NB: I can think of several ‘cultural organisations’, national-level leaders, news channels and ‘national security’ agencies for whom pathological lying has been a way of life, the sole purpose of their existence. Will they get a mental health check? Even if they do, they will get what we call a ‘clean chit’. We’re all very… Read More Pathological lying could finally be getting attention as a mental disorder
डाउ जोन्स की सस्टेनेबिलिटी इंडेक्स से अदाणी बाहर | Adani dropped off Dow Jones’ Sustainable Index #ravishkumar #ravishkumarofficial #adani #dowjones #stockmarket #latestnews #news #bjp #lic #sbi #sebi #adanipower #sharemarket #sharemarketnews #hindenburgreport #adaniFPO #hindenburgresearch #sensex #nifty #nifty50 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0yX… Jairus Banaji: Indian Big Business
C. .M NAIM Last year, Urdu institutions in India celebrated a landmark in the history of that language—the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jam-i Jahan-Numa, the first modern newspaper in Urdu. It debuted on 27 March 1822, carrying a name that was clever and most befitting. It referred to the fabled “world-revealing goblet” of… Read More India’s Urdu Press: A Bitter-Sweet Bicentenary
Ground reports by Hridayesh Joshi By हृदयेश जोशी 23 Jan, 2023 https://hindi.newslaundry.com/2023/01/23/uttarakhand-joshimath-tehri-dam-crisis-houses-ntpc-project उत्तराखंड में जहां भी हाइड्रोपावर प्रोजेक्ट हैं, वहां गांव दरक रहे हैं. लोगों की जमीन धंस रही है और खेत बर्बाद हो रहे हैं. “बेटा, हम घर से बेघर हो गये हैं. ये घर तो टूट कर गिर रहा है. मेरे नाती-पोते सब… Read More Joshimath: उत्तराखंड का जल शोक, बांधों की बलि चढ़ते गांव
First posted June 19, 2016 Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism by Judy Wajcman Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age by Bernard E. Harcourt Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art by Virginia Heffernan Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Mood and… Read More In the Depths of the Digital Age: Edward Mendelson reviews five books on psychological life in the age of the internet / We Are Hopelessly Hooked: Jacob Weisberg
Moustafa Bayoumi Who remembers how, in 2018 and just days before the deadliest attack on Jewish people in US history, a prominent US politician tweeted: “We cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg to BUY this election!”? The tweet was widely – and correctly – understood as dangerously antisemitic, particularly heinous in a period of rising anti-Jewish… Read More America’s Republicans have a serious antisemitism problem. It isn’t Ilhan Omar
Fatima Bhutto If recent Bollywood films are any indication, it is fair to say that India’s film industry is obsessed with Pakistan. Obsessed. Like standing outside your apartment and trying to peek through your windows at night with binoculars obsessed. If the films were smarter or more daring, Pakistan might be flattered. Instead, we are beginning to be mildly… Read More Bollywood is obsessed with Pakistan. We’d be flattered if it weren’t so nasty
NB: All I can say is thank you Kumar. You restore our faith in humanity. You may be an atheist, but if there is a god, you have blessed us all by your act of grace. God bless you, and Siddique too who had gone to Uttar Pradesh to do his duty. DS By Puja… Read More Meet Kumar Sauvir, the journalist who stood up for Siddique Kappan
By Vidya The Bombay Lawyers Association approached the Bomby High Court with a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar and Union Law minister Kiren Rijiju saying they should be discharged from their duties because they have shown a “lack of faith” in the Constitution. The lawyer group said the VP and Kiren… Read More PIL against Vice President, Law minister, for ‘no faith’ in Constitution
Vidya Krishnan “Narendra Modi is directly responsible” for what happened in Gujarat in 2002. Those four words do more to acknowledge the grief inflicted on India’s Muslims, who have been at the receiving end of twenty years of gaslighting, than anything the government has done or said. In a documentary, the BBC—based on thoroughly reported… Read More What the BBC’s “Modi Question” reveals about India
After the truth-shower 