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• Interim Report of the People’s Commission on Land Acquisition and Police Repression in Dhinkia Region

  14 October 2023

  7 October 2023
  In June 2005, the Government of Orissa gave a contract to POSCO, a South Korean multinational corporation to invest approximately US$12 billion in an integrated steel venture. Due to public pressure and other factors, POSCO withdrew from the project in March 2017. Following POSCO’s exit, in June 2017, the Odisha government transferred the land to the JSW Utkal Steel Limited (JUSL). JUSL plans to build a 13.2 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) integrated steel plant that will (…)

• Gulab’s Struggle against Honour Killing Needs Help | Bharat Dogra

  14 October 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  Honor killing is a terrible crime and a serious social problem. So anyone struggling against this in the middle of great hostility deserves help and sympathy. However in the case of Gulab Rajput this help is deserved even more as he has shown great courage and determination in continuing this struggle—he was himself the victim of a hit and run incident and in this seriously injured state he sat with his wife Kamla on a fast-cum-dharna for 10 days to demand justice. Despite his rapidly (…)

• A Political Man: Memories of Ranajit Guha | Dilip Simeon

  14 October 2023, by Dilip Simeon

  NB: This is an extended reminiscence of a conversation about Ranajit Guha and the Naxalite movement. The conversation was arranged at the request of the Bangla journal Anustup; and took place between me and a History honours student at the University of Delhi. (I am obliged to Anustup for having prompted this remembrance. It is due to appear in Bangla shortly). It is based on a transcript of that conversation, but has been considerably revised. It took place on July 16, 2023; which (…)

• Karpoori Thakur: Social Justice and Its Limits | Manish Thakur and Nabanipa Bhattacharjee

  14 October 2023, by Nabanipa Bhattacharjee

  History has its own ways of revivifying past icons and their politics. Of late, Karpoori Thakur has seen such a revival in contemporary political discourse. In particular, politics in Bihar is suffused with references to his simplicity, honesty, integrity and his lifelong commitment to the welfare of the poor and the downtrodden. Parties across a wide-ranging ideological spectrum – from the real and pretentious legatees of socialist politics to the ruling JD (U)-RJD alliance and also the BJP (…)

• Sustainable Consumption and Production versus Green capitalism: What really counts? | Geeta Sinha

  14 October 2023, by Geeta Sinha

  The increasing environmental crisis, coupled with the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), prompts changes in the behavior of consumers, investors, and producers. Sustainable development calls for the integration of sustainable consumption and production patterns into national development and planning. Its relevance and significance are well emphasized through SDGs Goal 12, listed as ’responsible consumption and production.’ This goal aims to promote the efficient and (…)

• Can we fight Zionism, not Jews? | Jawed Naqvi

  14 October 2023, by Jawed Naqvi

  ANYONE who is familiar with the history of Spain under Muslim rule before the 1492 Catholic pushback — and there’s an excellent body of work on the theme by Tariq Ali — could not miss the intermingling of Jewish, Christian and Muslim cultures in a cornucopia of art, literature and philosophy at its zenith. One was sadly reminded of that slice of history in the face of the needless pain and trauma coming with the uptick in the bloodletting between the people that once represented a blessing (…)

• Statement on the Israeli-Hamas War | CPDCS

  14 October 2023

  Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security (CPDCS]cv
  October 8, 2023
  The Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Hamas-Israel War. In contravention of International Law, it is civilians on both sides who are the primary victims. The war should cease before more people are killed, wounded, or traumatized for life, and before it expands into a still more catastrophic war with disastrous consequences for people of (…)

• For a Lasting Peace, End the Nakba Now - Statement from Progressive International

  14 October 2023

  10.10.2023
  As a renewed and intensified cycle of violence unleashes atrocities on innocents, members of the Council of the Progressive International call for progressive forces to march in their millions for Palestinian liberation. A catastrophe is unfolding over Gaza. Following the 7 October operation from inside the Gaza Strip, Israel’s Defence Minister has ordered its “complete siege” from the outside. “There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel, everything is closed. We (…)

• Is the hegemony of dollar waning I Syed Kamran Ali

  14 October 2023

  Since its inception, BRICS has positioned itself as a group to challenge Western hegemony and present a viable alternative to the existing international order. This has led to a great deal of appreciation from the developing world, largely because the developing world has long complained that the international system, which is dominated by the Western world, has been unfair to them.
  The international financial system is one of the areas, where this Western-led order receives the most (…)

• Provoking underdog Palestine is fraught with Hamas retaliation | Faraz Ahmad

  14 October 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  There is a memorable scene in the Hindi movie Sholay, which I suppose any Indian and many foreigners would have seen umpteen times. The villain Gabbar Singh after shooting down ruthlessly his three gangmen in his lair for fleeing away from just two men hired by Thakur to save Ramgarh, charges with his entire team of dacoits into the village in the midst of Holi celebrations shooting and plundering. Having subdued every one, he turns his attention to the two, Veeru and Jai who had scared away (…)