The Polarizing Figure of Anna Hazare

Rohit Negi has his PhD from Ohio State University and at present is Assistant Professor at Ambedkar University, Delhi.  posted on his facebook page on Monday, 11 April 2011 at 10:44 By this… Read More

Letter to Jairam Ramesh on Renuka Dam

From: Himalaya Niti Abhiyan Village Khundan PO. Banjar, Kullu HP Email: gumanhna@gmail.com PH: 9418277220 Date: 12 April,2011. To Mr. Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State (Independent) for MoEF (GoI), New Delhi. Subject: Request for… Read More

मीडिया रेग्युलेशन से कौन डरता है?

भारत में मीडिया का सही आंकलन और उसे संयमित करने का कोई ठोस रास्ता हमारे पास नहीं है. पिछले दो दशक में यहां मीडिया का असीम विस्तार हुआ है . जिसने न्यूज़ मीडिया… Read More

The Killing of Juliano Mer Khamis

Sudhanva Deshpandeis Editor at Leftword and Director, Jan Natya Manch. He lives in Delhi. On 4 April 2011, the Israeli-Arab actor, director and film maker Juliano Mer Khamis was shot dead in Jenin,… Read More

Porn in parliament

Step Vaessen, Al Jazeera reporter based in Jakarta, has been reporting on Asia for more than a decade. An experienced video-journalist and filmmaker, her career in broadcast journalism has spanned almost two decades.… Read More

World military spending reaches $1.6 trillion

World military spending reached $1.6 trillion in 2010, biggest increase in South America, fall in Europe according to new SIPRI data World military expenditure in 2010 is estimated to have been $1630 billion,… Read More

‘Who represents civil society’

Arun Agrawal is the author of the book Reliance: The Real Natwar   Mr Abhishek Manu Singhvi, your press conference on this historic day, 8th of April, was a relentless attack on the… Read More

Diplomacy through sports

Amit Ranjan is a Research Scholar in South Asian Studies division of School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His other posts can be seen here. He can be reached at… Read More

I want my Al Jazeera

Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries. Ayman Mohyeldin, who is currently building up support in the US,… Read More

The Nature of the Gaddafi Regime – Historical Background Notes

Written by Fred Weston We provide a brief historical outline of the development of the Gaddafi regime from the bourgeois Arab nationalism of the early days, to the period of so-called Islamic socialism,… Read More

Aamir Khan writes to Dr Manmohan Singh

Dear Sir, I would like to humbly submit to you that, based on all the material that I have read, what Mr Hazare is saying makes a lot of sense to me. I… Read More