The Modi government’s dangerous politicisation of the Indian Army SUSHANT SINGH The scenes were unusual, the response extraordinary. At around 2 pm on 24 June, an army column arrested 12 members of a Meitei separatist group, the Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup, in Itham, a village in Manipur’s Imphal East district. Among them was Moirangthem Tamba,… Read More Lock Step
How the BJP is enabling ethnic cleansing in Manipur Greeshma Kuthar “I DIDN’T shut up. I asked them how they can behave like this with another woman,” an 18-year-old Kuki woman told me, recalling her abduction and assault, in which Meira Paibis had played a major part. The Meira Paibis—the name translates to “torch-bearing women”—are a… Read More Fire and Blood
“The United States of America v. Donald J. Trump” instantly became one of the most consequential documents in American history. Special counsel Jack Smith unveiled his case alleging that former President Donald Trump broke several laws in his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, with a grand jury indictment returned Tuesday that illustrated the depth and breadth of the federal criminal… Read More Donald Trump indicted for efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat / Trump’s latest indictment will reverberate for years to come
देश का सुप्रीम कोर्ट कह रहा है कि मणिपुर में मई से लेकर जुलाई तक कानून व्यवस्था नाम की कोई चीज़ नहीं थी। कोई कानून नहीं था। कोर्ट की तरफ से उठ रहे सवाल बता रहे हैं कि तीन महीने बीत जाने के बाद भी केंद्र और राज्य सरकार वहां किस तरह नाकाम रही है।… Read More मणिपुर में सरकारी मशीनरी ध्वस्त: SC | Breakdown Of Machinery in Manipur: Supreme Court
NB: Elections are approaching so our rulers are doing what they know best: spreading hatred and violence. These two journalists are among many who are trying to warn us Modi और Godi Media के इस गेम में फंसे तो कहीं के नही रहेंगे ये दंगे क्या 2024 का ट्रेलर हैं ?| Deepak Sharma
There are no softballs in Arianne Shahvisi’s “Arguing for a Better World: How Philosophy Can Help Us Fight for Social Justice.” Instead, the Kurdish-British author, ethicist and academic sets up the reader with exactly the sort of provocative questions many of us heard from our most whataboutist friends and family members. “Has ‘political correctness’ gone too far?” she asks in one… Read More ‘We are all implicated in this system’: A philosopher’s advice for surviving unethical times
Mukul Kesavan The violence in Manipur exhibits two symptoms – The impunity with which Meitei mobs have been allowed to loot police armouries and the instrumental use of rape to announce the end of Kuki citizenship Meiteis make up more than half the population of Manipur. They see themselves as Manipur’s defining majority and their claim… Read More Tipping point
First posted September 20, 2012 By A.G. NOORANIIf only Savarkar’s bodyguard and his secretary had testified against him in court, he would have been convicted for Gandhi’s murder On July 12 Swapan Dasgupta made an interesting disclosure in the evening on television. L.K. Advani had told him that according to Morarji Desai, V.D. Savarkar was complicit… Read More V.D. Savarkar and Gandhi’s murder
Jonathan Freedland Beware the strongman leader who fears jail. Donald Trump is running for president in part because he sees a return to the White House as a literal get-out-of-jail-free card: reinstalled in the Oval Office, he would be able to pardon himself for the mounting pile of serious federal crimes for which he is indicted. His… Read More Israelis’ defiance of Netanyahu holds a lesson for anyone who cares about democracy
NB: The mind-numbing historical illiteracy and moral vacuity of some of our artists and members of the intelligentsia is embarassing, were it not also predictable. Adolf Hitler is much admired amongst many educated persons, Mein Kampf is freely available even though Rushdie’s Satanic Verses is banned. The ideological icon of India’s current ruling dispensation –… Read More Bollywood film accused of trivialising Holocaust with Auschwitz scenes
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