2024

March 17, 2024
Rihanna, Mark Zuckerberg, bejeweled elephants and 5,500 drones. Those were some of the highlights of what is likely the most ostentatious “pre-wedding” ceremony the modern world has ever seen.
On a long weekend in early March, members of the global elite gathered to celebrate the impending nuptials of the billionaire business titan Mukesh Ambani’s youngest son, Anant, and Radhika Merchant. Monarchs, politicians and the ultrawealthy, including Bill Gates and Ivanka Trump, (…)

As the massive scam related to electoral bonds was unfolding the Home Minister Mr. Amit Shah declared the rules and procedures for implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) which was passed nearly four years ago. The correlation of its implementation now, when the electoral bond scam is coming to the surface and the General Elections are round the corner, is very obvious knowing the pattern of politics pursued by BJP.
One recalls that, CAA was brought to fore in the aftermath of (…)

March 20, 2024
Fair access to water is an issue for millions of people in India. Who controls access and how this is governed needs fixing.
Almost 100 years ago around 3,000 Dalits, or "untouchables", dared to drink from a public water tank in Mahad, Maharashtra, that was forbidden to them.
The Mahad Satyagraha civil rights movement — was led by noted lawyer, social reformer, and Dalit leader B.R. Ambedkar who then took on the upper-caste people of the area who claimed the tank was (…)

Indians took to social media to boycott visits to the Maldives because of insults to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and India. A teacher from Gurukul school of art paints a poster condemning the Maldivian ministers’ statements on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and India in general, Mumbai, India, 9 January 2024 (Photo: Reuters/Ashish Vaishnav). Rishabh Yadav
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s January 2024 visit to the Lakshadweep islands has led to diplomatic fallout between New (…)

Five months after a Hamas blitzkrieg shook its foundations like never before, Israel realizes for the first time after its controversial birth in 1948 that its world will never be the same again.
Despite slaughtering more than 30,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, in the unending and horrific war on Gaza, Israel’s supposed military might is nowhere close to locating its hostages still being held by Hamas.
And notwithstanding a mammoth intelligence machinery it has built over the (…)

In a statement made in November 2023, Jurgen Habermas made a statement in continued support of Israel’s right to exist, further stating that Israel’s attack on Palestine over the past months has been “justified in principle”. A second-generation Frankfurt School theorist, Habermas took up Horkheimer’s chair in 1964. Neither Horkheimer, Lowenthal, Fromm, and Marcuse—the first-generation Frankfurt School theorists, all of whom witnessed and survived Nazi oppression in Germany—were sympathetic (…)

World Inequality Database
March 8, 2024
Written by WID.world
Bina Agarwal and James Boyce win the first ’Global Inequality Research Award’
In recent decades, the study of global inequalities has experienced a remarkable boom: economic, social and environmental inequalities have been the subject of a growing body of theoretical and empirical work, visible and influential throughout the world.
The World Inequality Lab (WIL) and Sciences Po’s Center for Research on Social Inequalities (…)

Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace & Democracy pays our homage to the life and spirit of Laxminarayan Ramdas, who passed away on the 15th of March 2024 at the age of 90. His demise brings tears and desolation to all of our members in India and Pakistan, most of whom have had the opportunity to meet him and interact with the former chief of the Indian Navy on several occasions.
Ramu, as friends fondly called him, did not function individually. For all of us in the Forum and peace (…)

Former Secretary to the Government of India
To
Smt. Droupadi Murmu
Hon’ble President of India
Respected Rashtrapati Ji,
Kindly refer to my letter of March 12th, 2024 about the haste in which the NDA government was trying to select candidates to be appointed as Election Commissioners, ignoring the ongoing proceedings before the Hon’ble Supreme Court and other related issues, including the fact that the BJP had planted its own representatives on the Boards of Bharat Electronics Ltd (…)

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Press Release
18th March, 2024
RSS Must Stop Demonising Farmers’ Movement
Betrayer of Freedom Struggle RSS Has No Right to Question Patriotism of Farmers
In the recently concluded Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at Nagpur, Dattatreya Hosabale, its General Secretary, has denigrated the ongoing farmers’ protests in Punjab and (…)