In the words of the Swedish Academy, he “uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms.” The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti,… Read More Harold Pinter: Nobel Prize lecture; 2005
How the NEP’s killing of the public university brought Gen Z out on the streets… According to the National Crime Records Bureau, student suicides have jumped eighty percent in the last decade—more than a hundred and twenty thousand over ten years—and over two thousand students die annually due to exam failures भारतीय ज्ञान परंपरा या… Read More Teaching a Lesson
NB: The tangled web of communal politics in South Asia as a whole is exemplified by the circumstances in which Nasrin was hounded out of her own country for defending the human rights of minorities; and thereafter from India, for her critical remarks about religious extremism. Criticism of religion as well as of communal versions… Read More Taslima Nasrin returns to Kolkata after two decades
Bharat Bhushan With little in the Gen-Z campaign that the Modi government could turn against it, a State-ordered take down of content seemed the only option to limit reputational damage How women protesters became targets after the Jantar Mantar protest Bharat Bhushan A highly curated image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the supreme leader of… Read More Why Gen‑Z’s satire will outpace State control
NB: In September 23 2023, a BJP MP used filthy slurs against a Muslim MP on the floor of the house. Using foul language is permissible for the members of the ruling party. Their army of trolls uses the most filthy abuses and threats against critics of the ruling dispensation. Now they have all become very sensitive… Read More How women protesters became targets after the Jantar Mantar protest
NB: In September 23 2023, a BJP MP used filthy slurs against a Muslim MP on the floor of the house. Using foul langiage is permissible for the members of the ruling party. Their army of trolls uses the most filthy abuses and threats against critics of the ruling dispensation. Now they have all become… Read More Focus on MPs who have criminal cases, not a 25-year-old: CJP slams Zero FIR
Two Female Israeli Soldiers Die by Suicide in the Past Two Days Full text of the letter “We Refuse!” Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance Israeli High School Seniors Continue to Go to Prison Instead of Into the Israeli Military. According to a July 29, 2026 article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, two women Israeli soldiers have died… Read More Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Mental Health Crisis Deepens
By Pranshu Verma In a late-June meeting with more than a dozen of the nation’s top defense technology firms, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an urgent message: The Pentagon needed their help to rapidly replenish America’s weapons arsenal. Outside the room, the United States was mired in a conflict with Iran that was rapidly depleting U.S.… Read More A shrinking weapons stockpile is testing the Pentagon’s sweeping new strategy
What happens to the disappeared in Mexico’s narco-slavery camps By Marcela Turati, Thelma Gómez Durán, Eliezer Budasoff Translated from Spanish by John Gibler For the past five years, Marcela Turati, Thelma Gómez Durán and Eliezer Budasoff have been investigating forced labour camps run by drug cartels in the Sierra Tarahumara mountains in the Mexican state… Read More ‘We Were Simply Animals’
Aslı Bâli and Samuel Moyn America is in decline. And so is Pax America: the American-led world order. While there are many genuine dangers of American decline, there has never been a better chance to say clearly how much the unipolar order always left to be desired, and to imagine a multipolar world that might secure… Read More What should replace the American-led world order?
After the truth-shower 