Rahul Rao
@thariel
@StAndrewsIR | @rphilos collective | 'The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire' @PlutoPress 2025 | rahulraothariel on Bsky | free 🇵🇸
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our judges, like everyone else, are so steeped in nation worship, that the idea of international solidarity confounds them; a terrible order that is also a sign of the times
This is easily one of the most shocking and anti-constitutional orders to come from any higher court in Naya Bharat. The right to peacefully protest for a cause one believes in is a fundamental right. The law may perhaps allow considerations of law and order to override that…
Not a humanitarian catastrophe, but a genocide, committed by *your* ally Israel with *your* support for 21 months. And you clearly won’t pull every lever: RAF planes are still flying over Gaza, parts are flowing for Israel’s F35 bombers, Israeli officials still come freely to UK.
The appalling scenes in Gaza are unrelenting. The UK will pull every lever we have to get food and lifesaving support to Palestinians, and we will evacuate children who need urgent medical assistance. This humanitarian catastrophe must end.
#ReportLaunch The National Law School of India University (#NLSIU), Bengaluru, and Queen Mary University of London (@QMUL) are launching a report on the Foreigners Tribunals in Assam titled ‘Unmaking Citizens.’ 🗓️When: July 26, 2025 | 5 pm to 7 pm 📍Where: Teen Murti Bhavan,…
Tomorrow's front page📰 Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
Empty words cannot hide the truth: your government is complicit in genocide. We are an unstoppable movement for peace, for justice and for Palestine — and we are never, ever going away.
The suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza is unspeakable and indefensible.
Bangalore Book Talk coming up! 5th August, with Jahnavi Phalkey. bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/choosing…
Let’s talk about J. Sai Deepak — a man with no formal education in history who has somehow convinced large swathes of the internet that he’s an authority on ancient India, colonialism, civilizational theory, and more. Spoiler: he’s not a historian. Not even close. 🧵
Every university manager who took action against student protestors deputised themselves to the genocidal project. Every one of them should be held to account accordingly. aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/23…
missed it by a few days, but replugging this on Fanon’s 100th birth anniversary because the way he is misinterpreted keeps me up at night radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/how…
4 distribution sites for 2 million people, 11 minutes to collect food: this is the barbarism of genocide masquerading as humanitarianism under the aegis of the GHF theguardian.com/global-develop…
Images out of Gaza today are the worst I've ever seen. Children piled on a hospital floor, bloody, injured, dying, dead. A toddler with her intestines outside her body while another screams in terror, reaching out for safety. I can't express this feeling. The rage, the shame.
My article which examines India's positionality and relations w/Africa in the Third World turned Global South is now open access. Co-authored w/ @danbanik Published by @thirdworldq @AsianStudies @OsloSdg tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
We used to highlight the Deir Yassin massacre which took place in the Nakba. Every day today in Gaza is another Deir Yassin, where hundreds are killed, even starved to death. The Palestinian Nakba is an ongoing event.
Have you tried not selling them weapons?
The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. Alongside 25 other partners, the UK message is clear: the war in Gaza must end now. We need an immediate ceasefire, release of all hostages and a full resumption of aid. gov.uk/government/new…
The Pope should go to Gaza, and bring aid in. He should dare the Israelis to block him. Words, no matter how heartfelt, will not save a single starving child.
Tragic news continues to arrive in these days from the Middle East, especially from Gaza. I express my profound sadness regarding last Thursday’s attack by the Israeli army on the Catholic Parish of the Holy Family in Gaza City, which as you know killed three Christians and…
Malthouse *was* right to personalise it. Lammy has been the chief spokesman for British complicity. We need to personalise it with *every* MP who is not up in arms about Gaza, especially those who voted to criminalise direct action protests: the starving are their responsibility
Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague
To all the people asking: What has India got to do with the genocide in Gaza? Why should we care? In case the information/ connection is lost on Indian people, we repeat: India enabling this GENOCIDE by supplying arms to Israel Our workers are being sent to Israel in this state.
just so angry at a world allowing the mass starvation of our loved ones in gaza. i saw an old man queuing for some food yesterday. once it was his turn, he fell down unconscious. he looked extremely pale. clearly hasn't eaten in days. why is this ok to happen? where is our rage?
This video is so good! What makes it even better is the Afrigo Band classic playing in the background. It's loosely titled: olimujawa omusajja ansinga; Luganda for "where will you get a man better than me?" The question for y'all New Yorkers.
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.