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6 days ago | 
shorturl.at | Amit Sengupta
Listen! Faiz,Do you know? The differencebetween your and my waitIs onlyA fixed timeJust a few more daysYou knew thatLike the gust of breezeSpeechless cloud does not tellWhen I ask—“How many more seasons like this?”Who knows how many more seasons? — Gulfisha Fatima, prison poems. So, how many more seasons, condemned, exiled, trapped, a young girl, a brilliant scholar, a compassionate heart which beats for justice?
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6 days ago | 
lokmarg.com | Amit Sengupta
Listen! Faiz,Do you know? The differencebetween your and my waitIs onlyA fixed timeJust a few more daysYou knew thatLike the gust of breezeSpeechless cloud does not tellWhen I ask—“How many more seasons like this?”Who knows how many more seasons? — Gulfisha Fatima, prison poems. So, how many more seasons, condemned, exiled, trapped, a young girl, a brilliant scholar, a compassionate heart which beats for justice?
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2 weeks ago | 
kashmirtimes.com | Amit Sengupta
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, a talented Tufts University student, wrote an opinion piece for the students’ magazine, co-authored with three other students, arguing that that the university should “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide” and “divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel”. This has been the demand of thousands of students, peacefully protesting in America and Europe, since the beginning of the Genocide in Gaza. So, what was her crime?
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2 weeks ago | 
timesheadline.in | Amit Sengupta
Reading time : 4 minutesRumeysa Ozturk, 30, a talented Tufts University student, wrote an opinion piece for the students' magazine, co-authored with three other students, arguing that that the university should "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide" and "divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel". This has been the demand of thousands of students, peacefully protesting in America and Europe, since the beginning of the Genocide in Gaza. So, what was her crime?
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3 weeks ago | 
lokmarg.com | Mahendra Ved |Amit Sengupta
No story of independent India has caught the popular imagination at home and grudging but cooperative admiration from the world community as that of its pursuit of space research and exploration. It ignites the mind of anyone who has grown up watching and marvelling at stars in the sky, even if unschooled beyond the mythological tales of the Pushpaka Vimana and Hanuman’s travels.
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3 weeks ago | 
lokmarg.com | Amit Sengupta
Is America under Donald Trump rapidly turning into a Police State dictatorship? Well, all the signs are out there, like an ill, apocalyptic omen, which was waiting to happen. So what was the crime of Ozturk, 30, a talented Tufts University student? She wrote an opinion piece for the students’ magazine, co-authored with three other students, arguing that that the university should “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide” and “divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel”.
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3 weeks ago | 
lokmarg.com | Vikas Meshram |Amit Sengupta
Even before the end of March, several parts of India are experiencing a heatwave. On March 16, Odisha recorded a temperature of 43°C, while Jharsuguda touched 42°C. In more than half a dozen locations across the country, temperatures exceeded 40°C. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has confirmed that such unusual March heatwaves were unprecedented. Notably, 2024 was recorded as the hottest year in human history. March 2023 was the warmest March on record, and March 2024 surpassed that record.
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3 weeks ago | 
americankahani.com | Amit Sengupta
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it. – Alfred HitchcockThere is something terribly wrong with people who hate humor. Why only humor, if you don’t like dark metaphor, a spoof, a verbal caricature, or even an argument, there should be space to accept it and let it pass. It’s not that all such people are absolutely perfect in their social conduct and everyday behavior, including in private spaces.
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3 weeks ago | 
timesheadline.in | Amit Sengupta
Reading time : 4 minutes'We're destroying words-scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We're cutting the language down to the bone... Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller' By Amit SenguptaWar is Peace. - 1984, George Orwell. Trump's trumpet, always cacophonic, unpleasant and jarring, is now turning bloody red. Unpredictably so.
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1 month ago | 
lokmarg.com | Amit Sengupta
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it. –Alfred HitchcokThere is something terribly wrong with people who hate humour. Why only humour, if you don’t like dark metaphor, a spoof, a verbal caricature, or even an argument, there should be space to accept it and let it pass. It’s not that all such people are absolutely perfect in their social conduct and everyday behaviour, including in private spaces.
