In this last installment of the three-part article based on correspondence between Hassan Mirza and Professor Noam Chomsky, the internationally-acclaimed linguist and social scientist speaks about the British colonial genocidal role in South Asia and Africa, the future of South Asia, religion, the catastrophic impact of climate change, and the US-Europe imperialist-induced migration crisis.   Religion and spirituality Hassan Mirza …

By Raza Naeem Raziya Sajjad Zaheer (1917-1979), who passed away in Delhi 40 years ago today, was one of Urdu’s most accomplished but least celebrated and acknowledged women writers. She was a novelist, short-story writer and translator, and a Communist activist and Progressive writer born in Ajmer in 1917. She won the Nehru Award in 1966. She had been contributing short …

A petition signed by over 10,000 students & academics from renowned universities across the world also speaks up against ‘illegal siege and curfew’ in AMU over CAA protests, reports Simrin Sirur in ThePrint, an Indian online magazine

Campus protests take place across India, Citizens Act 2019 as police brutality fuels anger Herald Report Students have protested in cities across India as part of a massive wave of intensifying violent unrest over a divisive bill granting citizenship to some non-Muslims who entered the country illegally. During a march on Sunday at Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi, police entered the …

Researchers have ranked the world’s most important, most threatened mountain water towers, provide new insight on mountain glacier–derived water resource systems, impacting up to 1.9 billion people globally

Herald Report In a series of eight exceptional videos released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on the 100th day of a blackout on all communications in the Indian Occupied Kashmir Valley, RSF’s local correspondent interviews nine local journalists about the terrible constraints they have had to work under as a result of this blackout. “Imagine a journalist waking up with …

Historian William Dalrymple’s new book, The Anarchy, indicts the East India Company for “the supreme act of corporate violence in world history,” writes Matthew Wills in JSTOR Daily. It’s become commonplace for corporate lobbyists to write bills passed in state legislatures. The influence of corporate lobbyists in the US Congress may be more subtle, but the combined power of lobbyists, many …

TASHKENT Nine countries in Central and West Asia on Friday signed a historic declaration that will accelerate cross-border cooperation on energy issues and move the region a step closer to the creation of a regional energy market, a statement issued by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said. According to the statement, energy ministers and leaders from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the …

By Ghulam Amin Beg On Tuesday, September 14, 2010, I had written this article and published on the Simurgh Institute blog, which received several comments and further elaborations. The article analyzed the opinion post by Selig S. Harrison published in the New York Times in August the same year under the title, ‘China’s Discreet Hold on Pakistan’s Northern Borderlands’. Today, …

They’re marauding our homes like a victorious army, say Kashmiris Herald Report Stories of brutality, violence, arrests, and intimidation of Kashmiris by Indian soldiers continue to appear in international media since the worst clampdown in the Indian-controlled part of the Himalayan state, last month. Despite a ban on communication and media, reports of torture, abuse, and arrest of Kashmiris especially …