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  Statement on Assault on Women Journalists by Delhi Police | Editors Guild of India (Sept 6, 2026)

  8 September

  September 5, 2026 | New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India (EGi) strongly condemns the detention and alleged assault on journalists Shaheen Khan and Nafisa Khan, working for 4PM News Network, by Delhi Police personnel attached to the Saket Police Station. The two women journalists were covering the inauguration of a new wing at the Max Hospital in Saket, an event which was attended by Home Minister Amit Shah and Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta.
  The journalists have charged that when they (…)

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  Video: Jairus Banaji speaks on The Political Culture of Fascism (2016)

  8 September

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  Jairus Banaji speaks on "The Political Culture of Fascism" | #StandWithJNU by Stand With JNU https://youtu.be/Ea67qXnP-1Y?si=IryttLy6X27wso16

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  Music: Baila Como Es - Tito Puente

  8 September

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  Baila Como Es by Tito Puente - Topic https://youtu.be/SJwH_5_jsHQ?si=b50KWgLgdi8Zs_fO

• Some Materials On Gandhi And Business | Anil Nauriya

  25 August, by Anil Nauriya

  The current Prime Minister of India once made a statement likening his association with certain business tycoons with the relation that Mahatma Gandhi had with businessmen and industrialists such as G D Birla. In this context, it is useful to recall a few facets about Gandhi’s association with persons from the commercial world. 1. Even when he was in South Africa, Gandhi placed less importance on the relentless pursuit of business profit by individuals than on their sacrificing (…)

• Jadavpur University is the Target Now | Arup Kumar Sen

  25 August, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Jadavpur University witnessed blatant right-wing violence on August 20, 2026. It is reported that clashes between the Left-wing students and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members during a general body meeting of FETSU (Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students’ Union) triggered the violence. The Telegraph reported (August 21, 2026):
  Supporters of RSS student wing ABVP raided the Jadavpur University campus twice within a few hours to carry out what its leaders described as (…)

• Low pay has a long political memory | Pritam Singh & Bill MacKeith

  25 August, by Pritam Singh

  The May 1926 General Strike in the UK and the May 1974 Railway strike in India both grew from protests against low pay and harsh working conditions into wider working-class upheavals. India’s latest strikes may foreshadow a deeper economic and political unrest.
  Karl Marx, the greatest theoretician ever of capitalism and the working class’ revolutionary role in building socialism, was born in Germany on May 5, 1818. After being expelled for his ideas and activism, he developed much of his (…)

• Mars Mission? Yes! More Investment in Healthcare? No! | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  25 August, by M R Narayan Swamy

  When Ramani Atkuri walked into a primary health centre in a tribal pocket of Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh, there was no one in the registration centre or the consultation room. Surprisingly, the simple rural folk gathered there were not upset. A young man was, however, busy dispensing medicines at the pharmacy. Atkuri was surprised when he ran to the registration counter after a while; five registrations later, he hurried to the consultation room and took his seat. Yes, the young man was a (…)

• Politics of Gen Z and the return of Coffee houses | Radhakanta Barik

  25 August, by Radhakanta Barik

  Indian political theory needs to explain the movements of ’GenZ’ and ’dimagi naxal’. State, party and class converge in Modi raj. People are against the party now and tomorrow they will question the ruling class and day after they will question state. Democracy doesn’t accept the neo fascist regime of Modi. It provides space for the movements of youth. Modi raj is getting deconstructed by the rise of youth. Modi turned into the supreme leader on the top of the pyramid and the RSS members are (…)

• Press Note 3 At A Crossroad: The Legal Architecture Of India’s Investment Screening Regime | Lakshmi Karlekar and Tanishaa Pandey

  25 August

  1. Introduction
  The liberalisation of India’s economy in 1991 opened the country to “foreign direct investment (FDI)” as a matter of deliberate policy, gradually replacing a regime of pervasive licensing with one of graded, sector-specific openness. For roughly three decades, the trajectory of India’s FDI policy was almost uniformly expansionary: caps were raised, approval requirements were relaxed, and new sectors were opened to non-resident capital. Foreign investment law during this (…)

• Arms to Israel and the death of Indian foreign policy | John Dayal

  25 August, by John Dayal

  August 14, 2026
  Amnesty International’s 42-page investigation, “Made in India: The Supply of Weapons and Ammunition to Israel,” released on 30 July 2026, sets out in minute detail what the Narendra Modi has decided to discuss for all of two years.
  Amnesty has traced 2,596 shipments of weapons, ammunition, parts and components exported from India to Israel between 7 October 2023 and 30 November 2025 with domestic companies supplied at least 390,516 small arms parts for military-grade (…)