NB: In September 23 2023, a BJP MP used filthy slurs against a Muslim MP on the floor of the house. Using foul language is permissible for the members of the ruling party. Their army of trolls uses the most filthy abuses and threats against critics of the ruling dispensation. Now they have all become very sensitive… Read More How women protesters became targets after the Jantar Mantar protest
Two Female Israeli Soldiers Die by Suicide in the Past Two Days Full text of the letter “We Refuse!” Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance Israeli High School Seniors Continue to Go to Prison Instead of Into the Israeli Military. According to a July 29, 2026 article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, two women Israeli soldiers have died… Read More Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Mental Health Crisis Deepens
Watch: The reason why the RSS wants to maintain an iron grip over Indian education: इंडियन एक्सप्रेस ने छापा प्रधान के इस्तीफे की हकीकत RSS क्यों रखना चाहता शिक्षा मंत्रालय अपने अधीन? Kautilya’s observations on the causes of discontent in a polity NB: From a Facebook post by Anikendranath Sen, journalist Gogia Pasha, or his ilk,… Read More A Note of Caution for India’s Gen Z movement: The BJP/RSS scheme for a permanent take-over
NB: RSS ideology combined with an eagerness of communal activists to intimidate citizens on flimsy excuses must not be allowed to gain domination over the juridical sphere. Judges and magistrates who behave as if they are adjuncts of the Sanghi moral police are demeaning themselves; and bringing Indian justice into disrepute. Thanks are due to… Read More Students are jailed for merely protesting; bail denied even for having biryani on Ganga boat trip: Justice Ujjal Bhuyan
NB: Listen to Arvind Anjum’s interviews with the new arrivals at the protest site. Pakistani youth express their admiration and solidarity with struggling Indian students: BBC report. DS The protest has convincingly established not just the irrelevance of legacy TV channels but also their continued abandonment of basic journalistic norms Kalpana Sharma There were broken… Read More The media missed the biggest story: How a generation fed on consumerism and hate found its voice
How the RSS is infiltrating India’s intellectual spaces NB: The Caravan article below indicates why the Modi government was so reluctant to dismiss the Education Minister. News Flash: Pradhan submitted his resignation a few hours ago. Read his statement here. It took over a month of agitation by millions of students and also overseas Indians… Read More The Takeover (2019)
As the far right fulminates about who ‘belongs’ in Britain, let’s remember Fritz Lustig, who arrived here in 1939, just months before war broke out. Initially jailed as an ‘enemy alien’, he played a vital role in a top-secret military intelligence unit Robin Lustig When the Nazis came to power in Germany in January 1933, Fritz Lustig,… Read More My father, the German refugee who fought the Nazis as a ‘secret listener’
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 ?
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
He was elected mayor of Istanbul in 2019, and had announced his candidacy for the 2028 presidential elections. But Ekrem İmamoğlu is now behind bars, and his trial, on charges including fraud and organised crime, could take 12 years By Kaya Genç – This piece first appeared in the Dial For decades, Silivri was considered a “sayfiye… Read More ‘This process has turned into a form of torture’: inside the trial of Erdoğan’s challenger. The demolition of justice in Turkey
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