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  •  | US President Donald Trump Photo APPTI | MR Online

    Trump and the fantasy of a ‘White Genocide’

    Originally published: The Wire on May 30, 2025 by E.D. Mathew (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2025)

    Irony is dead. It lies buried in Gaza, under the rubble the West helped create.

  •  | A view of Diego Garcia the largest island in the Chagos group which the US has been using as its Indian Ocean naval base since the 1970s Photo Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Britain returns Chagos, but shadow of nuclear ambiguity over Diego Garcia remains

    Originally published: The Wire on May 25, 2025 by Achin Vanaik (more by The Wire)  | (Posted May 26, 2025)

    As Britain hands the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius, the continued exclusion of Diego Garcia from resettlement and scrutiny raises alarms. Despite Mauritius’s commitments under the Pelindaba Treaty establishing an African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, U.S. control of the base may violate the treaty.

  •  | Karan Madhok at the Kerala Literature Festival 2025 Photo Jahnavi Sen | MR Online

    Exploring India’s complicated relationship with cannabis

    Originally published: The Wire on January 28, 2025 by Jahnavi Sen (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jan 30, 2025)

    Writer and journalist Karan Madhok’s book ‘Ananda’ is a deep-dive into the cannabis plant–what it is, what it does, and how Indian society looks at and reacts to it.

  •  | Sudhir Dhawale and Rona Wilson | MR Online

    Rona Wilson, Sudhir Dhawale get bail after 6.5 years of jail in Elgar Parishad case

    Originally published: The Wire on January 8, 2025 by Sukanya Shantha (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jan 09, 2025)

    The NIA claimed before the Bombay HC that it would ‘expedite the trial’ in the case in which charges are yet to be framed.

  •  | Gautam Navlakha Photo XRahulSeeker | MR Online

    A captive’s musings on freedom: Gautam Navlakha’s notes from prison

    Originally published: The Wire on May 19, 2024 by Gautam Navlakha (more by The Wire)  | (Posted May 21, 2024)

    It is at a time like this that one faces a critical choice: to either fall silent and submit to the authorities or to continue to strive and struggle for freedom, unmindful of the outcome.

  •  | Gaza Photo XUNRWA | MR Online

    Gaza war offers the ultimate marketing tool for Israeli arms companies

    Originally published: The Wire on January 18, 2024 by Sophia Goodfriend (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jan 19, 2024)

    As investors worldwide drop cash on Israeli start-ups for ‘battle-tested’ weapons, defence tech CEOs are poised to be the war’s only victors.

  •  | Mahesh Raut Credit FacebookMukesh Shende | MR Online

    In jail for 5 years, activist Mahesh Raut gets bail in Elgar Parishad case

    Originally published: The Wire on September 21, 2023 by Sukanya Shantha (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Sep 23, 2023)

    The 36-year-old tribal rights activist is one of the first five persons to have been arrested in the controversial case, on June 6, 2018.

  •  | File photo of violence in Manipur Photo TwitterMangteC | MR Online

    Siege on Manipur: Hindu nationalists’ war for ethnic supremacy

    Originally published: The Wire on Angana P. Chatterji by August 2023 (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Aug 19, 2023)

    Across India, experiments to forge the ‘Hindu national community’ are predicated on the breakage of minoritised Muslims and Christians, and Adivasis and Dalits. What’s happening in Manipur is part of a plan operationalised by the Hindu Right decades ago.

  •  | If ever in any posh colony or good apartment even educated and socially well placed Muslims population grows a sense of having been taken over starts pervading the Hindu residents there Photo FlickrJosé Miguel CC BY NC ND 20 | MR Online

    What we lose through the ghettoisation of urban India

    Originally published: The Wire on August 13, 2023 by Khurshid Akram (more by The Wire)  |

    The gigantic question is, is there a way out? It gets harder everyday with the kind of blatantly divisive social atmosphere which is promoted by the powers that be.

  •  | Vernon Gonsalves and right Arun Ferreira In the background is the Supreme Court Photos File | MR Online

    After 5 years in jail, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira get bail in Elgar Parishad case

    Originally published: The Wire on July 2023 by Sukanya Shantha (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jul 29, 2023)

    The Supreme Court division bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Sudhanshu Dhulia observed that the material evidence available against Gonsalves and Ferreira “does not justify their continuous detention”.

  •  | Photo Twittermyogiadityanath | MR Online

    Unchecked by consequences, a new authoritarianism is unfolding in India

    Originally published: The Wire on April 3, 2023 by Angana P. Chatterji (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Apr 05, 2023)

    The use of hate and arbitrary power and calculated killings by Hindu nationalists reveal an ominous disregard for democracy, a forewarning of what is to come.

  •  | File image of police and firemen at a charred shop following the violence in Bhima Koregaon Photo PTIFile | MR Online

    Top investigating officer admits Elgar Parishad event ‘had no role’ in Bhima Koregaon violence

    Originally published: The Wire on December 26, 2022 by Sukanya Shantha (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Dec 28, 2022)

    This is perhaps the first time any state representative has accepted that the Elgar Parishad event had no role to play in the violence. While three activists have been released on bail, and one died in custody, 12 continue to be jailed over this claim.

  •  | A file photo of human rights activist Stan Swamy Photo PTI | MR Online

    Stan Swamy’s laptop was ‘planted’ with incriminating documents, says new forensic report

    Originally published: The Wire on December 13, 2022 by The Wire Staff (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Dec 15, 2022)

    The new findings were released after Arsenal Consulting, a U.S.-based digital forensics firm, examined an electronic copy of Swamy’s computer, at the request of his lawyers.

  •  | Illustration Pariplab Chakraborty | MR Online

    Political prisoners unite the British Raj and ‘New India’

    Originally published: The Wire on September 13, 2022 by Partho Sarothi Ray (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Sep 14, 2022)

    Just as the British rulers used to refer to political prisoners during their rule as ‘terrorists,’ the rulers of today also call people imprisoned for opposing them ‘terrorists’.

  •  | Most often Dalit women are not allowed to take water from a common well instead having to go further to find water Representative image credit ReutersDanish Siddiqui | MR Online

    Even after a century, water is still the marker of India’s caste society

    Originally published: The Wire on August 23, 2022 by Ambika Aiyadurai (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Aug 24, 2022)

    For Dalits, water is not a natural beauty, the nectar of life or a life-nurturing agent, but a ‘caste burden’.

  •  | African migrants sit on top of a border fence during an attempt to cross from Morocco into Spains north African enclave of Melilla November 21 2015 Photo ReutersJesus Blasco de AvellanedaFile Photo | MR Online

    Blue borders, dark bodies: The Mediterranean as a site of racist murder

    Originally published: The Wire on August 10, 2022 by Shreya Parikh (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Aug 12, 2022)

    Borders barely exist for these white bodies; rather, borders are lived as a hot summer inconvenience of queues at airport security. But for the dark bodies carrying their Global South passports, the Mediterranean is a humiliating border.

  •  | Illustration The Wire | MR Online

    The importance of Anand Teltumbde’s thoughts in a Republic of Caste

    Originally published: The Wire on August 5, 2022 by M.S. Sriram (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Aug 09, 2022)

    Anyone engaging seriously with Teltumbde’s work will know his beliefs are antithetical to the crimes he is being accused of.

  •  | A Reserve Bank of India RBI logo is seen at the gate of its office in New Delhi India November 9 2018 REUTERSAltaf HussainFile Photo | MR Online

    Despite domestic priorities, RBI will have to follow the U.S. Fed

    Originally published: The Wire on July 2022 by M.K. Venu (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jul 29, 2022)

    India will have to respond by increasing interest rates further sooner rather than later. Higher U.S. interest rates make global capital abandon other countries and rush to American bonds whose market yields have doubled at the shorter end.

  •  | The 16 arrested in connection with the Elgar Parishad case One of them Father Stan Swamy passed away in custody Photo The Wire | MR Online

    Despite the evidence, courts yet to take note of spyware used against Elgar Parishad accused

    Originally published: The Wire on July 18, 2022 by Sukanya Shantha (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Jul 20, 2022)

    The evidence of malware use has now come in from multiple studies, but the accused remain in jail and the trial is yet to begin.

  •  | MK Stalin and Pinarayi Vijayan at the CPIMs congress | MR Online

    ‘After all, my name is Stalin’: in a Speech at CPI(M) Congress, a roadmap to counter BJP

    Originally published: The Wire on April 11, 2022 by Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta (more by The Wire)  | (Posted Apr 13, 2022)

    The DMK’s chief’s speech at the CPI(M)’s congress has reflected the assonance between communist and Dravidian politics.

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