The enduring lesson of Zohran Mamdani’s victory is that the moderate Centre is invariably the respectable front for right-wing prejudice. The voices of the liberal Centre, the political ‘moderates’, the newspapers and the magazines responded to Mamdani’s candidacy in a way that was indistinguishable from Donald Trump’s denunciations Mukul Kesavan New York’s mayoral race was… Read More Zohran’s run
Where the postcolonial Left meets the Hindu Right NB: This is an interesting overview, although I cannot agree with some of the author’s arguments. For instance, I think it is true that Hindutva marks an attempt to recast Sanatan Dharma as an Abrahamic-style faith; the main objective being homogeneity and subjugation of an entire population… Read More India’s Conservative Revolution
Since 2014, this has been the RSS–BJP’s consistent strategy: criminalize dissent, discredit activists, and rewrite constitutional morality. They know that a large-scale civil war is impossible in a subcontinent as vast and diverse as India. What they fear are small, localized movements, like Ladakh’s, that cannot be militarily conquered, but only silenced with force. The assault… Read More The Unmaking of Ladakh: RSS, Corporate Power, and the War on India’s Plural Soul
NB: The phrase ‘the fundamental racism of their editorial line’, sums up what it feels to be the perennial object of dehumanisation by the Western establishments and a sizeable part of their populations. Lina Mounzer has said something very important here, and it has lessons not only for the West and Israel, but also for… Read More The Disaster Correspondent: Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans
Delhi can’t keep blaming farmers while its rich class indulges in high-end consumption Avijit Pathak ENOUGH has been said and written about the intensity of air pollution in the national capital. Time and again, we have been reminded of the damaging consequences of the toxic air we breathe. As a former AIIMS Director, Dr Randeep… Read More Beyond air purifiers & artificial rain
NB: No wonder lacs of Indian students do their best to go abroad for higher studies. This government wishes to abolish the thought process completely. This is not national rejuvenation but a national disaster. DS ‘Since I can no longer guarantee the intellectual integrity of the research colloquium and that it will not be cancelled… Read More DU Cancels Delhi School of Economics Seminar Without Formal Reason, Convenor Resigns
How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide NB: The USA is founded upon genocide and slavery. Ten million Native Americans were reduced to 300,00 by the year 1900. Slavery is another story. Until the American population and the rest of the world confront this bloody history of the only power… Read More We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves
Why does Spain allow, applaud, and humiliate itself in the face of this unbridled Trumpist bullying that, so clearly and dangerously, could lead us to a third, and final, (atomic) war? What nobody understands is why an army of gorillas is sailing in our Mediterranean (https://as.com/…/el-buque-de-guer…) dedicated to threatening everyone, bombing left and right, directly… Read More Monstrosity in the Mediterranean before which Spain humiliates itself
It’s worth recalling that the familiar biblical history of the Israelites’– the Exodus from Egypt, the conquest of the land and the rise of the empire of David and Solomon – is almost entirely fiction. It’s not history but mythology. Shaphan the scribe, a marginal figure in the Bible, was the ghostwriter who shaped the… Read More The Obscure Scribe Who Invented Judaism
This officially sanctioned system of privileges will breed resentment among those who have spent their lives in those institutions and have a potentially demoralising impact in the long term. A “substantial set-up grant” only makes the funds available. Procurement is another story altogether. Shobhit Mahajan A recent newspaper report (IE, October 22, ) mentions that… Read More Reversing the American brain drain: Is the Indian government’s scheme enough?
After the truth-shower 