Alex de Waal is one of the world's foremost experts on famine. Listen to every word he says about Israel's forced starvation of the people of Gaza: "There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled"

Bengal man detained in Rajasthan for two months for allegedly being Bangladeshi. Later, he was expelled to Bangaladesh. The family shown documents proving they have been living in India before 1941 and Sheikh has a birth certificate too. scroll.in/latest/1084902…

On a 245 years old library of over 25,000 books in Arabic, Persian, and Bengali (including handwritten Bukhari Sharifs) that were ferried over after Partition from Kolkata to Dhaka tbsnews.net/features/panor…

Now that the poor workers, rag pickers & cleaners from Bengal have left due to police torture & harassment, and everyone remained a mute spectator, let the techbros & AI keep Delhi & Gurgaon clean.

Umm Kulthum sings Iqbal's "Shikwa"/"Jawab-e-Shikwa" youtube.com/watch?v=LZDE5B…

“Canada’s recognition will be contingent on successful reforms by the Palestinian Authority, which currently governs in the occupied West Bank, including elections in 2026, demilitarization and the exclusion of Hamas.”

The world map prepared by Piri Reis.

“I love you so much” A simple love note written on a crumpled tissue was found in the pocket of one of the martyrs at Al-Awda Hospital.

From the book Dubai: an Arabian album by Ronald Codrai

There were two-phased demolitions at #ChandolaLake in Ahmedabad, on the pretext of rounding up alleged Bangladeshis post the #PahalgamAttack. Some 12,500 properties of majority Muslim families bulldozed. One of the largest ever extrajudicial demolitions in India. Read my report:

I have an essay on Ghassan Kanafani's political thought in the latest issue of Radical Philosophy radicalphilosophy.com/article/breaki…

Silent prayers were held in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, marking 80 years since the atomic bombing of the city by the US on August 6, 1945.

NEW: A Gaza Humanitarian Foundation contract leader is in a biker club seeking to fight "Islamic Extremism." One chapter held an anti-Ramadan pig roast. The US contractor — who's supposed to help Palestinians — once hailed Israel as "God’s Chosen Nation."zeteo.com/p/scoop-ghf-ga…

BJP govt evicted 15,270 families – the majority of them Muslim –displacing over 70,000 people in last nine years It is not that only Muslims settle in govt land A large section of the 7.46 lakh families belong to communities considered “indigenous” to the state. Scroll.in

As Gaza runs out of money and with banking services extinguished following months of war and devastation, famine-stricken consumers are increasingly relying on currency traders who charge exorbitant commission rates to access cash — the last remaining widely accepted payment

Egypt has signed a record $35bn gas deal with Israel, almost tripling its gas imports from the Israeli Leviathan gas fields and marking the largest export deal in Israel’s history pulse.ly/egnfzr86mc

“Bad poetry, for him, even if it assumes an advanced role, is a form of counterrevolution, as Palestine cannot forgive the offense inflicted on its beauty and justice by a bad Palestinian poem.” — Mahmoud Darwish on Muin Bseiso

Nothing in Gaza is passive. A famine isn’t “happening” to Gaza, water is not “scarce”….the occupation IS STARVING Gaza, the occupation IS DESTROYING water plants so that people cannot drink. chuffed.org/project/help-u…. We are trying to combat the direct and purposeful campaign to