ARIF AYAZ PARREY AND SARAH THANAWALA·JANUARY 1, 2024 Many of the accused in the Bhima Koregaon–Elgar Parishad case have now spent one more year incarcerated without a trial. A far cry from the verbiage of high judicial officials that even a day’s denial of liberty is too much. — ON August 5 this year, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira walked…

INDIRA JAISING·JANUARY 2, 2024 As 2023 continues the backslide of democracy in India, what role has the judiciary played in it, and what role could it play? Indira Jaising cuts through the dense fog.  — AT the end of the year, a court must be judged by its core function, the judgments that it delivers in…

Antonio Gramsci January 1, 2015 This text was first published in Avanti!, Turin edition, from his column “Sotto la Mole,” January 1, 1916. Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s day. That’s why I hate these New Year’s that fall like fixed maturities, which…

An ominous warning from the past Thomas Fazi Jan 4 In December 1948, a group of prominent US Jews, including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, wrote a letter to the New York Times expressing concern over the emergence of the Freedom party (Herut), the forerunner of Likud, Netanyahu’s party. The party was described as “closely…

Beat our Drums ! C .Subramania Bharathi -7 .3 .1920 ஜய பேரிகை கொட்டடா!  பயமெனும பேய்தனை யடித்தோம் – பொய்மைக் பாம்மைப் பிளந்துயிரைக் குடித்தோம்; வியனுல கனைத்தையும் அமுதென நுகரும்  வேத வாழ்வினைக் கைப்பிடித்தோம்   (ஜய பேரிகை) – – இரவியி னொளி யிடைக் குளித்தோம் – ஒளி இன்னமு தினைக்கண்டு களித்தோம்;  கரவினில் வந்துயிர்க் குலத்தினை யழிக்கும்  காலன் நடுநடுங்க விழித்தோம்  -  (ஜய பேரிகை) காக்கை,குருவி எங்கள் ஜாதி – நீள்…