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The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has topped 3 million people amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in countries like Brazil, India and France. World Health Organization (WHO) says pandemic is at a critical point.
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The Pandemic: death toll reaches 3 million, crisis deepening in Brazil, India, France
by Countercurrents Collective
The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has topped 3 million people amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in countries like Brazil, India and France. World Health Organization (WHO) says pandemic is at a critical point.
Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for Agrifood Must Not Succeed
by Colin Todhunter
We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose a certain type of agriculture and food production on the world.
Reactions to U.S. troop withdrawal from
Afghanistan
by Countercurrents Collective
Reactions to the U.S. decision to withdraw troop from Afghanistan are mixed. A few are of disappointment.
Educate, Agitate, Organize: Self-reflections
by Dr Rahul Kumar
It is a matter of pride for the Indians that the United Nations including the University of British Columbia declared 14th April as “International Equality Day”. All over the world, Ambedkarites, and Buddhists are celebrating 130th birth celebration of Vishaw Guru Baba Sahib Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. Ambedakrites & Buddhists, nationally and internationally, have organized function virtually as well as physically to celebrate the birth anniversary of Baba Saheb Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
Surveillance Capitalism threatens public university in India
by K M Seethi
“The higher education in India is poised for colossal changes with deleterious outcomes under the ‘surveillance capitalism,’” according to G. Arunima, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Director of Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR). She was delivering the Third “Scholars of Eminence Web-Lecture” (SEW-L) organised by the Inter University Centre for Social Science Research and Extension (IUCSSRE), Mahatma Gandhi University on the theme “Life of the Mind: Future of the Public University in an Era of Surveillance Capitalism.”
The British Prime Minister, Oxford MPs and the Green Party MP on Farmers Protest in India.
by Prof. Pritam Singh
A number of British MPs extend their support to the farmers' agitation in India
‘Sholay’ was a landmark film but not a classic with a social theme
by Harsh Thakor
‘Sholay’ was a landmark film, directorial masterpiece and greatly entertaining movie but not a classic with a social theme
Rising Garden Film Festival reaches wider audience virtually amidst pandemic
by Anjana George
When the fourth segment of the Rising Garden Film Festival, hosted by Sangat feminist network and the Kriti Film Club, as part of the One Billion Rising South Asia’s 2021 campaign, comes to an end on Monday, the filmmakers, organisers and viewers together say that the film fiesta became a global phenomenon, amidst pandemic.
Uniforms
by Philip A Farruggio
For those on the far right wing, as with the Nazi
Brown Shirts, uniforms matter. If one looks at videos of the January 6th Trump Thumper insurrection at the Capitol building, one can see, as if being at a Halloween Costume party, the various types of costumes
A Taste of Patriarchy in Speech: Language and Gender
by Srijoni Hore
While studying semantics we can see that in the very structure of English, the so-called less powerful group is often compared to the more powerful group-for example, using sentences such as “in comparison to men, the women population is decreasing” instead of using sentences like “in comparison to women, men’s population is in a surplus” . This is often known as the Linguistic Normativity Effect. This makes ‘men as a group’ the centre of every argument and also the centre of the entire language.
Contribution of Urban Gardening Can Improve Greatly with A Few Changes
by Bharat Dogra
The organic vegetables and fruits available close to home can lead to better appreciation of the flavor and taste of organic food, apart from health and environmental benefits, and encourage people to establishing contact with farmers of nearby villages for obtaining much more organic food on regular basis from them.
Comparing Response to Two Important Diseases—Tuberculosis and COVID-19
by Bharat Dogra
Tuberculosis has been one of the most damaging infectious diseases of India for several decades. COVID-19 has been the most feared disease In India for over a year now. From the beginning of 2020 to March 2021 , a period of about 15 months, about 150 thousand or 1.5 lakh deaths were caused by COVID-19 in India. The normal number of tuberculosis deaths in 15
months would be 550 thousand (5.5 lakh). This is based on WHO figure of 4.4 lakh TB deaths in a year in India, which while higher than the government estimate is accepted more widely than the government estimate with a more limited base.
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