The Indian government will create a three-person grievance redressal committee to veto moderation decisions made by social media platforms, according to legal changes adopted on Friday. The panel, which will be set up by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), will effectively have the final say on social media content. The changes were first made public earlier… Read More India tightens grip on social media
Bharat Bhushan Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been donning a military combat uniform every Diwali since 2017— when the Indian Army faced-off with the Chinese Peoples’ Liberation Army at Doklam. This year too he was in army fatigues in Kargil, flanked by serving generals. The honour of Supreme Commander of the Indian armed forces is… Read More PM Modi in combat uniform: Fancy-dress show or deeper symbolism
As was the case with the British Empire, today’s global form of extractive capitalism is a system of human sacrifice hidden in plain sight. A critical look at the palm oil industry reveals both the violence of this trajectory in an exemplary way and the challenges for a transition into a just world, social thinker… Read More The Sacrificial Altar of Extractive Capitalism: Notes on Abolition and Transition
First posted October 29, 2022 Today is my father’s 104th birthday. Beneath the photograph (taken in the early 1960’s) are posts commemorating his centenary in 2018, (which contains a short account of his life) ; and a remembrance of Sainik School Kunjpura, of which he was the Founder Principal Lt Col Eric Simeon’s hundredth birthday:… Read More Lt Col Eric Simeon. October 29, 1918 – May 15, 2007
October 8 (ANI): A team of researchers was able to use a combination of genomic sequencing and song analysis to identify a rare hybrid bird, whose ancestors haven’t shared the same breeding location or lineage for 10 million years. When Gosser finally located the songbird, he saw what appeared to be a rose-breasted grosbeak, but… Read More Birdsong reveals rare hybrid coupling 10 million years in the making
Weronika Strzyżyńska A 17-year-old schoolboy has died in Iran’s second largest city, Mashhad, after reportedly being shot at close range by state forces during anti-government protests. Abolfazl Adinezadeh’s death certificate showed that he died of liver and kidney damage caused by birdshot, according to a BBC Persian report. A doctor was cited as estimating the distance… Read More Schoolboy protester dies in Iran after reportedly being shot at close range
Aakash Hassan in New Delhi Indian authorities have been criticised after a Kashmiri photojournalist said she was barred from taking a flight to New York where she was scheduled to receive the 2022 Pulitzer prize. Sanna Irshad Mattoo, 27, was in a team of Reuters photographers who had won a Pulitzer for feature photography for their… Read More India criticised over arbitrary travel bans after photojournalist blocked from Pulitzer trip
Truss is gone. The ideological hobgoblins she brought in and others of her fraternity turned on her. It’s not been “take back control” but out of control. Even two more years of this Tory disaster is unthinkable. Whether it’s tax cuts splurging on the rich, or the return by the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, to thumb-screw austerity,… Read More Market fundamentalism bites the dust in Britain. But the lunatics will soldier on..
NB: This is justice under the BJP/RSS Modi regime, brutal, shameless, and blatantly partisan. If you complain, you will be labelled anti-national. The impunity enjoyed by criminals is the most glaring example of the approach that might is right. It was said of the Sophists of ancient Greece that they ‘taught, rather publicly, the view… Read More Mahua Moitra asks why convicted rapists and murderers in the Bilkis Bano case were granted parole prior to remission of their sentences
Linda Geddes The next pandemic may come not from bats or birds but from matter in melting ice, according to new data. Genetic analysis of soil and lake sediments from Lake Hazen, the largest high Arctic freshwater lake in the world, suggests the risk of viral spillover – where a virus infects a new host… Read More Next pandemic may come from melting glaciers, new data shows
After the truth-shower 