None of the great Muslim mobilisations of recent years has invoked Islam as a subject or even cause. From the Arab uprisings of 2010 to the 2020 protests over citizenship laws in India, and from the Green movement of 2009 to the 2022 women’s uprising in Iran, none opted for

Last Chance Saloon in Alaska: Russian Hopes Remain Alive: As Putin and Trump prepare to meet on Friday, the feeling on the ground in Russia is a mix of hope, despair, and scepticism, writes Alan Moore (Alan Moore) openthemagazine.com/columns/last-c…

The EU-Israel Association Agreement was a disgrace when it was stipulated, as it completely disregarded Palestinian rights. Keeping it alive today, in the face of the abominable crimes Israel is committing, triggers the responsibility of the EU leadership.

Last chance saloon in Alaska: Russian hopes remain alive openthemagazine.com/columns/last-c… via Open Magazine

A reminder that classifying every single adult Palestinian man as a terrorist is nothing other than racism. It's shockingly racist. Eyal Yakoby is a racist.

Two irrelevant pawns on the geopolitical chessboard, pathetically scrambling to prove they still matter,while it’s painfully obvious to everyone they don’t......

#oped Raise the Price of Terror for Taliban Four years after Kabul fell, the world must sanction the Taliban to stop terror, misogyny and lawlessness becoming the global norm, demands Lynne O’Donnell and Annie Pforzheimer openthemagazine.com/columns/raise-… Randhir Jaiswal President of Russia

The israelis intensify their heavy missile strikes across Gaza preparing for Netanyahu’s take over of what will be a place depopulated by death

My essay in ⁦Open Magazine⁩ on the remarkable accomplishments of a sage for the ages, Sree Narayana Guru, the subject of my next book, who deserves to be far better known outside Kerala than he now is: openthemagazine.com/cover-stories/…

#FreedomIssue2025: Mystic As Rebel: A freedom fighter and poet with a grand vision for India, #HasratMohani—a communist, a devout Muslim who admired Tilak and worshipped Krishna, and the coiner of the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’—had called for ‘Poorna Swaraj’ from British rule as

Remembering freedom fighter and poet Hasrat Mohani who wrote the song ‘chupke chupke’, coined the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ and first demanded ‘Poorna Swaraj’ from British rule openthemagazine.com/cover-stories/… Open Magazine #IndependenceDay #IndependenceDayIndia #Independence

As 🇮🇳 celebrates #IndependenceDay ⁦Ullekh NP/ഉല്ലേഖ് എൻപി⁩ writes about the person who called for poorna swaraj in 1921 and coined the superbly stirring slogan #InquilabZindabad openthemagazine.com/cover-stories/…

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Trump the bully and his team seem to understand Putin’s power. The result is a cordial and collected meeting and no Nobel Prize tantrums. The next meeting in #Moscow will be heavy lifting. #AlaskaMeeting

A Muslim political party worker from Lahore came to Bombay to try and kill Muhammad Ali Jinnah in July 1943. I write about this little known episode of history for Scroll. scroll.in/magazine/10855…

#FreedomIssue2025: #HasratMohani demanded complete independence in 1921 at the Ahmedabad Session of Congress. The man was ahead of his time, opposed whatever he saw was an incremental move, unjust, unfair, no matter who his opponent was, be it Gandhi or Jinnah or Ambedkarwrites

Oh no… How can you expect them to keep killing children under such brutal conditions!

Warmongers got baked in #Alaska, but not according to Western media: When the leaders of #Russia and #America met on US soil, the world watched. Russians and Ukrainians hoped for signs of a peace process, yet woke up to find the West demanding more war, writes Alan Moore,

100% of Thai women working in Israeli agriculture report being sexually assaulted in Israel — 654 of 654 surveyed. A report by immigration experts Dr. Yahel Kurlander and Dr. Shahar Shoham said “the State of Israel has abandoned these women” and that filing a complaint can mean