Stop the Slaughter Mustafa al-Hallaj, Palestine Untitled. 1965

Franz Kafka, real

👉🏼 "A Vice-President has no locus standi when it comes to matters of policy, politics and judicial verdicts 👉🏼 "No matter what Vice-President of India says on any current affairs issue, his comments must be discounted entirely" Excellent The Times Of India editorial on the servile Jagdeep Dhankar.

"Everything you have in your heart must be expressed before it is too late." ~ Alejandra Pizarnik

This is a staggering chart. Indian middle class wages have stagnated over the past decade while food prices have gone up. In my newsletter today ft.com/content/57bcc9…

Piketty has just discovered dependency theory ;)

जाने कहाँ गए वो दिन!

“For centuries now, revolutionary coalitions have always tended to consist of a kind of alliance between children of the professional classes who reject their parents’ values, and talented children of the popular classes who managed to win themselves a bourgeois education,

The articles and essays in A Tradition of Rupture by Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. Cole Heinowitz are a treasure trove for books I should read.

NEW: 🇬🇧 The new head of the British secret service MI-6 is a descendant of a Ukrainian Nazi - The Telegraph Her grandfather, Konstantin Dobrovolski was known as ‘The Butcher’

This brilliant The Hindu piece by Dr Rahul Shastri exposes the EC lie that 4.96 cr existed on 2003 list and don’t need to submit proof of citizenship. The real figure: around 3.16 cr. Also, he offers the first estimate of availability of each of the 11 certificates demanded by

Precisely. This is the point.

Photography by Juan Rulfo, author of Pedro Páramo. Very interesting to me how his writing and photography show his creative vision from two different but related angles

This article makes two main claims “If it doesn’t look like The Holocaust it can’t be genocide” “If it were genocide, Israel would kill more people” Both make little sense 🧵

Banning books is a horrific act and it must be condemned. It shows the govt's anxiousness and desperation to suppress the facts & curb narratives different from the official version. However, the list is impressive. Indeed, these books are must to understand the Kashmir Question.

Genius and moral insanity: “Quo quisque est doctior, eo est nequior” \\ “The more learned someone is, the worse they are.”

“As Kafka prophesied, our one authentic sin is impatience: that is why we are forgetting how to read. Impatience increasingly is a visual obsession; we want to see a thing instantly and then forget it. Deep reading is not like that; reading requires patience and remembering. A

Bettina Brandt & Daniel L. Purdy eds. Colonialism and Enlightenment: The Legacy of German Race Theories - Oxford University Press, November 2025 global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Because GST has to be shared with the states while cess and surcharge is not devolved to the states. GST will also bring input tax exemption into play, which is the basic principle of GST.

Please note the sharp fall in the level of public trust in EC as recorded in this quick survey. And then look at the performance of the CEC in the press conference. Now you know why.