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Dec 10, 2024 | 
madrascourier.com | Jayakhosh Chidambaran
The glittering Academy Awards night of 1973 created a sensation by the conspicuous absence of the best actor winner, Marlon Brando, for The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Touted as one of the best actors in the history of motion pictures and a foremost exponent of the Stanislavsky system of Method Acting, Brando sent his emissary, the unknown actor and activist Sacheen Littlefeather of the Apache tribe, to deliver the speech.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
madrascourier.com | Jayakhosh Chidambaran
The Peace Of Westphalia, a series of treaties signed in 1648, was a monumental event in ascertaining the territorial sovereignty of two Westphalian states of Osnabruck and Munster from the Holy Roman Empire. It ended the Thirty Years War, a catastrophic period in medieval European history that laid down the first principles of international relations.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
madrascourier.com | Jayakhosh Chidambaran
The Middle East has been a flashpoint in global affairs for over a century. Sustained geopolitical tensions have evaded peaceful co-existence between communities that inhabit this ever-volatile region of West Asia. The signing of the Balfour Declaration in 1917 culminated in the Nakba of 1948, where Israeli militias and the Israeli army forcefully evicted more than 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, villages and towns.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
madrascourier.com | Jayakhosh Chidambaran
The release of Chat GPT by Open AI in November 2022—later acquired by Microsoft Corporation—created a sensation in the tech world. The text-generating AI Chatbot was heralded as the next phase of technological advancement mimicking human cognition.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
madrascourier.com | Jayakhosh Chidambaran
Man, by virtue of an inexplicable program of nature or through his arduous biological evolutionary journey, has developed a penchant for the transcendent. He is fascinated by anything or anyone that seems to transcend the mundane and the ordinary. Bereft of rhyme or reason, he readily loses himself in something he perceives to be higher than himself in utter awe and admiration.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vikas Meshram |Bharat Dogra |Jayakhosh Chidambaran |Brett Wilkins
According to this year’s ‘State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World’ report, India has the highest number of malnourished people in the world, with a staggering 195 million affected. This report, prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, was published jointly by five UN agencies, including UNICEF. The report also highlights a slight improvement in India’s statistics: between 2004-06, the number of malnourished people in the country was 240 million.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Jayakhosh Chidambaran |Joseph Benny |A K Shiburaj |Mitali Chakravarty
Industrial Revolutions and the Great Acceleration in the second half of the 20th century, witnessed the planet, irrevocably transitioning from the epoch to the Anthropocene era. Unbridled human activity, rampant urbanization, mechanization of production, proliferation of factories, industrial scale manufacture and employment of fertilizers and pesticides and the resultant emission of greenhouse gases have adversely impacted nature.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Subhash Gatade |Vidya Bhushan Rawat |Jayakhosh Chidambaran
Despite discovery of new mineral wealth in recent years in Mozambique, including huge natural gas reserves, high poverty levels and low human development indicators in this East African country with a population of around 33 million remain a matter of serious concern. Although early years of this century witnessed high growth rates, this did not benefit the big majority of poor people.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Jayakhosh Chidambaran |Brett Wilkins |Jean Shaoul
Angola has experienced a high growth rate in recent times. It has been reasonably stable politically. Angola has significant oil deposits and exports. It also has gold and diamonds, not to mention copper. At the same time Angola has one of the highest infant mortality rates and one of the lowest life expectation in the world. There is a serious humanitarian crisis in the country.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Jayakhosh Chidambaran |Brett Wilkins |Jean Shaoul
Geneva – Yemen is facing a nutrition emergency of catastrophic proportions, with three districts plunged into severe crisis and four more teetering on the edge of famine. This escalating disaster demands immediate global action and unwavering humanitarian support to avert further tragedy and safeguard countless lives.
