What NFHS-6 Doesn’t Tell Us
The sixth National Family Health Survey cut 30 indicators from the last round. Public health experts say the omissions reduce accountability for programmes that affect crores of people.
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Great Nicobar: Destruction in the Name of Development – 2 Articles
‛Great Nicobar at a Crossroads: Development, Defence, and the Future of an Ancient Island – Some Big Questions to Answer’; ‛Great Nicobar’s Blueprint for “Development at any Cost”’: The NGT’s acceptance of the government’s arguments in favour of the project shields the Centre from accountability and discourages critical scrutiny of a project of far-reaching consequences.
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‘You Don’t Commit Yourself to Either Hope or Despair:’ An Editor Discusses the Price of Justice
Journalist Prabir Purkayastha reflects on solidarity, uncertainty and the State’s power after the Delhi High Court quashed a case against NewsClick, calling it a “gross abuse of process” and “malafide” proceeding.
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The Pushyamitra Syndrome: Why Anti-Caste Politics Must Abandon Its King Obsession
Who is Pushyamitra Shunga? Why does his name provoke such disproportionate political investment? And how has a relatively obscure figure from the second century BCE become a recurring site of ideological contestation in 21st century India?
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India’s Little Told Stories of Faith and Forgiveness
The first Rehmat festival brought together accounts of courage, aching compassion, heroic solidarity, and tender forgiveness.
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Hindutva vs Dravidian Nationalism – 2 Articles
‛The Battle Between Hindutva and Dravidian Nationalism Is Ideological, Not Electoral’; ‛Why Dravidianism Is Needed in a Hindutva Polarising Society?’: Dravidianism is a revolutionary social, political, and philosophical framework to liberate the marginalised and build an egalitarian society.
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Lessons for Iran from the Korean War
The “forgotten war” in the 1950s is a blueprint for Iran. History teaches us that when a nation deals with a bully and a hegemonic power, you don’t back down. You fight. And fight some more. The only way to get the hegemon to the negotiating table is to give it a bloody nose, preferably a broken one.
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Economy | Fascism | Online Blog | USA
Elon Musk, Trillionaire: Extreme Wealth, Oligarchic Power, and the Politics of Fascism – 2 Articles
‛Elon Musk Is Now a Trillionaire. How Much Is a Trillion Really?’; ‛Elon Musk and the Politics of Trillionaire Fascism’: Elon Musk is less an aberration than the grotesque byproduct of a capitalist order that converts inequality into virtue, exploitation into spectacle, and mistakes its own deepest failures for its greatest successes.
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Economy | Online Blog | USA | World Politics
America’s War Budget Soars as Millions Lose Food Aid and Healthcare – 6 Articles
‛While Slashing Food Aid and Healthcare, GOP Advances Trillion-Dollar Military Budget’; ‛The Real Budget of the U.S. MilitaryIs Far Larger Than Reported’; ‛More Americans Are Hungry in the Face of Federal Cuts, Rising Grocery Prices’; ‛More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits’; ‛Nearly Half of Adults Struggled to Afford Healthcare Last Year’; ‛More Than 5 Million People Have Lost Health Coverage Under Trump-GOP Law’.
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Culture | Fascism | Online Blog | USA
From Hitler’s Olympics to Trump’s World Cup: Sport in the Service of Fascism and Big Money – 2 Articles
‛FIFA World Cup 2026: “The Beautiful Game” in Grip of Trump and Financial Oligarchy’; ‛From Hitler’s Olympics to Trump’s World Cup’: The elective affinities between Hitler’s Olympics and Trump’s World Cup are glaringly obvious: the same propagandistic exploitation of the sporting event by the same authoritarian, racist, and freedom-suppressing regimes led by megalomaniacal supreme leaders.
