In memory of Swami Nigamanand
Last year, on this day, the 19th February 2011, Swami Nigamananda took the place of another sadhu, Swami Yajnanda as a part of their long struggle against illegal mining of […]
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Death
Open Secret Bigotry
Let me begin with saying that you are not a bigot. We like to imagine we have humanitarian values and value all life equally. And perhaps that is our intent
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Quotes
A collection of interesting quotes by various people and from a wide range of sources ranging from books to speeches and even Twitter on occasion.
Bhanwari devi and the character of the media
While I have not written about Bhanwari devi here, I have been following her story for a while now. One of the main reasons I have not written is that
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Self immolations and the unconscious mind
Sunny Singh makes a very intriguing and perceptive observation about the Arab Spring and the rash of self-immolations that it brought. She points out that while self-immolation is known culturally
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Political labels and the human condition
As I post up a lot of transcripts from Sainath and at the same time am posting a lot of information on nuclear power that never makes it to our
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Transcript: Globalizing Inequality by P. Sainath Part 2
Transcript of Globalizing Inequality – a lecture by P. Sainath, sponsored by the Center for Social and Environmental Justice of Washington State University, Vancouver. Video by pdxjustice Media Productions. Part
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Transcript: Sainath on Mass Media v. Mass Reality: Part 4 of 5
A lecture at University of Texas, Austin by P. Sainath, sponsored by the University of Texas School of Journalism, the South Asia Institute, AID-Austin and the Society of Professional Journalists
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Why I don’t support the IAC – but wish them well
I began with full hearted support for the Jan Lokpal movement. Somewhere down the line, as the politics deteriorated from a people’s movement to a movement led by individuals, I
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