On 24 March, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a live telecast to the nation, had announced a 21 day complete lockdown of the entire country, placing 1.3 billion people under curfew, in order to contain the spread of the corona virus in India. However, after 20 April, industries in India were allowed to operate […]
While the entire nation was fixated on making sense of the 23rd May election results, Mahul residents had to worry about the 24th May stay order from the Supreme Court on the recent Bombay HC order which directed the state govt to pay rent to Mahul residents who were facing life threats due to pollution. […]
২০১৮-র ডিসেম্বর মাসের ১৩ তারিখ মেঘালয়ের পূর্ব জয়ন্তিয়া জেলার একটি কয়লা খনিতে মাটি থেকে ৩৭০ ফিট তলায় আটকে পড়েন ১৫ জন খনি-মজুর। উদ্ধারকাজের প্রেক্ষিতে উঠে আসে প্রশাসনের অমার্জনীয় প্রস্তুতির অভাব। দুর্ঘটনার পরে একমাসের বেশি হয়ে গেলেও, এখনও পর্যন্ত উদ্ধার হয়েছে মাত্র একজন খনি-মজুরের পচাগলা মৃতদেহ। গরীব খেটে খাওয়া মানুষের জীবনের মূল্যহীনতার পাশাপাশি আবারও উঠে এলো […]
GroundXero was launched on 14th April this year, on Dr. B.R.Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, and looking forward to the Bengali new year that begun the next day. As 2018 in the Gregorian calendar draws to a close, we present some brief snapshots of the year that has been. For this first post in a series, we […]
Nothing much could be done because the world is not really a single world. It never was. Despite UN and the intergovernmental big shows, the world never behaved as a species. It was not the species per se that logged the primeval forests, dug up the Earth for coal and oil and gold, colonized the […]