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Iran Reverses the Asymmetry

ON September 2, fragments from a US missile tore through the roof of a wedding celebration in Kuhestak, in Iran’s southern county of Sirik. Four people were killed, including a child, and 68 were wounded. The United States has made a custom of bombing weddings – in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and now Iran. When US Vice-President J D Vance was asked about the dead, he shrugged: ‘Things happen’. The sentence should be entered into the record of this war. Imperialism turns other people’s catastrophes into the passive voice.

Map Wars: the Victory of Equal Earth over an Unequal One

LAST week, on 4th September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to one another. It is an attempt to correct the view of the world that comes from the widely used world map based on the Mercator Projection, the work of Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century Flemish cartographer. The problem with the Mercator Map is well known; for example, it shows the island of Greenland as the same size as the African continent, even though Africa is 14 times the size of Greenland!

CPI(M) Denounces ED’s Move

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on September 9, 2026

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) denounces the move of the Enforcement Directorate asking the Kerala Police to register a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act, against former Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, his daughter Veena and CPI(M) leader Mohd. Riyas.

Bunking Won’t Block the Truth

AMIT SHAH’S absence from the Lok Sabha during the entire Monsoon Session was quite bizarre. Even after being present in the Parliament premises, he was consciously but quite obviously staying away from the House. The grotesque attacks on the protesting students and youth at Jantar Mantar during their march to the Parliament, provoked widespread revulsion. In turn, the joint Opposition’s pointed demand for the Home Minister’s specific explanation, put him in a tight spot.

No Rice on the Plate, But No Dearth of Ghee in Our Dreams!

My Dear Sir,

Pray tell, what is the most critically urgent regional, national or international crisis plaguing our land today? Ah, no - forgive me, you’ve asked a hopelessly foolish question! Whether one’s belly is empty or full, whether employment exists or not - those are horribly ancient, terribly outdated fashions. The real question confronting civilisation today is - tonight, will you earn a direct VIP pass to heaven by eating paneer or will you roast in the blazing fires of hell for eating mutton?

Court Slams Noida DM, Police for NSA Arrest of Activist

THE Allahabad High Court, in a habeas corpus petition disposed of on September 2, has quashed the preventive detention of Akriti Chaudhary, a 24-year-old first-year law student at Delhi University, holding that her continued incarceration under the National Security Act, 1980, was violative of Article 21 of the Constitution. A division bench of Justices Atul Sreedharan and Achal Sachdev ordered her immediate release and directed that Rs.

Bihar: Memoirs of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Released on his 103rd Birth Anniversary

The autobiography of legendary CPI(M) and AIKS leader Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was released on September 1, his 103rd birth anniversary, by CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and AIKS president Ashok Dhawale at the CPI(M) state office hall in Patna. The autobiography in Hindi, titled ‘Marxism: My Struggle Path’, was edited by his late comrade Siddheshwar Nath Pandey and daughter Mrunalini. 

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