By Aditya Nigam. Ever since the Soviet bloc's collapse, 35 years down the line, we are still forced to deal with this ‘blank in the crowded text’ of contemporary politics -- an empty place where the Left once stood but which revealed itself to be too stultified to show any sign of any movement.

By Aayushi Rana. In the silence, the cries of the past echo loudly, urging us to never forgive and forget, and ensure that the horrors of genocide are never to be repeated.

By Raktim Nandi. ‘Aamar Comrade’ isn't purely a film about rebels, rebellion, and political camaraderie. However subtle the relationship may be, it is also a queer love story concentrating on the volatility of desire, which melts into the violence of real life.

In September 2024, Kirk sparked significant controversy when he posted on social media platform X that “America does not need more visas for people from India”.

By Narendra Pachkhede. Fifty years after, the blockbuster yet again tells the story of a people told back to themselves, and in that act of telling, it is a reminder that fear need not be destiny, and solidarity remains possible.

By Narendra Pachkhede. His music was steeped in jazz and cabaret; his dialogue was in the Beiruti dialect, his wit was mordant. He wrote not of cedars but of unpaid rent, not of timeless landscapes, but of shifting alliances. He did not so much mock Lebanon’s hypocrisies as make them speak.

By Murali Kamma. What could go wrong? Everything, apparently. So, what happened? 

By Aditya Nigam. Well, the upshot was that I had to tell them that I would not be able to do what I was expected to do by the ‘German public sphere’ -- that is, dance to the tune of the German and the Israeli states.

By Seema Mustafa. A new, emerging political phenomena, routinely defiant, and extremely popular (along with, of course, Zohran Mamdani). With differing styles, they might change the landscape of American politics in the days to come.

By Ramsharan Joshi. Let the apex court’s ruling prevail. Let Hindutva hate politics go pale!

The Ambassador of Palestine in India, H.E. Abdullah Mohammad A Abushawesh, writes to Editor, Amit Sengupta.

Short Story by Ajith Pillai. Journalist J’s chilling account detailed the diabolic plan devised by the construction conglomerate and several governments to decongest Planet Earth of the human population. It entailed transporting unsuspecting men, women and children in mega spacecrafts, outside the solar system. This was considered “safer, less messy and evidence-free” than culling by injecting a killer virus or releasing deadly toxins into the air and water. 

By Nalini Ranjan Mohanty. "Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French," Gandhi said.

By B Sivaraman. Ramnaresh from Kanahiya Durlapur village, Pratapgarh, says once they reach the towns, they turn anarchic. They climb on top of private vehicles, block roads, eat free from roadside shops, and forcibly hitch free rides. Anti-Muslim sentiments are whipped upwhen the yatras pass though Muslim areas. The yatra becomes an exercise in communal polarization.

In conversation with Priyamvada Gopal. The scholar, Paul Gilroy, talks in terms ‘post-colonial melancholia’ and that is certainly there, but, also, I think, a toxic cocktail of rage, entitlement, false victimhood, exceptionalism, and vanity.

By Ramsharan Joshi. When journalists resist authoritarianism, they are punished. A glaring example of this is the police filing an FIR against a brave journalist like Ajit Anjum.

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.

In conversation with Seema Mustafa: As journalists, never forget that you are just a messenger between the poor and the deprived, and the corridors of power.

By Nalini Ranjan Mohanty
. Branded a ‘communist lunatic’ by Trump, young Mamdani is the new star on that progressive horizon that holds out the hope for an egalitarian America. Like him. it’s time for Rahul Gandhi to raise the spectre, follow the advice of Thomas Piketty...

Short Story: Their concept note said that cross-border firing could be stopped if India and Pakistan agreed to substitute firing with...