July 11, 2025 – Sidharth Bhatia Source: The India Cable As tens of thousands continued their pilgrimage to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath and days ahead of Jammu and Kashmir’s Martyr’s Day, moderate Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was stopped from delivering his weekly sermon at Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid and put under house arrest by authorities on Friday.… Read More Snapshot of the day: The Wire
While the BJP has defended the SIR publicly, there is anxiety within. Long-term voters of the party are upset at being asked to prove their citizenship. Bharat Bhushan The special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar may turn out to be an ill-conceived and ill-timed exercise. It could also prove to be counterproductive for… Read More BJP could pay a heavy price for electoral roll revision in Bihar
This impeccably sourced account of the secretive agency during a period of global turmoil deserves a Pulitzer John Simpson In 1976 when we were both based in Brussels, my BBC mentor, the great Charles Wheeler, came back to the office from a grand US embassy party one evening and remarked: “The cleverest and most entertaining… Read More The Mission by Tim Weiner: Unmasking the CIA
There is a quiet crisis in higher education in India that runs deep, distinguished academician and former Chief Economic Advisor Deepak Nayyar said here on Wednesday (July 9, 2025), delivering the 2025 B.G. Deshmukh Lecture on ‘The Crisis of Higher Education in India: Disturbing Present and Worrisome Future’. Holding the Narendra Modi government responsible for… Read More There is a quiet and visible crisis in higher education in India that runs deep: Deepak Nayyar
The substitution of Large Language Models for genuine thinking is a generational threat. At stake is no less than the life of the mind. Aaron MacLean I have a warning for you. There is a conspiracy afoot in the land, targeting all of us. The computers in our pockets and the screens all around us… Read More A warning to the young: just say no to AI
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians. Turse’s central aim in Kill Anything that Moves is to expose the unparalleled obscenity of the Vietnam War: unparalleled both in terms of the devastating scale and variety of harm done and the diabolical levels of premeditation on the part of the… Read More Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Ayushi Kar & Nitin Sethi New Delhi: The overhaul of the electoral roll in West Bengal could start as soon as this month, state officials have been informed by the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal, who represents the Election Commission of India (ECI) in the state. Two state officials present in the virtual conference… Read More Confirmed: Next, West Bengal Voters to face Electoral Roll revision
Extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour among accusations upheld by court in judgment Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent Russia has committed flagrant and unprecedented abuses of human rights since it invaded Ukraine in 2014, including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour, the European court of human rights has found. The court’s grand chamber unanimously held that… Read More Russia has committed flagrant human rights abuses in Ukraine since 2014, rules ECHR
GAZA casualties, live statistics Children killed collecting water in Gaza Gaza’s Guernica / Guernica stands in solidarity with Gaza (2024) Israel has slaughtered an average of 122 Palestinians EVERY DAY for 629 days Children queuing at Gaza health center killed in Israeli strike, medics say The bodies of two children lie on the floor of Aqsa Martyrs… Read More USA + Israel + UK = moral depravity + mass murder. Period
Chandan Gowda After publishing several major Kannada stories in Prajavani and other publications in Mysore state, the nineteen-year-old Rajalakshmi N. Rao published The Rain, her scintillating debut story in English, in The Illustrated Weekly of India in late 1954. On the heels of the buzz around this story by a Kannada writer, B R Nagaraj,… Read More A precious discovery: The Living Stream
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