Oct. 7: A year in the Decades of Genocide and Resistance
A year ago today, the eyes of the world were drawn to where it seldom wants to look. In occupied Palestine, a group of Hamas militants opened fire in an…
A year ago today, the eyes of the world were drawn to where it seldom wants to look. In occupied Palestine, a group of Hamas militants opened fire in an…
The old world is dead, and the new world will be stillborn. This is, indeed, a time of monsters. My modification of Gramsci’s quote is caused by deep sorrow and…
The Israeli aggression and genocide being committed in Palestine is the defining historical moment of our time, showing that colonialism as a system and a way of thought and life…
“What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide? The answer is,…
The technology behind generative AI has created a big splash in the content-addicted world of the internet. Its ability to churn out hundreds of synthetic images and text at industrial…
The events in Gaza and occupied Palestine are shocking and depressing. Over 30,000 human lives have been brutally taken away in Israel’s ferocious assault on Palestinians in Gaza, which is…
The politics of technology is one of the most important issues in our industrialized and electronically interconnected world. It has been a burning question since the advent of modern-day capitalism…
The renewed protests by farmers at the borders of Delhi have been met with a ferocious response by the State, showing yet again that dissent and self-determination of political identity…
India now counts among the most right-wing countries in the world, with all the classic markers of fascism emblazoned with a leering smugness across the faces of its elite and…
YouTube has latched on to TikTok’s winning formula of feeding users’ brains the cheap sugar that it needs to continue swiping up for newer videos, maximizing their time on screen…
Misogyny, homophobia, and transphobic rhetoric are everywhere on the internet today. This is part of a broader rightwing ascendancy and the strengthening of exclusionary ideologies all across the world. YouTube…
How ironical is it that the excuse given for having a new Parliament building was that the capacity of the old one could not be extended to meet the needs…
It is hard to scroll through YouTube and not be bombarded with videos and recommendations that push a right-wing agenda. This is something that a lot of people online have…
Israel’s genocidal assault against Palestinians is being ramped up to inhumane proportions. All masks are off about its intentions to completely annihilate the Palestinian people. Not only is Gaza under…
On October 17, 2023, Israeli airstrikes on the Al-Ahli Hospital (Anglical Baptist Hospital) in Gaza City left upwards of 500 people dead. This includes women, children, and men: doctors and…
Part 1: On September 5, 2023, a group of citizens convened online to discuss the issue of Aadhaar imposition and overreach in the context of seeding Aadhaar numbers with NPR…
India has been turned into a full-scale surveillance state with the masses under the watchful eye of the government, vulnerable and oblivious to being tracked, profiled, recorded, and registered at…
The issue of unemployment has become a regular talking-point for the political opposition in India and one of the many grounds on which it alleges that the ruling BJP has…
The news cycle this week has been taken up with the rapidly escalating violence in Haryana’s Gurugram, Mewat, and Nuh. This is occurring against the backdrop of months of violence…
There is talk again of the government coming out with its ‘Digital India Bill’ which is meant to replace the IT Act, 2000. The ‘Digital India Bill’ is an unofficial…
Earlier this month, the lower house of the Brazilian legislature adopted a controversial “fake news bill” (Bill 2639) which resulted in opposition from major tech firms like Google. The debate…
The Indian government has proposed changes the regulations around Aadhaar to allow private entities to conduct Aadhaar-based verification with its permission. On April 20, 2023, the government amended the Aadhaar…
“Whatever the majority wants should happen. That’s democracy, right?” said a friend to me the other day when we were sitting around in a group and the discussion took a…
As J.M. Coetzee has written, taking ‘offence’ at something is usually a reaction of powerful and oppressive groups in the face of any challenge to their power or the possibility of…
The Delhi, Bengaluru, and Varanasi airports have recently begun the ‘DigiYatra’ service. It is a facial recognition technology (FRT)-based passenger boarding system verified by Aadhar details. Recent news also says…
The amended IT Rules, 2021 were notified in end-October this year by MeitY, the electronics and IT ministry of the Indian government. They were withdrawn in June this year after…
The horrifically brutal and inhuman act of torture and rape perpetrated by Thakur men on a young Dalit woman in Haathras, Uttar Pradesh, tears at the soul and claws the…
Dalit and Bahujan lives, safety, and dignity continue to expendable in Uttar Pradesh (U.P). It is the ideological and geopolitical heartland of the ‘Hindu Rashtra’ model of the political nation-state,…
On 1 June, 2020, Devika, a Dalit child of fourteen from Kerala committed suicide by burning herself alive for want of a functioning television set on which to continue her…
Caste is an institutional ‘lockdown’ that has existed, developed, and fortified itself in an organic relationship with the material conditions of history. In his pioneering journal Mooknayak, Dr. Ambedkar used…
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