Dear readers, in a note above an earlier post, Electoral Inquisition, I mentioned the outstanding features of our ruling establishment: it uses democracy to destroy democracy it demands eternal power in the name of the people – defined as those who agree with it it seeks the ‘look’ of legitimacy by subjugating the autonomy of… Read More India’s self-incubated East India Company
“The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can… Read More Mukul Kesavan: Ark of Atrocity
In his recent keynote address to the Holocaust Educational Trust annual dinner, well-known historian Simon Schama denounced the allegations of genocide directed at the Israeli government and armed forces as a ‘blood libel.’ This term is specific to Jewish history, and refers to medieval Christian slanders directed against Jews by the highest echelons of Christian… Read More The ‘Gaza genocide’ claim is a blood libel, says historian Simon Schama
Dear readers, I find that a large number of subscribers are listed by my host as “Not Sending.” Or “Blocked”. This means WordPress.com has paused email delivery to that person. This usually happens if: You unsubscribed manually; or your server is blocking receipt of my posts Your emails bounced (e.g., invalid or full inbox), Or… Read More Note for my subscribing readers
NB: The travesty of Indian justice continues unabated, with the mainstream media shamelessly reporting the issue as of Khalid were guilty, even though he has not been tried in court nor been convicted. To keep a trial suspended for six years, and refuse bail – this is horrible but to be expected now under the… Read More Umar Khalid documentary screening at IIIT-Hyderabad cancelled
NB: Western civilisation is drowning in its own potty, literally and ideologically. Even their aircraft carriers’ toilets are clogged. How will the Free World survive, at this rate? Tsk tsk. Too bad. There’s a simple solution known to us lesser mortals: use water. Remember how the Don referred to ‘shithole countries’ some years ago? Seems… Read More David Cox: The planet’s prodigious poo problem / Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Pravin Sawhney on the collapse of Indian diplomacy NB: Many of us still don’t understand that this is an RSS government (the Sangh has many faces); and that it has no politics except (1) the rectification of history (i.e. defeating the Mughal Empire three centuries after its demise); and (2) grabbing control of public funds… Read More Pravin Sawhney: India Is No Longer Useful For America Geopolitically, Strategically & Militarily (June 18, 2026)
NB: The tangled web of communal politics in South Asia as a whole is exemplified by the circumstances in which Nasrin was hounded out of her own country for defending the human rights of minorities; and thereafter from India, for her critical remarks about religious extremism. Criticism of religion as well as of communal versions… Read More Taslima Nasrin returns to Kolkata after two decades
NB: The Chief Justice of India has declared he has no time to waste on video evidence of police brutality in Delhi; nor on considering the pleas of the student movement. At least fifteen major competitive examinations have been cancelled and re-held since 2022, affecting millions of students, causing massive mental stress and financial hardship.… Read More Unprecedented upsurge of Indian youth / State hooliganism on full display / Students में जबर्दस्त गुस्सा, सत्ता का घमंड ले डूबेगा Modi को ?
The environmentalist has had a tough year to say the least. He did not deserve to be preventively held under the NSA. He does not deserve to be ignored now. NB: Preventive detention was a colonial measure introduced as long ago as 1818. It was then named Bengal Regulation III of 1818. It was retained… Read More Sonam Wangchuk Does Not Deserve the Establishment’s Silence / This IIT professor died after a 111-day fast to save the Ganga
