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**Author:** [@system](http://azadmaidan.in/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/welcome-to-azad-maidan/5 "2023-03-19T18:30:00Z")
About Azad Maidan Azad Maidan is a place to publish articles/documents, curate them, and write reviews or comments about what is published elsewhere, about your reflections on what is happening in the world, reports f… --- ## [How Indian French Fries and Gherkin Pickles Came to be Sold in New York Delis](http://azadmaidan.in/t/how-indian-french-fries-and-gherkin-pickles-came-to-be-sold-in-new-york-delis/129)
**Author:** [@privvcy](http://azadmaidan.in/u/privvcy)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 10:12am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/how-indian-french-fries-and-gherkin-pickles-came-to-be-sold-in-new-york-delis/129 "2025-07-21T10:12:30Z")
This article is reproduced with permission from Global Indian Times Subscribe here for more Global Indian Times How Indian French Fries and Gherkin Pickles Came to be Sold in New York Delis As exports o… --- ## [Dam me a river, at any cost](http://azadmaidan.in/t/dam-me-a-river-at-any-cost/128)
**Author:** [@privvcy](http://azadmaidan.in/u/privvcy)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 9:52am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/dam-me-a-river-at-any-cost/128 "2025-07-21T09:52:13Z")
By the 1980s, the mixed consequences of large river management interventions were being seriously debated. Nearly all such projects are expensive enough to be beyond the ability of growing economies to set aside sufficie… --- ## [Divide and roll out expensive disasters](http://azadmaidan.in/t/divide-and-roll-out-expensive-disasters/127)
**Author:** [@privvcy](http://azadmaidan.in/u/privvcy)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2025, 11:09am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/divide-and-roll-out-expensive-disasters/127 "2025-07-19T11:09:09Z")
In a lengthy expose, the South Asia Network for Dams, Rivers and People published a study by environmental engineer-activist Sridhar Radhakrishnan, describing how, bypassing systems set up specifically to ensure adequacy… --- ## [Whitewashing a saffron washed policy](http://azadmaidan.in/t/whitewashing-a-saffron-washed-policy/126)
**Author:** [@privvcy](http://azadmaidan.in/u/privvcy)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/whitewashing-a-saffron-washed-policy/126 "2025-07-09T18:17:00Z")
A recent Editorial Page column by Pratap Bhanu Mehta focuses on the announcement from the Election Commission, calling upon people in Bihar to prove their citizenship in order to confirm their right to vote in the upc… --- ## [Life Skills for Adolescents:](http://azadmaidan.in/t/life-skills-for-adolescents/125)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/life-skills-for-adolescents/125 "2025-05-26T14:27:21Z")
“Life Skills for Adolescents: A Guide for Facilitators, Teachers, and Parents” to help Adolescents to build emotional strength, critical thinking, decision-making skills, and resilience. It covers Interpersonal Relati… --- ## [Chalopede — a class of vehicles on legs](http://azadmaidan.in/t/chalopede-a-class-of-vehicles-on-legs/88)
**Author:** [@privvcy](http://azadmaidan.in/u/privvcy)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/chalopede-a-class-of-vehicles-on-legs/88 "2025-05-25T16:55:54Z")
Many creatures on land move around on legs, but humans have, for millennia, amplified this possibility by using wheels. Indeed, we make a large variety of vehicles with wheels, starting with roller skates, small wheeled … --- ## [Civilisation: its history and underlying dependencies on inadequately wrangled technologies. A way forward](http://azadmaidan.in/t/civilisation-its-history-and-underlying-dependencies-on-inadequately-wrangled-technologies-a-way-forward/116)
**Author:** [@privvcy](http://azadmaidan.in/u/privvcy)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/civilisation-its-history-and-underlying-dependencies-on-inadequately-wrangled-technologies-a-way-forward/116 "2025-05-24T17:54:01Z")
The present state of human ingenuity, applied to the creation and use of physical objects, and to the organisation of human society in a manner that leverages it, is remarkable. However, this is not exactly a compliment… --- ## [Modi ka Operation Sindoor](http://azadmaidan.in/t/modi-ka-operation-sindoor/123)
**Author:** [@privvcy](http://azadmaidan.in/u/privvcy)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/modi-ka-operation-sindoor/123 "2025-05-11T15:40:00Z")
Forwarded from yet unknown sources, courtesy Lalita Ramdas Will Modi march where the bullets fly? Will Amit Shah step into a trench under a burning sky? Will our leaders, who call for war with such ease, Stand where … --- ## [PPST Convention Booklet](http://azadmaidan.in/t/ppst-convention-booklet/122)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 6:50am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/ppst-convention-booklet/122 "2025-03-15T06:50:16Z")
PPST Convention --- ## [Trail of Violence](http://azadmaidan.in/t/trail-of-violence/121)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2025, 7:59am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/trail-of-violence/121 "2025-03-14T07:59:18Z")
The Global VHP’s Trail of Violence https://www.wearesavera.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Global-VHPs-Trail-of-Violence-v2.pdf The VHP-A often positions itself as an exclusively religious organization that represe… --- ## [India's Left-right centenary](http://azadmaidan.in/t/indias-left-right-centenary/120)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2025, 5:34am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/indias-left-right-centenary/120 "2025-03-12T05:34:59Z")
India’s left-right centenary - Newspaper - DAWN.COM A desirable quest for the increasingly marginalised communist parties at the current juncture, to the ordinary Indian’s mind, should be to help re-establish the secula… --- ## [Decolonisation without searching for the ‘other’](http://azadmaidan.in/t/decolonisation-without-searching-for-the-other/119)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/decolonisation-without-searching-for-the-other/119 "2025-03-08T17:08:38Z")
Decolonisation without searching for the ‘other’ Decolonisation without searching for the ‘other’ - Hindustan Times Could it be that the time is now more ripe for pre-modern non-European knowledge systems? …– what wi… --- ## [Mutual Assured AI Malfunction](http://azadmaidan.in/t/mutual-assured-ai-malfunction/118)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/mutual-assured-ai-malfunction/118 "2025-03-07T12:07:26Z")
AI demands sober attention and a risk-conscious approach: outcomes, favorable or disastrous, hinge on what we do next. A risk-conscious strategy is one that tackles the wicked problems of deterrence, nonproliferation, a… --- ## [Modi & Stalin “Deadlocked” Over National Education Policy](http://azadmaidan.in/t/modi-stalin-deadlocked-over-national-education-policy/115)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/modi-stalin-deadlocked-over-national-education-policy/115 "2025-03-03T18:36:55Z")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCBAXc0ICw0 state’s Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services, P. Thiaga Rajan, has made clear that the Tamil Nadu government and the Central government are “deadlocked” ov… --- ## [Legal tips from Bail Application Order of Nadeem](http://azadmaidan.in/t/legal-tips-from-bail-application-order-of-nadeem/73)
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These are extract from a Bail Order where a whole lot of people have been incarcerated for allegedly rioting. BA3014-2024+.DOC …2. Briefly stated, the prosecution case runs as under: On the eve of the consecration of Lo… --- ## [Misdiagnosing AAP defeat in Delhi Election, will be fatal to democracy](http://azadmaidan.in/t/misdiagnosing-aap-defeat-in-delhi-election-will-be-fatal-to-democracy/114)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2025, 12:26am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/misdiagnosing-aap-defeat-in-delhi-election-will-be-fatal-to-democracy/114 "2025-02-10T00:26:12Z")
Don’t misdiagnose AAP defeat in Delhi election results. It will be fatal to democracy Delhi elections 2025: How BJP took control of Delhi Akshay Marathe 09 February, 2025 Delhi’s voters do not dislike Arvind Kejriwal. I… --- ## [Fresh Assault on Academic Freedoms](http://azadmaidan.in/t/fresh-assault-on-academic-freedoms/113)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2025, 12:24am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/fresh-assault-on-academic-freedoms/113 "2025-02-10T00:24:29Z")
--- ## [Gandhi and the meaning of dharma and violence](http://azadmaidan.in/t/gandhi-and-the-meaning-of-dharma-and-violence/112)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 2:58am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/gandhi-and-the-meaning-of-dharma-and-violence/112 "2025-01-30T02:58:17Z")
Gandhi and the meaning of dharma and violence - Gandhi and the meaning of dharma and violence - Hindustan Times Text of article – I had just got into a taxi when the driver began shouting at some unknown offender in th… --- ## [Deep Seek, will it shut the Open Source AI](http://azadmaidan.in/t/deep-seek-will-it-shut-the-open-source-ai/111)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 27, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/deep-seek-will-it-shut-the-open-source-ai/111 "2025-01-27T12:52:27Z")
How China’s New AI Model DeepSeek Is Threatening U.S. Dominance\]( Make sure you listen to the interview with Arvind Srinivas at the end.. The other question that came to mind was can you embe… --- ## [Who will defend Democracy?](http://azadmaidan.in/t/who-will-defend-democracy/107)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/who-will-defend-democracy/107 "2025-01-20T19:32:04Z")
Emergency & Neo Emergency: MG Devasahayam Sam Pitroda the history of human rights violations during the last ten years mirrors the Emergency in every way. Both the Emergency and the undeclared emergency h… --- ## [Sundar Burra: A ‘Giant’ of a Civil Servant](http://azadmaidan.in/t/sundar-burra-a-giant-of-a-civil-servant/110)
**Author:** [@GN](http://azadmaidan.in/u/GN)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 26, 2025, 5:41am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/sundar-burra-a-giant-of-a-civil-servant/110 "2025-01-26T05:41:11Z")
By: M.G. Devasahayam Published in: The Wire Date: January 25, 2025 Source: Sundar Burra: A ‘Giant’ of a Civil Servant - The Wire Retired IAS officer Sundar Burra. Photo by arrangement. Sundar Burra, a former IAS … --- ## [Ode to Broken Things](http://azadmaidan.in/t/ode-to-broken-things/109)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 25, 2025, 2:26am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/ode-to-broken-things/109 "2025-01-25T02:26:47Z")
Ode to Broken Things | RedRiver poetry book with photo art Ode to Broken Things released recently. These poems read like simple conversations with a friend and are a reflection on what it means to be human. Ode to Br… --- ## [Mahanbhai Hirbai Hiralal Amar Rahe](http://azadmaidan.in/t/mahanbhai-hirbai-hiralal-amar-rahe/108)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 25, 2025, 2:12am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/mahanbhai-hirbai-hiralal-amar-rahe/108 "2025-01-25T02:12:07Z")
Our Last Meeting with him. --- ## [Gaza ceasefire reveals Israel’s fragility, and the transformative power of resistance](http://azadmaidan.in/t/gaza-ceasefire-reveals-israel-s-fragility-and-the-transformative-power-of-resistance/106)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/gaza-ceasefire-reveals-israel-s-fragility-and-the-transformative-power-of-resistance/106 "2025-01-18T12:54:38Z")
At its core, resistance cannot be reduced to its tactical or strategic dimensions. It is not merely a confrontation on the battlefield but a disruption of the ontological certainties of the colonizer. Its essence lies in… --- ## [Rohit Vemula Amar Rahe!](http://azadmaidan.in/t/rohit-vemula-amar-rahe/105)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2025, 11:15am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/rohit-vemula-amar-rahe/105 "2025-01-18T11:15:06Z")
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLILjXRcfegE0QGy4WsasAypF3UI8pn0Uj We remember Rohith Vemula on his martyrdom day!! COLLECTIVE Mumbai put up an art exhibition at Mumbai University, Kalina Campus gate to commemora… --- ## [Films on caste inter religion liaison](http://azadmaidan.in/t/films-on-caste-inter-religion-liaison/104)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2025, 7:14am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/films-on-caste-inter-religion-liaison/104 "2025-01-17T07:14:03Z")
‘Naked Wall’: This film revolves around the small village of western UP in India. A boy Guddu falls in love with a girl from his own village but from a different religion. In a village where people are hard headed about … --- ## [Budgets & Economic Rights v/s Doles](http://azadmaidan.in/t/budgets-economic-rights-v-s-doles/103)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2025, 11:39am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/budgets-economic-rights-v-s-doles/103 "2025-01-15T11:39:01Z")
The Economic Rights Every Indian Should Have - Prabhat Patnaik --- ## [LA fires and Climate Change](http://azadmaidan.in/t/la-fires-and-climate-change/102)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2025, 5:08am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/la-fires-and-climate-change/102 "2025-01-15T05:08:55Z")
https://youtu.be/eyWnPzI6RwU?t=743 What our PM thinks of Climate Change Arctic tundra now emits more CO2 than it stores --- ## [What possibly sustains Antkind](http://azadmaidan.in/t/what-possibly-sustains-antkind/101)
**Author:** [@JohnatCED](http://azadmaidan.in/u/JohnatCED)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2025, 3:53am UTC](http://azadmaidan.in/t/what-possibly-sustains-antkind/101 "2025-01-15T03:53:43Z")
The Ant’s Soliloquy on what possibly sustains Antkind \[RADHA GOMATY\] I am an Ant in the unfolding Apocalypse. Just an Ant that is sensitive to the gusts of the heat from the towering pyramids of flame; That understa… [Next page](http://azadmaidan.in/latest.md?page=1)