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A Disaster in the Making: Red Carpet for Hyper-scale Data Centres
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. So why are global tech billionaires zeroing in on Visakhapatnam?
‘In this clickbait-driven era, mainstream media has become spineless’
Interview: Binu Mathew, Editor, countercurrents.org : I think last year’s Nobel Peace Prize should have been awarded to the journalists of Gaza.
Give One Hundred Flowers to the Cockroach Who Rebels!
By Amit Sengupta and Suresh Nautiyal. Give flowers to our brave young cockroaches.
Why not BLAME IT on the students? And kick the damn can down the road!
By NR Mohanty. So why are students up in arms across India?
‘Resistance to the forces of tyranny is not only an option, but the only option’
Amit Sengupta in conversation with Priyamvada Gopal, Cambridge University.
Tell me Serena...
By Suresh Nautiyal. And in that nothingness. We meet. Dear Serena..
Editor's Pick
'Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque…. India belongs only to me' : Mira Nair's Amrita Sher-Gil
She arrived like a comet, changed what Indian art could be, and died at the age of 28 before the world had fully understood what it had lost.
Reading Sumaira in Tehran
By Nalini Ranjan Mohanty.Sumaira Khan, an intreped news reporter from India, shifts the western narrative on Iran.
Facebook, Apple, Neem Karoli Baba, and the devotion of a 'power couple'
By Shamya Dasgupta. So what's common between Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Virat Kohli, Anoushka Sharma?
Politics
A Disaster in the Making: Red Carpet for Hyper-scale Data Centres
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. So why are global tech billionaires zeroing in on Visakhapatnam?
The Oslo Syndrome: So why does the PM avoid unscripted Press Conferences?
By Satish Jha in Boston. In Oslo, Helle Lyng question dissolved into silence as Modi walked away
Sijimali Hills: STOP THE ATTACKS!
“The people resisting mining in the Sijimali Hills are not criminals,” a representative of the Human Rights Forum said. “They are cultivators, forest dwellers, labourers, women and youth seeking to protect their land, forests, water sources and constitutional rights.”
History
“Are you taking us to the police station?” Phooleshwari asked, jokingly
By Amit Sengupta /Bom/Sonebhadra. A revolution has already unfolded here. A peaceful, protracted, non-violent revolution. With fearless, resilient women as vanguard.
Live. Observe. Experience. Don’t dramatise. Draw.
By Suresh Nautiyal. To see the Himalaya today is not just to admire it. It is to recognise its fragility, its complexity, and our connection to it.
This book found me in London. When I finally reached for it, something shifted
Amit Sengupta’s A Sudden Golden Smile enters with the tempered force of early spring,
Society
Listen to the rustling leaves...
Singapore Diary: Heritage Trees — Some are centuries old, that have witnessed the colonial port change to a to global city.
Welcome to the 'Heat Islands'
By Dr Shiwani Pandey. Expand disaster management to include heatwaves as a primary hazard.
Marissa, Arielle, two soulmates, a Hurricane, and a Tsunami
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Is the novel autobiographical? No.
Ground Report
To Rebel is To Be!
By Amit Sengupta. The sudden, radical rupture inflames the rain-soaked afternoon. The fire spreads in the eyes, and inside clenched fists. A mother holds her little child close to her heart, eyes blazing. A thin, wiry young woman in a red sari, becomes a fiery symbol of shakti – women’s power. A grandmother is so intense, that her entire history of angst and anger explodes.
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A Disaster in the Making: Red Carpet for Hyper-scale Data Centres
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. So why are global tech billionaires zeroing in on Visakhapatnam?
‘In this clickbait-driven era, mainstream media has become spineless’
Interview: Binu Mathew, Editor, countercurrents.org : I think last year’s Nobel Peace Prize should have been awarded to the journalists of Gaza.
Give One Hundred Flowers to the Cockroach Who Rebels!
By Amit Sengupta and Suresh Nautiyal. Give flowers to our brave young cockroaches.
Why not BLAME IT on the students? And kick the damn can down the road!
By NR Mohanty. So why are students up in arms across India?
‘Resistance to the forces of tyranny is not only an option, but the only option’
Amit Sengupta in conversation with Priyamvada Gopal, Cambridge University.
Listen to the rustling leaves...
Singapore Diary: Heritage Trees — Some are centuries old, that have witnessed the colonial port change to a to global city.
Tell me Serena...
By Suresh Nautiyal. And in that nothingness. We meet. Dear Serena..
Yeh raatein, yeh mausam... plus K Pop and more…
By Chanchal Yadav. South Korea is warm and friendly. It's K Pop. And much more..
Welcome to the 'Heat Islands'
By Dr Shiwani Pandey. Expand disaster management to include heatwaves as a primary hazard.
Cockroach Janta Party: Beware of a Dangerous Android Malware
By Santosh Kumar. Warning: Beware of a deadly virus stalking the social media campaign.
After Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, its a Tamil British actress who is rocking: Simone Ashley
By Nadia Ahmad. The original earned its glamour. This one is renting it
'Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque…. India belongs only to me' : Mira Nair's Amrita Sher-Gil
She arrived like a comet, changed what Indian art could be, and died at the age of 28 before the world had fully understood what it had lost.
Marissa, Arielle, two soulmates, a Hurricane, and a Tsunami
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Is the novel autobiographical? No.
The Oslo Syndrome: So why does the PM avoid unscripted Press Conferences?
By Satish Jha in Boston. In Oslo, Helle Lyng question dissolved into silence as Modi walked away
Reading Sumaira in Tehran
By Nalini Ranjan Mohanty.Sumaira Khan, an intreped news reporter from India, shifts the western narrative on Iran.
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