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.
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On the Deepening Political Crisis in France and its Implications for the Left – 2 Articles
‘France in Crisis: An Interview with Jean Luc Melenchon and La France Insoumise’; ‘Between Macron’s Crisis and Le Pen’s Threat: France’s Left Seeks a Way Forward’: Seven years of Macronist neoliberalism have created the conditions for either genuine left-wing transformation or authoritarian breakthrough.
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A Lesson for Our Times
In these troubling times, when many countries experience the unlimited abuse of people’s civil liberties, it is useful to remember the value of individual acts of human courage.
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Capitalism | Fascism | Online Blog | USA
US on the Precipice of Authoritarian Rule; Millions Turn Out for No Kings Protests in USA – 4 Articles
‘On the Precipice of Authoritarian Rule’; ‘Massive No Kings Rallies Express Rising Discontent with Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda’; ‘Seven Million Turn Out for “No Kings” Protests Nationwide. Next Up, Massive Disruptions Backed by Unions?’; ‘What’s Next After the Historic No Kings Protest?’
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Hindutva Urbanism – 2 Articles
‘India’s Bulldozer Problem’: The fig leaf of urban development has produced a ‘Bulldozer Raj’ that wrecks democracy, undermines citizenship and polarises society. Also: ‘Hindutva Urbanism: How National Schemes and Events Displace Marginalised Communities’.
