The judgment on the Trump administration’s war on Iran is already largely settled across mainstream media, public opinion, and much of the analytical sphere. What remains supportive of the war…
Tomorrow, April 1, marks the 37th death anniversary of S. M. Joshi. S. M. Joshi was born on November 12, 1904, in Junnar taluka of Pune district, where his father…
In a direct challenge to the Empire, the Russian ship that was carrying crude for Cuba has reached Cuba. Meda reports said: Amid a months-long blockade imposed against Cuba by…
Gaza (QNN)- Three Palestinians, including a groom-to-be, were killed overnight in an Israeli strike in Gaza City, marking a violation of the ceasefire amid near-daily attacks. Local sources confirmed that…
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The Israeli Knesset has voted to approve a law allowing the mass execution of Palestinian detainees and hostages. The legislation targets native Palestinians accused of killing or participating…
The al-Horiya 1 camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, is located on a piece of sandy land with a few palm trees, opposite the al-Nakheel gas station. Before the genocide, this…
The Gulf is a theatre where multiple actors are constantly designing moves, but Israel fully controls the script There is a certain predictability to how crises now unfold in the…
Populism has an uncomplicated promise. It claims to restore power to “the people,” a category so expansive and morally pure that it rarely requires definition. In democratic politics, where legitimacy…
The contemporary world is witnessing a noticeable decline in human values, manifested in the escalation of violence and brutality, particularly in contexts of armed conflict. This article seeks to analyze…
I am beyond heartsick at the war and America’s role in it—there was a remarkable piece of reporting in the Times this morning showing the technology we’ve been spending our money and…
To Shri Govind MohanHome Secretary Dear Shri Govind Mohan, At present, India is heavily dependent on computer programmes, software applications, social media platforms and other communication channels owned and controlled…
Imagine what might have happened if Iran had pre‑emptively attacked the US mainland. Western leaders would fall over themselves to call it a breach of international law — the kind…
Unbridled cruelty is the warning to Humanity of both the ongoing Gaza Genocide and the WW2 Warsaw Ghetto.To say so is, for some, immediately contentious - some will insist that…
This is a war against all of humanity and so long as the human spirit has the capacity to resist oppression, to see through the fog of lies - to…
How the relative positions of North and South India changed - and why the same Republic produced different outcomes. Hyderabad, Then and Now Bengaluru, Then and Now In 1968, I…
The 20th March this year marked the beginning of the Centenary Year of the Mahad Satyagraha led by Mahamanav Babasaheb Ambedkar. A delegation of Hum Bharat Ke Log consisting of…
“Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and die in the hands of politicians”Muhammad Iqbal, a highly influential intellectual figure in South Asian and Pakistani history. In…
A very important aspect of achieving success in climate change mitigation and adaptation in the context of India’s villages is to evolve a climate resilient model which is happily accepted…
In an interview published Sunday in the Financial Times, US President Donald Trump announced his “preference” to “take the oil” from Iran—a massive expansion of the US war of aggression that…
Israel’s parliament has advanced a dangerous bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian detainees to its final vote, after the Knesset’s national security committee approved the measure on Tuesday,…
Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- Israel prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday to lead Palm Sunday Mass, in a move that church…
Trust does not emerge automatically in a democracy. It is built slowly through everyday interactions, institutional conduct, and the credibility of those who claim to represent public interests. A democratic…
As political communication adopts the language of spectacle, war is increasingly encountered as sensation before meaning—altering the sequence through which violence is perceived, understood, and judged. A word keeps appearing…
It is unfortunate that much of human history is, in essence, a history of oppression and domination. The pages of history are filled with countless examples, from all parts of…
To those rulers who send young peopleinto the mouth of death,know that they are not killing machines.Soldiers are fathers, sons, brothers, sisters,who, when their bodies fall silent,will never again see…
Truth may well be the first casualty of war, but death, injury and environmental degradation are bound to be keeping up in the hit lists. Attacks on gas fields, oil…
Fifty years ago, Palestinians rose not only to defend their land, but to assert a presence that power could not erase. Land Day began as a protest in the Galilee;…
Honestly, I can’t believe I’m in this world of ours (or do I mean His?). Yes, this very one and no other! Almost a quarter of a century after, in response to the…
Friendship is a form of egalitarian relationship where mutual understanding, support, trust, interests, respect, equality, and dignity thrive to expand cooperation, minimise risks, and share both happiness and sorrow, thereby…
We are witnessing a turning point in history. We are experiencing a crisis that goes beyond an economic crisis. We are facing a true crisis of civilization. The U.S., as…
The explosions over Isfahan lit up the night sky. That was a month ago. Since then, the world has not returned to normal, because for the war states, there is…
In a previous life I directed a version of Jean Paul Sartre’s ‘No Exit’. In the play Sartre illuminates his intuition that ‘Hell is other people’. The three characters are…
This paper examines the profound ethical convergences between the biblical Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1–17; Deuteronomy 5:6–21) and the Quranic moral injunctions in Q.6:151–153 and Q.17:22–39. Moving decisively beyond the polemical…
While dissension permeates debate on matters pertaining to euthanasia, the recent landmark verdict, one of its kind was delivered on the Harish Rana case by the Indian Supreme Court wherein…
A Few years ago, I sat in a meeting room in a government ministry in Delhi. Around the table were senior officials, technical experts, and representatives from development organisations. The…
Guruvayur, Thrissur, Kerlam: Rejecting the communal statements made by Guruvayur constituency BJP candidate B. Gopalakrishnan and the support extended to him by the state BJP president, activists of the Wake…
On a cold morning inFebruary 2022, as Russian missiles struck Kyiv, Western leaders invoked a language that had once defined the moral architecture of the modern world. Putin’s aggression was…
Dear Mr. President Donald John Trump I know you would love it if I addressed you as the most powerful political figure of the most powerful country in the world.…
“A nation that once spoke the language of justice cannot now retreat into the comfort of selective silence without consequence.” India’s response to the escalating conflict involving Iran is not…
While most of the world waits and prays for end of USA-Israel-Iran war as early as possible, peace has been obstructed by two important factors. Firstly, the perceptions of the…
In March of 1938, Jan Masaryk, the Czech ambassador in London, met the new Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax. The Anschluss was underway and the Czechs needed to understand London’s go-forward…
There is a horrendous US-Israel war on Iran and Lebanon going on. A war of aggression with monstrous war crimes being committed, in some ways a continuation of the Gaza…
One of the remarkable writers who left an indelible mark on the literary world is Mahasweta Devi. Although she wrote primarily in Bengali, her writings – especially her novels –…
Some are expressing frustration that Iran’s conditions to end the war have not explicitly and unequivocally included a demand to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine and dismantle the apartheid…
Gaza (QNN)- At least six Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes targeting two police posts in southern Gaza overnight, despite the so-called ceasefire, amid an apparent escalation in Israeli attacks…
Section 301 investigation initiated by the US against India is unilateral and arbitrary, violative of WTO rulesIndia should counter it by insisting on reciprocity in all respects and questioning US sanctions…
The Iran-US-Israel war enters its fourth week. The United States and Israel continue to attack Iran and Iran retaliates on Israel and the assets of the United States in Gulf…
Every few months, Indian media headlines loudly proclaim that “Modi is the world’s most popular leader,” citing approval ratings from an American firm called Morning Consult. The moment such surveys…
Geneva – The death of Bahraini citizen Sayed Mohammad al-Mousawi while in custody in Bahrain, amid serious indications of torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment,…
In recent days, Islamabad has been cast — by its own officials and attentive external actors — as a venue for backchannel contacts linked to the escalating U.S.–Israeli confrontation with…
In a society where animals like cows are considered more sacred than human beings—where even their dung and urine are deemed holy, and are consumed as sacred substances—while certain human…
Seventy years of crisis in Iran did not begin with ideology, nuclear ambitions, or regional rivalries. They began with a single, deliberate rupture that the world has spent decades minimizing…
The US and Israeli bombardment might be destroying the lives and livelihoods of the Iranian people. Still, from afar, it is bleeding every Kashmiri heart, regardless of sect, faith, or…
Global warming is on a very ominous trend that has never happened throughout human history, according to a recent study in Geophysical Research Letters. The rate of global warming has…
“My name has been deleted along with my daughter’s. Why? Will my wife go alone to cast vote from my family?” asked Tollygunge resident Sudip Roychoudhury, as reported in TOI,…
“Those in power must show reason and discernment and rise to the level of our people — and let Algerians express themselves freely.” — Liamine Zeroual, April 2019 — declining…
Bhubaneswar, Odisha: On March 23, 2026, the Eastern Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Kolkata, comprising Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh (Judicial Member) and expert member Ishwar Singh, heard…
Across the US in over 3,000 protests and in countries around the world, the “No Kings III” protests on March 28 brought activists, citizens, and those concerned about the erosion…
Yankee imperialism, its Zionist brethren, and their reactionary authoritarian forces have plunged the world into death, destitution, and despair by spreading unwanted wars and conflicts between neighbouring countries and their…
India does not need more growth. It needs growth that belongs to everyone. Thomas Piketty’s World Inequality Lab has given us the data. The argument is now political, not economic:…
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