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Climate Change Conundrum: Humanity’s bad investment

S G Vombatkere On World Earth Day 2023, a few dozen members of the 8-billion-and-counting Homo Sapiens species, met in an insignificantly tiny spot on Planet Earth – the premises of The Institution of Engineers(India), Mysore, to discuss and think about Global Warming (GW) and Climate Change (CC). Climate Change gains respectability Homo Sapiens’ investment in Planet… Read More »

TM Krishna returns with the second edition of The Edict Project

Renowned Carnatic vocalist, writer and speaker, TM Krishna recently launched the second edition of The Edict Project, in collaboration with Ashoka University. The Edict Project has been conceived in four parts. This edition is based on the theme ‘Ashoka and Memory’. Nayanjot Lahiri, Professor of History at Ashoka University and an expert on Ashokan and… Read More »

TM Krishna brings Ashokan wisdom alive with The Edict Project

in collaboration with Ashoka University The Edict Project reimagines Ashoka’s remarkable conversation with people across the subcontinent, expressed in the form of engraved monoliths and rock-faces. Many have been rediscovered in the last 2 centuries, and form a refreshing approach to governance, surprising for those bygone days. The Edict project recreates Ashoka’s edicts today in… Read More »

Relentless crusade

The Narmada Bachao Andolan started its work 30 years ago. Today, it is a moral force, and itsmost important contribution to India and the world is its continuance as a bastion ofGandhian truth and non-violence in an increasingly violent world. S. G. Vombatkere THE Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) has completed 30 years of people’s resistance… Read More »

The Narmada River Valley – Imminent Disaster-In-the-Making

Maj Gen Sudhir Vombatkere Hon’ble Prime Minister, My respectful Greetings to the Office of India’s highest executive authority! I have travelled in the valley of the Narmada River and observed at first hand, how the people, mostly Adivasis and Dalits, have been displaced from their homes and lands and livelihoods by an uncaring and corrupt… Read More »

If not Modi, who do we liberals want? Ah, one like him from our side of the patch!

T M Krishna As much as Narendra Modi’s every word is savoured and actions admired by his followers, the emotions he triggers in his critics are diametrically opposite. Watching him speak or even take a stride evokes intense negativity. Other than the obvious ideological opposition and historical reasons, there are many other perceived qualities that… Read More »