By Seema Chishti New Delhi: The ongoing protests by farmers against the three hastily promulgated agriculture laws have drawn international attention, with the denial of democratic rights to them by the government’s construction of military-grade barriers and shutting down of the Internet at protest sites getting strong statements of supportContinue Reading
By Divya Tom New Delhi: The idea of self-reliance is not new. Since, the post-independence period economists and governments have realized that to be truly free of European dominance, a country and its people should be free of economic reliance on Europe and the US. However, globalization hindered this process,Continue Reading
For decades, the world has turned a blind eye to India’s abysmal human rights record. This approach draws from a broad perception of India as a strategic ally. For one, the United States, like much of the global community, sees India as an important counterweight to China. They are theContinue Reading
By M.K. George Rome: ‘We must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured,’ said Joseph Biden, the new president of the United States. He had every reason to say so. His predecessor, Donald Trump, had made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president. Nearly halfContinue Reading
By Avay Shukla New Delhi: The irony of this is lost on a government drowning in its testosterone: with every nail studded barricade installed at Tikri, Ghazipur or Singhu, Delhi is making itself progressively redundant to the ongoing course of events, and perhaps even to the future shape of thingsContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru: Sudha was a healthy student in southern India. The 16-year-old is no more. She was found hanging in her house in a rural village of Tamil Nadu in May, 2020. She died shortly afterwards at a nearby hospital. Sudha committed suicide, after being forced toContinue Reading
By Feroz Fernandes Canada: Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted church services. Disruptions led to strict compliance with government safety measures. Churches adopted protocols of social distancing, disinfecting, and wearing a mask. But priests find themselves bombarded with opinions of those refusing to wear a mask, conspiracy proponents, and devotees demanding toContinue Reading
By P Sainath New Delhi: The new farm laws disable the right to legal recourse of all citizens, not just farmers – to an extent unseen since the 1975-77 Emergency. The farmers at Delhi’s gates are fighting for the rights of us all. “No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedingsContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai: There’s a lot of misunderstanding about privacy and security that’s been articulated in many groups and especially on social media. As someone who is very particular about devices and accounts being secure let me dispel some of the myths. What WhatsApp collects about each individual, thereContinue Reading
By Brinda Karat New Delhi: The 11-page order of the Supreme Court on the bunch of petitions it was hearing on the farm laws substantiates in full measure the skepticism of the protesting farmers and their organizations about this process. Is the order really “a huge blow to the Government,”Continue Reading
