In the forests of southern Chhattisgarh, the tribal heartland in central India, villagers have been fleeing millitary grade artillery that has no place outside a battleground. As Indian security forces deployed 81mm mortar shells and drone-dropped grenades, civilian fatalities have been reported multiple times - an unprecedented escalation turning poor tribal communities, including children, into collateral damage. The roots of this lethal transformation run deeper than the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s undertaking to eradicate Maoism by March 2026.
The government is using India’s financial muscle, as the country with the fourth-highest defence budget globally, to lure international weapon-makers (OEMs - Original Equipment Manufacturers) into technology transfers and local manufacturing, aggressively reshaping India’s weapons manufacturing sector.
Read M. Rajshekhar’s landmark investigative story on India’s push to become a global arms supplier and its impact on the homefront. Link in bio.
In 1968, a Brazilian educator wrote a book on the political nature of education and how to use emancipatory pedagogy against oppression while in exile due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état, in which the US helped install a military dictatorship. The book was eventually banned in apartheid South Africa and several Latin American countries.
But it found its way to its intended readers through underground networks, photocopies, and unofficial translations as a radical guidebook for liberation. Those who banned it knew the radical potential of the book, titled Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
The US attacked Iran on 28 February, 2026, at Israel’s behest, murdering the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khameini. In the weeks that have ensued, the US and Israel have engaged in indiscriminate bombing and war crimes. However, this time, we find ourselves shrouded by a thick haze of censorship perpetrated by the genocidal media in the US and Israel. While the moment might feel terrifying and unprecedented, it is anything but. Each week, our editorial team will unpack and analyze seminal texts that help us make sense of this moment.
Read at thepolisproject.com
Over the past decade, the way information is produced, controlled, and consumed has changed in India. We’re witnessing the consolidation of a new architecture of power that manufactures consent and suppresses dissent. Today, we published The Underground Railroad of Information, a report on insurgent media and democracy’s digital defence in India.
Written by Suchitra Vijayan (@suchitravijayan ) and Raaz, and edited by Aritry Das (@aritreeh ), it maps the emergence of an “insurgent media” ecosystem that has taken shape in response to the systematic capture of India’s information landscape.
Read now at the link in bio.
Five days in: over a thousand dead in Iran. A girls’ school in rubble. A second front in Lebanon, with tens of thousands displaced. The Strait of Hormuz was effectively closed for the first time in its history. An Iranian warship torpedoed in the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka — thousands of kilometres from the battlefield — while returning from a peacetime naval exercise, with over 100 sailors still missing.
Global energy markets are in turmoil, with oil analysts warning of triple-digit prices. Qatar’s LNG production shut down. The Red Sea corridor is back under threat. European navies are deploying to the Eastern Mediterranean. US embassies are shuttered across the region. The constitutional body tasked with selecting Iran’s next leader was bombed mid-vote. A war powers vote in Congress that failed.
And a diplomatic channel, painstakingly built by Oman over the years, which had produced a breakthrough just one day before the bombs fell, was shattered overnight.
Our Politics desk brings you a round-up of key developments with nuance and context as the joint US-Israeli bombardment of Iran continues. Read now at the link in bio.
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