by Siby K. Joseph, Tripti Karekatti
On the occasion of the World Environment Day and Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan’s Call for Total Revolution, Sevagram Ashram Pratishthan, Wardha, in collaboration with the Department of English, Shivaji (...)
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Environmental Sensitivity and Total Revolution: Report of a National Webinar | Joseph & Karekatti
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Calling Azaan and the question of sound pollution | K M Ajir Kutty
9 July 2021by K M Ajir Kutty *
The Hindu of March 18, 2021 had carried a brief news story about the Vice Chancellor of the Allahabad University, Sangita Srivastava, complaining to the District administration of Prayagraj about the Muslim prayer call (...) -
Manual scavenging laws in India: Some Observations | Jannat
9 July 2021by Jannat
Introduction
Manual scavenging refers to cleaning, removing, disposing of, or otherwise dealing with human excreta in an unsanitary latrine, an open drain or sewer, a septic tank, or a pit manually. Buckets, brooms, and shovels are (...) -
A hybrid war to replace Afghan ‘forever war’? | MK Bhadrakumar
9 July 2021, by M K Bhadrakumarby MK Bhadrakumar
July 6, 2021
The British newspaper Daily Telegraph did some kite-flying in the weekend that London is considering open-ended deployment of a contingent of elite special forces to Afghanistan “ to provide training to Afghan units (...) -
Israel deprives Central Europeans of moral cover | James M. Dorsey
9 July 2021James M. Dorsey
July 4, 2021
When Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid recently sparked a war of words with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki he was doing more than resisting Central European attempts at rewriting the history and legacy (...) -
Locating Everest Was Himalayan Task | M.R. Narayan Swamy
9 July 2021, by M R Narayan SwamyReview by M.R. Narayan Swamy
The Hunt for Mount Everest
by Craig Storti
John Murray/Hachette India; Pages: 301; Price: Rs 699
When someone asserted in 1760 that the Himalayas occupied the highest heights in “the old (...) -
Pathe on ’Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India (ed.) Sandeep Mertiea’
9 July 2021Book Review by Vikas Pathe*
Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India
Edited by Sandeep Mertiea
Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2020 Partner: The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing (...) -
The New Suits of Capitalist Developmentalism: Ecocapitalism & Citizen Avant-garde | Miguel Amorós
9 July 2021by Miguel Amorós
The capitalist world is in an unprecedented ecological crisis that threatens its continuity as a system based on the pursuit of private profit. From the pollution of air, water and soil to the accumulation of waste and rubbish; (...) -
A plea for sparrows | S Maria Reagan
9 July 2021For the death of sparrows The streets of this city are weeping.
You are just passing by the bird’s carcass To hear the The dictatorial king’s speech For Yoga Day.
Is the bird alive? Only one dog is burying his face. The death of that bird that (...) -
You made me a Martyr | Suhas Borker
9 July 2021, by Suhas BorkerYou made me a simple eighty-four old Jesuit priest into a martyr By demonizing me By putting me in jail By repeatedly denying me bail By declining even a sipper to my Parkinson’s torn body You tormented and tortured me enough But you could never (...)
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