Genuine, human content is increasingly sidelined by algorithmic prioritization, receiving fewer interactions than the engineered content and AI slop optimized solely for clicks…. The problem is not just the rise of fake material, but the collapse of context and the acceptance that truth no longer matters as long as our cravings for colors and noise… Read More The Last Days Of Social Media
Dear Friends and Colleagues, The Society for the Study of Archives cordially invites you to the launch of its journal ‘Reading the Archive’, a graduate journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The event will feature an inaugural lecture by Prof. Madhavan K. Palat on Genocide: Barbarism in Civilization in the Twentieth Century The lecture will be chaired by Prof. Salil Misra, Visiting Faculty, BML Munjal University,… Read More Prof. Madhavan Palat on Genocide: Barbarism in Civilization in the Twentieth Century. September 14, 2025
NB: Imagine! what would Biden and Trump and good Christian MAGA faithful and Keir Starmer etc., say if this figure were registered for their citizens for EVEN ONE DAY, rather than 710 days? They have sunk so deep in the mire of blood and tears which they have created (since 1948, when they terrorised 760,000… Read More ‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000. By now, 321 Palestinians PER DAY have been killed or wounded
Pranaya Rana There are decades when nothing happens, and days when decades happen. Two days — September 8 and 9 — changed the face of modern Nepal, figuratively and literally. What is happening in the country now is unprecedented. The entire state apparatus has been swept away. Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli has resigned, and… Read More A primer for what is happening in Nepal
Joseph Gedeon in Washington Two Democratic senators claim they have reached the “inescapable conclusion” that Israel is acting on a systematic plan to destroy and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza to force locals to leave, and they say the US is complicit. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, both members of the Senate foreign… Read More Senators say US is complicit in Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza
Things were already bad. They’re about to get worse Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’ By David Austin Walsh September 11, 2025 The assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday was both morally repugnant and an absolute political catastrophe. Kirk was one of the most influential and… Read More Charlie Kirk’s Death Is a Catastrophe for Higher Ed / Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’
There is one recurring theme: Young people feel robbed of their future Pratap Bhanu Mehta NB: A timely and typically thought-provoking essay by this scholar. I add some observations below 1/ The crisis of the 1960s and 1970s culminated in the Trilateral Commission’s 1975 report on The Crisis of Democracy, authored by Samuel Huntington et… Read More Nepal, France, America: democracy seems overtaken once more
by Christina Macpherson via thefreeonline https://t.me/thefreeonline/ Depraved!- Only 14 of the 533 corrupt Congress refused to endorse and pay with public money for ongoing Israeli genocide, ethnic cleansing, torture, bombing, kidnapping, starvation….. and sadistic murder of thousands of innocent kids. In a sane country with rule of international law ALL THESE 519 RULERS WOULD BE ARRESTED… Read More 519 out of 533 in US House of Representatives voted to continue sponsoring the Mass Murder of 2.4 millon Palestinians
By REPUBLICA – September 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM KATHMANDU, Sept 11: The Brihat Nagarik Andolan (BNA), a civil society alliance representing people from diverse walks of life, has raised serious concerns over the Nepal Army’s growing role in national affairs after it assumed command of the state. In a strongly worded statement, the group… Read More Brihat Nagarik Andolan questions Nepali Army’s intent, warns of plot against federal republic
NB: My old schoolmates from the Sainik School Kunjpura will recall that the village of Kunjpura is named after the Demoiselle Crane, which is a sub-species of the Siberian crane. The name koonj is derived from the Sanskrit word kraunch, which is a cognate Indo-European term for crane itself. Our School magazine was named The Grey Kunj. In the winter the lake besides the school… Read More Siberian crane: Back from the brink
After the truth-shower 