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• CJP’S Flowers and the Politics of Public Memory | Abrar Nazir

  14 July

  Images of protestors from the satirical political movement Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) at Jantar Mantar, giving flowers to police officers, are circulating on social media, which many have interpreted as a representation of democratic civility and political maturity. Such gestures convey the idea that dissent should not be confrontational and that it can coexist peacefully with state institutions. Moreover, the offering of flowers is not just a kind act with no political meaning; rather, it (…)

• The Mirage of India’s ’Nuclear Renaissance’ | K Sahadevan

  14 July

  As a long-time observer who has followed developments in the Indian nuclear energy sector for more than three and a half decades, I read with great interest the recent news regarding the finalisation of the Administrative Arrangement under the India-Australia Civil Nuclear Agreement, signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest visit to Australia.
  Quoting a statement shared by Randhir Jaiswal, the official spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs, Prime Minister Modi (…)

• The Chamber of My Heart / My Body / Bodies | Sagari Chhabra

  14 July

  The Chamber of My Heart – ‘Twenty thousand children killed in Palestine’: U.N report
  A chamber of my heart broke; gasping, it dived and clasped a fin; ‘You need to school yourself in decency; we do not kill our kids, here in the sea’, scolded the dolphin severely.
  The chamber of my heart flew hanging on to a star; ‘I have been watching from afar and in the twinkle of my eye, O my, I’ve never seen such bloodshed in the sky. You humans who suckled at your mother’s breast, have lost (…)

• Rajasthan: Youth Clean Up Banas River close to its Source of Origin | Bharat Dogra

  14 July, by Bharat Dogra

  The Banas River flows for over 500 km in water-scarce Rajasthan, fulfilling important ecological roles and meeting the needs of many people. The Bisalpur project has increased its reach further for meeting the drinking water needs of many more people in Ajmer. In its upper reach in South Rajasthan, in the Aravalli hills, this seasonal river has been sometimes referred to as Van ki Aas or hope of forests, a reminder of its important ecological role. The river, a tributary of the Chambal (…)

• Gaza forgotten | Faraz Ahmad

  14 July, by Faraz Ahmad

  The recent investigations by an Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Territory of Palestine by a leading body of jurists under the patronage of the United Nations (UN), led by former Chief Justice of Odisha High Court, Justice S. Muralidharan to investigate human rights abuses and violations of international human rights and humanitarian laws in three areas viz Occupied Palestinian territory, which is Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem and Israel itself, has (…)

• To the Anti-Militarists, Anarchists, and Free Thinkers | Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis

  14 July

  From: ‘Mother Earth: Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature’, February 1915, New York City, published by Emma Goldman, edited by Alexander Berkman Text dated 1915, written by Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis
  At this most earnest time, when the whole of society seems to be disrupted, we also want to raise our voice which has as much right to be heard as that of the other parties. For it was indeed we who have ever been the only ones who opposed militarism under the motto, (…)

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  CPI Demands Judicial Probe and FIRs Against Senior Functionaries in the Ayodhya Ram Temple Embezzlement Case | jun 26, 2026

  14 July

  Communist Party of India
  Press Release
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (June 26, 2026):
  The FIR based on the SIT findings on the Ayodhya Ram Mandir embezzlement case is only the tip of the iceberg. The resignations of Champat Rai and Anil Mishra are not enough. Their role, responsibility and possible complicity cannot be brushed aside. Registering cases against a few junior functionaries while shielding the senior RSS, BJP (…)

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  Socialist Party (India) supports demand of National Conference for restoration of full statehood for J&K

  14 July

  To: Shri Omar Abdullah
  Vice President, National Conference
  Jammu and Kashmir
  Date: 11 July, 2026
  Socialist Party (India) supports the proposed protest on 20 July at Jantar Mantar and your demand for restoration of full statehood for J&K.
  Respected Omar Sahab,
  Socialist Party (India) wholeheartedly supports your proposed protest on 20 July, 2026 at Jantar Mantar, Delhi to demand restoration of full statehood for Jammu and Kashmir. It is a long overdue demand and must be (…)

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  Stoppage of India-US trade agreement! —All India Kisan Sabha Press Release, July 13, 2026

  14 July

  All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) Demands for the immediate resignation of Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and the immediate stoppage of the final India-US trade agreement! Appeal to farmers to participate in the nationwide protest against the India-US trade agreement called by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on July 22!
  New Delhi, July 13, 2026: The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has demanded the immediate resignation of the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal. The Commerce (…)

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  Prabhakaran’s militarist strategy led to doom, says revealing book | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  14 July, by M R Narayan Swamy

  The seeds for a miserable end to Velupillai Prabhakaran’s Tamil Eelam dream were laid by the man himself — a long, long, long time ago.
  This is the conclusion one draws after reading a brutally honest and at times painful sketch of the early years of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by one of Prabhakaran’s earliest associates, Ganeshan Iyer.
  The Tamil work, Porattahil Enadhu Pathivugal, was first published abroad in 2011, two years after Prabhakaran was slain. It was (…)