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EDITORIAL: DOES VOTE FRAUD SHOW THAT HINDUTVA IS LIKELY NOT AS POPULAR AS PORTRAYED BY THE MAINSTREAM GODI (LAPDOG) MEDIA?
Vinod Mubayi
It is no secret that the Modi-led BJP regime has systematically subverted all supposedly independent agencies of the Indian state in the last decade to suit its own partisan power and political interests. Thus, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is supposed to investigate and prosecute financial crimes, mostly targets opposition party politicians. There is a long-standing observation that the BJP acts as a “washing machine” to allow the ED to let opposition party turncoats off the hook if they defect to the BJP. Another agency to suffer this fate is the Election Commission of India (ECI). Before Modi came to power, the ECI had enjoyed a high reputation worldwide for conducting free and fair elections. However, this reputation had begun to erode by the time the BJP under Modi gained its second successive victory in the 2019 national election.
Read more…STATE LEVEL FARMERS CONVENTION IN BATHINDA, PUNJAB, DEMANDS RADICAL LAND REFORM AND CALLS FOR STRUGGLE AGAINST CORPORATE LAND ACQUISITION
Report by Surkh Leeh
[From 2020-2021, Farmers in India launched a determined struggle against pro-corporate farm laws adopted by the Modi regime. It was one of the largest mass struggles in history involving millions of farmers who braved police repression and violence, disease, accidents and winter cold and summer heat, in which several hundred lost their lives but ultimately forced the rulers to withdraw the ‘black laws’.
Read more…RAINS WITHOUT BORDERS: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS DROWNING INDIA AND PAKISTAN
Meena Menon / Sapan News
A relentless monsoon across the India-Pakistan border has devastated hillsides and communities across Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarkashi, Punjab, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, especially Buner.
INDIA PALESTINE SOLIDARITY FORUM CONDEMNS THE SIGNING OF THE ‘INVESTMENT DEAL’ BETWEEN INDIA AND ISRAEL IN PALESTINE
India Palestine Solidarity Forum
India Palestine Solidarity Forum (IPSFP) categorically condemns the signing of the ‘Investment Deal’ between India & Israel by the BJP-led government, even as the Netanyahu Zionist apartheid occupation regime continues to commit a Genocide and War Crimes in Gaza and faces global outrage and isolation.
INDIA IS EVEN MORE BARBARIC TOWARD ITS MIGRANTS THAN TRUMP
Debasish Roy Chowdhury
Shock and outrage erupted in India when the newly elected Donald Trump administration started returning illegal Indian immigrants in handcuffs and leg chains stuffed in U.S. military planes earlier this year. Horrified Indians demanded to know why their government wasn’t protesting the treatment of its migrants like Mexico was.
A SOCIAL MEDIA TIMELINE OF NEPAL’S GEN Z UPRISING
Sushim Thapaliya
A day by day, post by post view of how Nepal’s Gen Z protests unfolded on Instagram, TikTok, Discord and other social media, from the massacre on 8 September to the swearing in of Sushila Karki.
COUNTING THE DEAD IN GAZA: DIFFICULT BUT ESSENTIAL
Rasha Khatiba
By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
HOW THE RECENT INDO-PAK CONFLICT EXPOSED FAULT LINES IN THE PAKISTANI LEFT
Muhammad Umar Ali and Syed Azeem
Following the Pahalgam attacks in Indian-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir on April 22, 2025, Indian strikes on several sites in Pakistan and Pakistan’s subsequent response ignited an intense debate within the Pakistani Left.