A serious outbreak of viral laughter threatens public docility Mitali Saran When I think of the BJP-RSS worldview, the word that always springs to mind is joyless. I mean, this is the personality type whose whole political schtick is to nurse a grudge for a hundred years. It can’t stop with the dreary rules and the… Read More Contagion
When corruption does not make a political noise (July 9, 2026) Today, the fear is not simply that political power is being used to extract rents, but that it is being used to create and protect quasi-monopolies, selectively rewarding favoured firms while disadvantaging rivals. The political pillars have collapsed even more. The BJP and RSS… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: When corruption does not make a political noise / The Return of Corruption: What Changed Under Modi?
Indian families invest in higher education, trusting it will deliver good jobs for their children. But with jobs growing scarce, work that is available matching neither qualifications nor aspirations, and graduate earnings stagnating, this bargain has broken down. Krishna Priya; Rosa Abraham For nearly four decades, Indian families have invested unprecedented sums in higher education,… Read More The Failed Promise of Higher Education
The life of the hugely influential ‘people’s historian’ is explored in a wide-ranging new book that brings in everything from wars to civil rights to Matt Damon When times got tough for Zinn: “… he was able to live through these times when he was also able to lecture in the classroom, about all sorts… Read More The incredible life of historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
The journalistic value is clear: The boy revealed Feiglin’s true face. And more importantly, he revealed the despicable lie of “voluntary emigration.” No one is leaving voluntarily. It’s just putting them on trucks and shipping them out Gideon Levy There hasn’t been an interview like this in years, perhaps never, on Israeli television. A ray… Read More How a Teen, Not a Journalist, Debunked Israel’s Gaza ‘Voluntary Emigration’ Plan
Abhijeet Dipke Exclusive Interview 94,000 Government Schools Closed in India Over Past Decade Last updated Aug 4, 2026: A NITI Aayog report reveals around 94,000 government schools closed across India in the last decade, leading to a 2.26 crore drop in enrolment and slashing their share of total students from 71% in 2005 to 49.24%… Read More Abhijeet Dipke Exclusive Interview: सरकारी स्कूलों में शिक्षा व्यवस्था पर दीपके ने उठाया बड़ा सवाल
Pravin Sawhney on the collapse of Indian diplomacy NB: Many of us still don’t understand that this is an RSS government (the Sangh has many faces); and that it has no politics except (1) the rectification of history (i.e. defeating the Mughal Empire three centuries after its demise); and (2) grabbing control of public funds… Read More Pravin Sawhney: India Is No Longer Useful For America Geopolitically, Strategically & Militarily (June 18, 2026)
अब नज़अ का आलम है / मुझ पर तुम अपनी मोहब्बत वापस लो / जब कश्ती डूबने लगती है तो बोझ उतारा करते हैं : क़मर जलालवी According to the National Crime Records Bureau, student suicides have jumped 80 percent in the last decade: more than a hundred and twenty thousand over ten years, and… Read More BIHAR: ‘एक दिन देश के नाम’ – हर जेन Z
Unpacking Trump’s End Game in Latin America with William Callison and Verónica Gago Source: PATTERNS by Naomi Klein Naomi Klein, William Callison, and Verónica Gago Jul 30, 2026 Several readers of this newsletter have asked us to cover the attacks on democracy in Latin America. With that in mind, this week, I am thrilled to share Patterns’ first… Read More The Goal is a Fascist Continent
Through vindictive edict after edict, these five years have brought an ever-escalating repression of Afghan girls and women – with far too little done by any outside authority to speak up or stand up against the most egregious denial of girls’ rights in the world today. Flora Drury & BBC Afghan Taliban police used live fire to… Read More Two reportedly killed as women take part in rare protest in Afghanistan (9 June 2026)
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