2025

Revisiting India

Due legal process and international involvement will ensure credibility of Bangladesh

No where in India or Pakistan where a nuclear strike would not trigger catastrophic consequences. Their arsenals highlight constant escalation risks and the urgent need for global nuclear disarmament.
The latest conflict between India and Pakistan earlier this year unfolded against a backdrop of nuclear threat and deterrence. Unlike India, which maintains a no-first-use policy, Pakistan maintains ambiguity, justifying this stance on the basis of its comparatively smaller military and (…)

The world is faced with three leaders, leading three noteworthy democracies, all three past their prime but neither of them likely to walk into the sunset till death does them apart from their post or are forced to relinquish office.
Benjamin Netyanyahu, 75 would have been behind bars way back in 2016 on charges of corruption and financial bungling in collusion with chosen business magnates. The trial began on 24 May 2020, in the Jerusalem District Court, with judges Rivka Friedman-Feldman, (…)

From International Literature. No. 4. April, 1935
A fascinating and frighteningly familiar, look at the anti-intellectual language of emotional obfuscation employed by the Nazis from Marxist linguist Trude Richter. With a dramatic and fascinating biography, Richter was a teacher and literary critic who became secretary of the German Association of Proletarian-Revolutionary Authors in 1931. An active Communist, after a year of underground work, escaped to the Soviet Union in 1934 where she (…)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)
September 25, 2025
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
CPI(M) Condemns Brutal Repression in Ladakh
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the brutal repression unleashed by the Union Territory administration under the central government against the people of Ladakh. This violent crackdown has resulted in the tragic loss of four lives and left several (…)

27 September 2025
Press Release/279/2025
UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION CENTRE
FROM THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL
Secretary-General Urges Nuclear Weapon States Return to Dialogue
Following are UN Secretary-General Ant

National Alliance of People’s Movements
[PRESS RELEASE]
Begin Dialogue: Grant Sixth Schedule Status and Statehood to Ladakh
27th Sep, 2025: National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), is deeply pained at the unjust turn of events in Ladakh, that has led to the tragic loss of four lives, as a consequence of the Centre

BOOK REVIEW
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Lifelines:
The Traffic of Trauma
by Harris Solomon
Duke University Press
2022. xiv + 286 pp.
(cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-1621-2; $27.95
(paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1885-8.
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Reviewed by Saurav K. Rai (Gandhi Smriti)
Cultural theorist and media expert Ravi Sundaram, centering his analysis on Delhi in the 1990s against the backdrop of rising instances of car accidents as private car ownership proliferated, argued that contemporary India is suffused with (…)

In my quest to find some calm in this fast-paced world, and in my dwindling habit of reading, I picked up another short book, one I managed to finish in just two hours. It was Yoko Ogawa