Alam must be released immediately to continue his vital work as a voice for the powerless.
"If a principled yet powerful leader does emerge, he can only come from yesterday’s disempowered classes."
In a country with low press freedom and media literacy, fake news could be a recipe for disaster.
The major transformative potential of permaculture in India lies in its ability to make small-scale farmers self-sufficient. Hence, it offers viable solutions to the very deep crisis farmers are facing.
So far a persistent theme of the Afghan conflict is the glaring gap between words and actions, with both sides talking peace while intent on waging war.
Unlike in India, British democracy, distorted by Mammon, is spared by God.
Once Britain moved beyond religious nationalism, religion itself became a spent force, though not one prevented from speaking truth to power. Contrast India.
The state has been openly hostile towards the Pashtun Tahafuz movement – the right to protest must be protected.
In India, student protests have escalated under the current far-right, Hindu-supremacist government and been characterised by open ideological warfare.
The vitriolic anger directed at the PoA might mean that Indian society is not entirely ready to face the depth of its own ingrained prejudice.
Los proyectos de vivienda colectiva en Solapur, India, demuestran que la enorme fuerza de los movimientos de los trabajadores, junto con la cooperación de los gobiernos, pueden lograr resultados.