The heart seeks a resting place In the hollow of a tree, Atop a boulder in a singing stream Where only the sun can see
The farmers are back, Like the soil that takes all beatings
The farmers’ movement, of the people, by the people, and for the people, may also have a few lessons in political wisdom for floundering opposition parties
When women fly planes and go up in space shuttles our hearts swell with pride, but when they lead protests and question, we deny them agency and express solicitude
The new contemporary term for what Europe experienced a century ago holds sway over a significant population in the US, but also in many countries around the world
What struggle is harder than The keeping up of hope
While the apex court on January 6 will take up pleas for anti-conversion laws, two views of citizen’s rights will be in direct contention – one propagated by the right-wing and the other enshrined in the constitution
How is it that ‘reform’ only means throwing the food-grower open to the cut-throat vagaries of a so-called ‘free-market’ always in the clutches of the corporate?
The year is ending, But time carries on. As do madness and cupidity
The core of Kashmir’s secular politics remains in place, and Kashmiriyat has yet again triumphed over sectarian majoritarianism
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