By Anuradha Bhasin. The post-2019 reality should have led to a consensus in the three regions – Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh – over similar grievances and challenges, but they stand even more estranged.

By Narendra Pachkhede. The Sharm el-Sheikh Peace Summit on Gaza: a televised triumph? A reality show dressed up as a fake peace accord?

By Amit Sengupta. There is a huge global campaign to ban Israel from all international sports and cultural meets, including football, as it was done during apartheid in South Africa. Football stadiums are erupting with Palestine flags.

By Narendra Pachkhede. And who speaks for Gaza?

By Roma. The objective was to celebrate the revolutionary ideas of Bhagat Singh among women so that they can unite and fight against injustice and social inequality, and for their dignity and fundamental rights.

Indeed, what is it that caused the outbreak of violence in Manipur on May 3, 2023, and who was responsible for stoking the fire over the next two years?

By Ajith Pillai. Political Science Fiction: The government’s Mahasamadhi Bill as forced Euthanasia for millions of the jobless and poor. Only the rich could live and flourish. The advertising blitz that accompanied it was persistent. ‘Death is not Elimination; It’s an Elevation’ -- was the official slogan that haunted citizens 24/7.

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.