The absence of justice for the Maliana massacre is a blot on our democracy PRABHJIT SINGH It has been thirty-five years since 72 Muslims were brutally killed in the small town of Maliana, in Uttar Pradesh, during communal violence in Meerut district. Their families still await even the first glimmer of justice. The Maliana case,… Read More Standing Still
P SAINATH Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s lockdown speech of 24 March 2020 gave a nation of 1.4 billion people four hours to shut itself down. It would devastate hundreds of millions of livelihoods within days. Minutes after Modi’s speech, his government listed the essential services that would remain operational through the lockdown. Refreshingly, they included “print… Read More The Indian media @75 is politically imprisoned and shackled by profit
Michael Amoruso I pray for friends I’ve lost, family, like my uncle who passed away,’ Bruno told me. We were chatting in the nave of the Church of the Santa Cruz of the Souls of the Hanged, a small Catholic church in central São Paulo. Built near the old city gallows, regulars go there to… Read More Saudade: the untranslatable word for the presence of absence
Activist Teesta Setalvad was granted interim bail by the Supreme Court on Friday in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots case.Teesta Setalvad is accused of drafting false statements of witnesses and submitting them before the Nanavati commission set up to investigate the riots. Granting interim bail to Teesta Setalvad, the Supreme Court asked her to… Read More Teesta Setalvad gets interim bail in 2002 Gujarat riots case
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas faced fresh calls to step down Thursday after new reporting revealed that his wife’s involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election was broader than previously known, extending to the battleground state of Wisconsin as well as Arizona. Emails obtained by the Washington Post and the organization Documented show that Ginni Thomas, a… Read More ‘Corrupt as hell’: Demands surge for US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign amid new details of wife’s election scheming
NB: Well spoke. I feel the same way about the use of ‘fuck‘ and ‘fucking‘ as force multipliers in speech, not to mention ‘shit‘ as in ‘get your shit together‘, etc etc. And as for ‘narrative‘ as a substitute for every verbal enunciation, including ‘version‘, ‘story‘, ‘account‘, ‘description‘, the less said the better. We can… Read More When did everything become ‘awesome’ and ‘amazing’? I blame the Americans
In An Inconvenient Apocalypse, authors Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen style themselves as heralds of some very bad news: societal collapse on a global scale is inevitable, and those who manage to survive the mass death and crumbling of the world as we know it will have to live in drastically transformed circumstances. According to… Read More ‘We’re going to pay in a big way’: a shocking new book on the climate crisis
The outgoing UN human rights commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, has said that China had committed “serious human rights violations” against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province which may amount to crimes against humanity. Bachelet’s damning report was published with only 11 minutes to go before her term came to an end at midnight Geneva time. Publication was delayed by the eleventh-hour… Read More China’s treatment of Uyghurs may be crime against humanity, says UN human rights chief
We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we started / And to know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot धोखा है इक फ़रेब है मंज़िल का हर ख़याल, सच पूछिए तो सारा सफ़र वापसी का है – राजेश रेड्डी NB: Sentences, books… Read More Beginnings and Endings
Lois Beckett in San Diego What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict For decades, the southern California writer Mike Davis has obsessively documented the dark side of the Golden state – its wildfires, earthquakes, megalomaniac real estate developers and violent police departments. In… Read More Mike Davis, California’s ‘prophet of doom’, on activism in a dying world: ‘Despair is useless’
After the truth-shower 