Globetrotter’s Vijay Prashad Cited in Denmark’s Digital Daily Newspaper, Arbejderen (Danish)
Globetrotter’s Taroa Zúñiga Silva Interviewed by Ciudad Caracas About the Persecution of Immigrants in Chile (Español)
Globetrotter’s Taroa Zúñiga Silva Discusses Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera’s Attacks on Venezuelan Immigrants (Español)
Globetrotter’s Vijay Prashad Interviewed by CounterSpin on India, Covid and Modi
On CounterSpin, FAIR’s weekly radio show, Vijay Prashad speaks with host Janine Jackson.
Globetrotter’s Taroa Zúñiga Silva: ‘America in Crisis: Chile and Colombia: Between the Social Unrest and Electoral Victories’
Watch the interview (Español) from Brigada Para Leer en Libertad:
‘América en Crisis: Chile y Colombia: entre el estallido social y las victorias electorales’
Globetrotter’s Vijay Prashad Cited for Efforts to Counter Authoritarianism in South Asia
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and Globetrotter’s Vijay Prashad Talk About Israel’s Apartheid Policy
Globetrotter’s Vijay Prashad Talks to Rapper and Activist Lowkey About How Neoliberalism Led to the Deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower Fire in London
Globetrotter’s Vijay Prashad Op-Ed in New York Daily News: India is infected: What COVID hath wrought
Globetrotter’s Vijay Prashad writes in the New York Daily News:
My mother died in Kolkata in September 2020 at the age of 91. She did not die of COVID-19. I was only able to see her cremation via FaceTime.
She lay on the bier, her face peaceful, her long journey over. A few months before she died, she had told me, “I would rather die of COVID than of boredom.”
Just before she died, she left me a note. “The cancer has taken me,” she wrote. The situation in India disturbed her greatly, the slow decline of her abilities mirroring the collapse of the country she loved.
Earlier this year, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced for the luminaries of Davos that India had defeated the disease. COVID did not accept his verdict, which sounded a little bit like George W. Bush’s speech about Iraq made in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner.
Over the past month, the disease has reappeared in India with vengeance, tearing through urban and rural communities, although the devastation in the major cities has been more visible because that is where the media lives. The daily toll has hit 400,000 cases, and daily deaths — at least those officially counted — now exceed 4,200.
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Read the rest of “India Is Infected: What COVID Hath Wrought” by Globetrotter’s Vijay Prashad at the New York Daily News.