Even in a future in which books are outlawed, ideas cannot be vanquished. “You may burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe, but the ideas those books contain have passed through millions of channels and will go on,” wrote Helen Keller, in An Open Letter to German Students in 1933. Keller’s How I … Continue reading A history of conservative strike on books →
Fr Dcn, Praxis, Qai, Greedo and others join me to cover the recent debate Fr Dcn Ananias had with Protestant apologist Matt Slick. We will cover Matt’s claims and approach, our analysis of the debate and the presuppositions of authority in Orthodoxy versus the lack of normative authority in Protestantism. Following the review, […]
Received via SAHELI WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTRE We condemn the horrific rape and murder of a young Dalit woman from Hathras, UP. We stand with the family in their sorrow. Extend support, solidarity and rage.
Dear friends in the WCC I am writing to you at a time so dark that unless we hold hands and feel the warmth of each others’ palms, we may even lose our sense of reality. This is my way of holding your hand and gaining strength from your presence. In India today it is … Continue reading How to see in the dark? An open letter to the women in cinema collective →
Democracy Dialogues Lecture Series Organised by New Socialist Initiative – 3 rd Lecture Topic: State of the Judiciary and Reforms RequiredSpeaker: Prashant Bhushan, eminent Supreme Court lawyer and civil rights activistDate and Time: Sunday, September 20, 2020 at 6 PM IST Zoom and Facebook Live details in the poster below. [New Socialist Initiative Presents Democracy … Continue reading State of the judiciary and reforms required : Prashant Bhushan →
Kit Knightly A surprising ruling from US District Court finds Governor Tom Wolf’s decree that forced people to stay at home, limited the size of social gatherings and ordered all “non-life-sustaining” businesses to shut down to be in breach of the constitution. In a rare win for the freedom in the days of “the new …
Guest post by AEJAZ AHMAD and IRSHAD RASHID What does turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque mean for global political practice? In an unusally brazen move Turkey’s top court recently ruled in favour of transforming Hagia Sophia, a museum of global tourist attraction, into a mosque.
UPDATE Signatures kept coming in even as we closed the campaign in order to collate them. We are adding at the end of the statement, some names received between our closing and releasing the statement to the media. We are aware that there are many more who wanted to sign but we had to close … Continue reading People from across Professions and Continents Come out In Solidarity with K. Satyanarayana →
The bias that social media platforms such as Facebook display reflects their own world-view as much as it does the regimes they support. A few gave the appearance of being truly psychopathic individuals. The mass of others were ragged and illiterate peasants easily roused to hatred of the Tutsi. Perhaps the most sinister people I … Continue reading Corporate Social Media in India: Sell Hate, Enjoy Profit →
