Bharat Bhushan The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is known for micro-managing elections based on gathering political intelligence right up to the booth level. That is the image. The reality is that its Moradabad Lok Sabha candidate died a day after polling in his constituency. That Kunwar Sarvesh Singh had cancer was an open secret. But he managed… Read More An election snapshot: No wave, voter apathy and a dead candidate
NB: The author of this thoughtful article is to be congratulated for doing his research. He ends thus “To address the problem, India needs to do something infinitely more difficult than killing Maoists: Giving Adivasis some justice.” The sabotage of justice in India has been unfolding as a recurrent nightmare for decades, and it concerns… Read More 29 Maoists killed in Bastar – What must India do to prevent their replacement?
NB: Notwithstanding the good intentions of Boehm’s speech, the truth remains that Israel is committing genocide, the world is witness to genocide; and the world watches ‘the West’ sacrifice, yet again, its universal principles to imperial self-interest. As another philosopher, Frederic Lorden puts it, ‘The whole world watches Gaza die, and the whole world watches… Read More Universalism in dark times
What concerns me is a more glaring omission: how would a Tibetan, a Dai, a Uighur, or Mongol respond to the assertion that the Chinese discourse on race was never characterized by a “gruesome efficiency”? Or is Tibet to be reduced to an instance in which perceptions of sociocultural difference outweigh those of race? Reviewed… Read More Frank Dikötter: The Discourse of Race in Modern China
Yusra Khan A microblogging site is no town square, but the influence of X (formerly Twitter) cannot be understated when it comes to deciphering the health of public discourse. Indian pro-government media personalities often hold more sway in this regard than algorithmic bot activity when it comes to harassment and targeted bullying in the online… Read More Free Speech Or Fear Tactics? The Unchecked Rise Of Right-Wing Online Abuse
Beautiful text on the meaning of Gaza entitled The End of Innocence (La Fin de l’Innocence) The whole world watches Gaza die, and the whole world watches the West watching Gaza. And they see everything… Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame (Revelation 16:15)… Read More The End of Innocence
Harish Khare At the beginning of the Lok Sabha election season a couple of months ago it seemed that the outcome of the 2024 outcome was a foregone conclusion. And, when the Election Commission announced the election schedule, the received wisdom was that the prolonged time-table was designed to enable the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s… Read More Six-Week Show Begins But the Charisma Has Gone
As vast solar plants multiply, so does the scrap, set to reach 19m tonnes by 2050. But disposing of the waste often falls to informal traders who risk injury when dismantling broken panels Under the scorching sun, a sea of solar panels gleams in the semi-arid landscape. Pavagada, 100 miles north of Bengaluru in southern… Read More Clean energy’s dirty secret: the trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom
GAZA casualties, live statistics The essential background to understand the unthinkable: a 21st century genocide broadcast live 24/7 to the whole planet In what can be considered the most crucial podcast of 2024 so far, Professor Michael Hudson – the author of seminal works such as Super-Imperialism and the recent The Collapse of Antiquity , among others – clinically lays down the… Read More The Gaza genocide as explicit policy: Michael Hudson names all names
First posted March 2017; March 2018 Melissa Davey A study of ancient Aboriginal hair samples has revealed distinct Aboriginal populations were present in Australia with little geographical movement for up to 50,000 years. The discovery of such a long, continuous presence in the those regions emphasised why land was so sacred to Aboriginal people, researchers… Read More Aboriginal DNA study reveals 50,000-year story of sacred ties to land / Australian dig finds evidence of habitation 80,000 years ago
