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
Behind the day’s headlines lies a quieter, more consequential plan that ties delimitation, the 2027 census and Hindutva dominance into a single long game. ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ – The Grandiose Self Jawhar Sircar Seasoned media persons or bureaucrats are hardly ever impressed by the bubbly froth called news as they know that the real action is taking… Read More A Worrisome Machiavellian BJP Game Plan Behind Mainstream Headlines
The Ram Mandir donations theft and Modi’s men who should answer for it ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ – The Grandiose Self Dhirendra K Jha, Amrita Singh August 1, 2026 FIVE MONTHS AFTER Narendra Modi began his second term as prime minister, the Supreme Court delivered his government a momentous gift. On 9 November 2019, it settled a land dispute in… Read More Trust Issues
What happens to the disappeared in Mexico’s narco-slavery camps By Marcela Turati, Thelma Gómez Durán, Eliezer Budasoff Translated from Spanish by John Gibler For the past five years, Marcela Turati, Thelma Gómez Durán and Eliezer Budasoff have been investigating forced labour camps run by drug cartels in the Sierra Tarahumara mountains in the Mexican state… Read More ‘We Were Simply Animals’
As the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire Simon Tisdall Feckless and clueless, Donald Trump is lost in Iran, unable to find a way out of the disastrous war he started. Once again, the US military is pummelling the… Read More Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction
By defending devotees rather than attacking the temple, the Opposition is turning the Hindutva milestone of the temple’s construction into an emotive anti-corruption narrative.. While the RSS tirelessly preaches that public behaviour, conduct, and character (chaal, chalan aur charitra) should be spotless, their behaviour in Ayodhya has been derelict, their conduct malfeasant, and their character dishonourable. Bharat… Read More Devotion to Deception: Ram temple theft scandal could redraw UP politics
NB: An excellent commentary; except for one misnomer: when it comes to Western imperial establishments and their hangers-on, it’s not their moral stupidity, but their moral depravity that we are confronted with. The truth is as clear as crystal: they are irredeemably racist, as racist as the Nazi jurists who concocted the phrase ‘life not… Read More Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity
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
NB: The rule of law has been replaced by the rule of ideology; moving the Indian Union toward totalitarian tyranny. The RSS is functioning as an extra-constitutional authority; a country within a country, answerable to no one but itself. When the accused can appoint themselves judges, it becomes a fixed match: even a child can… Read More Extra-legal status of the RSS/BJP. Abhay Dubey & Vinod Sharma discuss the Ram Mandir scandal
After the truth-shower 