‘If we don’t act on the proof against Israel, we can’t redeem ourselves’: Justice Muralidhar

NB: Since October 2023, at least 20,179 Palestinian children have been killed; and44,143 injured. 58,000 children have been orphaned. Palestine has the largest concentration of child amputees in the world. This is the blood soaked memorial of so-called western civilisation. And our cowardly government cannot even express sorrow for this unutterable tragedy. We should hang… Read More ‘If we don’t act on the proof against Israel, we can’t redeem ourselves’: Justice Muralidhar

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‘Humanity is a privilege’: Umar Khalid on his six years in an Indian jail without trial

Exclusive: Activist tells of his life as one of India’s most prominent political prisoners and his opposition to the government of Narendra Modi Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi Prison is hardest at sunset. As the thousands of prisoners incarcerated in Delhi’s most infamous jail are cast out of their cells and forced into the dank yard until… Read More ‘Humanity is a privilege’: Umar Khalid on his six years in an Indian jail without trial

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Lalitpur Killing Shows Caste Violence Is Sustained Through Everyday Humiliation

SHARMISTHA SHIVHARE – Published: 26 Jun 2026 On 14 June 2026, a Dalit man was killed, allegedly for refusing to massage a coworker’s feet, in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh. The setting of the crime scene was an informal get-together of four coworkers at one of the coworker’s residences in Civil lines. On refusing to massage his coworkers… Read More Lalitpur Killing Shows Caste Violence Is Sustained Through Everyday Humiliation

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The American myth always came at someone’s expense. Now, it’s all but collapsed

The main pillars of the founding narrative have fallen on hard times. Today, its meaning is up for grabs Nikhil Pal Singh Writing during the carnage of the first world war, the iconoclast intellectual Randolph Bourne described the American revolutionary inheritance as a squalid marriage between the town capitalist and plantation patriarch. Glittering generalities of… Read More The American myth always came at someone’s expense. Now, it’s all but collapsed

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‘Is it Israel’s aim to kill our children?’ West Bank parents implore end to IDF’s child killings with impunity

Israeli army has killed 235 children in West Bank since 7 October 2023 without a single indictment in what rights groups call a ‘licence to kill’… More than 72,000 Palestinians have been killed (21,000 of them children) since October 2023. In the West Bank, military rules of engagements have been loosened and impunity is the norm.… Read More ‘Is it Israel’s aim to kill our children?’ West Bank parents implore end to IDF’s child killings with impunity

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भारतीय ज्ञान परंपरा या RSS का कोई छुपा हुआ एजेंडा? Indian Knowledge System: प्रो. पुरुषोत्तम अग्रवाल

NB: A profound reminder that our self-appointed decolonisers themselves need to decolonise their minds. DS भारतीय ज्ञान परंपरा और संघी एजेंडा पर समाजशास्त्री प्रो. पुरुषोत्तम अग्रवाल के तीखे सवाल। क्या हिंदुत्व एजेंडा के तहत सिर्फ वैदिक-ब्राह्मण परंपरा का महिमामंडन हो रहा है और बौद्ध, जैन तथा लोकायत जैसी लोक परंपराओं को दरकिनार किया जा रहा… Read More भारतीय ज्ञान परंपरा या RSS का कोई छुपा हुआ एजेंडा? Indian Knowledge System: प्रो. पुरुषोत्तम अग्रवाल

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Rogue host

Iran is the only team that can’t rest and recuperate after a match because Trump’s minions insist that they fly out of the US within hours of the full-time whistle Mukul Kesavan The correct way of following this World Cup is to first recognise that its principal host, the United States of America, is a… Read More Rogue host

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Adani Ports and Marseille Fos back India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor

NB: The real toffee in the visit to Rome… (comment and link from Jairus Banaji on FB) Adani Ports and Marseille Fos have formalised cooperation to anchor the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) in Europe. For cargo owners, carriers and terminal operators, the pact signals closer digital and operational alignment along a proposed 6,000 km trade spine. Adani… Read More Adani Ports and Marseille Fos back India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor

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The Joke Is on Us

The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism When satire is the end point, it is deleterious. It masks what is coming. It must be, as Niebuhr pointed out, the entry point. It must push us, as Gramsci understood, into hard analysis and the organization of mass movements… Read More The Joke Is on Us

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Manipur: Peace at Gunpoint

The Reporters’ Collective Under the BJP, Manipur has entered the 4th year of conflict. This time, the Kuki-Zo people have been pitted against the Naga people. People have been kidnapped, killed, bodies mutilated and villages burnt. Each day, the violence, the fear and the anger escalate.  Over the course of a month, my colleagues Angana Chakrabarti… Read More Manipur: Peace at Gunpoint

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