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 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 Ayodhya, stretching back over a… Read More Trust Issues
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
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