Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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ICC World Cup’s killer effect!
As the cricket mania has reached a feverish pitch here after the victory of India in the World Cup that culminated recently, with obvious display of joy in a country that has huge cricket following among many ordinary Indians, where cricketers are treated next only to God (which is reflective of the skewed & unequal…
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Fukushima disaster: The ever-present nuclear threat
IT IS a tragic irony that the nuclear disaster at Fukushima occurred within weeks of the 25th anniversary of the catastrophe at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union, the world’s worst nuclear accident. When the scale 9.0 earthquake struck just off the coast of the Japanese city of Sendai on 11 March, the seismic shock…
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Nuckespeak – Daftspeak
As the tragedy of the nuclear disaster in Japan unfolds, nothing is more ridiculous than the defence put forward by the Indian ruling establisment in favor of nuclear energy as the energy of the future. From the Prime Minister to the environmental minister down to the scientists & bureaucrats connected to the nuclear establishent; all…
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Red, red is the colour of their silk
One of the consequences of the liberalization of the Indian market during the post 90’s was the resulting heavy indebtedness of the Indian peasantry that has led to over 200,000 farm suicides in the last 14 years alone! While it was partying time for the rich & upper classes of the Indian society, to the…
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Get ACTIVE TODAY so you need not be RADIO ACTIVE TOMORROW !
NAAM Press Release on Fukushima As the news of the terrible earthquake and Tsunami in Japan, having left thousands of lives devastated, has started to pour in, it is with equal concern that we should note the deadly explosion that occurred in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as a consequence of the earthquake. If…
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International Women’s Day: One woman’s struggle against oppression
Extraordinary stand against the brutal state and draconian powers The struggle for the emancipation of women from sexism and for social-political and economic equality continues in various valiant fights all over India. But on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 2011, the extraordinary struggle of one woman against the brutal Indian state and its draconian…
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“You celebrate International Womens’ Day, while we smash our cerebrals to a speeding train”
This seems to be the message of challenge to the fighters of women’s causes and more importantly to the plethora of unions claiming to fight the injustice against garment workers particularly women. In a shocking instance (just three days before the celebration of International Women Day this year) to the kind of desperation faced by…
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International Women’s Day 2011: Why we have to organize and fight back
Unless and until the women are emancipated from the clutches of landlord-ism and capitalism which forces them to be mere sex objects and targets of exploitation; there is no escape from the hard reality that the “change” that we the socialists/activists envisage is a far cry. Inclusion and participation of women in all revolutions of…
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Sri Lanka: War Heroes Were Needed, but War Widows Are Discarded
March 8th the ‘International Women’s day’ this year is remembered and celebrated at the time, when people in most of the countries are fighting for democracy. A large number of women in the Arab countries are in the forefront in these epoch making struggles. The genocidal war in the north and east of Sri Lanka,…
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Campaign against AFSPA in Solidarity with Sharmila Irom
As part of a broader initiative under the banner of Peoples’ Solidarity Concerns – Bangalore, New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India) was involved in a week long campaign in Bangalore in the first week of February in solidarity with the 10 year old fast being undertaken by Irom Chanu Sharmila, a Manipuri poet & activist,…
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