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In Goalpara, eviction drives have displaced thousands of Muslim families despite their Aadhaar, voter IDs, and decades-old documents, as the BJP’s ‘illegal migrant’ narrative brands them outsiders—even as they line up to vote amid a campaign built on their displacement.
Today, it feels strange, and sad, that FIRs are being lodged against 14 Muslim men for taking a boat out on the river and opening their fast on the Ganga; they are being accused of hurting the sentiments of the majority community.
In “Speaking of History”, historian Romila Thapar and history enthusiast Namit Arora stage a conversation on caste, method, and early India, but the exchange also reveals the limits of pop history when it brushes against serious scholarship.
‘The Road to Scalable Organic Farming’; ‘Saroj Kushwaha Shows the Way for Highly Creative and Climate Resilient Farming’; ‘Tribal Community’s Family Farm Shows the Way Forward with Highly Creative Natural Farming’; ‘A Climate Resilient Model of Farming That Small Farmers Are Happy to Accept’.
A land that gave the world its first lesson in the conscience of power deserves more than a footnote in its own nation’s story.
‘The Commune and Popular Sovereignty in Times of Imperialist Siege’. Also: ‘Rats and Bananas: Western Media, Violence, and Freedom in Venezuela’: The Western media often portrays Venezuela through crude stereotypes, selective outrage, and sensational narratives while ignoring the daily realities, resilience, and democratic agency of ordinary Venezuelans.
‘Imperialism’s Attack on Third World Sovereignty’: Amid the US-Israel attack on Iran, Marco Rubio articulated re-colonialisation as an imperial strategy for revival of the glory of ‘Western Civilisation’. Also: ‘Imperialism, Oil Prices and the World Economy’.
‘“A Moral Obscenity”: Trump Budget Pairs Record Military Boost with Billions in Cuts to Social Programs’; ‘“Wow, He Actually Admitted It”: Trump Says U.S. Can’t Pay for Childcare Because it’s “Fighting Wars” Instead’.
History tells us one thing: when we wage unjust wars that terrorize distant populations in far-off lands, the violence rarely remains confined there. Sooner or later, in one form or another, it returns. Violence begets violence, and imperial war has a way of boomeranging back upon those who initiate it.
‘The U.S. Killing Machine’: When the U.S. goes to war, it goes to win – and to win, it kills and kills. Also: ‘US War Machine Is Built on Decades of Lies. The Assault on Iran Is No Exception’: Trump’s endless falsehoods about the Iran war build on a long history of US military mythmaking.
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