2025

When India achieved independence in 1947 from two centuries of British rule, the country had to recover from the disastrous impacts of two centuries of many-sided colonial exploitation and plunder. Worse, to ensure the continuation of this plunder, the colonial rulers had tried at every opportunity to divide the people of India against each other. In the last decade of their rule, the colonial regime unleashed horrible repression against freedom fighters, imprisoning the most respected (…)

Introduction:
The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) has been the only continuously operational link between India and Pakistan for more than 60 years, withstanding wars, diplomatic failures, and political changes. However, following one of the most gruesome terrorist attacks on civilians in Pahalgam, Indian government

These are my initial comments on the "July Declaration" read out today by the leader of Bangladesh’s interim government, Muhammad Yunus.
1. Much of the history - as well as description of the Awami League - set out in this declaration is highly biased and partial, and seems to just represent the views of those who hate the Awami League, not just for what the party has done whilst in government, but for what the party is to them, that is to say a political adversary. That is to say, much of (…)

Silence is the first requisite in spiritual pursuit, but in politics, especially in the face of grossest injustice, it is an unmistakable sign of moral regression. What is happening in Gaza is genocide on an unprecedented scale. The cruel irony of history is that the community which suffered in

Gaza: From a genocidal attack to mass displacement and ethnic cleansing
For more than 20 months, Israel has launched an unprecedented assault on the Palestinian population in Gaza. The war waged by Israel deliberately targets civilians, taking on genocidal proportions and nearly completely destroying infrastructure, homes, hospitals, schools, and human lives. It has led to the mass displacement of Palestinians from their homes, aiming ultimately at ethnic cleansing to facilitate settlement (…)

In the global reckoning with slavery, Ethiopia occupies an ambiguous space. Often romanticised as the lone African polity to successfully resist European colonisation and celebrated in the pan-African imagination as a beacon of Black sovereignty, Ethiopia has long been cloaked in an aura of moral immunity. Nowhere is this mythology more evident than in the figure of Emperor Haile Selassie I, the so-called

Public Statement | August 09, 2025 | Friends of the Earth, India
On this important day marking 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and as the world honors the resilience and rights of Indigenous Peoples, Friends of the Earth India raises its voice in strong opposition to the Indian government

80th Anniversary of Hiroshima & Nagasaki must deepen our resistance and resolve to ensure a nuclear-free world order
NAPM demands Govt of India to drop dangerous proposals for amendments to Nuclear Laws and pursue sustainable energy alternatives
10th August, 2025: Eighty years ago, on the mornings of 6th & 9th August, 1945, the world witnessed the catastrophic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 200,000 civilians instantly and condemning generations to untold (…)

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Ghachar Ghochar
by Vivek Shanbhag
HarperCollins Publishers India
2015
124 pages
ISBN-10: ? 9789351776178
ISBN-13: ? 978-9351776178
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Sometimes a story does not unfold for the sake of entertainment or instruction but simply sits in a room, quietly existing, until you are ready to meet it on its own terms. Ghachar Ghochar is not a loud novel, nor is it in a rush to deliver a climax or resolution. It simply waits, almost (…)