MELBOURNE, 23 September, 2024: Anura Kumara Dissanayaka (AKD) Leader of the Marxist JVP and the NPP coalition has been elected as the 9th President of Sri Lanka. He is expected to take oath of office today, after the result is...
September 16, 2024
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August 24, 2024
SC/ST’Creamy layer’ a ‘bogus concept’, ‘atrocious policy’: Dr. Umakant
By Abhay Kumar* The recent Supreme Court’s decision favouring sub-categorization within SC reservation is “disappointing,” Ambedkarite scholar and Dalit rights...
April 16, 2024
Misinformation undermines life in the age of digital revolution
By Bhabani Shankar Nayak* In this era of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) -fuelled digital revolution, misinformation has emerged as...
March 18, 2024
Loneliness and capitalism: Social & emotional cost
The epidemic of loneliness is spreading rapidly in our hyper-connected world of social media. Studies by the World Health Organization...
February 23, 2024
How people get sucked into misinformation rabbit holes …
How people get sucked into misinformation rabbit holes – and how to get them out As misinformation and radicalisation rise,...
February 18, 2024
Laziness as a form of resistance
By Bhabani Shankar Nayak* The productivist ideology lies at the core of the profit-making pyramid of capitalism. It perpetuates a...
February 4, 2024
Economy: A single hold-all measure like GDP is a camouflaging device
3 February 2024: There are well-known problems associated with the concept of gross domestic product (GDP) as well as with...
March 11, 2022
COMMENT : AAP tsunami decimates the big & mighty in Punjab & …
MELBOURNE, 11 March 2022: Politics can throw up strange situations. But what has happened in Punjab is mind-boggling. The AAP...
March 8, 2022
Miles’ Law and the War in Ukraine: Where you stand depends on where you sit
ROME, Mar 4, 2022 (IPS) – This aphorism which dates back to the late 1940s points out that one’s position...
January 10, 2022
Understanding modern attacks on Gandhi
Statues of Indian independence leader, Mahatma Gandhi, have been vandalised or removed around the world – but why does his...
June 10, 2016
Indian Civilization Unlikely to have been Characterised by One Religion: Romila Thapar
‘Why can’t we think of civilisation as a process of tracking cultures?’: Historian Romila Thapar Full text of the speech...
December 26, 2015
Book Review : “The Past As Present” By Romila Thapar
By Anil Gokhale The Book to be considered as milestone in Historical writings on Ancient India and its reverberations on...
August 22, 2012
Pakistan: Protect human rights defenders
Pakistan: On 4 July 2012, Farida Afridi, Executive Director of women’s rights organization Society for Appraisal and Women Empowerment in...