2026

Migrant workers in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have often faced serious occupational hazards and other risks. Now as Iran

Minab
There is a shimmering lake
so vast that it reflects the blue sky;
inside it many secrets lie;
the wealth of our ancestors,
the ashes of our forebears,
and so many turtles, ducks and geese,
the lake is an isle of peace.
One looks, learns and grows
about the universe, the planet
and inter-connected life;
till one day, someone cast a stone;
the lake turned a deep blood red
there were one hundred and fifty-two ripples,
each ripple let out a human cry.
Each was a voice
of (…)

In a recent seminar in New Delhi on

(This text was written for the Anti-War Congress in Prague, Czech Republic, May 2024)
I

ALL INDIA TRADE UNION CONGRES
Press Statement by AITUC released today-4th April 2026 demanding withdrawal of UGC Circular
The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) strongly opposes the recent circular issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC) directing that Anganwadi centres be maintained as part of their social responsibility and extension activities. This move is deeply regressive and illustrative of a dangerous drift in the Union Government

Banning The Voice of Hind Rajab threatens freedom of expression in India and Israel
We are, variously, Israelis, Indians, filmmakers, journalists, academics and activists. We write in support of pluralism, democracy and freedom of expression in India and in Israel

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2025. 272 pp.
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by Kohei Saito, University of Tokyo
Cambridge University Press
15 January 2023 | ISBN: 9781108933544
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Uncovering the Ecologist in Marx: Kohei Saito

* Questions to Narendra Modi: What

The special intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list on the eve of the assembly elections in West Bengal has generated great fear among the Bengali migrants. The Telegraph reported (March 22, 2026) in this context: