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1. Left Politics in South Asia: Past, Present, Future
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COVID-19 and Disaster Capitalism in India
India, Essay Harshvardhan 8/22/20 India, Essay Harshvardhan 8/22/20

COVID-19 and Disaster Capitalism in India

India’s COVID-19 pandemic has become an opportunity for the BJP government to unleash privatization, implement neoliberal policies, and crush dissent.

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Narrating a People’s History of 1971
Bangladesh, Pakistan, Book Review Alif Shahed 8/14/20 Bangladesh, Pakistan, Book Review Alif Shahed 8/14/20

Narrating a People’s History of 1971

A review of Anam Zakaria’s 1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.

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More than an Assassin: Revisiting Shaheed Udham Singh on His 80th Martyrdom Day
India, Diaspora, Essay Harshvardhan & Prabal Saran Agrawal 7/31/20 India, Diaspora, Essay Harshvardhan & Prabal Saran Agrawal 7/31/20

More than an Assassin: Revisiting Shaheed Udham Singh on His 80th Martyrdom Day

Udham Singh is widely revered for assassinating Michael O’Dwyer in order to avenge the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh. But by focusing solely on this deed, we obscure the wider politics that shaped it.

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Tagore Street, Tel Aviv: Against Normalizing Bangladeshi—Israeli relations
Bangladesh, Essay Kamal M. Ali 7/24/20 Bangladesh, Essay Kamal M. Ali 7/24/20

Tagore Street, Tel Aviv: Against Normalizing Bangladeshi—Israeli relations

The normalization of the Israeli apartheid-state by liberal Bangladeshis calls for a revival of revolutionary solidarities and a South Asian politics that champions the Palestinian cause.

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Pollution and Patriarchy in Tribal India
India, Issue 4, Essay Asmita Bhutani 7/13/20 India, Issue 4, Essay Asmita Bhutani 7/13/20

Pollution and Patriarchy in Tribal India

In tribal India, violence against the environment and women are connected and part of the country’s dispossession-driven capitalism.

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There are No Win-Win Solutions
India, Issue 4, Essay Kudrat Wadhwa 7/10/20 India, Issue 4, Essay Kudrat Wadhwa 7/10/20

There are No Win-Win Solutions

Indian conglomerates rushing to invest in renewable energy obscure dirtier practices of ecological damage and labour injustice.

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The Romance of Revolution in Emergency-Era Delhi
India, Essay Kristin Plys 6/27/20 India, Essay Kristin Plys 6/27/20

The Romance of Revolution in Emergency-Era Delhi

As many today struggle against an undeclared BJP-led Emergency in India, a reflection on the fight against Indira Gandhi’s Emergency — and the role of love.

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Orientalizing Environmentalism: Green Movements in India
India, Issue 4, Essay Vismay Kamate 5/30/20 India, Issue 4, Essay Vismay Kamate 5/30/20

Orientalizing Environmentalism: Green Movements in India

Millenial-led environmental movements in India fall prey to imitating their Western counterparts. If environmentalism is to have any success in the country, we need a more vernacular environmentalism.

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Pandemics and Hunger: Lessons from the 1918 Pandemic in India
India, Essay Kasim Tirmizey 5/23/20 India, Essay Kasim Tirmizey 5/23/20

Pandemics and Hunger: Lessons from the 1918 Pandemic in India

It wasn’t the influenza virus alone, but the agricultural exploitation imposed by colonialism which devastated India in 1918.

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No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (II)
Issue 4, Essay Vijay Kolinjivadi & Ashish Kothari 5/21/20 Issue 4, Essay Vijay Kolinjivadi & Ashish Kothari 5/21/20

No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (II)

A GND which fails to challenge the hegemony of growth-led development perpetuates the exploitation of the Global South and will be unable to prevent global ecological social collapse.

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No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (I)
Issue 4, Essay Vijay Kolinjivadi & Ashish Kothari 5/20/20 Issue 4, Essay Vijay Kolinjivadi & Ashish Kothari 5/20/20

No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (I)

Without accounting for globalized production, a Green New Deal in the Global North will merely spur the imperialist quest for cheaper resources and labour to satisfy “eco-friendly” consumption.

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Sri Lanka’s Tamils Trapped Between War and Waste
Sri Lanka, Issue 4, Essay Visvajit Sriramrajan 5/18/20 Sri Lanka, Issue 4, Essay Visvajit Sriramrajan 5/18/20

Sri Lanka’s Tamils Trapped Between War and Waste

Sri Lanka's environmental progress depends on its treatment of its minority Tamils, who have suffered for decades under majoritarian rule

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