Opinion

Tapping into people power

IN TIMES like this, many of us feel powerless to do anything about the political, social, and environmental injustices we face. But, power is everywhere. Like sunlight and solar panels,

Boris Johnson, GMOs and glyphosate

IN HIS first speech to parliament as British prime minister, Boris Johnson said: ‘Let’s start now to liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let’s develop

Mayor Bill De Blasio A Great Leader of The Century

Mati Lal Deb Roy: It is my honor to write an article on one of the greatest leader of the century, “Bill De Blasio” a leader who made New York

Bolsonaro’s grave plans for Amazon rainforest

LEAKED documents show that Jair Bolsonaro’s government intends to use the Brazilian president’s hate speech to isolate minorities living in the Amazon region. The PowerPoint slides, which democraciaAbierta has seen,

Masters of manipulating public opinion

BREXIT deadline is October 31, 2019. On June 23, 2016, the British people voted 52 per cent against 48 per cent to leave the European Union. In England alone, the

The legitimacy of Article 370

THE recent unilateral decision of prime minister Modi’s government to revoke Article 370, which guaranteed the special status of Jammu and Kashmir; dismemberment of the State, and its diminishment are

Orwell revisited in the age of Trump

I, WINSTON Smith… I mean, Tom Engelhardt… have not just been reading a dystopian novel, but, it seems, living one — and I suspect I’ve been living one all my

Kashmir: the lull before storm?

INDIA’S frantic search for a solution to the Kashmir crunch has enabled uts policy planners to realise their need and also to understand this better. Indeed, there exist deadly perils