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EDITORIAL: MORE COUNTRIES OPPOSE THE INTENSIFYING GENOCIDE IN GAZA BUT THE INDIAN GOVT IS SHAMEFULLY SILENT WHILE ZIONISTS AND HINDUTVA SUPPORTERS TARGET MAMDANI IN NEW YORK
Vinod Mubayi
The destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza has reached such a level that denial of its extent or brutality or evasion of its proper name has become well-nigh impossible – even inside Israel. One of the consciences of Israeli journalism, Gideon Levy, wrote the following in the July 30 edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz:
Read more…CITIZENS FOR THE CONSTITUTION (CFTC) STATEMENT ON RECENT INCIDENTS OF HARASSMENT AND TARGETING OF RELIGIOUS MINORITIES
Citizens for the Constitution (CFTC) strongly condemns the arrest and continued judicial custody of two Catholic nuns from Kerala, Sister Preety Mary and Sister Vandana Francis, along with Sukaman Mandavi, by the Chhattisgarh Police in Durg on 25th July. The trio has been falsely accused of “forcible conversion” and human trafficking involving three women from Narayanpur. An FIR has been filed against them under provisions of the Chhattisgarh Religious Freedom Act and the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, reportedly based on a tip-off by a Bajrang Dal member—a Hindu right-wing organization.
Read more…WHO CLEANS, WHO DIES, WHO CELEBRATES? CASTE POLITICS BEHIND ‘CLEAN INDIA’
Noor Mahvish
While Rs 1200 crore was spent on Swachh Bharat advertisements, Dalit workers continue to clean human waste with bare hands — and often die doing so. Manual scavenging remains a caste-imposed, deadly occupation masked by state neglect and public apathy. This is not development — it’s a democracy burying its most dehumanised citizens beneath the promise of cleanliness.
Read more…GLOBAL ECONOMIC BENEFIT FROM GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS
Vijay Prashad , Ubai al-Aboudi
The recent report by UN rapporteur revealed the web of global corporations that prop up and profit from Israel’s genocidal policies against the Palestinian people.
Read more…ASIM MUNIR’S PROMOTION TO FIELD MARSHAL SIGNALS AN AUTHORITARIAN PAKISTAN
Salman Rafi Sheikh
IN MAY THIS YEAR, Pakistan and India engaged in armed hostilities for four days after the Pahalgam attack – the most serious crisis between the two nuclear-armed neighbours in decades. As the conflict ended with de-escalation, without a decisive outcome, both sides claimed victory before their respective national and political constituencies. In Pakistan, the internal perception of a decisive victory over India in the brief, intense and symbolically important exchange of hostilities has triggered deeper entrenchment of its military in national affairs.
Read more…MODI GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE ANY FOREIGN POLICY
Radhakanta Barik
The rise of right-wing politics all over the world has been encouraged by the USAID, be it Egypt or India. The way they sponsored the ANA movement (the July 2025 revolt that dethroned the Hassina government) in Bangladesh, and the coming of the BJP in 2014 explains the attack on the Minorities, Dalits, farmers and the working class. The USAID’s (United States Agency for International Development) saas-bahu politics in India is well known.
Read more…VS ACHUTHANANDAN: A LIFE FORGED IN STRUGGLE
MB Santhosh
This essay was written by Thiruvananthapuram-based senior journalist MB Santhosh, who shared a close bond with veteran Communist leader VS Achuthanandan. It was translated from Malayalam by Vandana Mohandas.
Read more…OMINOUS IMPULSES IN THE JUDICIARY
People’s Democracy Editorial
THE country was stunned by the remarks of two Bombay High Court judges. Justices Ravindra Ghuge and Gautam Ankhad, in a display of self-styled wisdom, delivered an astonishing rebuke while dismissing a petition filed by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which sought permission to protest the genocide in Gaza perpetrated by Israel. From the Bench of the Bombay High Court, they asked the petitioner to “show patriotism for the citizens of our own country first.”
Read more…THE BIHAR MODEL
Sagar
THE CENSUS TOWN OF SABOUR, on the outskirts of Bhagalpur, was first connected by rail to the colonial capital, Calcutta, in 1861. Five years later, the first train between Howrah and Delhi—the precursor of the Kalka Mail—passed through here. The East Indian Railway Company, however, began constructing what came to be known as the Grand Chord, which, when completed in 1906, shortened the distance between the two metropolises by almost two hundred kilometres.
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