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Insurers Must Embrace Geospatial AI

PARIS – Over the past year and a half, insurers have been pulling out of high-risk areas at an alarming rate. Nowhere has this been more obvious than in California, where wildfires have become more frequent and intense – the…

Celebrate Pope Francis!

On Sunday 23 March, Pope Francis appeared on the balcony of Rome's Gemelli Hospital, for the first time since his hospitalization and before leaving the facility where he had been since 14 February.  During this period his health condition was…

Two Currents of the Pasmanda Movements: Left vs. Right

It is true that the upper-caste Muslim leadership remains unwilling to acknowledge the voices of the Pasmanda movements, let alone treat lower-caste and Dalit Muslims as equals within society or provide them with effective and proportionate representation in the community’s…

Portrait of Satyabhamabai Balgangadhar Tilak

MEMORIES OF WOMEN IN THE DWELLING ROOM OF LOKMANY BALGANGADHAR TILAK’S MANSION It’s an untold moving story of Lokmany Tilak’s wife Satyabhamabai Tilak. The Lokmanya Tilak’s unprecedented struggle experienced by the women of Lokmanya Tilak's family from Middle Dwellings (MAJGHAR)…

Processes of Accumulation in Pre-Colonial and Colonial India

Introduction  The processes of accumulation in precolonial and colonial India is itself a topic which could easily help us differentiate between the Mughals as sovereign of India and how radically different was the British colonial structure which replaced it to…

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Celebrate Pope Francis!

On Sunday 23 March, Pope Francis appeared on the balcony of Rome's Gemelli Hospital, for the first time since his hospitalization and before leaving the facility where he had been…

Globalisation

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Imperialism

The Fraud of Endless War

There is not a single war or serious military confrontation since WWII involving the U.S. that needed to be fought. Every conflict where soldiers and civilians suffered death or injury…

Communal Harmony

Climate Change

UN Must Provide Compensation For Wayanad Disaster

To: Dr Ibrahim Cheikh DiongExecutive DirectorUNFCCC Loss and Damage Fund Mr Simon StiellExecutive SecretaryUNFCCC Secretariat Chief Secretary|Govt of Kerala Dear Dr Ibrahim Diong, The outset please accept my congratulations on your appointment…

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The Evolution of Modernity

The human world of the early 21st century is dominated by science, cities, and high technology. However, both our modern way of life and our way of thinking about the world…

What if we could uncancel the future?

Rob Hopkins, a pioneer in sustainability and community-driven change, believes that the future isn’t something we stumble upon—it’s something we actively create or fail at. At the heart of his…

Living Like a Fungus

Since its creation I have supported Rupert Read’s Climate Majority Project as the answer to achieving the climate action we need.  Read observes that the majority of people are concerned…

Local, Vernacular, and Alive

Local landscapes were once powerful forces in their own right, shaping how people lived, farmed, traded, and made sense of the world. The land created people, and as people worked,…

Resource Crisis

The Gritty Reality of Solar Power

by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox Time is fast running out. The world’s affluent nations, with their abundant greenhouse emissions, have to finally drag themselves across the starting line…

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Annihilate Caste

Bhakti-Kal and Caste Question

An abridged version of talk delivered on 23rd October, 2024 at Calicut University I say this with emphasis that in Indian history two periods, only two periods, came as a…

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Arts/Literature

Happening

Out of a seed in the groundcomes a flower. Miracle!Out on the branch of a treecome blossoms in spring.Out from the blossoms fruit growsdelighting senses.And an offering of food. Out…

Mama Miti

1 I made Sisters out of branch and leaf 2 I met the Earth and called it brother 3 The only prison is the denial of the Sun 4 I…

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The Plot Against America

How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America As I write this in early 2025, a quiet revolution is unfolding within the U.S. government.…

The Fuhrer Is Here

This an article I wrote on 16 December 2002, just after Modi was re-elected as CM of Gujrat for a second term. For some strange reasons, the article can't be…

Deaths in Gaza and Us

Death is normal unless if it happens one of our dear and near ones. 40000+ (as per official figures) people have been killed in Gaza. According to The Lancet almost…

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