Nayanjot Lahiri I first met Basudev (lovingly called ‘Robi’) Chatterji in 1978 when I was an undergraduate student and he a lecturer at St. Stephen’s college. Over the years, he appeared in various avataras in my life – as a mentor, as a friend, later as a colleague. Apart from university corridors, I met him… Read More Basudev Chatterji
Andrew Downie Environmental destruction in parts of the Amazon is so complete that swathes of the rainforest have reached tipping point and might never be able to recover, a major study carried out by scientists and Indigenous organisations has found. “The tipping point is not a future scenario but rather a stage already present in… Read More Large parts of Amazon may never recover, major study says
NB: The Iranian theocracy is a criminal and inhuman regime. Those who equate the rule of law with justice; or those who believe that Almighty God requires people to be murdered for same-sex love; or those who think men with long beards are in direct communication with God, are pathologically insane. These deranged men also… Read More Iran Sentences Two LGBTQ Activists To Death For ‘Promoting Homosexuality’
By Rohitha Naraharisetty Lately, there’s been talk of revolution. Not just any, the revolution, with a capital R. There’s some who speak of it in dating app bios and others who are waiting for its “sweet release” in Instagram captions of unrelated scenic photos. Still others express it through memes about eating the rich. But for all the… Read More Anti‑Capitalism Is Cool. When Will It Be Revolutionary Again?
Jonathan Jones Who can fail to have been moved by all the images of people on their doorsteps clapping for the NHS last night? They filled TV screens and news websites, presenting a warming picture of solidarity in enforced solitude – all alone yet all together. But there are some far less reassuring images circulating… Read More Jonathan Jones: ‘We are all Edward Hopper paintings now’
There is no existing vocabulary to illustrate a condition that requires a special kind of reality. Once it comes to a point when the authority cannot rationally communicate or have a clear exchange of ideas or when they cannot allow the argument, then the only thing they can do is to make you feel that… Read More Ai Weiwei: ‘I became the enemy of the established power, but without a crime’
The documents contained in the link below are a replica of Delhi Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) files on RSS activity and plans October-December 1947. They are part of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library archive; and listed as (click for access): D P Records 5th Instalment Home-47 File 138 Among other places, the files have been cited… Read More Delhi Police Archive on RSS activity in October-December 1947
JUAN COLE Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a creepy policy out of a Kafka or Joseph Heller novel, Israeli authorities have decreed that if a foreign visitor to the Palestinian West Bank develops a romantic relationship with a local Palestinian, they must report the relationship to the military Occupation authorities within 30 days. So reports the… Read More Now Israel is Occupying the Hearts of Lovers in the Palestinian West Bank
By Wolf Gruner, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences The summer of 2022 marked the 80th anniversary of the first Nazi deportation of Jewish families from Germany to Auschwitz. Although the Nazis deported hundreds of thousands of Jewish men and women, for many places where those tragic events happened, no images are known to document… Read More Unknown Holocaust photos – found in Attics and Archives – are helping Researchers recover lost Stories and providing a Tool against Denial
By Arzu Geybullayeva Police in Turkey have arrested pop singer Gülşen (full name Gülşen Colakoglu), 46, pending trial, over a comment she made about religious schools, months ago during one of her concert. Last April, Gülşen, joked about one of her colleagues’ Imam Hatip past during a concert in Istanbul. Imam Hatip high schools are Islamic religious education institutions originally… Read More In Turkey, Pop Singer arrested for Offending Clerics
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