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In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every person that's walking down the street is a walking ...more

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NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to ...more

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Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives...more

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Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just "human rights," and the idea of dreaming of equality became blasphemous. ...more

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Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.

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And a strange, deadly war is raging around the world. Yet, each person who has lost a loved one surely knows secretly, deeply, that no war, no act of ...more

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DB: There's a lot of talk about terrorism. In fact, it's become almost an obsession for the media in the United States. But it's a very narrow definit...more

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If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in the poorest quarters -...more

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The policies the US government is following are dangerous for its citizens. It's true that you can bomb or buy out anybody that you want to, but you c...more

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At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build ...more

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How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market" put a price on things - food, clothes, elec...more

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But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching. Looking out of the window...more

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It turned out to be a war which, unfortunately for Comrade Pillai, would end almost before it began. Victory was gifted to him wrapped and beribboned,...more

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Life went on. Death went on. The war went on.

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Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)