NB: Our Great Leader specialises in inventing abusive epithets for anyone critical of him or his government. The epithets include desh drohi (anti-national traitors), Khan Market gang, urban Naxals etc. Now he has come up with a new phrase, dimagi naxals – meaning intellectual Maoists. India’s Maoist movement began in 1967, and originated in a… Read More Devdutt Pattanaik on ‘dimagi Naxals’
After August 5, 2019, with the onset of a more aggressive Kashmir policy aimed at ‘integrating’ Jammu & Kashmir with mainstream India, the prospects of Naga peace seem almost non-existent Bharat Bhushan Every August 14, the sky‑blue Naga flag with the Star of Bethlehem and rainbow unfurls, as armed cadre parade and recall Naga history, marking Naga Independence… Read More Naga Independence Day, India’s missed opportunity
German General Reinhard Gehlen set up an anti-Soviet espionage ring in 1945 and used it to the grief of both sides during the Cold War. This article appears in: October 2004 By Peter Kross By 1944, many top generals in Adolf Hitler’s army understood the war was lost and that they had better make arrangements to… Read More The extraordinary career of German General Reinhard Gehlen
शिक्षा में पुनर्विचार -आर्यमान और इरिना, पगडंडी संगठन देश में चल रहे युवा आंदोलन ने हम सब को शिक्षा और युवाओं के भविष्य पे सोचने को मजबूर कर दिया है। तत्कालीन मुद्दा NEET एग्ज़ाम में पेपर लीक का है लेकिन आंदोलन में दिख रही ऊर्जा बताती है की बात उस से ज़्यादा गहरी है। उस… Read More शिक्षा में पुनर्विचार
It is not enough now for war to kill, it must eradicate a people’s cherished and precious heritage too Simon Jenkins Wars may not take summer holidays, but they do sometimes see exhaustion. As drones race back and forth across Ukraine and the strait of Hormuz, a grim stalemate seems to have invaded the earth beneath. Aerial… Read More Ukrainian cathedrals, Gaza’s archives, Iranian squares – modern war is systematically erasing human history
Sumit Sarkar, one of India’s most reputed historians of modern times, talks of breaking the mould NB: Sumit Sarkar was a stalwart of historical scholarship and a great teacher. Hundreds of students have sat in his classes and learned at his feet. I am grateful to have been one of them, in my MA days… Read More Sumit Sarkar (1939-2026): A historian muses on forty years of scholarship
Take back those words Mitali Saran You know how evolution is all about single cells dividing and dividing again, into ever more complex and wondrous life forms? After 2014, Indian mainstream media totally bucked that trend. With honourable exceptions, it simplified itself into two blobs: propaganda, and amplifiers of propaganda. Teleprompter Uncle, and Radio Rwanda.… Read More De-blobbing Blobland
Professor and cultural activist Ganesh N Devy apprehended that 12 crore Indians who come under the category of “de-notified tribes” may be deleted from the ongoing census that was a “fraud” on the country. He feared that India was moving inexorably towards a genocide. He wondered how many people were willing to go to jail… Read More Professor Ganesh Devy on the sinister implications of the ongoing census for ‘denotified tribes’
NB: The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 73,382 Palestinians killed and 174,236 injured since October 7, 2023, according to medical sources. … They added that the total number of Palestinians killed since the ceasefire on October 11, 2025 has reached 1,255, while the number of injuries has… Read More Israeli militants besiege two Palestinian families in their West Bank homes
Rise in new mine proposals, mainly in states of Odisha and Jharkhand, comes despite plateau in global demand Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent Enough new coalmining projects were proposed last year to increase global supplies by 2.5bn tonnes a year, an increase of 11% from the year before, even as demand for coal plateaus, according to a… Read More India fuels worldwide jump in planned coal production
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