By Paul Celan – Translated By Dean Rader Black milk of daybreak we drink it at dusk we drink it at noon in mornings we drink it at night we drink and we drink we dig a grave in the sky there is plenty of room A man lives in the house he plays with his snakes… Read More Paul Celan: Todesfuge
Dr Rebecca Reich examines politics, culture and reality in the Soviet Union “Dissenters in the USSR responded by making literary use of psychiatric discourse to both validate themselves and challenge the authority of the state. “The impact of their essays, transcripts, poems and works of fiction may have seemed limited within the isolation and silence… Read More State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin
By Mohan Murti As Indians schooled in the Queen’s English but raised in the Republic’s reality, we’ve turned the language of Shakespeare into something gloriously, unapologetically our own. We bend it, twist it, stretch it—and occasionally, reinvent it altogether. The result is Indian English, a tongue so inventive that it confuses the Brit, bewilders the… Read More Divided by a Common Language: The Indian Edition
“Our study suggests that it is specifically social media that affects children’s ability to concentrate.” By Victor Tangermann A barrage of AI-generated brain rot is haunting children across numerous screens, from personal smartphones to school-issued laptops to televisions. Social media is adding significantly to that cacophony, making it harder than ever for kids to concentrate. Now, new research… Read More Social Media Is Absolutely Nuking Children’s Brains, New Research Finds
Miłosz’s complicated Second World War Alan Jacobs The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) had a complicated Second World War. He was in Warsaw when the Germans invaded, fleeing then to Ukraine. But then, discovering that his wife had been unable to escape Poland, he tried to return to her by way of Romania, then Ukraine… Read More A Quarrel With the World
NB: The Indian Army has always been the most visibly secular part of the Indian establishment; commanding maximum trust among the public in times of communal unrest. It is a tragic and extremely dangerous move on the part of the ruling party to try and influence the Armed Forces with their political ideology. It is… Read More The Indian Army’s Visible Adherence to the Majority Religion Can No Longer Be Ignored
Earlier this year, Bangladesh asked Pakistan for a formal apology for the 1971 war crimes. But responsibility for the massacre of civilians does not rest with Pakistan alone. Ramesh Sharma’s latest documentary ‘Chronicles of the Forgotten Genocide’ looks at the role of the US in the violence that accompanied the birth of Bangladesh. The Emmy-nominated filmmaker… Read More The puppet-masters behind the Bangladesh genocide of 1971: Interview with Ramesh Sharma
Date ; 07/12/2025 Dear Friends! Khudai Khidmatgar announces 7th Ankit Junaid social harmony award for the year 2025 . In the year of September 2018, Khudai Khidmatgar launched the Social Harmony Award and fellowship in memory of Hafiz Junaid and Ankit Saxena. Junaid was Killed brutally in a train two days before… Read More Asrar and Arjun have been selected for the 7th Ankit-Junaid Harmony Award 2025
Composed between the 10th and 12th centuries, these moral observations from old Kannada texts show great care about how to be properly charitable. Chandan Gowda ‘A person of understanding gives in charity without wondering, “What do I stand to lose?”, without hesitation, without the weight of self-doubt, and without any dampening of enthusiasm.’ “The one… Read More The grace of giving
Satya Sagar The recent surrender of top leadership figures within the Communist Party of India (Maoist) marks the most decisive failure yet in their decades-long armed struggle against the Indian state. This collapse signals the strategic end of a movement that consciously sought to replicate the great revolutionary success of Mao’s China on the complex,… Read More The Red Sunset: Analysing the Decline of the CPI (Maoist)
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