2024

On January 22, 2024, consecration ceremony of Ram temple at Ayodhya took place with fanfare under state patronage. This event was a turning point in accelerating the process of taking possession of Muslim religious sites by the champions of aggressive Hindutva politics in India.
The new Ram temple was constructed at Ayodhya after getting possession of the temple site, following the Supreme Court verdict associated with the demolition of Babri Masjid. Now, after getting the order of the (…)

As the 2024 General Elections are looming on the horizon some Muslim elite are appealing to Muslim community to give a relook at BJP They claim that Indian Muslims are not being discriminated against. Such intellectuals also argue that BJP is giving special attention to Pasmanda Muslims and the Sufi Muslims. They also argue that Muslims are beneficiaries of BJP’s schemes for social welfare: food; housing; gas; water among others and lastly that there has been no major communal violence since (…)

White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners by Narges Mohammadi
2023
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When and how have prisons and torture originated among humans? What is the purpose of prisons in the so called civilized nations including ours? Prisons and torture mean nothing else but human right violations and both of them are there with us from time immemorial. Of course, the born-criminals and anti-social elements have to be imprisoned for the safety of the people who live peacefully. But the (…)

Hind!
O, gentle Hind.
You were barely a few years old,
Not deserving to die.
But you did die,
Or should one say, murdered.
Not by a stray bullet,
But by the wrath of the Promised Land,
Where not peace prevails,
But rage,
Of dreams of past glory.
To save yourself, you fled,
With your mother, father, siblings and friends
And they, all
One by one,
Were shot.
Not by snipers,
But by the wrath of the Promised Land
And you cried out
Pleading for help,
Which never came,
In (…)

Have we ceased to be a wakeful and sensitive civil society and instead have become the horns of parties, leaders and governments? Whatever profession we are in, have we lost all respect for our responsibility and dignity? It is understandable that a pro-corporate government should launch a campaign to defame the farmers from the very first day of its agitation against the government’s apathy to their long-pending demands. Because it considers the people of the country, especially the (…)

The Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean via the Gulf of Aden, is now in international news. The Suez Canal which is the world’s largest man-made waterway is on the northern side of the Red Sea. The canal, which is 193 km long and now close to 200 meters wide, connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea. The Houthis are attacking the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait within this, which is merely 26 kilometres wide.
Operation Prosperity Guardian, led by the United (…)

South Korea’s pressing fertility challenge is complex and solely linking it to feminism deflects focus from underlying societal and structural contributors to the demographic crisis. To boost natality rates, addressing factors such as extended work hours, economic stress, mounting household debts and cultural expectations on childcare and marriage is crucial. Policymakers must tackle the issue with unbiased, trans-partisan efforts rooted in comprehensive diagnoses, rather than succumbing to ideological divides.

February 12, 2024
By anyone’s standard, the elections held in Pakistan on February 8 were neither free nor fair.
Under the leadership of General Asim Munir, the military ‘massaged’ three-time leader Nawaz Sharif’s return to power. Sharif, a convicted corrupt politician, has had an ambivalent relationship with the army for the last 40 years.
Prior to polling day, the military and the judiciary had ensured that the highly popular former prime minister Imran Khan and his Pakistan (…)

With the outbreak of war, the anarchist newspaper Temps Nouveaux, in which Kropotkin was a regular contributor, had to be suspended, as almost all its readers and subscribers went off to war. In its place the publishing group of Temps Nouveaux — Jean Grave, Kropotkin, Guerin, Paul Reclus, Cherkezishvili, and others — published a series of pamphlets: the first, issued in May 1916, contained a “declaration

Press Release by AITUC Secretariat on 13.02.2024
AITUC Condemns the Centre’s Brute Force Against Farmers
News is being flashed that the farmers’ column coming towards Delhi in support of their demands, is being tear-gassed, being doused with water-cannons from drones etc. Early reports also mentioned heavy barricading of roads with cement blocks, sharp nails etc. This is utterly condemnable, as the Centre had given written assurances accepting Farmers’ demands while requesting them to (…)