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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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  • Gaza’s Famine Warning in Perspective

    by ALEX DEWAAL on JANUARY 3, 2024 The people of Gaza are facing a real prospect of famine. That is the warning of the Famine Review Committee, an independent international mechanism. Without immediate action—stopping the destruction of items indispensable to human survival and providing large-scale relief and essential services—mass mortality from hunger or disease outbreaks is looming. This…

  • UK accused of hypocrisy in not backing claim of genocide in Gaza before ICJ

    Experts say submission to international court of justice on Myanmar six weeks ago makes stance ‘wholly disingenuous’ Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editorSun 7 Jan 2024 14.00 GMT The UK is facing accusations of double standards after formally submitting detailed legal arguments to the international court of justice in The Hague six weeks ago to support claims that…

  • The Eurocrats’ secret weapon

    Twenty-five years on, the euro has handed them victory BY THOMAS FAZI .  Thomas Fazi is an UnHerd columnist and translator. His latest book is The Covid Consensus, co-authored with Toby Green. battleforeurope January 3, 2024 On January 1, as the European Union ushered in another year of economic chaos and not-so-distant wars, no one was in the mood to…

  • NJAC shouldn’t have been struck down completely; uncertainty in appointments dissuading good people: Justice Vipin Sanghi

    Justice Sanghi discusses how he came to deal with PILs related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the misconceptions surrounding long court vacations and more. Justice Vipin Sanghi Prashant Jha Published on:  06 Jan 2024, 9:26 am 12 min read Having been a judge for the better part of 17 years, Justice Vipin Sanghi was one of the longest serving…

  • Women and Girls’ Access to and Experience of Education: A Reading List

    Girls and women’s access to and experience of education is obstructed by male-preferencing power structures that guide perceptions about domestic labour, marriage, and safety. In January 2020, the United Nations Children’s Fund published a report revealing that, globally, one in three “adolescent girls from the poorest households has never been to school.” The report noted a trend…

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