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  • Claustropolis: 1984

    “Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…

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  • ‘”Material support” in the form of speech can be criminalized’

    Wadie Said: “There’s a question of who gets on the list…. It’s not something that you or I can say anything about or influence.” (image: The Mosaic Rooms) By Janine Jackson (Posted Jan 04, 2024) Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)  on December 29, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |  Education, Human Rights, Movements, State RepressionAmericas, Middle East,…

  • A disturbing judicial trend to inhibit access to abortion services in India

    MUSKAN TIBREWALA·JANUARY 7, 2024 Two decisions, one of the Kerala High Court and the other of the Supreme Court of India represent a disturbing new trend of courts leaning away from respect for bodily autonomy and the choice of a pregnant person in access to abortion services. — IN a short span of four days, from…

  • From the River to the (Red) Sea: Why the US is forming a new naval task force

    Yemen has shaken the trajectory of Israel’s Gaza war by attacking ships en route to the occupation state. The US and its allies now threaten to establish a naval task force in response, a move that is likely to backfire and stoke even more conflict. Khalil Harb DEC 18, 2023 Photo Credit: The Cradle Instead…

  • Ukraine and Palestine: A double threat to US hegemony

    The outcome of US-led conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia will have a profound impact on the developing world order. Washington has already lost the former, and its major adversaries are vested in making sure it loses the latter too. MK Bhadrakumar JAN 2, 2024 Photo Credit: The Cradle Geopolitical analysts broadly agree that the…

  • In Jalna: ‘Muslims don’t count’

    In more than one instance, Muslims in rural Maharashtra have found the local police unwilling and hostile when asked to register complaints about Hindus attacking them. They say the cops are quick to book Muslims for alleged crimes with alacrity, but they have to fight and plead for the same privilege when they are attacked…

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