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By Vasanthi Hariprakash In 2012, two women and a sewing machine made a 100-km journey from Kolkata to Hingalganj, an island in the Sundarbans in the lower Ganges delta, 5 km from the Bangladesh border. Today,… Continue Reading →
By Dipankar Roy July 19, 2021 Anarchist for some, emancipator for others…but not a terrorist, says the court. The peasant leader walks free with stinging words on the NIA, saying it tried to make him join BJP-RSS. He is many… Continue Reading →
We always said our domestic staff were part of the family. Now I see that was a lie If you are well-off in Kolkata it’s easy not to see things. As a child, I used to love watching the sun… Continue Reading →
A woman dairy farmer from Punjab, the biggest agricultural land area in Pakistan, is seen milking her family’s cow. A vast majority of work in the fields and in agriculture is carried out by women. In Punjab alone, 93% of… Continue Reading →
May 21, 2021 Sara Roy Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Dear President Biden, I am writing to you about Gaza, a place that I have studied and written about for the last 35 years, a place that… Continue Reading →
Arundhati Roy We need a government. Desperately. And we don’t have one. We are running out of air. We are dying. We don’t have systems in place to know what to do with help even when it’s on hand. What can… Continue Reading →
Biswajit Dhar K.M. GopakumarApril 27, 2021 The new vaccine strategy raises questions, beginning with the Centre giving up its control over the market for vaccines Just when the spread of COVID-19 has reached catastrophic proportions, with the daily case-load rising faster than that… Continue Reading →
Ashutosh Javadekar On an extensive tour of the U.S. in the late 19th century, Ramabai made interesting observations of American society Let’s admit, Pandita Ramabai is no more a household name as she once was in Bengal, Maharashtra, England, or… Continue Reading →
By Marcello Musto In August 1893, when the chair called on her to speak at a session of the Zurich Congress of the Second International, Rosa Luxemburg made her way without hesitation through the crowd of delegates and activists packed… Continue Reading →
Defending our land is NOT A CRIME!” And yet, 14 villagers of Sab Wai village, Thailand, have been unfairly convicted of trespassing, utilizing, and clearing land in Sai Thong national park, a land on which they have been living for generations, making their… Continue Reading →