How the persistence of American Islamophobia makes it painfully clear that we are still living with the War on Terror Rozina Ali – Interviewed by Jonathan Shainin Twenty-five years after 11 September, it is hard to separate Islamophobia in America from the shock of that morning, as if everything since was caused by its impact.… Read More Second-Class Citizens
RSS Ideology Launching पर Sanjay Singh की दमदार Speech Saffron Shadows: The RSS, A Century of Influence is a newly released anthology edited by writer and social activist Leher Sethi that examines the century-long journey and polarizing impact of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). +++++++++++ Rahul Gandhi defamation case: Savarkar’s grandson admits Nathuram, Gopal Godse… Read More Sanjay Singh’s Speech on the ideology of the RSS
NB: The rule of capital is an indirect despotism, mediated by ideology. In the successor states of the British empire in South Asia the communal hatred that accompanied Independence and partition resulted in a permanent military dictatorship in Pakistan; and an uneasy tension between secular democracy and communal politics in India. Over the past decade… Read More Electoral Inquisition
By Shoaib Ahmed Sayam / Global Southasia / sapannews.com This past June, an elderly man was found stranded in no-man’s land on the Bangladesh-India border. For 24 hours, he and his nationality were shoved from one flank to the other. In the sweltering heat, border officials of both countries kept grilling Shosti Chandra Barman —… Read More Who defines where home is? Confronting Partition trauma
NB: Neither then (nor, I suspect today), do many people in the justice system pay attention to the fact that along with Graham Staines, his two sons, aged 6 and 10 were also burned to death by the mob led by Dara Singh. Even in the eyes of Dara Singh and his numerous admirers, could… Read More Could the man who murdered a Christian missionary and his sons walk free in India?
The author of Secret Affairs says that the past is returning ‘to haunt British policy in Afghanistan’ Mark Curtis; Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion With Radical Islam (2020) Richard Norton-Taylor British collusion with radical Islamist forces, including extremists who provided training camps for the leader of the 7/7 London suicide bombers and who are fomenting the… Read More UK’s collusion with Islamists ‘catastrophic’ (2010)
Behind the day’s headlines lies a quieter, more consequential plan that ties delimitation, the 2027 census and Hindutva dominance into a single long game. ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ – The Grandiose Self Jawhar Sircar Seasoned media persons or bureaucrats are hardly ever impressed by the bubbly froth called news as they know that the real action is taking… Read More A Worrisome Machiavellian BJP Game Plan Behind Mainstream Headlines
NB: The sinister and ongoing plan to disenfranchise up to 100 million citizens by using secret algorithms. Anjali Bhardwaj: The SIR Decision the Election Commission Says It Never Made | The Probe 5 Aug 2026 NEW DELHI The Election Commission of India says the decision to launch the SIR “was not taken” by the Commission… Read More Anjali Bhardwaj: The Special Intensive Revision Decision the Election Commission Says It Never Made
We have just learned of the passing on August 9th of Mariéme Helie-Lucas, an Algerian sociologist and feminist activist committed to secularism for decades. Mariéme was certainly better known in the English-speaking world than in the French-speaking world. As a tribute, we are reproducing the post written by her friend Harsh Kapoor. My former partner,… Read More Marième / Marie-Aimée Helie-Lucas (1939-2026)
NB: A timely and inspiring speech by Ashok Kumar Pandey Modi सरकार का टाइम पूरा हो गया, हिन्दू-मुसलमान का खेल नहीं चल रहा? || Ashok Kumar Pandey The Credible History 3.7m subscribers @sarlapurohit1216: बी जे पी और आर एस एस भारत को 1947 का भारत बनाना चाहती है ।भारत की सबसे बड़ी ताकत है विविधता… Read More Modi सरकार का टाइम पूरा हो गया, हिन्दू-मुसलमान का खेल नहीं चल रहा ? : Ashok Kumar Pandey
