The only guarantee is of unadulterated bigotry and pure hatred.

- Knock, knock.

- Who’s there?

- The Election Commission of India.

- The Election Commission of India who?

- Exactly.

“He can’t see a belt without hitting below it.”

- Margot Asquith about David Lloyd George, another Prime Minister.

Equally sinister is the silence of the so-called objective political commentators/ think-tankers to blatant Islamophobic slurs and anti-Muslim hatred, and perhaps even a rationalisation by portraying it as some sort of tactical move during polls. Low life they are too.

For those studying history, the current Western attitude of indifference, if not actual contempt, for Palestinian life and society illustrates for us precisely how millions of native, Black American, Algerian, Namibian and other victims were once slaughtered around the world

The 'C' of 'COMMISSION' is falling. Is it a Freudian slip?

Those who claim that offices and universities are not places for politics seem unable to understand that the structures of such institutions themselves reflect and propagate a form of politics.

I am an Indian and have always been proud to be an Indian. I went abroad ( France) for the first time in my life in 1989 when India was a much poorer country. I travelled extensively in Europe. Never once felt inferior. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

What explains our perverse attachment to work even as its material rewards decline? jacobin.com/2024/04/marx-s…

If anyone asks you, “If not Modi, WHO”? You answer must be “THE CONSTITUTION.” It gave us the successor to Nehru and Indira Gandhi, it will give us a successor even now.

Destroying the Taj Mahal and Agra by neglect and by making it tough for the tourists. Notwithstanding these petty attempts by small men, the magnificent Mughal monument is and will remain India's biggest global icon.

In February, the Delhi PWD had called the Pragati Maidan tunnel a potential threat to the lives of passengers, and flagged “flaws and design deficiencies”. Two months later, the tunnel is open again, after addressing “seepage, water leakage and drainage issues”.

Shai Davidai Columbia University It’s a chant of “azadi”: freedom. It comes from the protests against the Islamist military dictatorship of Gen Zia-ul-Haq in Pakistan. But you see brown people and hear a foreign language and freak out.

Tonight at Columbia Jewish students led a full Shabbat service at the Gaza solidarity encampment. Minutes later Muslim students had their evening prayer service. All surrounded by love.

Please do let the world know: there are ways to live that aren’t being a paranoid bigot.

We already have 1,000 would-be Mozarts who instead of learning music and honing their skills are doing shit jobs for shit wages. They're spending their time just surviving instead of blessing the rest of us with music we'd love.

What these would-be Mozarts need is basic income.

I have found the most cursed hotel bar imaginable

Take my my money now, Books at NYRB

“After wide consultations with all stakeholders.” What does that mean? Those who buy bonds for shady quid pro quo deals?

Ramadas Prini Sivanadan, a Dalit PhD scholar at TISS Mumbai, has been suspended for two years by the administration for participating in protests and for promoting the screening of ‘BBC documentary’ and ‘Ram ke Naam’.

A new India that is afraid of the voices of our students.

“Authoritarian leaders all over the world distort history and weaponize nostalgia in order to gain power and manipulate people.” Charan Ranganath on memory and its discontents. english.elpais.com/science-tech/2…