Articles by Raghavendra S

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Globalising opinions and counter currents: The Internet Story

Raghavendra S, 23rd April 2012, 0 comments

Julian Assange in his recent writings has expressed that the Internet is no longer only a technical haven, it has acquired the trait of being a political discussion room. He says, “They(people) are being educated, as a result of the internet, about how the world really works in terms of economic flows and political flows and hypocrisy, and they are also being given a power to express their opinions to a potentially very large audience, billions of people.” >>

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The Internet: Dead and gone

Raghavendra S, 27th January 2012, 0 comments

It was then believed that like the Mayans had supposedly predicted that the world was going to end by the year 2012 because of an apocalypse. While the world was speculating natural calamities to come and wipe out the world, and Hollywood was busy bringing life to that vision by making a whole bunch of apocalyptic movies, subtly, there were conspiracies going on – plots to annihilate humanity not by bombing or wars, although even that has continued even today, some laws, bills and policies were framed to once and for all undo all that the society had evolved into – this time by attacking the nervous system of the society in the early 21st century : The Internet. >>

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With and without WikiLeaks

Raghavendra S, 6th December 2011, 2 comments

Assessing the recent times, if one has to identify an epoch that brought with it important consequences that shook up the world, for good, then the arrival of WikiLeaks undoubtedly must be deemed as a crucial occurrence. Until before WikiLeaks, media, diplomacy, war and government policies were perceived in a different light. >>

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Totem Revolutions

Raghavendra S, 15th August 2011, 1 comments

The Facebook Campaigns like Save Tigers, Support Anna Hazare, Stop Corruption, and others are to be treated as awareness increasing campaigns, using a new means of reaching out to people:Online Networks. Unfortunately, posting up these campaigns on one's page and clicking the 'LIKE' button seems to be the end of this campaign to a lot many. >>

Outside Bodhi

The Hindu: India's god laws fail the test of reason

Nation of Change: "There are Marxists in India?" Economist Prabhat Patnaik on the Global Crisis

Pragoti: EMS and the Caste Question: A Response

Dillipost: അലൂവാലിയയും അത്ഭുതവിളക്കും

Outlook Magazine: Capitalism: A Ghost Story

The Asian Age: Budgeting for a class bias

The New York Review of Books: Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong

EPW: Prabhat Patnaik responds to comments to "The Left in decline"

Dillipost: ഗുജറാത്തില്‍ നിന്നുള്ള പെരുംനുണകള്‍

The Nature: Scientists attempt to correct themselves in faster-than-light neutrino measurement

The Hindu: State may privatize water supply

The Hindu: Capitalism and the production of poverty

ദേശാഭിമാനി: സാംസ്കാരികരംഗത്ത് പ്രതി രോധമുഖങ്ങള്‍ തുറക്കണം

Frontline: Shining Ecuador

Hindustan Times: No shortcuts, please

Monthly Review: Food as a commodity

The Hindu: 42 per cent of Indian children are underweight

The New York Times: Internet Access Is Not a Human Right

Pragoti: Lies, damned lies, and statistics: On Arvind Panagariya’s Kerala adventure

The Hindu: FDI in Retail: Legitimising an inhumane discourse

Ceasefire: PLO embrace of Hamas could signal paradigm shift

Socialist Review: "The union is a shield and our sword is the strike" - Socialists elected to Egyptian Doctors' Union

Guardian: History will remember Bradley Manning better

Counter Currents: The Indian Land Grab In Africa

Monthly Review: Civil Society, NGOs, and the Public Sphere

Frontline: Tyranny of finance

Macroscan: Multinational Retail Firms in India

Counter Currents: Corporate Lobbying Gaining Strength In India

Malayal.am: മലയാളിയുടെ സ്വര്‍­ണ്ണഭ്രമത്തിന്റെ രാഷ്ട്രീയമാനങ്ങള്‍

Macroscan: Retrogression in Retail

Counter Currents: ‘Finish Capitalism' Movement In The United States

ദേശാഭിമാനി: ലോകത്തെ എങ്ങനെ മാറ്റാം

Brecht Forum: A New Economic Strategy

NewsClick: Prakash Karat on "20 Years after Fall of USSR"

Democracy Now!: Propaganda Used Ahead of Iraq War Is Now Being Reused over Iran’s Nuke Program

Dillipost: ഭൂനയവും തൊഴിലാളിവര്‍ഗവും

Hindustan Times: Shelter from the storm

Outlook Magazine: Putting Growth In Its Place

Guardian: Greece, home of democracy, deprived of a vote

Monthly Review: The Global Reserve Army of Labor and the New Imperialism

The Hindu: Don’t take people’s sentiments for granted: Supreme Court to Agnivesh

Wikileaks: Banking Blockade on WikiLeaks

The Hindu: The richness of the Ramayana, the poverty of a University

Hindustan Times: Das Capitalism

The Nation: Gandhi and South Africa

The Hindu: The Other Half - Citizens, not 'naukranis'

: The Occupied Wall St Journal

Workers' Forum: നിര്മല് മാധവ് - ഇടതുപക്ഷത്തിനു പറയാനുള്ളത്

The Hindu: State to pursue PPP model in a big way

The Hindu: The five-legged elephant

The Hindu: How little can a person live on?

Naalaamidam: മാധ്യമങ്ങള്‍ റിലയന്‍സ് അഴിമതി വിഴുങ്ങിയ വിധം

The Hindu: The Union Cabinet gets healthier

The Hindu: How Tripura overcame insurgency

Boston Review: The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux

Naalaamidam: ജനാധിപത്യകാലത്തെ രാജഭക്തി അശ്ലീലമാണ്

Malayal.am: വാര്‍ത്ത നട്ടുതുടങ്ങുമ്പോളറിയുക, പാര്‍ട്ടി സമ്മേളനം വരവായി

Open Magazine: Devil’s Own Country for Women

The Hindu: Messianism versus democracy

The New York Times: India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

EPW: Retail Chains for Agro/Food Products: Inclusive or Elusive?

The Hindu: Rare documents on Bhagat Singh's trial and life in jail

Open Magazine: Spiritual Bedfellows

Guardian: There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored

The Caravan: Unnatural Selection

Guardian: What does it mean to 'break up' media power?

Workers' Forum: ചില 'പാര്ക്കിംഗ്' ചിന്തകള്

Madhyamam Weekly: എന്തുകൊണ്ട് മുംബൈ?

NewsClick: Swami and Foes

EPW: The Left in Decline

ദേശാഭിമാനി: ഇപ്പോഴും ഒപ്പമുണ്ട് , വി കെ എന്‍

People's Democracy: “BRINGING BACK” BLACK MONEY

Janayugam: എട്ട്‌ ഇതളുകളില്‍ കവിതയും ചെറുതേനും കുറുന്തോട്ടിയും

Janayugam: ഉന്നതവിദ്യാഭ്യാസ രംഗം: നമുക്കെന്താ വേണ്ടത്?

Kafila: A beacon of light in the heart of darkness: SC holds Salwa Judum unconstitutional

Democracy Now!: Julian Assange of WikiLeaks & Philosopher Slavoj Žižek In Conversation With Amy Goodman

Personal Blog: In case you get raped...

CPI(M) Newsletter: Lokpal: For An Effective Anti-Corruption Body

Tehelka: Press button, switch religion

The Fifth Estate: Standard Deviation

Frontline: Public Funding, the key to Quality Education

നമ്മുടെ ബൂലോകം: പുസ്തകപരിചയം : വൈജ്ഞാനികവിപ്ലവം - ഒരു സാംസ്കാരികചരിത്രം : പി. ഗോവിന്ദപ്പിള്ള

Women's Web: How Kerala Responds To Thasni Banu

The Hindu: Tagore and the idea of Cooperation

The Hindu: From fig leaf to banana republic

Kafila: Cities and Infrastructure – The Road Widening Saga in Bangalore

Open Magazine: Not as Old as You Think

Personal Blog: കേരളത്തില്‍ തൊഴിലില്ലായ്മ വന്‍ തോതില്‍ കുറഞ്ഞുവെന്നു കേന്ദ്ര സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ കണക്കുകള്‍

Workers' Forum: ഇരുണ്ട കാലം പീഡനപര്‍വം

Pragoti: Ramchandra Guha is Wrong

Mathrubhumi: ആണ്‍ - പെണ്‍ സൗഹൃദങ്ങള്‍ അത്രയ്ക്ക് അസഹ്യമോ?

Frontline: Agrarian distress

The Caravan: After the Fall

The Telegraph: ANNA HAZARE AND GANDHI - Whatever devalues Parliament strikes at the root of democracy

Kafila: These rapes aren’t rapes?

New Left Review: ON THE CONCATENATION IN THE ARAB WORLD

Dillipost: മന്‍മോഹനാണ് താരം

Workers' Forum: അമ്മുവിന്റെ യുക്തിവിചാരങ്ങള്‍

The Hindu: The discreet charm of civil society

Personal Blog: ആരോഗ്യമന്ത്രിക്ക് ഒരു സംഘം ഡോക്ടര്‍മാരുടെ തുറന്ന കത്ത്

The Hindu: Privilege, opportunities and ‘merit'

Discover Magazine: Physics and the Immortality of the Soul

The Telegraph: ADVICE TO COMMUNISTS - Should the Left become social democratic?

Workers' Forum: തെരുവും വീട്ടുമുറ്റവും തിയറ്ററാക്കി മാറ്റിയ നാടകകാരൻ

The Telegraph: THE KERALA STRATEGY - Of a unique route to development

Macroscan: Health Outcomes across the Major Indian States

The Hindu: The Ambedkar Party

The Indian Express: The bribing game

The Hindu: U.S. government should ‘continue to cultivate' Mamata

Workers' Forum: ഊഴിയം വേല

Macroscan: The Growth-discrimination Nexus

NewsClick: The Killing of Juliano Mer Khamis

Mathrubhumi: ഇടതുപക്ഷ നേതാക്കള്‍ ബിഷപ്പുമാരെ കാണുമ്പോള്‍

Pragoti: The late left surge in Kerala

Kafila: At the Risk of Heresy: Why I am not Celebrating with Anna Hazare - by Shuddhabrata Sengupta

Pragoti: Civil Society - Effective but Limited and Contextual

The Hindu: Will Kerala buck the trend?

Guardian: Why America steals doctors from poorer countries

Guardian: Behind 'Rising India' lies the surrender of national dignity

Monthly Review: Monopoly and Competition in Twenty-First Century Capitalism

London Review of Books: Eagleton reviews Hobsbawm's "How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism"

Personal Blog: Biased Opinion polls from Asianet-C Fore

Frontline: Socialist & feminist?

The Hindu: Desertions from CPI(M) show a pattern

BBC: Religion may become extinct in nine nations

The Hindu: Malayalam's Wiki warrior

The Telegraph: Prabhat Patnaik analyzes popular uprisings in Arab world

The Hindu: Julian Assange speaks to Prannoy Roy

Tehelka: Tehelka Interviews V. S. Achuthanandan.

The Hindu: Government's stand on Cash for MPs allegation is lame - Siddharth Varadarajan

Pragoti: Speech by Brinda Karat on Union Budget 2011-12 in the Rajya Sabha

Frontline: C. T. Kurien reviews Palapre Balakrishnan's new book "Economic Growth in India: History & Prospect"

The Hindu: Draft policy moots revamp of public transport system in Kerala

Socialist Alternative: Libya and the left

The Hindu: Corporate socialism's 2G orgy - P. Sainath

Guardian: Che Guevara's motorcycle companion, Alberto Granado, is no more.

The New Yorker: UNION BLUES

Pragoti: Corruption and Forbearance under Neoliberalism

Personal Blog: Javed Akhtar's Speech on Spirituality at 2005 India Today Conclave

The Hindu: The siren song of cash transfers- Jayati Ghosh.

Guardian: This is a bad day for Pakistan's democracy

MacArthur: Does the Internet make for more engaged citizens?

Pragoti: A Budget for the Rich

The Hindu: Achieving inclusive growth with clear priorities

The News: Our most loved dissident

Janayugam: വാതില്‍ ഒരു വഴിയാണ് കണ്ടെത്താനുള്ള വഴി

Monthly Review: Frenzy in Food Markets

The Hindu: Workers' March to Parliament

Frontline: Was there a renaissance in India?

Tehelka: The danger of Being good

The Hindu: Code of silence, finally broken

Malayal.am: വര്‍ഗീസിനും വിജയനും ലഭിച്ച 'കാരുണ്യം' എന്തിന് രാജന് മാത്രം നിഷേധിക്കുന്നു

The Hindu: P. Sainath comments on Dr. Manmohan's recent televised press conference.

The Hindu: It's time to get down to business

Current Science: A statistical test of astrology

Malayal.am: സാമൂഹ്യ വിമര്‍ശനത്തെക്കുറിച്ച്

The New York Times: Protests spread to Yemen

Personal Blog: പെണ്‍പിറവി: ഒരു ആസ്വാദനം

The Hindu: Corruption: Italy vs. India?

Frontline: Neoliberal illogic

The Hindu: The lurch of the Lemmings

BBC: The good, bad and ugly of Indian life - all on one road

Workers' Forum: ജനിതകമാറ്റത്തിനുള്ള സാങ്കേതിക വിദ്യ ഉപയോഗപ്പെടുത്തണം

Guardian: Egypt braced for 'day of revolution' protests

The New York Times: High Price for India’s Information Law

The Hindu: Call to increase public financing for health care

Guardian: Tunisia's caretaker government in peril as four ministers quit

Workers' Forum: ഒഴിവാക്കാവുന്ന ദുരന്തങ്ങള്‍

The New York Times: An Assassination’s Long Shadow

The Hindu: The correct picture

EPW: Prices of Onions: An Analysis

Frontline: Invisible people: Migrant labourers in Kerala

Workers' Forum: മൂന്നാം അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര കേരള പഠന കോണ്‍ഗ്രസ്: സംവാദം ഒറ്റനോട്ടത്തില്‍

കേരള ശാസ്ത്രസാഹിത്യ പരിഷത്ത്: Penpiravi - The journey of a Drama began

Kafila: Swami Aseemanand’s Confessions: It’s time for an apology?

Tehelka: An angry hall of fall guys. And unfair arrests

Dool News: അപ്പോള്‍, നങ്ങേലി മുലയരിഞ്ഞ് വച്ചതെന്തിന്?

The Hindu: Bold ways needed to check ethical failings of the media: N. Ram

Monthly Review: The Ecology of Socialism

The Hindu: Work for revamping Centre-State relations: Karat

The New Yorker: The Truth Wears Off

Dillipost: ജനാധിപത്യത്തിലെ കംഗാരുത്തീര്‍പ്പുകള്‍

Madhyamam Weekly: രഹസ്യങ്ങള്‍ പുറംലോകമറിയട്ടെ , ഭരണകൂടങ്ങള്‍ വിചാരണ ചെയ്യപ്പെടട്ടെ !

The Hindu: Travesty of Justice: CPI

Pragoti: Notes on Contemporary Imperialism

The Economist: A village in a million

New Statesman: Inside the Whitehall kettle

Guardian: Student protests in UK

The Hindu: The hunt on Wikileaks: An instance of Digital McCarthyism

Tehelka: Why is this man in prison

Electronic Frontier Foundation: Amazon and WikiLeaks - Online Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Intermediary

Dillipost: ഇതല്ലേ ശരിക്കുമൊരു ബനാന റിപബ്ലിക്?

The Nation: The 'Giving' Season

All India People Science Network: All India People Science Congress to be held on December 2010

The Hindu: The spotlight is on the media now

Guardian: Student protest in UK against fee hike.

Workers' Forum: ഒബാമ: വാഴ്ത്തുപാട്ടുകൾക്കും അസംബന്ധങ്ങൾക്കും ശേഷം

Third International Congress on Kerala Studies: Third International Congress on Kerala Studies to take place during 1 to 3 January 2011.

Guardian: Save Haiti from aid tourists

The Hindu: Editorial: Israel is as Israel does

Janayugam: ഡോ. സി ആര്‍ സോമന്‍: മുന്‍പേ പറന്ന പക്ഷി

Guardian: Guantánamo Bay prisoners to get compensation from British government

Malayal.am: കേരളത്തിന് വൈകിക്കിട്ടിയ പുണ്യം

EPW: A Profitable Partnership

Frontline: Battling On

Guardian: Supporters flood the streets to welcome Aung San Suu Kyi

Pragoti: Protectionist US wants to Prise Open Indian Economy

Guardian: Heavy Ions collide in Large Hadron Collider

Personal Blog: ദൈവം എന്ന മിഥ്യാഭ്രമം

Dillipost: എര്‍സാറ്റ്സ് മുതലാളിത്തത്തിന്‍റെ കരച്ചില്‍

Dillipost: കാലം സാ­ക്ഷി, ച­രിത്രം സാ­ക്ഷി..

Frontline: Road to rebellion

Pragoti: "Strengthen the unity of the Left - foremost political task" - Interview with Thomas Isaac

Pragoti: SKS and the Crisis of Corporate-led Microfinance in India

Workers' Forum: സി പി എം നേതാക്കളുടെ ധാര്‍ഷ്ട്യവും ഇലക്ഷന്‍ ഫലങ്ങളും

Personal Blog: ഗ്രാമീണ വായനശാലകള്‍ക്കായി മീര

Workers' Forum: നാടിനും കുടുംബത്തിനും ശ്രീ

Workers' Forum: ആനന്ദ് : ആശയവും സംവാദവും

Frontline: Far removed from secular universe

കേരള ശാസ്ത്രസാഹിത്യ പരിഷത്ത്: മാനവും മനുഷ്യനും

Science News Agencies: A kilogram is not a kilogram

Science News Agencies: Our solar system is not alone.

Personal Blog: ശരീര കാന്തികതയും മറ്റു കപടവാദങ്ങളും

Socialist Alternative: Strike in France

EPW: "Imagined Kerala": Nandagopal Menon in EPW

Janayugam: ശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞര്‍ നേരിടുന്ന വെല്ലുവിളി

Workers' Forum: നഷ്‌ടമാവുന്ന പൊതുമണ്ഡലങ്ങള്‍

Personal Blog: പെണ്‍ ടോയിലെറ്റുകള്‍ : ലിംഗ രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തിലേക്കുള്ള ഒരു അന്വേഷണം

Kerala Government: എഴോം പഞ്ചായത്തിന്റെ കാര്‍ഷിക ഉദ്യമങ്ങള്‍

Personal Blog: മാധ്യമ ത്തിന്റെ വിശ്വരൂപം വെളിവാകുന്നു !

Personal Blog: മയിലെണ്ണയണ്ണന്‍

Dillipost: കോടതിക്കെന്താ കൊമ്പുണ്ടോ?

Malayal.am: ഒരു ആര്‍.എസ്സ്.എസ്സു് ദലിതന്റെ തിരിച്ചറിവുകള്‍

Dillipost: ഭീകരതയുടെ മതമാറ്റം?

: Story of how women bring social change

The Hindu: The Empire strikes back — and how!

Pragoti: The Choice before the Maoists

Pragoti: A Left Approach to Development

Workers' Forum: Against abuse of the contempt power