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  What to do with Political Suffering: Solidarity Amid US-Israel-Iran War By: Jatin Mathur As the world heads towards wars with the US and Israel attacking Iran, humanitarians would certainly be concerned about peace and humanity. Recent geopolitical actions have been depressing to humanitarians, whether it is bombings targeted at civilians in Gaza, not leaving children and sexual exploitation of children by cultural and political elites in the Epstein files or political imprisonment of people across nations. We all have to face this question of what to do with this political sadness? To me (as a sociologist), these incidents might lead to an awareness of the oppressive structures and exploitation of human agency by elites; however, as a human being with empathy, it leaves me with helplessness and hopelessness. I would not say I do not have probable answers or solutions to these concerns, part of the problem lies in the inability to prepare conditions for a solution to work. In my ...

Conservation with out Care 9August. World Tribal day. International Day of the World's Indigenous People's  Every time, I attend a workshop or a seminar on any environment-related issue like the conservation of wildlife, forests, climate change, etc. It is always fascinating to ponder over some of the very intriguing questions like, how nature works, how much time it takes to form a drop of water, how much forest are we left with, is sustainable life really possible, what should come first development or environment and if development is coming at the cost of environment, then can we really call it development, what is the actual meaning of development?  Let’s Park these normative questions aside for a moment. Because my purpose here is not to respond to these important normative questions. Rather, through these questions, I want to bring to your focus the importance of bios and the efforts that many environmentalists have put into making us realise the importance of bios and ...

  Discrimination Diaries By- Shreyansh Nishchal  We all have been denied our reasonable rewards and we all at some point have missed our opportunities just because we could not fit among the people around us. Sometimes you may be judged based upon your class, or ethnicity other times you may face discrimination based upon gender, caste, and religion. But the real problem is not the discrimination but our acceptance of it. We all have sometimes faced extreme discrimination based upon a social identity that mere comments upon your class and ethnicity do not seem discriminatory to us, sometimes even your social identity-based humiliation is tolerated by people based upon the belief that conditions were worse before. This has led to a collective acceptance of a discriminatory mindset among us. So we have come up with a collection of stories that may seem ordinary but are an outcome of a discriminatory mindset. DISCRIMINATION DIARIES  Recently, I watched a web series titled Pa...