Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story..

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination..

Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in….

In India, we have a right wing that is so vicious and so openly wicked, which is the Baratiya Janata party (BJP), and then we have the Congress party….

When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was th….

We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining h….

Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease..

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests..

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few….

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over the years, as the mem….

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs..

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all..

I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness..

The religious rightwingism is directly linked to globalization and to privatization. When India is talking about selling its entire power sector to f….

Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity..

Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony..

I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan and America do to oppress o….

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard..

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what w….

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?.

Thousands are losing their jobs and homes, while corporations are being bailed out with billions of dollars..