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5+ min ago (616+ words) PM Modi's recent speech on the "Macaulay mindset" has raised hackles. But beyond polarized politics, let us look at the larger issue: colonial education, and its decolonization." This changes the perspective. Neither a single individual, Macaulay, nor the English language is the central issue as has long been wrongly believed. In the French colonies, the colonial language was French. It was Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese in their respective colonies. In those colonies, Macaulay was unknown but their education system is just the same. What remains relevant is Macaulay's assertion of the "immeasurable superiority" of the West, especially in mathematics and science, which supremacist belief induced the colonized to change their education system, and to accept the church education system which then prevailed across Europe." Decolonization aims to uproot these inter-related supremacist assertions, to free the mind. This article is limited…...

22+ min ago (302+ words) Their slogan captured this critique with biting clarity: "Socialism on their lips.Feudalism in their hearts.Worshippers of feudalism,Enemies of the New Era-Your days are ending." Breaking with Left parties that combined class rhetoric with paternalistic practice, DCUF nonetheless adopted Marxist tools " trade unions, study circles, collective discussions, while placing caste's materiality at the centre of its politics. For DCUF, caste was not a cultural remnant awaiting historical extinction; it was an active system of dispossession that structured everyday life. Why DCUF Matters Today After having a discussion with Delhi University students on 27 May, 2025 the leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, in a social media post, said that a" (A personal reflection on the quiet violence of caste-based exclusion in everyday, intimate spaces.) It's not like someone installed a software in me to feel excluded. It…...

34+ min ago (1184+ words) A year ago, we were on the countdown to Donald Trump's return to the White House. While I spent most of the editorial in the Hot Press Annual excoriating Joe Biden for his complicity in the genocide in Gaza and in the mass murder of what was then 45,000 people, 70% of them women and children, I knew things were about to get worse. "He will betray Ukraine," I said of the incoming President, Donald Trump. "Give Israel the go ahead to steal more land, to turn Gaza into a theme park. He will attack his rivals at home. Stifle independent media. Pack the courts. Do everything he can to establish an authoritarian dynasty. And give two fingers to any attempt to address the climate crisis." I am not claiming any great foresight here. It was as obvious then as it is…...

36+ min ago (834+ words) Over the past few years, we have seen a conservative backlash, both among Palestinians and Lebanese," says Leila El-Ali. There has been a kind of escalation", adds El-Ali, who's the director of NajdehExternal link, an aid organisation run by and for Palestine refugees in Lebanon. Multiple factors have come together, each exacerbating the other. Lebanon has been battered by economic hardship, political instability and war since 2019. The most vulnerable groups are hit the hardest, including the Palestinian refugees who have lived in the country for decades but still remain on the margins. Women and children, in particular, bear the brunt, says El-Ali. Since Lebanon's economic crisis in 2019, unemployment has soared, leaving Palestinians, who have long struggled to gain access to the labour market, even more dependent on international aid. Many Palestinians work for international organisations like [the UN Palestinian refugee…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago (1664+ words) Gaza (Quds News Network)- Three Palestinian children have died from extreme cold in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, raising the storm-related death toll to 14 as families displaced by Israel's two-year genocide are trapped in flooded shelters as a winter storm, now in its third day, brings heavy rain and strong winds. On Friday, medical sources confirmed that nine-year-old Hadeel al-Masri died in a shelter for displaced people west of Gaza City. Baby Taim al-Khawaja also passed away in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. The grandfather of the baby boy said his family had been sheltering in a house with no roof after their house was bombed during an Israeli attack. "Yesterday, we were surprised to hear his mother screaming, saying, "My son is blue!' so we carried the boy and went to al-Rantisi Hospital," the grandfather…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago (199+ words) Ashish Singh has finished his Ph.D. coursework in political science from the NRU-HSE, Moscow, Russia. He has previously studied at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway; and TISS, Mumbai." by Dr Soumya Sankar Ghosh13/12/2025 India's learning crisis is no longer hidden. It is visible in classrooms, in national surveys, and in the everyday reality of children who reach Grade 3 without being able to" Human rights are not abstract principles reserved for treaties, conferences or ceremonial speeches. They are the ethical ground on which a society stands or collapses. This truth was expressed with" An extensive World Human Rights Day programme was organised at Adharshila College of Professional Courses, Ataura Buzurg, under the banner of the National Human Rights Foundation, India. At a time" This article is based on the detailed descriptions and long conversations with human rights activist Santosh Upadhyay. India's prisons occupy…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago (513+ words) Kim Jong Un participates in latest public event to honour North Korean troops who served with Russian forces in war against Ukraine. By Kevin Doyle and News Agencies North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un has hugged injured soldiers in wheelchairs at a ceremony in the capital, Pyongyang, to welcome home troops who served with Russian forces in the war against Ukraine. State-run Korean Central News Agency said on Saturday that Kim praised the "mass heroism" of the returning 528th Regiment of Engineers of the Korean People's Army, which had served in Russia's Kursk region. Kim hailed the regiment's conduct during its 120-day overseas deployment, which commenced in early August and involved combat and engineering duties, including mine clearing in the Kursk region of Russia, where Ukrainian forces had infiltrated and occupied for months before withdrawing. "You could work a miracle of…...

1+ hour, 35+ min ago (306+ words) Chicago has been one of the latest stops on the Trump administration's deportation tour. "Operation Midway Blitz" started in September and, for months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents have been roaming the streets and detaining hundreds of people. This week on Reveal, host Al Letson and producer Ashley Cleek visit Chicago to [] Chicago has been one of the latest stops on the Trump administration's deportation tour. "Operation Midway Blitz" started in September and, for months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents have been roaming the streets and detaining hundreds of people. Letson and Cleek also see how communities are mobilizing to protect each other, and how some of the tensions over immigration raids stretch back to decisions made by the city back in 2022. They also learn from 404 Media's Joseph Cox about face-scanning apps used by…...

1+ hour, 37+ min ago (761+ words) The NDA government should draw lessons from the ugly Indigo mess and review its existing policies on privatisation of the CPSEs, indiscriminate promotion of unregulated oligarchies in different sectors, and relegating people's welfare so as to enable big businesses to profiteer Shri Narendra D Modi Thousands of Indigo flight disruptions during the last few days and the attempts made by smaller airlines to exploit the stranded passengers by offering seats at unconscionably'high fares has caused intense trauma to passengers across the country and tarnished India's image globally.' DGCA had expressed reservations as early as in December, 2011 on the rapid'rate at which Indigo was expanding and its likely adverse impact on passenger safety. The then UPA government ignored that warning, as the philosophy unleashed on the nation since 1991 has been that private companies do no wrong. Indigo grew far more rapidly…...

1+ hour, 49+ min ago (999+ words) After the Trump Regime Hijacks a Venezuelan Vessel, Iran hits back by Confiscating an Oil Tanker, the Phoenix, under Cook Islands Flag By any sober reading of recent events, the seizure of oil tankers has become the latest theatre in a widening confrontation between a declining unipolar order and a constellation of states determined to defend sovereignty against sanctions, coercion, and regime'change politics. Earlier, a few days ago, the U.S. had hijacked a Venezuelan Oil Tanker carrying around 2 million litres of crude oil, heading for Cuba. The ship, the VLCC Skipper " formerly Adisa, was earlier sanctioned by the U.S. in 2022, as they believed that it was part of a shadow fleet of Iranian-linked fleet carrying Iranian oil including crude. Sanctions as Warfare by Other Means For Caracas, the oil tanker seizures are part of a familiar script. Since Hugo Ch'vez first challenged…...