जनमत कभी विचारधारा विहीन नहीं हो सकता लेकिन हमारे अंदर दार्शनिक साहस न हो तो हम खुद को नष्ट कर लेंगे दिलीप सिमियन This essay first appeared in Outlook magazine on April 11, under the title The Crisis of Ideology क्या हम उस युग में पहुंच चुके हैं जिसमें विचारधारा का अंत हो चुका है?… Read More विचारधारा का संकट
The enormity of Bharatiya Janata Party made me pull the lever for Aam Aadmi Party. But the calculus of the lesser evil as a guide to political action isn’t available to everyone equally Mukul Kesavan I voted as I always do, in a government secondary school close to where I live. Delhi was scorching when… Read More V Day musings
Millions of Evangelicals have “anointed” Trump as their modern day King Cyrus, despite his deeply UN-Christian lifestyle. Why? Because he promised them to end legal access to abortion in the US, which is all they care about as a fast-track toward Christian theocracy in the US… Six of the nine SCOTUS justices are devout, ideological Catholics,… Read More US Supreme Court is Driven by Christian Theocracy
by Rakesh Shukla Raja bola raat haiMantri bola raat haiSantri bola raat haiYe subah subah subah ki baat hai : – Gorakh Pandey (King said its nightMinister said it is nightSentry said it was nightThis happening in the morning) It is universally recognized that plastic surgery and organ replacement were first performed in India. The evidence… Read More ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ – The Grandiose Self
Nearly 80 years since the Allied invasion, the testimony of Charles Shay, a 99-year-old former US army medic, reminds us of the significance of that day Andrew Anthony American D-Day veteran Charles Shay stands on a dune overlooking Omaha beach in Normandy where he landed as a 19-year-old. Photograph: Kiran Ridley/The Observer Next month will see… Read More June 6, 1944. What the last veterans can teach us all as D-Day fades from memory
Thirty years after the end of apartheid, corruption is rife, crime is high and the economy is a mess. The party of Mandela admits it ‘made mistakes’. But will the people forgive them? Steve Bloomfield in Johannesburg In the heart of Soweto, the birthplace of South African democracy has been burned, looted and stripped for parts.… Read More ‘We didn’t fight for this’: ANC’s grip on power in peril in South Africa election
Suranya Aiyar If Prashant Kishor is an agent of the Modi Regime, then we are looking at something akin to a medieval court drama of intrigue, back-stabbing and betrayal of sub-continental proportions. The question is not Prashant Kishor’s political beliefs, to which he is entitled, but of pretenses in presenting himself as an independent professional… Read More Will The Real Prashant Kishor Please Stand Up?
‘Black sites’ are about reminding those who have been colonised and enslaved of a simple lesson: resistance is futile By Jonathan Cook On a misty November morning 21 years ago, I was desperately trying to remain camouflaged. Concealed in the foliage of an orange grove in Israel’s rural Galilee, I hurriedly took photos of a drab concrete building… Read More The message of Israel’s torture chambers is directed at all of us, not just Palestinians
Remembering is central to healing the pain of injustice and atrocity. Indigenous Australians have a way of remembering, the good and the bad, through oral history and art that passes memories down through the generations. I know of parts of central west New South Wales where the Indigenous women still talk in vivid detail about their… Read More Paul Daley: Myall Creek, Australia. Here, in 1838, a crime that would not be forgotten took place / Rock art as record of imperialism
‘Authorities are behaving like the hilltop youth in the West Bank,’ says Jabr Abu Assa, one of the leaders of the campaign against the demolition of Wadi Khalil Eden Solomon; May 24, 2024 At the entrance to the ruined community of Wadi Khalil there is a sign: “Our children deserve a home like every child… Read More Israel Already Razed Hundreds of Homes in This Bedouin Village. Next, It Tore Down Anything Left Standing
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