Visitors: 199 Christophe Jaffrelot is a Professor of Indian politics and sociology at the King’s India Institute at London and Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Prakash Ambedkar is national leader of Bhartiya republican Bahujan Mahasangh and former Parliamentarian. V Sandeep Chahhra is the Executive Director of Action Aid […]
Visitors: 322 Prof Johan Galtung a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU. Prof. Galtung has published 1670 articles and book chapters, over 450 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service, and 167 books on peace and related issues, of which 41 […]
Visitors: 328 Prof Johan Galtung a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU. Prof. Galtung has published 1670 articles and book chapters, over 450 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service, and 167 books on peace and related issues, of which 41 […]
Visitors: 404 Prof. Richard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear […]
Visitors: 162 6 January 2017 To The Chairman National Human Rights Commission Respected Sir, I would like to draw your attention on an incident of brutal killing of a Muslim youth; a bonafide Indian citizen by Border Security Force personnel. The whole incident was beyond even the medieval cruelty. Manikul Seikh; son of Mr. Kashimuddin […]
Visitors: 238 6 January 2017 To The Chairman National Human Rights Commission Respected Sir, I would like to draw your attention on an incident of brutal killing of a Muslim youth; a bonafide Indian citizen by Border Security Force personnel. The whole incident was beyond even the medieval cruelty. Manikul Seikh; son of Mr. Kashimuddin […]
Visitors: 260 Neha Dabhade and Suraj Nair [themify_hr color=”red” border_width=”5px”] India continued to be confronted with the menace of communal violence in the year 2016. The Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS) monitors communal violence tracking 5 newspapers in two languages – English and Urdu. Some newspaper reports were then cross checked with […]
Visitors: 601 Neha Dabhade and Suraj Nair [themify_hr color=”red” border_width=”5px”] India continued to be confronted with the menace of communal violence in the year 2016. The Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS) monitors communal violence tracking 5 newspapers in two languages – English and Urdu. Some newspaper reports were then cross checked with […]
Visitors: 197 Dr Gary G. Kohls, MD Dr Kohls is a retired physician from Duluth, MN, USA. In the decade prior to his retirement, he practiced what could best be described as “holistic (non-drug) and preventive mental health care”. Since his retirement, he has written a weekly column for the Duluth Reader, an alternative newsweekly magazine. His columns […]
Visitors: 286 Dr Gary G. Kohls, MD Dr Kohls is a retired physician from Duluth, MN, USA. In the decade prior to his retirement, he practiced what could best be described as “holistic (non-drug) and preventive mental health care”. Since his retirement, he has written a weekly column for the Duluth Reader, an alternative newsweekly magazine. His columns […]
Visitors: 314 Professor Christophe Jaffrelot specializes on South Asia, particularly India and Pakistan. He is Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King’s India Institute at London, and Research Director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Paris. He also teaches South Asian politics and history at Sciences Po (Paris) and is an Overseas […]
Visitors: 231 Professor Christophe Jaffrelot specializes on South Asia, particularly India and Pakistan. He is Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King’s India Institute at London, and Research Director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Paris. He also teaches South Asian politics and history at Sciences Po (Paris) and is an Overseas […]
Visitors: 362 Justin Podur is a Toronto-based author and blogger. He has reported from India (Kashmir, Chhattisgarh), Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico (Chiapas), and Israel/Palestine. He is the author of Haiti’s New Dictatorship (2012) and The Demands of the Dead (2014). People have already died from Modi’s […]
Visitors: 533 George Monbiot Columnist, The Guardian , UK Why is there a worldwide revolt against politics as usual? Because corporate globalisation has crushed democratic choice. A wave of revulsion rolls around the world. Approval ratings for incumbent leaders are everywhere collapsing. Symbols, slogans and sensation trump facts and nuanced argument. One in six […]
Visitors: 207 Franklin Lamb volunteers with the Lebanon, France, and USA based Meals for Syrian Refugee Children Lebanon (MSRCL) which seeks to provide hot nutritional meals to Syrian and other refugee children in Lebanon. http://mealsforsyrianrefugeechildrenlebanon.com. The National Museum, Damascus It’s a god-awful situation today in Palmyra. How much of our priceless cultural heritage will be destroyed […]
Visitors: 252 Chicago, A Chicago-based Neonatologist has openly criticized the opaque funding practices of Aam Aadmi Party and has called upon the party workers, volunteers and the public to take a pledge not to donate to AAP until it makes its donations public. He announced an online Stop Donation (Chanda Bnd Satyagraha/चन्दा बंद सत्याग्रह) on […]
Visitors: 424 Dr E A S Sarma, PhD Master of Public Administration, Harvard, USA Ph.D, IIT, Delhi Formerly Secretary, Ministry of Power, Govt of India (1997-98) Formerly Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Govt of India (1998-2000) Formerly Principal, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad (2001-04) Presently, active in taking up issues concerning electoral reform, […]
Visitors: 664 Contents Overview of the articles about Trump’s victory The methodology of scientific analysis Trump’s program of peacefulness and peacemaking3.1. Complete rejection from aggressive geopolitics of Obama-Clinton 3.2. Coherent and rational geopolitics instead of aggression 3.3. The center of Trump’s peacefulness: peace and cooperation with Russia and China 3.4. Trump: peace and prosperity require […]
Visitors: 162 Kirity Roy 12 December 2016 To The District Magistrate Coochbehar District Dear Sir, Here I want to draw your kind attention on continuity of apathy towards the erstwhile enclave dwellers by the Governments of India and West Bengal. Till date they are devoid with citizenry guarantees and deliverances. I am writing you with […]
Visitors: 434 Robert J. Burrowes has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of ‘Why Violence?‘ On the day that you read this article, […]
Visitors: 399 S Kamal Abdali is a computer scientist and has worked mainly in the theoretical and foundational areas of that discipline. Having served in universities, industrial research labs, and governmental research agencies, he is now retired and lives in Arlington, Virginia, USA. Nakedness makes a lot of sense as a form of protest. Subjecting […]
Visitors: 298 We are aware that during past five months, in the stone pelting by agitators and counter fire by security forces in Kashmir, many children have suffered serious injuries from pellets and shelling in Kashmir. A large number of minors are suffering extensive injuries, including disfigurement, eye injuries and some blinded for life. Children […]