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Epic Faux Pas
For Iran, survival is victory. The martyrdom of Khamenei has had a rallying effect, and its strategy is built on domestic civil-military endurance and regional-global deterrence
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March 21, 2026
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'Winter Will One Day be Past'
This book is a true testament of friendship and an act of solidarity
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March 21, 2026
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‘Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum (Don't let the bastards grind you down)
\"There is more than one kind of freedom,\" said Aunt Lydia. \"Freedom to and freedom from.
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March 21, 2026
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Zan. Zendegi. Azadi
Are Trump and Netanyahu really interested in liberating Iranian women through this war?
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March 21, 2026
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Bruno ki Betiyaan
Whether future regimes sustain, reshape, or compete with Bihar's maternal welfare architecture will determine how deeply Nitish Kumar's political legacy shapes the state's democratic future
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March 21, 2026
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Capitalism Redux
The Global South must learn from the West Asian crisis that the persistence of neoliberalism alongside hyper-nationalism leads to brutality and genocidal war
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March 21, 2026
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The JNU Files
The immediate backdrop to the recent showdown at Jawaharlal Nehru University lay in earlier tensions
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March 21, 2026
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What is Trump's Endgame?
The Iran war looks like a high-stakes attempt by the US and Israel to reshape the balance of power in West Asia
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March 21, 2026
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Comfortably Numb
Constant exposure to violence unfolding in different regions across the globe is reshaping how people process suffering, with many experiencing psychic numbing or compassion fatigue
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March 21, 2026
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Freedom Cannot Be Delivered by Missiles'
“When I first heard about the strikes that reportedly killed Iran's Supreme Leader, my reaction was not celebration but shock, followed quickly by a heavy sense of dread.
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March 21, 2026
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War Begins Again
Oh, beautiful, beautiful, this time, we will pack a box of soil from home and run.
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March 21, 2026
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Turbulence in Tehran
To ignore or lampoon the attempts in Iran against the rule of clerics shrinks the space for the anti-imperialist Left to challenge other political ideologies, such as Hindutva
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March 21, 2026
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In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs
From the hijab ban in 1936 to the mandatory hijab by 1983, Iran has been living through extremities amidst relentless conflict over external influences for over a century
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March 21, 2026
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Futility of Fury
The US and Israel through their military actions are out of control. The outcomes of their actions in the form of reconfiguring the map of West Asia will also likely be beyond their control
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March 21, 2026
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Not in Our Name
HE should have first corrected his own vices and then given us advice”.
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March 21, 2026
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Not so Strait
The current catastrophe in West Asia and the surrounding Arab world is not an accident of history, but a direct consequence of Washington's relentless pursuit of hegemony
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March 21, 2026
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No Balancing Act
The India-Iran relationship stretches back millennia
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March 21, 2026
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Hezbollah Vs Tzahal
Battered for decades, southern Lebanon is, once again, witnessing people fleeing to safer places as Israel's operation in Iran spirals into Lebanon
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March 21, 2026
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Whose Liberation is it Anyway?
For decades, US foreign policy has adopted the pattern of 'selective liberation'-the deployment of human rights language when aligned with US strategic interests and its relative absence when it conflicts with them
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March 21, 2026
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The Spectacle of the Woman Accused
Media narratives—especially when women are involved—can end up amplifying suspicion and weaponising gender
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March 11, 2026
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The Stink of Epstein
Why are the rich and powerful of the world scared of what lies buried in the Jeffrey Epstein files?
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March 11, 2026
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Passing the Watermelon
Narendra Modi's presence in Israel is being read not just as a bilateral engagement, but as an endorsement of Israeli action in Gaza and the West Bank
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March 11, 2026
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For Phoolan, Who Wasn't a Devi
“Whether or not it is the Truth is no longer relevant. The point is that it will, (if it hasn’t already) - become the Truth. Phoolan Devi, the woman has ceased to be important. (Yes of course she exists. She has eyes, ears, limbs, hair etc. Even an address now) But she is suffering from a case of Legenditis. She’s only a version of herself. There are other versions of her that are jostling for attention. Particularly Shekhar Kapur’s “Truthful” one, which we are currently being bludgeoned into believing.”–Arundhati Roy in ‘The Great Indian Rape-Trick I’, on the film Bandit Queen by Shekhar Kapur based on Phoolan, whom he never met because he didn’t think he needed to meet her. The film was based on journalist Mala Sen’s book India’s Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi.
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March 11, 2026
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The Chic Cartel
Women are not just victims or side characters in recent crime-and-power OTT dramas. They are complex forces-capable of empathy, strategy and ruthlessness-whose narratives demand both recognition and reckoning
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March 11, 2026
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The Hierarchy of Sympathy
In crimes against women, justice is shaped not only in courtrooms but in newsrooms where narrative determines whose suffering becomes national conscience and whose fades into procedural silence
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March 11, 2026
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Dasyu Sundari
Media accounts simultaneously cast her as victim and avenger, until a life shaped by caste violence and gendered oppression was repackaged into a consumable myth of dishonour and revenge
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March 11, 2026
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Prince Pervert
Are rumours of the death of the rule of law vastly exaggerated?
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March 11, 2026
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Together, Apart
Poonam Saxena's translations of Mannu Bhandari and Rajendra Yadav's memoirs present a portrait of the trailblazing Hindi writer-couple's marriage and of newly independent India
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March 11, 2026
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The Great Indian Rape Trick'
The trope of transforming sexual violence against women into a springboard for rage that can only be channelled through counter-violence has long served as a popular framework in cinema, both globally and in India
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March 11, 2026
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Sensational, Titillating, Factual
Reporting crimes against women is often designed to titillate rather than to
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