2025

Born in a Shia Muslim home, we have mourned the martyrdom of Imam Husain the grandson of Prophet Mohammad in Karbala, Iraq in 680 CE, every Moharram, the first month of Hijri Calendar when Husain Ibn Ali and his band of 72 including his 6-month-old son Ali Asghar in the arms of Husain were slain by the army of Yazid the Umayyad Caliph of Syria.
Many a prophet, saints and great leaders who stood up to tyranny and torture were brutally put to death. The nailing to the Cross was the most (…)

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Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system

Delhi monsoons can be pretty depressing, much like its winters. I have been struggling to write for some time now, and it has always been the situation when in Delhi. Delhi excites, ridicules, makes fun of, motivates and depresses at the same time.
Living in Delhi has exposed me more to the gross paradigms of patriarchy

Existence of colossal bio-diversity on earth including man was the most puzzling material event in every society since the dawn of human civilisation. The state of social production system as was available then was not supportive in developing conception regarding the

The large-scale expulsion of the people of Gaza is being increasingly mentioned as a real possibility. One still hopes and prays that this will not happen, but if this does happen, then this will be one of the most shocking betrayals of justice and trust in international relations, and its reverberations will be felt widely and for long.
During the post-war period, for nearly 77 years, the injustice suffered by the Palestinians has been one of the most significant issues in international (…)

6 October 2022
The Asian Question
I was? in my mid-twenties in November 1972 when I left Uganda on the orders of Idi Amin, who had seized the presidency in a coup the previous year. The expulsion of Uganda

4 June 1922
The communists and Veronese-Muscovite syndicalists[1] accuse us of carrying out the work of the counterrevolution because we criticize Bolshevik policies at the very moment when the Russian revolution needs all the solidarity it can muster from Western vanguard parties, as it finds itself threatened by the reactionary politics of the Entente and plunged into the enormous calamity of famine.
Do we deserve such reproaches? I think not. Our critique of the Bolshevik government (…)

Editors Guild of India
Press Statement
July 16, 2025
The Editors Guild of India is deeply disturbed by the filing of an FIR against journalist Mr. Ajit Anjum while reporting in Bihar.
The FIR against Mr. Anjum, who currently runs a popular YouTube channel, was lodged at Bihar

Socialist Party (India)
NOT EVEN A PRETENSE OF DEMOCRACY
13 July, 2025 will go down as a dark day in Indian democracy. People from Jammu and Kashmir have been observing this as Martyr