Despite rhetorical commitments to education, almost all political parties—across ruling and opposition—have supported privatization through policy and legislation. Even non-parliamentary political forces have failed to mount effective resistance. The destruction of education appears to enjoy silent consensus.
At present, the evicted families are living in a precarious condition along the eastern and western edges of the eviction site, without any humanitarian assistance. Among them are the sick, elderly, pregnant women, and children.
Despite all this, Brahmanical ideologies continue working to weaken the constitutional safeguards granted to Dalits. Social humiliation is just the visible face of caste-based oppression. There is a systematic attempt to prevent Dalits from achieving social, economic, educational, and political progress.
It is time to understand and reject all aspects of capitalism that are not conducive to human happiness and freedom. Based on their experiences, working people can unite to build a society grounded in peace, prosperity, and solidarity. It is possible to create a society free from all forms of exploitation and inequality.
Of course the industry which feeds on the sales of such huge numbers of guns and bullets on a continuing basis is also likely to acquire a strong interest in such continuing sales and these powerful economic interests may also be fueling popular gun culture and keeping the demand and supply of civilian firearms at a very high level.
Parents who took loans to fund degrees are watching their children return home qualified but jobless. People in their thirties and forties, once confident professionals, now find themselves unsure of what skills to learn next or how to position themselves in a world that rewards visibility more than depth.
Being a Bangla-speaking Indian citizen tends to be bad. To be a Bangla-speaking Muslim Indian citizen is worse. And to be a Bangla-speaking Muslim Indian citizen hailing from Murshidabad is the worst. A crime indeed!
In a time of extreme hostility and trust-deficit among our neighbours, a neighbour with all her toxicity, so to say, should be loved as our other self, and the people should not punish a poet for not walking on the path of violence.
By Mohamed El Mokhtar The convergence of military occupation, corporate power, and technological advancement has created something…
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