At Saturday’s massive march in London marking the 77th anniversary of the Nakba and protesting Israel’s war on Gaza, historian and Empire podcast host William Dalrymple gave a scathing interview to Middle East Eye journalist Ava Warriner.

IMPORTANT NOTE - I received a cancellation of my #OCI (Overseas Citizenship of #India) *today* after arriving home. A bad faith, vindictive, cruel example of #TNR (transnational repression) punishing me for scholarly work on anti-minority & anti-democratic policies of #Modi rule.

As Allahabad HC refuses to quash the FIR against fact-checker Mohammed Zubair, Betwa Sharma writes that made-up cases against Muslims are routine & SC's censure of prof Ali Khan Mahmudabad's post has made it easier to criminalise free expression To read, subscribe article-14.com/subscribe

"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza." My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide:

Minus Ambani and Adani; minus top-200; and minus top 5%, India's per capita GDP falls to Rs 96,000 which is below most sub-Saharan African countries. Citizens in 17 African nations are better off. Gentle reminder on the day India "overtakes" Japan and becomes fourth largest.👇🏾

#Books | “The great engineers of medieval India were mainly Shudras,” Namit Arora notes in a 2020 essay in The Caravan. “Members of the lowest varna in the caste hierarchy, the Shudras produced a steady supply of architects, builders, stonemasons, bronze sculptors, goldsmiths,

India overtakes Japan to become the fourth largest economy! #IndiaGDP #Japan

Her biggest achievement is falsifying the victory of her own ancestor, Raja Maan Singh I. Remember, Akbar's forces against Pratap at Haldighati were led by Man Singh and it was his charge of the forces that defeated Pratap at Haldighati, an injured Pratap left the battlefield.

Nothing of interest here, folks. Just carry on business as usual. "Most of Earth's systems, vital for life, are very close to total collapse" earth.com/news/major-ear…

In another timeline, Curtis Yarvin might have remained an obscure and ineffectual internet crank. Instead, he has become one of America’s most influential illiberal thinkers, an engineer of the intellectual source code for the second Trump Administration. nyer.cm/gg5MWat

Setting up "aid distribution points" and then massacring people who come to obtain food is sincerely one of the most evil things I have ever seen.

#BookExcerpt | “The savarna capacity for self-aggrandising mythmaking is built on the capacity to perform humility while appearing to endure sacrifice for the public good.” scroll.in/article/108267… An excerpt from ‘Meet the Savarnas: Indian Millennials Whose Mediocrity Broke

Really looking forward to this!

Congratulations Namit Arora ! Can’t wait for this one.

Congratulations Namit Arora. That's wow news.

Read this while you wait till November for the new book 😤