Bharat Bhushan A morning walk in Delhi’s Nehru Park turned into a nine-hour ordeal for former civil servant Ashish Joshi who was picked up by Delhi Police’s Special Cell, with his family kept in the dark for most of the time. The episode is not an aberration. It fits the larger pattern of how the… Read More The Nine-hour Walk: Dissent Criminalised
4 PM पर हाथ डालना भारी पड़ गया विश्वगुरु को,दुनिया भर में हंगामा ॥ 4 PM ॥ Media मुस्लिम पत्रकार से कथित मारपीट का मामला अब सत्ता और पत्रकारिता की आजादी पर बड़े सवाल खड़े कर रहा है. क्या सवाल पूछने की कीमत एक पत्रकार को पुलिस की लाठी से चुकानी पड़ेगी? जिस आवाज को… Read More 4 PM पर हाथ डालना भारी पड़ गया विश्वगुरु को, दुनिया भर में हंगामा / Mystery behind the relationship of PM Modi & Swantantra Bharadwaj unraveled
Ashish Joshi shared a social media post by the Hindutva Party calling on its state units to ‘rip apart propaganda’ of ‘dimagi Naxals’. Former civil servant Ashish Joshi, who was picked up during his morning walk on Wednesday by plainclothes police personnel and interrogated for hours, said on Friday that a first information report had been registered… Read More Ex-bureaucrat says he was booked over X post for ‘provocation’, asks if BJP will face same action
Andrew Roth Global affairs correspondent Israel’s defence minister has said his country is seeking Donald Trump’s support to approve plans to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in what has widely been condemned as a potential war crime. Israel Katz said there was “no real solution for Gaza in the end without thismigration” during a conference… Read More Israel ‘seeking Trump’s support for plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza’
The Soviet-Jewish writer bore eternal witness to the crimes of totalitarianism by Gary Saul Morson Vasily Grossman, the Russian-Jewish writer best known for the 1959 novel titled Life and Fate, has that book’s protagonist, Viktor Shtrum, express the view that the USSR is remarkably similar to its mortal enemy, Nazi Germany. Both are one-party states; both use… Read More How Vasily Grossman Made Darkness Visible
NB: Our Great Leader specialises in inventing abusive epithets for anyone critical of him or his government. The epithets include desh drohi (anti-national traitors), Khan Market gang, urban Naxals etc. Now he has come up with a new phrase, dimagi naxals – meaning intellectual Maoists. India’s Maoist movement began in 1967, and originated in a… Read More Devdutt Pattanaik on ‘dimagi Naxals’
Professor and cultural activist Ganesh N Devy apprehended that 12 crore Indians who come under the category of “de-notified tribes” may be deleted from the ongoing census that was a “fraud” on the country. He feared that India was moving inexorably towards a genocide. He wondered how many people were willing to go to jail… Read More Professor Ganesh Devy on the sinister implications of the ongoing census for ‘denotified tribes’
NB: The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 73,382 Palestinians killed and 174,236 injured since October 7, 2023, according to medical sources. … They added that the total number of Palestinians killed since the ceasefire on October 11, 2025 has reached 1,255, while the number of injuries has… Read More Israeli militants besiege two Palestinian families in their West Bank homes
Date: August 3, 2026 Author: aplutsoc “Write my name on my leg, Mama” On Friday, July 24, settlers carried out a violent raid on Palestinian homes in Tal, near Nablus. Four Palestinians were killed, and two Israeli settlers also died in retaliatory clashes. A week earlier, settlers had set fire to a house in Tal with residents inside.… Read More Israel: Protest against settler terror. By Ira Berkovic
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)
