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The Potato Eaters, and the Sunflowers are not blooming
By Uttara Shidore. Remembering Vincent Van Gogh. Not as a great artist, but as a compassionate human being rooted in the margins.
Predators, Perverts, Paedophiles: And all that Sleaze on Social Media
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Targeting children. Two recent verdicts in New Mexico and Los Angeles exposes the sleazy side of social media:
Not in the Church’s Shadow, But in the Shadow of the Cross
By Vijayan MJ. But hope remains—if it is grounded in struggle. Ambedkar taught hope as organised courage. Bhagat Singh rejected surrender. Che Guevara refused neutrality. Birsa Munda defended land and life as civilisational resistance.
The beauty of a Body in Motion... Rhythm, Presence, Percussion
By Aprameya Manthena . It reminds of the inherent beauty and awe of witnessing highly trained human bodies in motion.
it’s a hard rain that's going to fall...
By Seema Mustafa. Trump is in a catch-22 situation.
N0 EXIT: There is nooooo wayyyyy outttt…
By Jeff Berg. How do we keep this casino from shutting off the lights?
Editor's Pick
Stupid. Honestly stupid. Here comes the Clown-Artist
By Sarita Chouhan in Mumbai. Lulu’ as a clown. Lulu is a girl from Paris who loves people.
An Oxymoron. Pure Evil.
By Aditya Nigam. Iran is giving them a run for their money.
A Fireball Crusader, with a tattoo on his chest
By Amit Sengupta. War as a fantastic, cathartic, fanatic, White Supremacist, racist, masculine ‘Game of Thrones’ with Trump as the newest prophet of doom, and Hegseth his sidekick with a crusader’s tattoo on his body.
Politics
it’s a hard rain that's going to fall...
By Seema Mustafa. Trump is in a catch-22 situation.
N0 EXIT: There is nooooo wayyyyy outttt…
By Jeff Berg. How do we keep this casino from shutting off the lights?
AI is not reliable. Especially in a conflict zone. QED. Hence proved.
By Ajith Pillai. Wars are mindless. It only spreads death and destruction. The script never changes—AI has only made it worse.
History
The beauty of a Body in Motion... Rhythm, Presence, Percussion
By Aprameya Manthena . It reminds of the inherent beauty and awe of witnessing highly trained human bodies in motion.
Carnival time in Khajuraho
Photo feature by Raju Mansukhani. Timeless messages of magical love, aesthetic beauty and compassion in a world scarred by relentless volatility, war and chaos...
Woman, Dance, Resistance
By Aprameya Manthena. Chandralekha believed that the classical tradition had to be re-applied with the age-old questions surrounding body, sexuality, devotion, power, resistance, beauty, spirit,fertility, nature and intellect.
Society
Predators, Perverts, Paedophiles: And all that Sleaze on Social Media
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Targeting children. Two recent verdicts in New Mexico and Los Angeles exposes the sleazy side of social media:
Not in the Church’s Shadow, But in the Shadow of the Cross
By Vijayan MJ. But hope remains—if it is grounded in struggle. Ambedkar taught hope as organised courage. Bhagat Singh rejected surrender. Che Guevara refused neutrality. Birsa Munda defended land and life as civilisational resistance.
Rocky is gorgeous. The movie is beautiful. Go see it.
By Ganpy Nataraj. You can be brave and self-sacrificing and still want to come home.
Ground Report
To Rebel is To Be!
By Amit Sengupta. The sudden, radical rupture inflames the rain-soaked afternoon. The fire spreads in the eyes, and inside clenched fists. A mother holds her little child close to her heart, eyes blazing. A thin, wiry young woman in a red sari, becomes a fiery symbol of shakti – women’s power. A grandmother is so intense, that her entire history of angst and anger explodes.
All Posts
The Potato Eaters, and the Sunflowers are not blooming
By Uttara Shidore. Remembering Vincent Van Gogh. Not as a great artist, but as a compassionate human being rooted in the margins.
Predators, Perverts, Paedophiles: And all that Sleaze on Social Media
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Targeting children. Two recent verdicts in New Mexico and Los Angeles exposes the sleazy side of social media:
Not in the Church’s Shadow, But in the Shadow of the Cross
By Vijayan MJ. But hope remains—if it is grounded in struggle. Ambedkar taught hope as organised courage. Bhagat Singh rejected surrender. Che Guevara refused neutrality. Birsa Munda defended land and life as civilisational resistance.
The beauty of a Body in Motion... Rhythm, Presence, Percussion
By Aprameya Manthena . It reminds of the inherent beauty and awe of witnessing highly trained human bodies in motion.
it’s a hard rain that's going to fall...
By Seema Mustafa. Trump is in a catch-22 situation.
N0 EXIT: There is nooooo wayyyyy outttt…
By Jeff Berg. How do we keep this casino from shutting off the lights?
Rocky is gorgeous. The movie is beautiful. Go see it.
By Ganpy Nataraj. You can be brave and self-sacrificing and still want to come home.
AI is not reliable. Especially in a conflict zone. QED. Hence proved.
By Ajith Pillai. Wars are mindless. It only spreads death and destruction. The script never changes—AI has only made it worse.
'I am so scared… please come…' They can block the film in India. Can they block the little girl's last words, ever?
India repeatedly abstained from UN resolutions which called for a ceasefire in Gaza
Once upon a time, in the Wild, Wild West, there was a Cowboy...
Cartoon of the day.
ADVANTAGE IRAN!
By Seema Mustafa. So why did Trump postpone military strikes on power plants in Iran?
“My son had documents against OpenAI. They attacked him and killed him"
By Ganpy Nataraj. Her son, Suchir Balaji, 26, a prodigy, worked for OpenAI and helped build the engine that powers ChatGPT.
To honour all those who fell with dignity
By Inderjeet Parmar. Forgetting the 'war dead', or allowing their memory to be bulldozed, diminishes us all. May the soil be smoothed, the stones reset, and the silence broken in renewed commitment to the universal sanctity of the fallen.
A pheran over blue jeans
By Amit Sengupta. “Young girls and women love to wear the pheran on top of blue jeans these days,” said Nadeem, with a smile. “Even in the mild cold of September-October, they can be worn with chappals,” he said.
The very being, of being transgender
By Suresh Nautiyal, The shadow of criminalisation looms large. Vague penal provisions risk being misused against families, doctors, educators, and allies, fracturing networks of care, and pushing the community further into isolation.
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