From destroying calories to ‘re-engineering’ society, data and experts reveal how the hunger in Gaza was not a byproduct of war, but a calculated strategy that reached its deadliest peak in 2025. Mohammad Mansour A malnourished Palestinian child is examined at al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on June… Read More Starvation by design: How Israel turned food into a weapon of war in Gaza
Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth Carlos Hernández Photo: Alberto Di Lolli Dear reader, for the first time since I became a journalist, I have to tell you I wish you weren’t reading what I’ve written. Because if you’re reading this,… Read More If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies… content moderation belongs in the category of dangerous work, comparable to any lethal industry: Milagros Miceli, sociologist Anuj Behal On the veranda of her family’s home, with her laptop balanced on a mud slab built into the wall, Monsumi… Read More Modern labour hazards: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
http://www.reporters-collective.in Over the past decade, the Indian automobile industry has registered consistent growth and become the world’s third-largest automobile market. The growth also means the number of end-of-life tyres has increased in India. However, the poor implementation of standards, guidelines, and rules for ensuring waste tyres are properly scrapped or recycled means doom for those… Read More India’s import of waste tyres spells doom
NB: An incisive commentary by Professor Mehta. “First, though there is partisan bickering, there is still a kind of attempt to exceptionalise the behaviour of this ruling class… a bounded zone in which elite actors could suspend norms without contaminating the moral order of the centre. Second, there is a pathology of modern political life,… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Epstein Files aren’t an ‘island story’. They are about the nature of collective power
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway A story of love and pain, loyalty and desertion, this classic edition of A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable tale of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse set against the backdrop of World War I.Written when Ernest Hemingway… Read More Four classics on the Great War
By Maria Popova Born into a World War to live through another, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) died in a car crash with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket. Just three years earlier, he had become the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded him for writing that… Read More Albert Camus on How to Live Whole in a Broken World
Historical records expose the lie that Nathuram Godse left the RSS Dhirendra K Jha On this day in 1948, Nathuram Godse, the Hindu-supremacist fanatic, killed Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh could not muster the courage to acknowledge Gandhi’s assassin as one of its own. The first official reaction of the RSS was… Read More The Apostle of Hate
NB: Are the Ayatollahs men of God or assassins in robes? The War Within By Salar Abdoh On the afternoon of 6 January, as protests over the collapse of Iran’s currency kept up around the country, I went to meet my friend Q. When I asked him where, he said, “the Den of Spies” – as the… Read More The Islamic Republic presides over a bloodbath
The dagger of the assassin was concealed beneath the robe of the jurist: Justice case; Opinion delivered by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal; 1947 Juridical personalities known for partisanship and cruelty: Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville; Roland Freisler; Andrey Vyshinsky… an endless list: Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville was appointed public prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris on 10 March 1793,… Read More The dagger of the assassin was concealed beneath the robe of the jurist
After the truth-shower 