As Jammu and Kashmir drifts towards a promised assembly election, it cannot be that many more, especially in the Valley, wouldn’t be tempted to embrace the Rashid example A spectre is haunting Jammu and Kashmir. That is not unusual for our most distressed geography. But it is not the spectre of violent death renewing its… Read More Sankarshan Thakur: An idea aflame
Hello, we are pleased to invite you to join us for a conversation with Dilip Simeon in Chandigarh on Saturday, August 3; 2024. More details here: https://pagdandi.substack.com/p/jaag-musafir Kindly RSVP if you plan to come: https://forms.gle/P7vAeWmWHWic7pgi6 My regards and gratitude to Pagdandi Collective for organising this conversation. What follows below is my personal addition to the matter above,… Read More Jaag Musafir: Pagdandi Collective
The US and the UK among countries with low dependence on fossil fuels criticized for ‘hypocrisy’ on climate pledges A surge in new oil and gas exploration in 2024 threatens to unleash nearly 12bn tonnes of planet-heating emissions, with the world’s wealthiest countries – such as the US and the UK – leading a stampede… Read More Revealed: wealthy western countries lead in global oil and gas expansion
NB: Attacking Hadid feels like a great distraction from the (US taxpayer-funded) hell on Earth that is Gaza. It’s fascinating to see which media outlets have chosen to write about this fake shoe controversy, but have ignored recent stories such as a 24-year-old man with Down’s syndrome being attacked by an IDF dog in Gaza… Read More Why is Bella Hadid in the headlines? Because it distracts from the hell on Earth that is Gaza
Khudai Khidmatgar team with Swami Raghvendra ji Maharaj, Founder Satya Dharma Samwaad visited Haryana and Delhi Many local Khudai Khidmatgar friends from Haryana and western UP who believe in social co-existence and understand constitutional duty to promote the unity and integrity of the Nation were worried and anxious about the recent controversial order to declare… Read More Khudai Khidmatgar team with Swami Raghvendraji, visited Haryana and Delhi
(NB: An interesting letter and an interesting archive. The comment “The Western view, undoubtedly biased by the Soviet contribution to the Allied victory in 1945, has undoubtedly minimized the terrible dictatorship that Stalin imposed on Russia” is misleading – Churchill began using the phrase ‘Iron Curtain’ as early as 1946; and the animosity was demonstrated… Read More Rare archival materials from the Stalin era
“Just an old man in a loincloth in distant India: Yet when he died, humanity wept.” The most punctual man in India…of Mahatma Gandhi’s few possessions, his watches were the most beloved. His watch stopped at 5.12 pm on January 30, 1948 First posted February 06, 2015 The watch never left his side. It was the… Read More Nina Martyris on the trustee of time
RYAN TRUSCOTT In July 2023, botanist Andrea Bianchi was driving in the Nguru Mountains of eastern Tanzania when the broad pods on a tree growing in a maize field near the road caught his eye. He pulled over and found not one but two Millettia sacleuxii trees, a species scientists had feared was extinct. Thousands of their… Read More ‘Extinct’ trees found in Tanzania sparks hope for ecosystem recovery
Ahmad Farhad’s abduction sent ripples across Pakistan. After being released on bail, he insists on telling his story Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad and Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi It was late at night in Islamabad and Ahmad Farhad was returning from a quick trip to the shops when someone walked up behind him. “Don’t be… Read More ‘I fear they will kill me for talking’: The Pakistani poet abducted for his activism
At the lawless triple border between Brazil, Colombia and Peru, drug trafficking, illegal logging and gangs jeopardise the ecological and social fabric of the rainforest Bram Ebus The area of the Amazon where Brazil, Colombia, and Peru meet – referred to as Tres Fronteras (triple frontier) – brims with wildlife and natural resources. It is also… Read More Crisis at Tres Fronteras: how criminal syndicates threaten Amazon’s future
After the truth-shower 