Pranaya Rana There are decades when nothing happens, and days when decades happen. Two days — September 8 and 9 — changed the face of modern Nepal, figuratively and literally. What is happening in the country now is unprecedented. The entire state apparatus has been swept away. Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli has resigned, and… Read More A primer for what is happening in Nepal
There is one recurring theme: Young people feel robbed of their future Pratap Bhanu Mehta NB: A timely and typically thought-provoking essay by this scholar. I add some observations below 1/ The crisis of the 1960s and 1970s culminated in the Trilateral Commission’s 1975 report on The Crisis of Democracy, authored by Samuel Huntington et… Read More Nepal, France, America: democracy seems overtaken once more
By REPUBLICA – September 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM KATHMANDU, Sept 11: The Brihat Nagarik Andolan (BNA), a civil society alliance representing people from diverse walks of life, has raised serious concerns over the Nepal Army’s growing role in national affairs after it assumed command of the state. In a strongly worded statement, the group… Read More Brihat Nagarik Andolan questions Nepali Army’s intent, warns of plot against federal republic
John Yang In recent weeks, Indonesia has been rocked by massive anti-government demonstrations. The protests are led by students, workers and women’s rights groups angered by the yawning gap between Indonesia’s elites and shrinking middle class, and turned violent after a delivery driver was killed amid a police crackdown. John Yang speaks with The Economist’s… Read More Violence sweeps across Indonesia amid protests over worsening economy
NB: In 1953, eight years after the end of the Second World War and the partition of Germany, there took place an uprising of workers against abysmal working conditions and low wages in the Communist-ruled German Democratic Republic. The uprising was brutally crushed, and soon afterwards the famous left-wing playright and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956),… Read More The Solution: Bertolt Brecht
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NB: Judicial conscience requires human backbone DS For the state, Umar Khalid and others are worse than heinous criminals All those charged with the assassination of human rights activist and journalist GAURI LANKESH (29 January 1962 – 5 September 2017) are out on bail. Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur, Narsinghanand and many others who stoked violence… Read More Gauri Lankesh, Dr Umar Khalid… For the state, Umar Khalid & others are worse than heinous criminals
NB: I salute the Genoa dockworkers unon and all their comrades across Europe. No government is bothered about stopping the genocide and mass starvation being implemented by the Israel-USA-UK Axis. Workers are quite capable of confronting these criminal establishments; and coming to the aid of the helpless people of Gaza. God bless you. DS “If… Read More Italian dockworkers threaten Israel cargo ban if Gaza flotilla blocked
http://www.reporters-collective.in Nitin Sethi CLICK HERE TO DONATE Hello, We promised that we will be relentless in our pursuit of seeking accountability from the Election Commission of India (ECI) regarding its electoral roll purification exercise, “Special Intensive Revision”. Our latest investigation reveals 1.88 lakh cases in just39 assembly constituencies where people with the exact same name and… Read More 1.88 lakh double voters detected in ECI’s Foolproof List of 39 Bihar constituencies
Dan Shortridge Benjamin Nathans logged on to the Pulitzer Prize live announcement feed in early May just in time to hear his name read as a finalist. A split-second later, he heard his name read again, as the general nonfiction winner of one of the United States’ most prestigious arts-and-letters prizes. “It came as a complete… Read More To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
After the truth-shower 