Think about it. Calling for peace and de-escalation has become a controversial and unpopular opinion. Absolute bonkers.

So many so-called journalists either seem to peddling their fantasies or they think that war is a kind of video game.

On both sides, Kashmir is treated as just an object to power nationalist fantasies, which leaves little space for considering people of J&K as human beings whose lives have equal worth as ours and who deserve the same freedoms that we do.

India is outdoing itself in cruelties to Muslims, every day a new horror story. This is Hindutva nationalism, a graceless and callous politics. It is shocking that this sort of heinous behaviour by Hindutva governments gives immense joy to Hindutva supporters.

Foreign secretary of India few days back: It may be a surprise to Pakistan to see citizens criticising their own government. That is the hallmark of any open and functioning democracy. Meanwhile, the “open and functioning democracy”…

The absurd arrest of the pacifist friend Ali Khan Ali Khan Mahmudabad is 1 more signal that Muslims in India have to pay a "user fee" of citizenship. And that user fee is silence.

Never in the history of India has there been such a polemical , lying, & inept bunch of politicians in power. The capitulation of the opposition, including the parliamentary left, to propaganda & divisive agenda in the name of national security is sickening to watch.

This is the daily terror directed against Muslim without asking their religion.Routinised. No national outrage. No talk of striking at the patrons of this terror network because we know who they are and where do they sit. telegraphindia.com/india/cow-prot…

Why’s everyone losing mind over whether India’s GDP rank is 5th or 6th? Our country has 35% child stunting, 80% informally employed & 50% w/o wage work (unchanged w/ growth), median income ~INR 11k, a whooping income & caste inequality, rising wealth inequality. Let that matter.

Brahminism says Dalits are impure, so they have to stay in their place. Brahminical wordplay turns toilet cleaning into a "duty," and centuries of slavery into "karma." This isn’t tradition, it’s Caste terrorism dressed in Sanskrit.

This little and light life sketch of An Economist in a children’s magazine is beautiful tribute to this Indian economist, among the finest we have had and a model of what intellectuals should be like. A compulsory reading for the trolls who write all kinds of nonsense about him.

"In a few days it is going to be five years since the day I was brought here.  At times I am amazed how I have survived so long in the same confined space, and not been restless through most of this period. Well, there were days when I was irritable and depressed — and

Virginia Woolf's writing table, Photo by Gisèle Freund, 1965

Aruna Roy at the #WIDERConference2025 - governance is not just a matter of welfare. It is also the right to be able to stand in front of a government and question its impunity #NREGA #UNUWider #ArunaRoy

The study of society must be scientific. But what does 'scientific' mean? Answering this means we must ask and answer: What is there to study?; How do we study what is there?; How do we know that what we know is true? Can we know something just by seeing it or experiencing it?1/

Religion, patriarchy, casteism, nationalism, capitalism, are all driven by the need to control. To control outcomes, resources, social behaviour, thoughts, language, & narratives. Be it men who act as protectors & providers or those who expect a medal for doing the bare minimum

Once again, the conclusion is the same: humanity’s major problems cannot be solved as long as society’s productive resources are controlled by private companies whose primary goal is profit, and as long as the state’s fundamental role is to protect such a system.

Instead of spending more money on providing more nutritious food, the govt keeps findings ways of ploughing social policy budgets to its tech bro friends.

Father Stan Swamy had to plead for even a straw and a sipper in jail because he was unable to hold a glass due to Parkinson’s disease, and died waiting for medical bail. Lest we forget.