The Beast’s Bargain: Arab States, Israel and the Price of ‘Peace’
When peace is demanded from the weak and defined by the strong, it ceases to be peace at all – it becomes submission disguised as justice.
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Bangladesh’s Liberation Under Siege; Is This the Bangladesh We Wanted – 2 Articles
‘Bangladesh’s Liberation Under Siege’: As Bangladesh marks the victory of its 1971 liberation, the secular, socialist foundations of the nation’s birth are under assault by the convergence of US geopolitical interests with religious fundamentalism. Also: ‘Is This the Bangladesh We Wanted?’.
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Fascism | India | Online Blog
Crimes Uncounted: When Data Becomes the State’s Defence
A delay of two years, unreliable hate-crime statistics, and discarded sedition charges, the NCRB 2023 Report offers us marginal data on crime but plentiful data on social control.
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Fascism | India | Online Blog
Kashmir Times: A Jammu Newspaper That Stood Up for the Valley; SIA Raids its Office – 2 Articles
‘Raids at Kashmir Times Office in Jammu; Editors Call it “Attempt to Silence” Independent Media’; ‘Kashmir Times: A Jammu Newspaper That Stood Up for the Valley’: Established in 1954, it is considered to be an influential and credible voice in Kashmir’s media landscape.
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Fascism | India | Online Blog
Bihar’s Managed Democracy
The State runs on a democracy of lowered expectations, and Nitish Kumar’s victory shows he manages that low bar better than anyone else.
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Death, Dying, and Everything that Follows in Assam
In Assam’s detention centre for suspected foreigners, the state wages an attritional assault against the lives of the detained. But that is only one part of a majoritatian fantasy to create a sinister ethno-racial utopia.
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
We Need to Understand the Plight of Kashmiris – 2 Articles
‘Consider Kashmir’: Kashmiris are fearful for their lives, their employment and the future of their children. It is necessary now more than ever to study the factors that point towards the volatility of Kashmir. Also: ‘A Conflict No One Asked For’.
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Fascism | India | Online Blog
A Dalit Chief Justice in a Hindu Majoritarian India
Over the past decade, the new normal has been an increasing decline in standards of judicial independence and integrity. As the 52nd chief justice retires, we reflect on his complicated legacy as a jurist, an administrator, and a Dalit chief justice in a withering democracy.
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Fascism | India | Online Blog
‘The Cell and the Soul’: The Mirror to Indian Democracy in Anand Teltumbde’s Prison Memoir
The memoir transforms personal suffering into a forensic examination of institutional decay.
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Fascism | Israel | Online Blog | Palestine
‘More Horrific Than Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo’: The Unsalvageable Depravity of Israel’s Prisons for Palestinians
As Israel continues its genocide, more stealthily than before its relentless bombing came to an end, it is unpardonable that its continuing depravity towards Palestinians in its network of grotesque torture prisons continues to be largely ignored.
