The US has a long history of involvement in overseas conflict; this isn’t the first time we’ve had to fight back against ...
Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot ...
When the majority of human society feels social stress, it does one of three things—1) accept stress out of a feeling of ...
India and Palestine have a history that begins with decolonization and the creation of sovereign nation-states. Early ...
In Part 1 of our economic survey, we examined the veracity of the tall claims being made by the FM and official economists ...
Thanks to Appiko– people’s movement for saving forests– which started in 1983, today we can visit several forests which would have vanished but for the timely action to save trees.
We are appalled by the Columbia administration’s decision to call the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group onto campus, in full riot gear, to arrest over one hundred peacefully protesting students.
But our democracy is decidedly not healthy. Corporations pour money into elections virtually unrestrained and face no consequences for flagrantly lying to the public—most notably for present ...
Firstly, while everyone is focusing on the quantitative results of the elections (as if it were an IPL match)– few are noticing the severe qualitative decline of Modi’s own party. Once a ...
One missed Rohini Hattangadi, another Alkazi ex student, as she is touring the U.S. with her very popular feminist play Char Chaughi. She had played the main role in Razia Sultan Balwant Gargi’s ...
The Northeastern states combined send only 25 representatives to the Lok Sabha, the 543-seat lower house of the Indian parliament. Assam, the most populous of the states, accounts for 14 of these ...
While today those cages would better be described as cells – as in cell phones – Rieff’s point was prescient in the extreme, echoing in its way Max Weber’s 1905 prophecy in The Protestant ...