.co.in Mobile: +91 73822 97430
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We are caught in a Global Emergency. This has several aspects to it - Resource Depletion, Global Warming, Ecological Degradation, Growing Inequality and Social Unrest. The primary cause of this emergency is the current crisis of (…)