Today, the movement for Azaadi( Freedom) is led by the youth who grew-up seeing their parents thrashed by soldiers. They identify India with army and paramilitary forces. Their worldview is overshadowed by their experience of death, depredation and degradation. They have been robbed of their dignity and humanity. They are not afraid of the guns. They are [...]

Barack Obama’s Iraq speech last night is an impressive entry in the annals of war propaganda. In it, he glosses over a criminal war as ‘a remarkable chapter’ in US history, and creates the false impression that the occupation of Iraq is over. He places the responsibility rebuilding a society out of the rubble we [...]

“Any knowledge that is not constantly criticized, exceeding and reasserting itself, is of no value…What is knowledge? It is always something new that is not what it was believed to be because new observations and new experiments have been carried out using better methods and better instruments. And then these same experiments are in turn [...]