Behind the day’s headlines lies a quieter, more consequential plan that ties delimitation, the 2027 census and Hindutva dominance into a single long game. ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ – The Grandiose Self Jawhar Sircar Seasoned media persons or bureaucrats are hardly ever impressed by the bubbly froth called news as they know that the real action is taking… Read More A Worrisome Machiavellian BJP Game Plan Behind Mainstream Headlines
NB: The sinister and ongoing plan to disenfranchise up to 100 million citizens by using secret algorithms. Anjali Bhardwaj: The SIR Decision the Election Commission Says It Never Made | The Probe 5 Aug 2026 NEW DELHI The Election Commission of India says the decision to launch the SIR “was not taken” by the Commission… Read More Anjali Bhardwaj: The Special Intensive Revision Decision the Election Commission Says It Never Made
Date: August 3, 2026 Author: aplutsoc “Write my name on my leg, Mama” On Friday, July 24, settlers carried out a violent raid on Palestinian homes in Tal, near Nablus. Four Palestinians were killed, and two Israeli settlers also died in retaliatory clashes. A week earlier, settlers had set fire to a house in Tal with residents inside.… Read More Israel: Protest against settler terror. By Ira Berkovic
We have just learned of the passing on August 9th of Mariéme Helie-Lucas, an Algerian sociologist and feminist activist committed to secularism for decades. Mariéme was certainly better known in the English-speaking world than in the French-speaking world. As a tribute, we are reproducing the post written by her friend Harsh Kapoor. My former partner,… Read More Marième / Marie-Aimée Helie-Lucas (1939-2026)
Kabir Deb Women in power have always been a threat to patriarchy because their presence challenges the very structure that has taught society to associate authority, leadership and decision-making with men. This is not only about the social dilemma or cultural conditioning that we usually discuss when we talk about feminism. It is also about… Read More The witch-hunting we all witnessed, listened to, and chose to remain silent
NB: A timely and inspiring speech by Ashok Kumar Pandey Modi सरकार का टाइम पूरा हो गया, हिन्दू-मुसलमान का खेल नहीं चल रहा? || Ashok Kumar Pandey The Credible History 3.7m subscribers @sarlapurohit1216: बी जे पी और आर एस एस भारत को 1947 का भारत बनाना चाहती है ।भारत की सबसे बड़ी ताकत है विविधता… Read More Modi सरकार का टाइम पूरा हो गया, हिन्दू-मुसलमान का खेल नहीं चल रहा ? : Ashok Kumar Pandey
New secrets from our past have been coming out in droves. By Ross Andersen Some 50,000 years ago, modern humans wandered into Ice Age Europe. The continent was new to us Homo sapiens, but not for beings of our general kind. Neanderthals and their ancestors had been living among Eurasia’s glaciers for ages, and in ways that… Read More The Human-Origin Story Is Being Radically Revised
India’s youthful protests have defanged the ruling regime’s primary tools of governance: fear, alienation and division “They’re training us that when they commit mass murder in this country, everybody is so afraid that nobody can speak for the other. But what has been trained can be untrained. It can be unlearned. And every moment that… Read More Cockroaches, Modi and the death of fear
NB: August 9 is the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki Henry Giroux: Remembering Hiroshima Hiroshima: Why The Bomb Was Dropped – ABC News (1995) By Alex Wellerstein | August 10, 2025 – Author’s observations + Q & A on Reddit Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic… Read More Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs — but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped
The Ram Mandir donations theft and Modi’s men who should answer for it ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ – The Grandiose Self Dhirendra K Jha, Amrita Singh August 1, 2026 FIVE MONTHS AFTER Narendra Modi began his second term as prime minister, the Supreme Court delivered his government a momentous gift. On 9 November 2019, it settled a land dispute in… Read More Trust Issues
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