No political cartoons allowed, but the BJP CM of Assam's Twitter account posted a video of him shooting at pictures of Muslims with a rifle, with the message 'No Mercy' & the IT ministry said fuck all, didn't do a thing. The post was taken down, but only because ppl pushed back.

I spoke to Nidheesh Tyagi of Harkara on Gen Naravane's revelations and the issues raised by my essay on his memoir in The Caravan magazine. (in Hindi) youtu.be/oaqmW94yeYs?...

What really happened during the India-China border crisis, including at Galwan? Then army chief Gen MM Naravane's memoir provides extensive details, of political decision making, restrictions on the military and the disengagement process. That's why it perhaps remains unpublished till date.

As Iranians Fight Their Far-Right Government, A Narrative War Brews Elsewhere While Iranians are mounting a brave fight against an authoritarian regime and a crumbling economy, a narrative war that leverages this critical struggle for ulterior motives is being fought in other parts of the world. 

Indians are being convinced that democracy rests on the brute superiority of numbers – ignoring the fact that our Constitution guarantees equal rights for all. At Scroll, we have reported on the human cost they have extracted, writes Naresh Fernandes. Read more: scroll.in/article/1090...

I hope the conditions in the US are such that this cannot, in fact, go on for 3 more years. But in India, it's gone on for more than 10. Not this level of constant escalation, but the mainstreaming of public lynchings/murders (by both civilian and police brownshirts).

completely evil to not only disenfranchise people but to use an unwilling persons identity to hide behind

Location: Shimla, Himachal Pradesh Date: January 21 A Hindu nationalist supporter stopped two Muslim vendors in Theog market and forced them to chant “Jai Shri Ram.”

Some white person posts about hindutva depravity. I'm like, oh I should engage and talk about it with them. The moment I open the comment box it's a fascist shithole, including the person posting the content. They're posting this to generate perception against immigrants/Indians.

I'm looking for a flatmate in Delhi. If anyone has any leads then please let me know.

I have a theory that Trump took/is taking lesson from Modi's workings in India. He does something outrageous leading to a public uproar but before the public could come out on the streets, he does something more outrageous. Now, the public is unable to decide, which issue they stick to.

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Chomsky once said, "Islamophobia is taking its most lethal form in India." This and many other instances like these have been the testament of that lethality. People, even the progressive ones, have become numb and are unable to do anything because of the mass influx of such incidents.

"Too often, military history is taken over by symbolism. But Ikkis sides with the soldier, not the slogan. It respects bravery while acknowledging the futility of war. Its ending reinforces that military virtue lies in conduct, not celebration." I write on Sriram Raghavan's new film, Ikkis.

Rohingya genocide case: Myanmar begins defence at ICJ

Marxist Rosa Luxemburg was murdered on this day in 1919. Her life remains a model of intellectual rigor and unshakable revolutionary faith.

One of the biggest scams in the history of India has been granted the right to privacy. The government took funds in the name of COVID and no one knows where that money went.

The Indian youth should definitely do so only if they can spare some time from dancing in front of mosques and churches.

For our autumn edition, Granta goes to Modi’s India. granta.com/products/gra...

The judges who denied bail to Umar Khalid & Sharjeel Imam have granted custom exemption to Adani Power. Yep, that's the great Indian judiciary. 50 years ago, the judiciary once commented that the Indian police is an "organized gang of criminals." Today, they're a competitor for the same phrase.

To break it into simple words, they're Muslims, and they must spend 8-10 years in jail without being guilty of any crime. The Delhi riot has been a classic case of a politically manufactured riot by the BJP. The actual accused have been garlanded, moving up the Sangh ladder,... (1/3) #UmarKhalid

‘With no doctors, no electricity, no running water, no paved roads, no functioning school, and no sewage system – the insurgents were not so much co-opting a society as building one.’  Snigdha Poonam visits Jharkhand and the Naxalites. granta.com/the-thin-red...

Location: Raipur, Chhattisgarh Date: January 1 Six Bajrang Dal members who had vandalised Christmas celebrations at the Raipur’s Magneto Mall were welcomed with drums, garlands and celebratory music, raising the slogans of “Down with Christian Missionaries” and “Jai Shri Ram.”

Videos of the incident posted on social media showed a mob armed with sticks barging into the city’s Magneto Mall on December 24 and destroying Christmas decorations a day ahead of the festival. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10897... #Chhattisgarh

Kajol Debnath of the #Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council said this was the fifth death of a Hindu man since December and that seven attacks on the community had been recorded during the month. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10897...

Sadly, there are only two ways to maintain and protect one's sovereignty: 1. Either be a satellite state of the US 2. Or, possess a nuclear weapon

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

Happy New Year sabhi ko. Iss saal phir se cigarette chhorne ki koshish karunga, pichle 5-6 saal jaise.

For people interested in knowing the flourishing networks of RSS beyond India. [Open Access]

Newslaundry reports:

Umar Khalid has spent 5+ years jailed without trial—a stain on any democracy. We welcome this Congressional push urging bail and a fair, timely trial in line with international law. Due process isn’t optional. Free Umar Khalid. #FreeUmarKhalid #ReleasePoliticalPrisoners

Parody of democracy no longer have people in the country to persecute.

Haven't read the complete story as it's paywalled, but a more rational choice would've been to make Americans be aware of how RSS has expanded its organisation in US and European countries. A crackdown in those countries would greatly help in nuetralising the ethno-fascist surge in India.

Unless a formidable coalition of sound ideologies rescues MP from the clutches of Hindutva dominion (Brahmin Hegemony), the state will be a lost cause like Gujarat very-very-very soon.

It may not have been the best psychological choice to watch Culinary Class Wars with its abundance of rice, greens, chili and fish, to unwind after a day writing about the Bengal famine of 1942, which my grandfather survived by selling chewing gum USian soldiers gave him in Dhaka.

Calcutta HC’s internal complaints committee was formally promoted in 2025, 15 yrs after its formation 20/23 district courts didn't answer RTIs on their ICCs Senjuti Chakrabarti finds Bengal's women lawyers have little recourse against sexual harassment article-14.com/post/-i-ran-...

Fascists have brutally murdered a student from Tripura in Uttarakhand, a state ruled by our current party in power ie the fascists. www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

‘The book unfolds as a sustained moral inquiry into the steady erosion of citizenship in contemporary India. Devy writes as both moralist and realist-shaped not only by the legacy of Independence but by the anxieties of a fragile, evolving democracy.’ —Dumani Mail’s review of Citizen Under Siege:

#UttarPradesh | Members of the Bajrang Dal reportedly barged in during the gathering, accusing the Muslim guests of “love jihad” and reportedly assaulted one of the male guests and a girl who tried to intervene. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10896...

Location: Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh Date: December 23 During a protest by VHP-Bajrang Dal against the killing of Dipu Chandra Das in Bangladesh, members raised the slogan “tel lagago dabur ka, naam mita do babur ka” (Apply Dabur’s oil, erase Babur’s name).

Location: Deeg, Rajasthan Date: December 10 Cow vigilantes affiliated with Gau Raksha Dal, in a joint operation with District Special Team of the police, chased a pickup truck carrying cattle, causing it to crash, and brutally assaulted seven individuals alleging them of being cattle smugglers.

As per the don't generalise group on Twitter: "The bad side of the Hinduism dance in front of Mosques and Vandalise Christmas celebration, while the good side practices Casteism."

No festivities can be celebrated in India without the fear of Hindutva goons knocking on your doors. Their own festivals are marked with riots, while on others festivals they send goons to disrupt the prayer/ceremony.

The institute said that it would ask the police to register an FIR against Prof Virendra Balaji Shahare. scroll.in/latest/10895... The Delhi University Teachers’ Association alleged that the question promoted a “one-sided” narrative and described it as a matter of “serious concern”.

The woman, Manya Dhoddamani, was six months pregnant and had married Vivekananda Dhoddamani in May. She was allegedly attacked in Inam Veerapur village under the Hubballi Rural taluk. scroll.in/latest/10894...

With all the poverty and dismal socio-economic indices, Bihar did well in terms of avoiding Hindu-Muslim antagonism since the Lalu era continuing through Nitish's as well. The secret—even with BJP as their partner, Nitish always kept the Home Ministry with him and so, the control over police. (1/4)

Just wanted to know, does this Epstein file matter to the MAGA group? I mean, when I look in India with a similar government as the USA, any scam or file doesn't matter to hindutva supporters at all. All is happening for a greater purpose here. Is it the same in America? Can it sway the public mood?

Sister Midnight is extremely wild. We rarely witness a working class misanthrope on the screen anymore. Of course, since a long ago bollywood has shunted-out working class from deserving a story of its own, but this film does a good job with whatever it could muster. #DesiWatch

The brutal killing of a Hindu in Bangladesh, and the subsequent uproar by RWs in India, misses an important point, it's not religion but majoritarianism which kills people. B'gladesh's revolution was bound to be a failure as revolutions rarely succeeded, except the french and a few communist ones.