Committee recognises work of South African who chaired UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza Julian Borger and Rachel Savage The Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African former UN human rights chief who chaired the UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in… Read More ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law
Kaveh Rostamkhani – Erfan Kouchari At nearly 104 degrees Fahrenheit and 80% humidity, Bandar Abbas was already an open-air sauna at 5 a.m., as fishers unloaded their fresh catch of shrimp and fish at the city’s wholesale fish market, right at the wharf. The intense tang of rotten fish residue was unbearable. Elias Rahimi, like… Read More Life in Iran’s War-Torn South on the Strait of Hormuz
The Good Soldier Švejk is an unfinished satirical novel by Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek, published in 1921–1923, about a good-humored, simple-minded man who appears to be enthusiastic to serve Austria-Hungary in World War I. When the interrogator proceeds to enumerate the crimes of which he is supposedly guilty, Švejk accepts them with the same disarming… Read More Švejk is Reborn in India
NB: It’s not planet Earth that is in danger, its sustainable life which is in danger. The planet will continue to exist long after we have destroyed ourselves. DS The present Indian govt is one of the biggest committers of ecocide in the world today Author and Blogger Avay Shukla to Karan Thapar for The… Read More The present Indian govt is one of the biggest committers of ecocide in the world today
The genocide continues… in full view of the world People tell of lives changed beyond recognition after the 7 October attacks by Hamas three years ago and the subsequent Israeli offensive By Seham Tantesh in Gaza and Jason Burke Ahmed Ishtaiwi has six chairs. They are cheap and plastic and battered, but they are among… Read More ‘Neither war nor peace’: Palestinians in Gaza on existing amid disease, despair and ruins
Jon Henley in Paris Police have fired teargas at protesters as more than 250,000 pupils, teachers and parents demonstrated across France on the biggest day yet of a campaign for better high school conditions that has been marred by often violent clashes with police. The French prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, said at least 215 teenagers… Read More Riot police fire teargas as 250,000 take part in schools protests across France
http://www.reporters-collective.in The Mysterious 16.18 Lakh Voters Added to Uttar Pradesh’s Roll Uttar Pradesh is six months away from its assembly elections, so it is time to pull back the curtain on last year’s shadowy special intensive revision, and what it did to the state’s voter rolls. News reports in January revealed that incongruous to the… Read More The Mysterious 16.18 Lakh Voters Added to Uttar Pradesh’s Roll
The latest investigation by The Indian Express found that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had formally objected at least 14 times over ten months to decisions concerning voter registration, deletions and the centralisation of the voter database.…Over the past decade, the ECI has been criticised for allowing the Bharatiya Janata Party to… Read More Cheques and imbalances: the taming of the Election Commission of India (2024)
I stood on a hill and I saw the Old approaching, but it came as the New…. Bertolt Brecht It is my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because… Read More India’s self-incubated East India Company
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity. The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would… Read More Viet Thanh Nguyen -To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
