Article/Research Paper/Reports

AFRICA

African In India: Pictures That Speak Of A Forgotten History

AMBEDKAR

From Communal Deadlock to a Communal Emergency:An Ambedkarite Assessment of “Indian Conditions” Today

AMAZON

Perspective: The dangerous unselfishness of the Amazon labor union leaders
After Amazon workers’ union victory the Fed must stop tipping the scales for bosses – Robert Reich
Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands, documents show

COVID-19

Covid-19: Dominant-caste panchayats in Punjab pass resolutions to reduce labour wages
Economic fallout from Covid-19, tightens its grip on children
Opinion | In India, COVID-19 Pandemic Has Painfully Laid Bare Our Societal Faultlines| Outlook Magazine

CULTURAL WARS

CIA’s Trojan Horse enters the Heart of India

CULTURE

A Revolutionary Dalit voice in Punjab’s Hinterland
Ritwik Ghatak’s thesis on Culture
The Future of Folk in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Popular Culture and Ideology: The Phenomenon of Gadar
Why Are Some Cultures More Individualistic than Others
Walter Benjamin: Culture and Revolution
Perhaps Culture is now the counter culture

DIGITALIZATION

Sri Lankan Tamils around the world have built an online library to replace one torched in 1981

DISPLACEMENT

Ghar – Javed Iqbal

DOCUMENTARIES

Documentary reveals the false hope of so called ‘green tech’
Anand Patwardhan’s documentary Reasons exposes the culture of fear

DRUGS

Johann Hari & Naomi Klein: Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?
Drugs in Punjab
Narcosis, language and Punjab
Indian State Finds Itself in Tight Grip of Addiction

ECONOMICS

China overtakes U.S. as the world’s largest economy
The IMF Confirms: That ‘Tricle-Down’ Economics, Is, Indeed a Joke
‘PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future’ by Paul Mason
Wealth doesn’t trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals
What are we willing to pay for the society we want?
The canadian court case that the mainstream media will not cover
How Huge Companies Like Apple Are Actually Parasites on America’s Tech Industry
Author Donald Gutstein reveals extent of Harper revolution in new book Harperism
India by the numbers: Change on the margins
The new shock doctrine: ‘Doing Business’ with the world bank
Not Capitalism 2.0 or 3.0, but a whole new operating system

EDUCATION

In Mohali, 12% youngsters aged between 14 and 18 years old can’t read class 2 text in Punjabi
A Sick Society That Manufactures Failures- The True Face of Education in India
23 years on, no appointment of regular lecturers in state
Endline testing results: 21% students of classes VI -VIII cannot write five basic sentences in Punjabi
Ditch the grammar and teach children storytelling instead
Negative physics, chem NEET marks? Welcome to MBBS.
In India, nearly 40% girls remain out of schooling system; is anything being done to empower them
Canada’s Universities and Colleges are Being Taken Over by Big Corporations and Wealthy Donors
36% rural youth can’t name India’s capital, finds survey
World Bank warns of education crisis in India, raises fear of lower wages
How India went from World’s Education capital to Depth of Illiteracy
How Humanities Can Help Fix The World
India to take 126 years to reach global education standard: report
Minute on Education (1835) By T. B. Macaulay
Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away
Most Educated States in India
Students in Debt, Professors in Povert – What is going wrong?
India, a knowledge society – A joke?
Only 8.15% of Indians are graduates, census data show
One-teacher virtual schools has 68,000 students
Aspirational parents condemn their children to desperate, joyless life
Academic Outcomes of Public and Private High School Students: What Lies Behind the Differences?
‘The next generation of tech talent needs to be educated in history, classics and languages‘
End war against teachers
Professors on food stamps: The shocking true story of academia in 2014
Teaching Class
Mother Tongue is the Key to Education, Knowledge, Science and English Learning
India tops in adult illiteracy: U.N. report
Crowded Out of Ivory Tower, Adjunct See a Life Less Lofty
MooCs could revolutionize education
Are Ph.Ds an academic dead zone?
Online University of the Left

ENCYCLOPEDIA

All the World’s Knowledge in 28 volumes: Diderot’s radical Encyclopedie
This free online encyclopedia has achieved what wikipedia can only dream of

ENLIGHTENMENT

What is Enlightenment? – Immanuel Kant

ENVIRONMENT

Chile’s Atacama Desert: Where Fast Fashion Goes to Die
Chile’s desert dumping ground for fast fashion leftovers
Luxury pollution and the rigging COP26
Fossil fuels sbsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF
A trillion trees will not be enough if emission continue to rise
Frozen Fish sent on 10000 miles round trip to reach supermarket shelves
Humans Aren’t Inherently Destroying The Planet – Capitalism is
Why large-scale activism is the ‘most powerful path out of climate despair?”
Nepali Times: Terrifying assessment of Himalyan melting
To Save Ourselves It’s Time to Rethink Our Economic System, Warn Scientists
UN Says Climate Genocide is Coming. It is Actually Worse Than That.
We have 12 years to limit climate change catastophe, warns UN
We won’t save the Earth with a better kind of a disposable coffee cup
Heat: the next big inequality issue
It’s Time to Rethink the Relationship Between Borders and Climate Change
Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says
The human and animal costs of India’s unregulated coal industry-BBC
Punjab Autistic Kids Have Hight Heavy Metals
Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?
Whitefly destroys 2/3 of Punjab’s cotton crop, 15 farmers commit suicide
Making the case for effective climate policy
NASA – Nasa Satelites Unlock Secret to Northern India’s Vanishing Water
India’s Bellandur Lake Is So Polluted, It Caught Fire
Indian minister promises to tackle conuntry’s acute air pollution problem
Inside Beijing airpocalypse – a city made ‘uninhabitable’ by pollution
Farmers Fight Coca-Cola as India’s Ground Water Dries up
How the People’s Climate March Became a Corporate PR Campaign
Lakes across Canada face being turned into mine dumped sites
For Indian who confronted mining industry, the ‘Green Nobel’
Activists plot how to block new pipelines in BC
Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man made global warming emissions
How science is telling us all to revolt
Why I’m Standing With First Nations Stop Climate Change
Naomi Klein: Green groups may be more damaging than climate change deniers
An avoidable environmental tragedy in India
Historic and future increase in the global land area affected by monthly heat extremes
Extreme heat waves to quadruple by 2040, study says
Environmentalist must redefine what ‘progress’ means
Tar Sands exploitation would mean game over for climate, warns leading scientist
Mining the World to Death
Calgary’s Manhatta Moment
Man-made reasons for Uttarkhand disaster
Survey throws up questions about reverse osmosis
100 million to die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate
India’s generation of children crippled by uranium waste
How Clean is Your Cloud

FACEBOOK

Hate speech in India linked to RSS accounts: FB whistleblower
Is Facebook the tobacco industry of the 21st century

FARMERS/PEASANTS

Highway knocks at poverty’door, poverty looses
Life four weddings and four funerals later
On the ‘Cancer Traon’ of India’s Pesticides
Punjab acquires 10,000-hectares agri land annually
Radical U.N. Report Promotes Democratic Control of Food and End to Corporation Domination
Farmers have decreased, farm labourers increased: census report
‘Land rights’ rally: Mass mobilisation takes off against feudalism
Farmers’ suicide rates soar above the rest- P Sainath
Every Thirty Minutes, Farmer Suicides, Human Rights And The Agrarian Crisis In India
Development Report #15: A bitter Harvest: Farmer Suicides in India
India Farmer Suicides: A Lesson for America’s Farmers

FARMERS PROTEST IN INDIA

Farmers’ agitation will impact global trade
Farm Laws Potentially Significant, Those Affected Must Be Protected: IMF
‘Border o Border’: “Trolley Times” Teaser with Madan Gopal Singh
Why the US and world should pay attention to farmers protest in India

FASCISM

What is fascism? A Yale Philosopher on fascism, truth and Donald Trump

FASHION

Dead white man’s clothes
Chile’s Atacama Desert: Where Fast Fashion Goes to Die
Chile’s desert dumping ground for fast fashion leftovers

FEMINISM

How feminism became capitalism handmaiden – and how to reclaim it

FILM/MUSIC

Mani Kaul – Where Art Stands Alone, Pure and Unblemished
Why I am Making A Documentary On LGBTQ Sikhs (And Why It Is Important)
Documentaries they would not let you watch in India
The BEST 200 Indian Films of the Decade
‘Cinema is writing history through characters’ says Director Gurvinder Singh
Interview with Ekta Mittal about her film Biraha
Ritwik Ghatak, the celluloid rebel who used cinema as a political tool
Bigotry And Islamophobia In Bhansali’s Padmavat
‘Rape is a rampant issue’; taboo drama Verna battles the censor in Pakistan
Censor board flags usage of words ‘cow’, ‘Gujrat’, in documentary on Amartya Sen
Syncretic Cinema in Saffron City
NFDC releases restored classics and experimental films on online platforms
Fight the power: documententaries to unleash the activist in you.
Watch Dangal, Uncover the logic of contemporary right wing ideology
“Life is not only about filmmaking.”
Regional Movies: What after “Jatt & Juliet”
Day Shall Dawn: rare chance to see Pakistan’s lost avant-garde classic
Download 6600 Free Films from The Prelinger Archives and Use Them However You Like
A Hinduism that is the mirror opposite of Hindutava
‘Whenever I lost courage, my life become a meaningless burden’: Balraj Sahani to JNU students, 1972
9 Upcoming Movies That Prove 2016 Will be a Year of Women Centric Movies
10 Films of 2015 That You Should not Have Missed At All
Films pushing for change
Taking the best of cinema beyond India’s metros:Why the Gorakhpur Film Festival matters
The film stars
Oliver Stone’s American history: ‘We are not under threat. We are the threat’
Real cinema with real emotions
Whoa, Pentagon Influences TV shows
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use To Change the World
Navjeet Kaur: I won’t make anarkali suits, imperfection is my thing
In Bollywood, storylines remain backward on caste
Lights, camera… emotions
“I wait for accidents that bring my films closer to life”- Gurvinder Singh
Understanding The Most Powerful Pakistani Film of All Time
India’s Daughter: ‘I made a film on rape in India. Men’s brutal attitude really shocked me’.
PK succeeded as makers had high stake in ensuring its right to exist
Manto created characters with great empathy, but how do you encapsulate his life story?
Video: After screening is halted, Anand Patwardhan releases ‘Ram Ke Nam’ on YouTube.
Labor Film Databse
Film on travails of Vidarbha farmers on oscar list
Chaitanya Tamhane talks about “Court” that won two awards in Venice
“Court” wins FIPRESCI prize
8 must-watch films to understand India’s indigenous people
Social(ist) cinema: Habib Jalib and Riaz Shahid
Will reel life be the role model for real life?
CR No. 89: A Malayalam movie that is different and refreshing
35% female characters in Indian movies shown with nudity: UN report
Indie filmmakers need to think beyond the big screen, says Pawan Kumar
Race and prejudice on celluloid
Dungarpur collaborates with Scorsee’s film foundation to hold India’s first restoration school
A Caricature of Pain
Women through a Bollywood lens
Why the government needs to build more cinemas for its people
A failed revolution
Soumitra Chatterjee on his master Satyajit Ray
‘Popular Stereotypingh‘
The World Before Her
Lahore Film Industry: A Historical Outline
Is indie really taking over Bollywood?
Jatt, Juliet and jameen
The World Before Her
Travelling abroad in Hindi films: The nervousness of the Global Indian
Indian Regional Art Cinema in 2013: An Assessment
The Show of Shows
Papilio Buddha would have been mutilated…
Made a social impact
I am neither an ‘activist-filmmaker nor a ‘woman filmmaker’
Remembering Activist and Folk Singer Pete Seeger
You’ve got the wrong villain, Mr. Kashyap
Her film about an ‘honour’ killing, won an Emmy. Now it’s being used to train police.
Exploring the Responsibility of Our Privilege
Punjabi Film Qissa Awarded As Top Asian Film At Toronto Festival
Up and Coming
Qissa took 12 years to make, tried for 5 years to raise money in India: Anup Singh
On a Long March: Review of Maati Ke Laal
Bhag Milkha earns $647,112 at US box office in 3 days
India French Connection at the Cannes
Indian films shine at Cannes film festival
How Bollywood transformed the face of Indian Cinema
CIA requested Zer0 Dark Thirty
Punjabi cinema, reality check
Bollywood extravaganza TOIFA comes to Vancouver – – on the backs of South Asian women
Moving Pictures: A group of filmmakers shed light on issues relevant to Punjab
Why Mumbai’s King is Such a Wonderful film
Maker of Innovative, meaningful movies
Ferraris, dope and misogyny in global village of Punjabi music
Gurvinder Singh’s Great Gift to Punjabi Cinema- Part 1
Anhey Ghorey Da Daan – A Review
Bran Baaja Baraat

FIRST NATIONS

Canada’s top judge says country committed ‘cultural genocide’ against indigenous people
From Indigenous Socialism to Colonial Capitalism, Examining Native History of a Settler State
Half of First Nations kids living in poverty, new study finds

FOOD

10 things you need to know about the global food system

FORTUNE TELLERS

Inside the secret world of fortune tellers

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Adani Grouup ‘SLAPP’ Push EPW Editor Out Of His Job

GIDHA (Punjabi dance)

Dance Now, Sohni Cross Now

GIG WORKERS

‘We are all fighting the giant’: Gig workers around the world are finally organizing

GODMEN

The Sex Lives of Godmen

GOOGLE

Google loses challenge against EU antitrust ruling, $2.8 billion fine

HEALTH

India Spent 1% of GDP on Public Health For 15 years. Result is Vulnearability to Crises
Rs 3 per day: That’s how much India spends for each Indian’s health
The Family That Buile an Empire of Pain
Health care crisis in Punjab – rise in diseases and poor state of health care system
Gabor Mate: How Capitalism Makes Us Sick

HERITAGE

Before heritage crumbles

HISTORY

Eric Hobsbawn, the Communist Who Explained History
History according to EH Carr

HUMAN RIGHTS

Salwa Judum 2.0? What a Disaster That Will be
Government agents ‘directly involved’ in most high profile US terror plots
CIA Report: ‘Torture is a crime and those responsible must to be brought to justice.’
Dialectics of Human Rights: Pritam Singh
Where Are The Emile Zolas’ of our time
Who Are The Guilty? A Citizen’s Report
Report on Delhi Carnage of 1984 by PUDR & PUCL

HUNGER

Hunger is India’s greatest problem even today. So why don’t we ever hear about it?
A hungry world: Lots of food, in too few places

IMMIGRATION/MIGRATION/CITIZENSHIP

Details of immigration fraud investigation revealed in court
BC couple face dozens of charges related to alleged immigration fraud
4 businessmen charged following investigation into alleged immigration fraud
How an immigration scheme steers newcomers into Canadian trucking jobs – and puts lives on risk
Employers taking cash from foreign workers seeking permanent residence status in Canada
“I was so afraid”: Foreign worker say former employer tried to exort her for sex
Looking for Home in Greece: Undocumented Indians and the hope of a better life
India is a top source and destination for world’s migrants
A Walking Tour in California Celebrates South Asian American Activism
920 illegal immigrants in US jails, majority Punjabi: NAPA
James Wood – On not Going Home
Why Canada needs a flood of immigrants
Harper’s Canada has more than one refugee death on its hands
The Construction, Mobilization and Limits of South Asianism in North America
The immigration system is not broken, it is working for corporate interests
Canada slips out of top five countries in integrating immigrants
New investigation reveals 3.4 million displaced by world bank
Refugees don’t need our tears. They need us to stop making them refugees.
Immigrant Health and Social Power: An Interview with Harsha Walia
No safe haven: Canada’s managed migration
Eight migrants die every day trying to reach richer countries, study reveals
The reassertion of whiteness in Canada: Deepen Budlakoti and Bill C- 24
New Calgary Park Named After Alberta’s First Sikh Harnam Singh Hari
Canada’s immigration system undergoing quiet, ugly revolution
Fear of Migrant Workers Is Xenophobia
How Canada keeps some immigrants women in their place
“We worried five workers alive”
At Work Inside Our Detention Centres
Migration and Divisions: Thoughts On (Anti-) Narrativity in Visual Representation of Mobile People
Conservative citizenship-stripping bill barbaric and pointless
Census: Canada language landscape altering with increasing immigrants
Census: The languages of Vancouver and other major Canadian cities
Bilingualism growing, but not in French and English
Dominance of French and English language shrinking, census shows
Made in Canada: How the Law Constructs Migrant Workers’ Insecurity.

INDIAN THOUGHT

Rediscovering Indian Thought: How a scholar built a data base of pre-independence magazine

INDO-CANADIAN POLITICIANS

House conducting investigation of sexual allegations against rookie Alberta Liberal MP Kang

INCOME INEQUALITY

Global inequality ‘as marked as it was at peak of western imperialism’
2% of Elon Musk’s Wealth could solve world hunger, says director of UN food scaricity organization
The rich-poor gap in America is obscene. So let’s fix it here is how. Bernie Sanders
The Inequality Virsu-Bringing together a world torn apart by coronavirus through a fair, just and sustainable economy
Just 162 Billionaires Have The Same Wealth As Half Of Humanity
Oxfam: World’s richest 26 own same wealth as poorest half
9 Richest Indian Now Own Wealth Equivalent to Bottom 50% of the Country
Reward Work, Not Wealth- Oxfam 2018
Everyone in India thinks they are ‘middle class’ and actually no one is
India Has A Massive Inequality Problem And It is Not Doing Enough To Fix It
Richest 1% is about to own more than everyone else put together. Oxfam
Income Gap, Meet the Longevity Gap
Working for the few:Political capture and income inequality
Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as the poorest half of the world

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN CANADA

How India is pouring billions of dollars into Canada’s economy
Canada’s open secret: International students are here to be exploited
Class struggle
Sex trafficking of Indian international girl students spreading from Brampton to GTA
In Brampton, young newcomer workers stand up for their rights: ‘there is strength in numbers’.
International Student Crisis: Funeral home sending alarming number of bodies back to India
Indian students trapped in UK by cronovirus ‘actually starving’.
70% student visa aspirants from farming families: Study
The Second Year Trap: How Foreign Students Fall in to Financial Hell
The foreign students who say they were lured to Canada by a lie
Foreign students say they ‘have no choice’ but to work more than their permits allow
False promises: Foreign workers are falling prey to a sprawling web of labour trafficking in Canada
CNC shelling out big bucks to interantional recruiting agents
Canada’s growing reliance on international students
International students-in-Canada
Huge surge in international students coming to Canada
Foreign students transforming Canada’s schools, immigration
Canada’s post-secondary schools exploiting international students, says recruiter
Economic Impact of International Education in Canada-2016
Economic Impact of International Education in Canada

INTERNET

Agri Ministry’s New App Gives Microsoft Access to Millions Of Farmers’s Personal Data
Google uses to track Gmail to track a history of things you buy – and it’s hard to delete
As Web Turns 30, Pioneer Tim Berners-Lee says “You should Have Complete Control of Your Data”
New Google Alogrithm restricts access to left wing progressive websites
Google’s Neutral Machine Translation launched for nine Indian languages
Review os Schiller, Dan Digital Depression: Digital Technology and Economic Crisis
24% of Web Content is Now in Chinese, will soon surpass English
Google search manipulation can swing votes in Indian elections
The NSA and Its Corporate Partners
Revisiting Global Internet Governance in the Light of NSA
The Internet is Slaying the Middle Class
Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos
Wikipedia Executive Director to step down

ISRAEL

CIJA Has Taken 25% of MPs on Paid Trips To “Israel’
CTV forbids use of ‘Palestine’, suppresses critical stories about Israel

KNOWLEDGE

The Centre Cannot Hold: How GN Devy challenges our concept of knowledge

KOMAGATAMARU

Mewa Singh’s Trial Transcript
Komagatsa Maru at 100- The Politics of Fashion
A Salute to the Fighters of Komagata Maru
Opinion: Reconciling injustices in pluralistic Canada

JATTS

History of Punjabi speaking Jatts

JNU

Bahujan discourse puts JNU in the crosshairs

LAHORE

Liberal Lahore

LAL SINGH DIL

Another People: The life and verse of revolutionary Lal Singh Dil

LANGUAGE

People Have Invented More Than 200 Gender-Neutral Pronouns.
The language you speak changes the color you see
The man who ‘discovered’ 780 Indian languages
Short Story by Ngugi wa Thiongo translated in to over 30 languages
Why Teach English?
Public Books – What Global English Means For World Literature
Politics of division
India speaks 780 language, 220 lost in last 50 years – survey
No Punjabi please! We are Muslim Punjabi
Punjabi as a catalyst for regional and global trade
India’s many languages are an advantage not a roadblock
When languages die, ecosystems often die with them
Scripted wall of Punjabi
The Politics of Privilege inPakistan: The Case of Urdu

LIBRARY

Libraries for the future: Europe’s new wave of ‘meeting places for the mind’.
100 years of Dwarka Das Library that shaped revolutionaries
Why state still does not have its own Public Library Act
For India’s poor children, commuity libraries are an escape, a refuge and much much more
In Praise of Public Libraries
“Walking Library” of Bangladesh No More: The Man Who Walked For 30 Years To Make Villagers Read Books
The library revolution
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming
From Alexander to Babel

LITERATURE

The Wordly Exile:Edward Said’s life and afterlives
The classic novel that saw pleasure as a path to freedom
Do literary translation need financial patronage? Ask Kalpana Raina, who has been just doing that
The Deceptive Charm of Lit Fest in Times of Curbed Dissent
Transcending Boundaries: An Interview with Vandana Singh
Reading literary fiction improves Empathy
Novel Finding:Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy
Non-Fiction: Re-Reading of Guru Nanak
Elif Shafak: ‘It is time we stop denigrating the public intellectual’
Homage to Punjab’s Grand Old Man of Letters, Rajinder Singh Bedi
7 Partition Stories By Saadat Hasan Manto That We Need to Re-read
Susan Sontag: a letter to Borges
The non-western books that every student should read
The feminine metaphor
The real purpose of fantasy
Why Ngugi wa Thiong’o should have won the Noble prize for literature
The long, steady decline of literary reading
Lal Singh Dil and the Poetics of Disjunction
Hemingway’s Advice on Writing, Ambition, the Art of Revision and His Reading List of Essential Books
In Mughal India, good literary taste was part of a bureaucrat’s job description
The poets we forget
50 Powerful Quotes about Poetry
Contents-Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Issue 14)
Ismat Chughtai on why eroticism in modern literature is necessary
Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry
Devinder Satyarthi: The quest for people’s soul
Art, Truth & Politics: Harold Pinter Nobel Lecture
A little black fish (an Iranian story)
Naxalite Punjabi poet’s rare video surfaces
Leonard Cohen on Creativity, Hard Work, and Why You Should Never Quit Before You Know What It is You Are Quitting
“The Chess Players”: From Prem Chand to Satyajit Ray
Nostalgia lingers on for long: Poet Ajmer Rode
Harbhajan Singh Hundal: The poet as a Wakeful Dreamer
The carnage that shook society

LOHRI

Lohri legends: the tale of Abdullah Khan ‘Dullah’ Bhatti

LONELINESS

U.K. Appoints World’s First Minister of Loneliness

MARXISM

Download Collected Works of Marx
Reclaiming Marxism in an age of meaningless work
Marx comes painfully close to describing our current world
Reading the Communist Manifesto Today
An Interview on the Continuing Relevance of Marx
What Shakespeare taught me about Marxism
Marx Was Right: Five Surprising Ways Karl Marx Predicted 2014
Who is the best scientist of them all?
Karl Marx’s Revenge: How Class Struggle Is Shaping The World
Why Marxism is on the rise again

MEDIA

How Modi, Shah Turned A Woman’s NGO In To A Secret Election Propaganda Machine
The Politics of Viewership Regulation: How Youtube is Censoring Anand Patwardhan
India’s all-female paper goes digital to make gender taboos old news
Tele-jingoism and the Tyranny of Hashtag
On the Road to Democratic Journalism
Selective outrage on Paris journalists killings shaped by racist colonialism
War by media and the triumph of propaganda
The CIA and the Media
Shubranshu Choudhary: Giving Voice to a Ravanged, Neglected region
The Death of the Newspaper Industry
Is digital news good for us?
Mass Effect developer makes emotional plea to eliminate social injustice in games
PBS: Bought and Paid For
Toronto’s burgeoning ethnic press
Corporatocracy Is Cause of Indian Media’s ills
The Reality of Media in India
How Cable Cartels Shut Out Independent Views
Why the Paucity of Women in Media is a global crisis

MEDICINE

Cancer drug for rich western patients, not Indians: Bayer CEO
Doctoring a Revolution

MENTAL HEALTH

The Silence About Mental Health in South Asian Culture is Dangerous

MILITARY

UK arms industry: ethical concerns and alternatives
UK nuclear weapons: a catastrophe in the making
Global military spending is now an integral part of capitalism

MINING

Why Most of Earth’s Mining Companies Headquarters in Canada

MONEY

The man who lives without money

MISCELLANEOUS

India’s unfair obsession with lighter skin

MUSIC

Complete archive of folk music for all countries
Ki Banu Duniya Da? What will happen to the world?
Poverty, corruption and crime:How India’s ‘gully rap’ tells the stroy of real life

MUSLIMS

Over half of West Bengal Muslims Do Not Have a Job

NANAK

My book holds up a mirror to the Pakistani Society using the poetry and character of Nanak: Haroon Khalid

NEO-LIBERALISM

Neo-Liberalism: the ideiology at the root of all our problems

NETFLIX

Netflix Secret Codes: How to access hidden films and TV shows on the streaming service

NGO

The Dangers of the Gates Foundation: Displacing Seeds and Farmers

NOAM CHOMSKY

How Noam Chomsky is discussed

NOBLE PRIZE

Sartre on the Nobel Prize

NOSTALGIA

It Never Was Golden

NOTABLE PUNJABIS

The legend of Ruchi Ram Sahni

NUCLEAR ENERGY/WEAPONS

How India’s Nuclear Industry Create A River Death, According To Court Case Claims
UK nuclear weapons: a catastrophe in the making
Good News: US Corporation Won’t Have to Pay for Nuclear Disaster in India
Obama and Modi want to sell nuclear power to India that is too dangerous and expensive even for US

OPRAH WINFREY

Oprah Winfrey: one of the world’s best neoliberal capitalist thinker

PARTITION

The untold stories of India’s Partition go public for the first time
2015 sees an avalanche of books about the Partition
Qissa took 12 years to make, tried for 5 years to raise money in India: Anup Singh
Potent Memories From a Divided India
What is ‘Partition Literature’?

PARTITION

“What Use is Poetry?” – Meena Alexander

PHILANTHROPY

Bill Gates’s Philanthropic Giving Is a Racket
Philanthropy: Tool of the Capitalist System
The Merits and Drawbacks of Philanthrocapitalism
Capitalist Philanthropy: A Means of Circumventing the State?
The Problem With Capitalist Philanthropy
How corporations use charitable giving to wield political power
Corporate philanthropy as a tool for political influence
Philanthropy is a Scam
Mega-Philanthropy: Charitable deeds or monopaly tyranny?

PHILOSPHY

150 Years Ago, a Philospher Showed Why It’s Pointless to Start Arguments on the Internet
A French Philospher Considers the Kids
Critical reasoning for beginners
Critical reasoning for beginners-you tube
Philosphy can teach children what google can’t

POETRY

Medical debt a major cause of poverty in India
Lal Singh Dil and Poetics of Disjunction

POLICE

Do Not Resist:new film shows how us police have become an occupying army

POLITICS

Don’t underestimate the political power of Canada’s Muslim community
JNU Elections: Why Does the ABVP get Violent?
Indians in Canada gear up to counter pro- Khalistani extremism among Canada’s politicians
What effective protest could look like?
John Pilger: Why Hillary Clinton is More Dangerous Than Trump
The gathering financial storm is just one effect of corporate power unbound
Kshma Sawant Re-Elected- Seatlle’s Political Revolution Continues
We are trying to institutionalise in justice: Arundhati Roy
Princeton Study: US No Longer An Actual Democract
Review: In the name of God
Why the rise of fascism is again the issue
In defence of the pursuit of power
Study: U.S. regime has killed 20-30 million people since world war 2
Syriza’s victory: this is what the politics of hope looks like
Winning an Election Does Not Mean Winning Power
“We have to be secular. There is no choice.”
Daphne Braham: We need citizens, not just taxpayers and voters
The ideological roots of Stephen’s Harper’s vendeta against sociology
I Got 2,300 Odd votes in Sitapur, Uttar pardesh
16th Lok Sabha will be richest, have most MPs with criminal charges
Family Politics in India
India’s democratic dynasties
In India, a Political Dynasty Prospers in Power
Badal’s govt power boosts for Kairon companies
Badal-Kairon-Majitha Clan’s growing biz empire
Behind a Real-Estate Empire, Ties to India’s Gandhi’s Dynasty
Who governs USA? Elite, Interest Groups or Average Citizens?
Aam Aadmi’s missteps
The Rise of the Post-New Left Political Vocabulary
Harvest of Inheritance: Six clans that rule the state
Politics of Privilege in Pakistan
Death is now every where among Arabs -but culprits and facts are rare
Global protests grows as citizens lose faith in politics and state
“We need to overturn the system”: In conversation with alt-Nobel winner Nnimmo Bassey
New David Harvey Interview on Class Struggle in Urban Spaces
B.C. Premier apologizes for plan to win ethnic vote
Rajoana’s sister got Rs 2.2 crore in 2012: NIA
‘Pepe’ Mujica – Definitely Not your average politician

POVERTY

‘Teens are swapping sex for food’ in the world’s richest country
India is home to world’s 1/3rd of extreme poor population: UN Study
3 ways Humans Create Poverty
Three ways to end poverty in Canada
How poverty might change the brain
The Real Numbers: Half of America in Poverty

PRISONS

The incalculable cost of mass incarceration

PUNJAB

Punjab, Punjabis and Punjabiyat
Every business in Punjab leads back to an Akali Dal leader
Why is industry fleeing Punjab
Punjabi politics: It’s all in the family
Punjab: some of its ancinent names

PUNJABI HERITAGE AND CULTURE

Digitisation preserves Punjab regions heritage and culture

PUNJABI LITERATURE

Stories of the Soil: Punjabi short fiction

PUNJABIS IN CANADA

Mapping our ethnicity Part 1: South Asia in Surrey
Whistleblower Shiv Chopra remembered for speaking truth to Power

PUNJABIS IN ITALY

An employer? No, we have a master: the Sikhs secretely exploited in Italy
The silent darama of Indian migrant farmers in Italy: “We are living a second hell on earth we never imagined.”

PUNJABI LANGUAGE

Punjabi language classes will now be offered for the first time at all UC campuses
Punjab, Punjabis and Punjabiyat
French, Punjabi and Mandarin are most sought second-languages in Surrey Schools: report
Disappearing students and teachers of Punjabi in colleges
Signs of Punjabi dropping off blackboards too
How did Pakistan, where Punjabi where Punjabi literature was born, come to shun the language?
Punjabi is Now The Third Language In Parliament of Canada
A Hybrid Approach used to Stem Punjabi Words

PUNJABIAT

The absence in Punjabiyat’s split universe

RACISM

Breaking the Color Bar- How One Man Helped Desegrate Britan’s Pubs (and Fought for an Anti-Racist Future)
New Census Data Shows Canadians Get Paid A Lot Less Based On The Colour Of Their Skin
When Hate Trumps Tolerance
Subtle racism is the real threat: Cole
Rich countries and the minorities they discriminate against, mapped
He Dropped One Letter In His Name While Applying for jobs
When Racism Was a Science
B C property titles bear reminders of a time when race based covenants kept neighbourhoods white
Racism alive in India: Story of Kim Barrington Narisetti, An American African professional
Skin Deep: Narratives of Racism in Delhi University
Adrian Dix: B.C. must reconcile with its past official racism against Chinese Canadians
Sharing the same difference

MAHARAJA RANJIT SINGH

Queen of Takht-e-Lahore- The Story of Gulbahar Begum

REFUGEE

World refugee population hits 20 million: UN
Slavoj Zizek. The Non-Existence of Norway

RELIGION

Trading in Faith
Opium of the People? The Religious Heritage of the Karl Marks and the Frankfurt School
SGPC passes annual budget of Rs 993 crores
Sikh Council UK Develops Guidelines of Approach to Inter-Faith Marriages in Gurdwara

RELIGION VS. ATHEISM

Altar Welfare: Churches Steal $71 Billion A Year From Taxpayers, Spend Little On Charity
Nonbelievers see 1947% rise in Punjabi
All Scientists Should Be Militant Atheists
Raising Children Without Religion May Be A Better Alternative, Suggests New Research
Children Exposed To Religion Have Difficulty Distinguishing Fact From Fiction, Study Finds
How the right to deny the existence of God is under threat globally
Half Of Brits Say Religion Does More Harm Than Good, And Athiests Can Be Just As Moral
Pray, what wrong did I do, asks atheist teacher
Highly Religious People are less motivated by compassion than are non-belivers
Atheism a creed that needs the same religious protections of Christianity and Islam: Ontario Human Rights Tribunal

RSS

How the RSS betrayed India: excerpts from its own document will shock you

RURAL INDIA

73% of households live in rural India

SCIENCE

The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari
Meet India’s First Woman PhD. in Botany
Photospeak- Raman: Anything but scattered
Stephen Hawking: ‘There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story’

SECULARISM

What Secularism is and Where It Needs to Be Headed

SEXUAL VIOLENCE

Delhi’s shame: Incest rape on rise, fathers among offenders
High on drugs-liquor, men prey on infant, young daughters in Punjab
Capitalism, Sexual Violence, and Sexism: Kavita Krishanan
Class Societies and Sexual Violence
Defend Women’s Rights to Equality! Fight Against Rape and Sexual Violence
So what about ‘Rapist’ Hip hop

SIKHS

Are The Only Way to Make History For Sikhs Is To Have A Turban ON?
How a UK Sikh group spreads fake rumours to stir up hate against muslims
Census shocker: Sikhs report lowest sex ration
Sikhs of north – east, south India don’t flaunt surnames

SLUMS

“We need to transform the working classes in to strong political force”

SOCIAL INEQUALITY

The Paradox of the Belief in a Just World

SOCIAL MEDIA

The Politics of Viewership Regulation: How Youtube is Censoring Anand Patwardhan
In the fight for democracy, can we still tap social media for ‘good’?
Media Addiction And the Rise of Fascism In Brave New Digital World
How Tech Utopia’s Fostered Tyranny
Former Facebook Executive: “you don’t realize it, but you are being programmed”
2 – Day National Workshop on Social Media held in Delhi

SOCIAL PROGRAMS

Canada Investment in Social Programs Now Rank Near the Bottom of The Industrialized World

SOCIOLOGY

SPACE COLONIZATION

The billionaire space race reflects a colonial mindset that fails to imagine a different world

How to Develop Your Sociological Imagination

SPORTS

Eduardo Galeano, The World Cup and the Corporatization of Soccer

SPYING

India fifth -largest target of U.S. electronic Swooping
A secret no more

TECHNOLOGY

Trash Cans Tracking Consumer: Ad Firm Renew Told to Ditch Wi-Fi Garbage Bins

TERRORISM

What motivates Extreme Self – Sacrifice?
Pentagon report predicted West’s support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS
The Khalistani Terrorism
Shocker: Only 1% of So called Terriorists Nabbed by the FBI Were Real

THEORY

How Does the Subaltern Speak

THEATRE

In ‘Dark Borders’, Neelam Mann Singh Calls Upon Manto to Represent the Incomprehensible
A century on the stage
History of Punjabi Drama

TOTALITARIANISM

Totalitarianism in the age of Donald Trump: lesson from Hannah Arendt

UNEMPLOYMENT

MPhil, B Tech seek peon’s job

US FOREIGHN POLICY

27 Million Died in Russia Because Wall Street Built UP Hitler’s Wehrmacht To Knock Out Soviet Union

WATER

India is in the midst of a water crisis. Why is not it an election issue?
Groundwater is Depleting Quickly in India and No Political Party Has it On Their Poll Agenda

WAR

Nearly 90 Percent Of People Killed In Recent Drone Strikes Were Not the Target
The Drone Papers
Unicef Warns of Lost Generation of War Children Out of School
From the war front
Cost to US of Iraq and Afghan wars could hit $1.6 trillion
Malala and Nabila: worlds apart
Young Soldiers from working class background most at risk on frontline, says report
The last Ambush? Aspects of Mental Health in British Armed Forces

WEALTH INEQUALITY

Top 1% control 39% of world wealth
The Global 1%: Exposing The Transnational Ruling Class

WIKIPEDIA

How we’re building awareness of Wikipedia in India
Four career skills students develop from Wikipedia assignments
‘Punjabis most active community on Wikipedia’
Mon Dieu! Why a French novelist gave an entire year’s royalties to Wikipedia
India Community Consultation 2014
Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia Contributors List

WOMEN

Why Indian Housewives Are Killing Themselves
‘Her family is broken’: Peel police identify woman, 27, killed in Brampton murder-suicide
16 year-0ld Dalit tied to pillar then burnt alive
Family in India mourns daughter found dead in India
63% of pregnant women in rural areas work till delivery, shows survey
A Transnational Analysis of Violence of Domestic Violence
Why many women in Maharashtra’s Beed district have no wombs
Preference for boys persists among South Asian Parents, study finds
On average, a Dalit woman dies 14 years younger than one from upper caste: UN report
5 women killed in January victims of alleged intimate partner violence, police say
Feminism in the classroom
How Chandigarh Geri’ Culture Feeds Harassmet of Women
Why Indian Workplaces Are Losing Women
What these 4 women characters from Indian Mythology tell us about rape culture
How Indian men are keeping women out of the workforce
“They Pull Our Dupatta’s, Throw Water At Us and Pass Lewd Comments”: Girls In Haryana Harassed On The Way To School.
Sex selection in Indian community persists despite years spent in Canada, researchers find
Study finds gender imbalance in children born to Indo-Canadian women
Punjabis ‘aborting’ female foetus in Canada too: Study
Only 5% women In India Choose Their Husbands, 80% Need Permission To Visit A Health Centre
A dark trade: Rape videos for sale in India
Temp agency work trapping immigrant women ‘in modern day slavery’
Women in film still speak less and strip more, study finds
Poor daughters rich state
Indo-Canadian women give birth to far more boys than women born in Canada
‘The War at Home’ intimate, stark portrayal of Canada’s domestic violence epidemic
Census shocker: Sikhs report lowest sex ration
8.32 Crore Indian Girls Get Married Off Before Legal Age
Women ‘to blame’ for being raped
India’s Daughter: ‘I made a film on rape in India. Men’s brutal attitude really shocked me’.
When My Indian Mom Divorced My Dad, She Becam an Outcast. It Also Saved Her Life.
Violence Against Women in Politics: A Study Conducted in India, Nepal and Pakistan
Honor Killings in India: A Study of the Punjab State
“Many women have no say in marriage”
Malala Yousafzai and the White Savior Complex
India: the Story You Never Wanted to Hear
The girls stolen from streets of India
Why is India so bad for women?
Sex ratios among Canadian liveborn infants of mothers from different countries

WORK

After Amazon workers’ union victory the Fed must stop tipping the scales for bosses – Robert Reich
‘We are all fighting the giant’: Gig workers around the world are finally organizing
Who Helps Pay Amazon’s Low-Wage Workers? You Do.
Minimum wage doesn’t cover the rent anywhere in the U.S.
Temp workers underpaid, overworked in Montreal warehouses, report finds
The Revenge of the Poverty Stricken Professors
Opium numbs the pain for Indian pickers exploited on Italian farms
Why Ragpickers, Unrecognized and Unpaid, Are Critical For Waste Management In India
Why Are Workers At Our Richest Universities Going Hungry?
Temp agency work trapping immigrant women ‘in modern day slavery’
Digital Labor and Imperialism
The shame of our disposal workers
Status of Workers, Labour Laws and Workers’ Movements in India
Capitalism’s unfree global workforce
Old India’s Village of Warriors Becomes Birthplace of Bouncers
Are adjunct professors the fast-food workers of the academic world?
Death toll among Qatar’s 2022 World Cup workers revealed
Women making $70 Shirts In Factory Paid Under a Dollar An Hour
Bank of Canada governor urges jobless young Canadians to work for free
McDonald’s foreign workers call it ‘slavery’
Canada: Mexico found guilty of blacklisting pro-union migrant workers
Tetley Tea workers exploitation
As a doctor, I know too well why the minimum wage needs to rise
Disrupting the Disruptions -Working at Amazon.com sucks.
In the name of Love
Largest Civil Disobedience in Walmart History Leads to More Than 50 Arrests
Who Really Benefits from Sweatshops
1300 migrant workers sent back dead in five months
Spinning tragedy: The true cost of a T-shirt
Ontario minimum wage workers on the rise, study finds
As Its Laborers Die, Qatar Fights to keep World Cup
Massive Nationwide Walkout By Fast-food Workers Signals Growing Backlash Against Low Wage Employers
The politics of global production: Apple, Foxconn and China’s new working class
A Suicide survivor: the life of a Chinese worker
21 hours
Unpaid Internship Exploit “Vulnearable Generation”
The Bhaiya Express to misery
Bell accused of breaking labour law with unpaid intern
Union Membership Decline Boost Corporate Profits at Workers’ Expense, Study Says
Global youth unemployment set to rise
Exploited labour: Migrant workers in Italy’s agricultural sector
No hope of a life of dignity for these bonded labourers
China in Revolt
Apartheid did’nt die in South Africa

WORLD BANK

World Bank Whistleblower Reveals How the Global Elite Rule The World

WRITING

Ten Rules of Writing
John Berger: ‘Writing is an off shoot of something deeper’

YOUTH

Young India Says ‘Yes’ to Military Rule, ‘No’ to Inter-Religious Mingling, Survey
Dear Youth of Punjab – Khushwant Singh

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CONSPIRACY THEORIES

CONSUMERISM

CORPORATIONS

CULTURAL WARS

CULTURE

DOCUMENTARIES

DRUGS

ECONOMICS

EDUCATION

ENCYCLOPEDIA

ENVIRONMENT

FACEBOOK

FARMERS/PEASANTS

FARMERS PROTEST IN INDIA

FASCISM

FASHION

FEMINISM

FILM/MUSIC

FIRST NATIONS

HISTORY

HUMAN RIGHTS

HUNGER

IMMIGRATION/MIGRATION/CITIZENSHIP

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN CANADA

INTERNET

ISRAEL

KNOWLEDGE

KOMAGATAMARU

JATTS

LAHORE

LAL SINGH DIL

LANGUAGE

LONELINESS

MARXISM

MEDIA

MEDICINE

MINING

MONEY

MISCELLANEOUS

MUSIC

NOAM CHOMSKY

PARTITION

PARTITION

POLITICS

POVERTY

PRISONS

PUNJAB

PUNJABI HERITAGE AND CULTURE

PUNJABI LITERATURE

PUNJABIS IN CANADA

PUNJABIS IN ITALY

PUNJABI LANGUAGE

PUNJABIAT

RSS

RURAL INDIA

SCIENCE

SECULARISM

SEXUAL VIOLENCE

SPYING

TECHNOLOGY

THEORY

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