Cambridge, Massachusetts- Palagummi Sainath, India’s preeminent journalist on rural affairs and poverty, spoke on inequality and the agrarian crisis in India, in a talk jointly organized by AID, Boston and the Alliance for a democratic South Asia, Boston on September 28, 2017, in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sainath expounded onContinue Reading

Toronto: A 38-year-old Sikh lawyer was on Sunday elected the leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party, becoming the first non-white politician to head a major political party in the country. Jagmeet Singh, the Ontario provincial lawmaker, was elected on the first ballot to lead the party into the 2019 electionContinue Reading