Nivedita Menon on July 9; 2026 At Jantar Mantar As I was leaving the protest site of the Cockroach Janta Party at Jantar Mantar where I had gone to express solidarity – on July 5th, the sixteenth day of the struggle – a young man who had also just stepped out, approached me to ask… Read More Cockroach Janta Party – a turning point for a dying democracy?
Sutlej’s message is that a ‘cash-for-kill’ does not eliminate militancy, it end up killing innocents and spreading militancy. It makes criminals out of security force personnel Bharat Bhushan The allure of banned films often achieves the opposite of its intent. That is precisely what is happening with Satluj, pulled down by the government after 48 hours after it released… Read More The Forbidden View: ‘Satluj’ chases truth of Punjab’s bounty killings
An interview with Magdi el Gizouli Adam Benjamin Sudan’s ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has killed thousands and displaced millions. The current crisis follows years of political upheaval across the country. In late 2018 and 2019, mass protests calling for democratic rule led to the collapse of the… Read More Marketing War (2023)
Tim Barker, Dylan Saba Martin Luther King once called the United States government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” That formulation may be controversial, but no one denies that the US is by far the world’s biggest arms dealer, with a 42 percent share of the global arms export market. Since the Cold War, Congress… Read More Selling American Bombs
A look at the world’s largest military industries Anna Stavrianakis In 1934, a US Senate Committee chaired by the Republican Gerald Nye began eighteen months of hearings on the domestic arms industry, investigating the enormous profits it had generated from World War I, amid speculation that the “merchants of death” might soon drag America into… Read More Arms Markets
The liberation of the American peoples cannot be achieved without the shedding of imperial weight, writes the Pulitzer prize-winning author in this somber essay marking the semiquincentennial VIET THANH NGUYEN The word I think of to describe the United States on its 250th anniversary is cruelty. There are other words, of course, that could describe… Read More ‘250 Years of Cruelty’ – Two essays on the ‘American Empire’ and How to Save the U.S.
Javed Akhtar was handed the topic of the Urdu script problem. He opened by saying there is no problem with the script at all. In this Jashn-e-Rekhta session, Javed Akhtar sits with journalist Pervaiz Alam, former BBC Hindi broadcaster, for a sharp conversation on the Rasm-ul-Khat debate. His central point is simple. Script and language… Read More Javed Akhtar & Pervaiz Alam on the Urdu Script Debate (June 28, 2026)
Mapping the world’s largest military-industrial complexes, their relationships to one another, and their overlapping structures of corporate ownership suggests that their expansion is, in the final estimation, subtended by the violent functions of statecraft itself ANNA STAVRIANAKIS In 1934, a US Senate Committee chaired by the Republican Gerald Nye began eighteen months of hearings on… Read More Arms Markets across the World
A constitutional problem arises when religious authorities effectively dictate what laws to enact and in formulating State policy Bharat Bhushan On June 15, when the Akal Takht ordered all Sikh legislators across party lines and Punjab’s Sikh Cabinet ministers to physically appear before it, 78 MLAs and nine ministers complied. They were reprimanded for passing the controversial anti-sacrilege… Read More Constitution’s silent retreat as Punjab’s lawmakers genuflect before Akal Takht
What Gaza reveals about the ideology that shaped the modern West NB: Since October 2023, at least 20,179 Palestinian children have been killed; and 44,143 injured. 58,000 children have been orphaned. Palestine has the largest concentration of child amputees in the world. This is the blood soaked memorial of so-called western civilisation. And our cowardly government… Read More The End of Liberalism
