Israel’s War on Hospitals Israel is carrying out a campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable. This campaign includes destroying all of Gaza’s hospitals. The message Israel is sending is clear – Nowhere is safe. If you stay you die. by CHRIS HEDGES NOV 20, 2023 Israel is not attacking hospitals in Gaza because they […]
শামিকে রোজ পরীক্ষা দিতে হবে। বিশ্বকাপ ফাইনালে আবার! সোনার কাপ হাতে উঠলেও তার পরের টুর্নামেন্টে। নামের বোঝা বিশাল দায়। এই দায়ে দোষী এক বিশেষ ধর্মের মানুষ, চেষ্টা করলেও মেজরিটির মেজরের বাইরে তারা চিরকাল। মোদি যুগে এবার জুতসই শব্দ আছে – দেশদ্রোহী। আসলে শুনতে শুনতে এক সময় সয়ে যায় মশাই। যত ইচ্ছে বলুন! লিখলেন মৌমিতা আলম। […]
Anne Boyer, a poet and essayist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020, quit as poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine and released a resignation letter. She denounced “the Israeli state’s U.S.-backed war against the people of Gaza” — accurately calling it “an ongoing war against the people of Palestine, people who have resisted through […]
Israel is Shutting Down its Human Laboratory in Gaza Israel uses Palestinians imprisoned in Gaza as human guinea pigs for its weapons and technology industries. By CHRIS HEDGES NOV 17, 2023 CAIRO, Egypt: The Palestinians are human laboratory rats to the Israeli military, intelligence services and arms and technology industries. Israel’s […]
Her story in photos of two public hearings for environment clearance to Vedanta’s bauxite mining proposal in Rayagada and Kalahandi districts, Odisha By Rajaraman, Debabrata and Evanjelina. Women of Banteji village, in the foothills of Tijmali, collectively resolve to oppose bauxite mining on the night before the public hearing of 16th October […]
Groundxero | 13th November, 2023 In the context of the Assembly Elections to five states, Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) – a platform of farmer unions which spearheaded the historic struggle against the three Farm Laws in 2020-21 – reiterated its stand on elections: It will not contest elections or extend support to any candidate […]
“In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians,” demonstrators chanted at Saturday’s march, described as one of the largest political protests in U.K. history. By JAKE JOHNSON Nov 11, 2023 Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of London on Saturday to demand an immediate cease-fire in Gaza as […]
The Horror, The Horror Israel’s genocidal attacks, which are killing hundreds of Palestinians a day, including some 160 children, have expanded to shelling the remaining hospitals in Gaza. By Chris Hedges Nov 11 DOHA, Qatar: I am in the studio of Al Jazeera’s Arabic service watching a live feed from Gaza City. The […]
Letter to the Children of Gaza By Chris Hedges Dear child. It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the Atlantic Ocean. I am traveling to Egypt. I will go to the border of Gaza at Rafah. I go because of […]
By Press Release 9 November, 2023 STAND IN SOLIDARITY FOR FREE PALESTINE! OPPOSE ZIONIST AGGRESSION & GENOCIDAL WAR! UPHOLD THE RIGHT TO RESISTANCE OF THE PALESTINIANS! A genocide is unfolding in Gaza, and it is hardly a surprise that the racist Zionist state of Israel executes the first genocide of the twenty […]
A document leaked in recent days has fully confirmed that the Zionist right is seizing the opportunity of Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” to try to implement its old dream of displacing most of the Palestinian population from the territories occupied in 1967, so as to complete the 1948 Nakba and achieve their “Greater Israel” project. […]
Groundxero | November 7, 2023 Students occupied Naples Orientale University on Monday morning to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to cooperation between their university and all Israeli political, economic and military institutions, reported Peoples Dispatch. The students in Italy are protesting Israeli genocide in Gaza and attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West […]
Groundxero | November 7, 2023 On Monday, 6 November, 2023, the Organization of Port Dockers in Barcelona (OEPB), the largest union of dock workers in the city, called for a cease-fire to the war in Gaza and announced that they will refuse to handle the shipment of any weapons, citing humanitarian concerns. “Workers have committed […]
Why did Israel kill my son? By Ahmed Abu Artema I write these words from my hospital bed. I am beginning to have some energy to hold my phone and use my fingers after 10 days here. I write in grief. I woke up in my family house in Rafah, in the […]
দেখতে দেখতে তিস্তা মহাবিপর্যয়ের এক মাস পার হল। সিকিম ও পশ্চিমবঙ্গে এই প্রচণ্ড ধ্বংসলীলার সার্বিক ক্ষয়ক্ষতির হিসেব করে উঠতে পারেনি দুই রাজ্যের সরকার। এখনও ভিড় ত্রাণশিবিরে, পথঘাট থেকে, ঘরবাড়ি, ভগ্ন, বিপর্যস্ত বাঁধ থেকে মাটি-বালি-পাথরের স্তুপ সরানোর কাজ চলছে। প্রায় এক মাসের মাথায় বেড়ানোর উদ্দেশ্যে কালিম্পং গিয়েছিলেন সন্দীপ দাস। তাঁর কলমে হ্রদভাঙা বন্যায় অন্যতম বিপর্যস্ত এ […]
Gaza bombing adds to the generations of Palestinians displaced from their homes BY Michael Vicente Perez An estimated 1.4 million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes since the Israeli military began bombing the Gaza Strip on Oct. 8, 2023, in retaliation for a surprise attack by Hamas militants. Many of these Palestinians have […]
A student’s perspective on the recent controversy surrounding Prof. Achin Vanaik’s teach-in session on Palestine at O.P. Jindal Global University and the consequent dissemination of misinformation and targeting of faculty members by the right wing ecosystem from within and outside the university. By Samyuktha Kannan Nov 04, 2023 On the 1st of November, some faculty members at […]
By Groundxero Nov 04, 2023 The World Health Organization, UN Relief and Works Agency for the Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the UN Populations Fund and Unicef have put out a joint statement on the plight women and newborns in Gaza are facing amid Israel’s deadly siege. The UN agencies said that bombardments, […]
UN Experts Warn of ‘Grave Risk of Genocide’ in Gaza “Time is running out to prevent genocide and humanitarian catastrophe,” the special rapporteurs stressed—while other experts said such conditions already exist in the pulverized Palestinian enclave. By Brett Wilkins Nov 02, 2023 As the death toll from over three weeks of relentless Israeli bombardment […]
Groundxero | November 2, 2023 Belgium transport workers’ unions on last Tuesday have called their worker-members to refuse handling of weapon shipments destined for Israel. The unions said in a statement that “a genocide” was underway in Palestine, and they have urged ground handling workers in airports in Belgium not to handle deliveries of […]
Groundxero | 1st November, 2023 Vedanta Limited’s proposed bauxite mining project at Sijimali in Odisha’s Rayagada district is being intensely opposed by local Adivasi and Dalit villagers who have voiced concerns over their eviction and possible adverse impact of the mining project on their livelihoods and local ecology. On March 1 of this […]
Groundxero | 31st October, 2023 On 30th October, Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity (BKMS) met district officials (ADM-ZP) and political party leaders of BJP and TMC in Purulia district to draw attention to the increasing rural distress in one of the poorest districts in West Bengal due to collapse of NREGA. PBKMS also drew […]
Groundxero | 31st October, 2023 A huge public meeting was held on 29th October at Talaampadar of Thuamal Rampur Block in Kalahandi district of Odisha. This public meeting was attended by over 2000 people. The objective of the meeting was to strengthen the bonds across the communities and reiterate their resolve to unitedly continue […]
“We will do everything in our power to demand an end to U.S. support for genocide and apartheid,” said Jewish Voice for Peace. By Brett Wilkins As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaims in genocidal undertones his army’s “holy mission” to invade Gaza, Jewish American peace activists are ramping up their nationwide effort to bring […]
Groundxero | 30 October, 2023 The head of the UN’s children agency (Unicef), while addressing the UN’s security council on Monday, said: More than 420 children are being killed or injured in Gaza each day – a number which should shake each of us to our core. UN security council meet on Monday following […]
হাংরি বা উত্তর-হাংরি সমসাময়িক সাহিত্যের মূল বয়ান যদি হয় বিবিক্তা, এই ধারার লেখালেখির সাথে আমার সম্পর্কও তো আসলে বিবিক্তারই। লিঙ্গগত প্রশ্নে, শ্রেণীগত প্রশ্নে, মতাদর্শের প্রশ্নে। এই লেখা তাই আমার সেইসব বিবিক্তাবোধ ও প্রশ্নেরই একটি ধারাবিবরণী — নন্দিনী ধর। লেখাটি প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয়েছিল ২০১৯-এ আয়নানগর পত্রিকায়। কয়েক সপ্তাহ আগে, ইংরাজি অনলাইন পত্রিকা ‘‘কাফে ডিসেনসাস’’-এ হাংরি আন্দোলন নিয়ে […]
Hamas upholding Islam does not undermine its struggle but is a natural part of the overall historical development of Palestinian people and anti-colonial struggle they wage. Under the veil of religion, liberation struggle is waged in societies where democracy has not fully prevailed, writes Harsh Thakor. The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the […]
গ্রাউন্ডজিরো প্রতিবেদন : অনিমেষ দত্ত বাংলা সাহিত্য এক বিরাট মহাসাগর। আর এই মহাসাগরেই নিজের জায়গা পাকাপোক্ত করে অধিষ্ঠান করছে লিটল ম্যাগাজিন। কলকাতা বইমেলায় লিটল ম্যাগাজিন প্যাভিলিয়ন কিংবা সারা রাজ্যে নানান জায়গায় লিটল ম্যাগাজিন মেলার মাধ্যমে এই ‘অন্যরকম’ সাহিত্য পাঠকের কাছে পৌঁছে যায়। বাংলা লিটল ম্যাগাজিন শুধু ‘অন্যরকম’ সাহিত্য নয়, বরং একটা আন্দোলনও বটে। আর এই […]
Groundxero | 20th October, 2023 Mohammed Zubair, one of the founding members of fact-checking website AltNews, has won the the 2023 Freedom of Expression Awards – Journalism by Index on Censorship for his fight against fake news and disinformation in India, which has led him to face attacks, slander and even jail. The Index […]
What the demand for same-sex marriage in India shows is the neoliberal and mindless nature of the so-called queer movement here that has no knowledge of decades of feminist critique and is the willing handmaiden of neoliberal capitalism, writes Ashley Tellis. The Chief Justice of India is quite right to state that the role […]
Groundxero | 20th October, 2023 The People’s Union For Civil Liberties (PUCL) has expressed its deep disappointment with respect to the verdict of the Supreme Court of India denying the right to marry to the LGBTQI community. PUCL termed the judgement as a setback to the wider human rights movement and liberalisation of social […]
গ্রাউন্ডজিরো প্রতিবেদন : অনিমেষ দত্ত কলকাতার সংস্কৃত কলেজ ও বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের ইংরেজি বিভাগের উদ্যোগে গত ১৬ ও ১৭ অক্টোবর দু’দিন ব্যাপী আয়োজন করা হল নিষিদ্ধ বই ও সিনেমার প্রদর্শনী- যার নাম দেওয়া হয়েছিল “ব্যানডওয়াগন (Banned Wagon)”। ভারত তথা বিশ্বের বিভিন্ন দেশে বিভিন্ন সময়ে নিষিদ্ধ হয়েছে একাধিক বই। পরবর্তীকালে দেখা গেছে এর মধ্যে অনেক বই-ই পাঠক্রমের […]
বিশ্ব ক্ষুধা সূচক ২০২৩ (গ্লোবাল হাঙ্গার ইনডেক্স ২০২৩ / জিএইচআই) রিপোর্ট অনুযায়ী ১২৫ টি দেশের মধ্যে ভারতের স্থান ১১১। যার অর্থ ভারতে ক্ষুধা পরিস্থিতি গুরুতর (serious) রাষ্ট্রকেই মানুষের খাবার পাওয়ার অধিকারকে স্বীকার করতে হবে এবং এই লক্ষ্যেই রাজনীতিকে চালিত না করতে পারলে এক ক্ষুধার্ত প্রজাতন্ত্রের তকমা নিয়েই আমাদের বেঁচে থাকতে হবে। লিখলেন সুমন কল্যাণ মৌলিক। […]
Groundxero Report | 19th October, 2023 The second Public Hearing, required to obtain the Environment Clearance for the Sijimali Bauxite Mining Project of Vedanta, met with equal resounding opposition from local villagers. It was held on Oct 18 at Kerpai High School premises in Thuamul Rampur Block of Kalahandi district, Odisha. The public hearing started at […]
Groundxero Report | 19th October, 2023 Uttam Mardy (22), a first-year postgraduate Adivasi student of North Bengal University (NBU) committed suicide at his Malda home last Monday on 16 October. Family members of Uttam Mardy have filed a complaint with police and varsity authorities, alleging that he was a victim of ragging and torture at the University hostel. […]
ঘটনার পর প্রায় দু’সপ্তাহ কেটে গিয়েছে । এ রাজ্যের অন্তত ৩২ জন পরিযায়ী শ্রমিকের কোনও খোঁজ নেই। উত্তরবঙ্গের জেলায় জেলায়, গ্রামে গ্রামে উদ্বেগে ভেঙে পড়া বাবা-মা, স্ত্রী, আত্মীয়দের কাছে ‘খোঁজ চলছে’ বলা ছাড়া আর কোনও খবর পৌঁছে দিতে পারছে না জেলা বা রাজ্য প্রশাসন। দেবাশিস আইচের রিপোর্ট। হতবাক করে দেওয়ার মতোই দৃশ্য। একটা গাছের […]
Groundxero Report | 16th October, 2023 Rayagada, Odisha: The public hearing seeking environmental clearance for bauxite mining by Vedanta Limited at Sijimali in Odisha’s Rayagada district concluded on October 16 (Monday) amid massive protests by villagers opposed to the project voicing concerns over the possible adverse impact of mining on local ecology. The public hearing was […]
Groundxero Report | 16th October, 2023 A joint statement condemning the brazen attacks on journalists and the muzzling of democratic organs was issued to the Press on 16th October 2023 by the Platform of Central Trade Unions/Sectoral Federations/Associations (CTUs) and Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM). The statement was issued in the context of the raids on 3rd October, 2023 by the Delhi […]
Groundxero Report | 16th October, 2023 The Indian government under Narendra Modi have criminalised all opposition to Israel’s genocide campaign in Gaza and intensified crackdown against all who are coming out in solidarity with the Palestinian people and its struggle against Israel’s for their right to self-determination and independence. Today, the Delhi police under Union Home […]
Groundxero Report | 16th October, 2023 Phidang, Dzongu: On the morning of 15 October (Sunday) Affected Citizens of Teesta (ACT) organised a Solidarity March at Phidang, Dzongu, North Sikkim. The event was organised to hold prayers for all the lost lives accounted and unaccounted for in the dreadful Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) on October 4. The disaster that […]