Mainstream, Jun 12, 2026
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Caste Annihilation and Revolution
Annihilation of Caste is not possible without a revolution. And revolution is not possible without the Annihilation of Caste Anand Teltumbde [Following is an edited and shortened transcript of the online speech delivered by the author on 17 April 2026 at the seminar on Brahmanisation at Jadavpur University] It may sound as a clever formulation,… Read More Caste Annihilation and Revolution
Fury in India as its sailors become collateral damage in Trump’s war with Iran / 3 भारतीयों की हत्या! मोदी कर रहे धन्यवाद.. ट्रम्प के पास कौनसा सीक्रेट?
The deaths of three Indian seafarers in a US strike on a commercial oil tanker has prompted public fury in India, and added new friction to an already strained phase between New Delhi and Washington. On Wednesday morning, the M/T Settebello was transiting the Sea of Oman, laden with Iranian oil, when a US aircraft… Read More Fury in India as its sailors become collateral damage in Trump’s war with Iran / 3 भारतीयों की हत्या! मोदी कर रहे धन्यवाद.. ट्रम्प के पास कौनसा सीक्रेट?
A solar-powered rubbish-eating boat? The vessel chomping plastic waste out of the sea
Guided by floating barriers, the Interceptor has already stopped more than 143,000lbs of rubbish from entering the Pacific from one LA river By Katharine Gammon On an overcast June morning, I step from the rubber-sided Zodiac boat on to a floating barge at the mouth of Ballona Creek, where it meets Santa Monica Bay on the… Read More A solar-powered rubbish-eating boat? The vessel chomping plastic waste out of the sea
Longevity isn’t legacy: Modi meets Anand
Bharat Bhushan The ruling BJP and its acolytes are celebrating Narendra Modi having beaten the record of Jawaharlal Nehru as “elected” prime minister across all available media. Note that to make Modi taller than Nehru, the years 1947 to 1952 have been deleted. Should Modi’s prime ministership ultimately be judged on the day it clocked 4,399 days, surpassing… Read More Longevity isn’t legacy: Modi meets Anand
Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files
Authors’ note: This article is adapted from reporting for our book “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.” The bulk of the reporting took place from the spring of 2023 to the spring of 2026. During that time, we conducted more than 1,000 interviews with a wide range of people close to President… Read More Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files
A Decade of Pogroms and Jewish Terror: Welcome to the 60th Year of Occupation / In Israel’s Army, Murdering a Child Is Fine, but Having an Affair Is Reason to Be Fired
After 59 years of occupation, apartheid and Jewish terror, it’s obvious that, as with mold – plastering or a government of change will not uproot the blight without treating the root cause: racism Michael Sfard According to the human rights group B’Tselem, 24 Palestinian communities were completely uprooted and forcibly transferred from their place of… Read More A Decade of Pogroms and Jewish Terror: Welcome to the 60th Year of Occupation / In Israel’s Army, Murdering a Child Is Fine, but Having an Affair Is Reason to Be Fired
Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm
Greenpeace calculates that wealthiest contribute nearly $1tn of damage a year with ownership-based emissions Fiona Harvey Ultra-wealthy people zooming across the world on their private jets, lounging on yachts and conspicuous by their Instagrammable consumption are among the most easily identified individual culprits when it comes to the climate crisis – but new research argues… Read More Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm
The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I.
“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?” By Jay Caspian Kang In my writing, and in my idle thoughts, I often return to Arjuna’s lament upon surveying the battlefield of Kurukshetra and finding that he must kill his friends and family. What is his duty in… Read More The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I.
Diotima Climbs the Ladder of Love / The truth about love
Will Buckingham – 2020 Our knowledge of Diotima is so sparse that many people have concluded that she was not an historical figure, but instead a literary invention. Diotima appears as a character in Plato’s Symposium, where Socrates refers to her as “a woman of Mantinea—a woman who was wise in many things.” And our knowledge of her doesn’t extend… Read More Diotima Climbs the Ladder of Love / The truth about love
After the truth-shower 