It happens every six years or so: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publishes its assessment of the current state of scientific understanding regarding human-caused climate change. That assessment is based on contributions from thousands of experts around the world through an exhaustive review of the peer-reviewed scientific literature and a rigorous, several-years-long review […]
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Oct 1: It’s in the (Indian) Air, Smells like Semi-Fascism – Bernard D’Mello
It’s in the (Indian) Air, Smells like Semi-Fascism by Bernard D’Mello Public memory of how (the) fascists “use[d] and abuse[d] democratic freedoms in order to abolish them” (Hannah Arendt) was strong when, more than 60 years ago, India’s Constituent Assembly rejected the option of a presidential type of executive. But now, the coming general elections […]
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Delhi – Seminar on The Experience in Maruti Suzuki and Beyond, KNS, Oct. 6
Capitalist Offensive, Workers Struggle: The Experience in Maruti Suzuki and Beyond Date: 6th October 2013 (10am-6pm) Venue: Committee Room, SSS-1, JNU, Delhi Organised by: Krantikari Naujawan Sabha In the last two-three decades, capitalist offensive and state policies to protect the interests of the ruling class, particularly under the rubric of privatization-liberalisation-globalisation, have hit workers and […]
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Poems
Fugitive by Sourav Banerjee I have gone underground Not to exist peacefully with the soil And then consumed by it one day No; heaven is too far yet I am here to unearth the microbes Too impotent to nourish the soil So that it could yield a giant oak someday. I have gone underground Deep […]