battle lines?or armaments flow? Eighteen days after gunmen killed 26 civilians in Indian-administered Kashmir’s resort town of Pahalgam, nearly 1.6 billion people on either side of the border reeled under the fears of another India-Pakistan war over Kashmir, a Muslim-majority Himalayan region claimed in full by both the nations that rule over parts of it. 11th May 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QwCtBfbPBA क्या भारत बड़ी जंग के लिेए हो रहा तैयार, क्या पाकिस्तान को अमेरिका दे रहा शह, क्यों है युद्ध का खतरा 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/12/india-pakistan-ceasefire-kashmir-conflict/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/11/difficult-ceasefire-guns-silent-but-will-the-india-pakistan-truce-hold “It feels like a psychological war has been waged on us. The fear isn’t just from the blasts; it is from the uncertainty and a lack of transparency,” he said. “Kashmiris are once again stuck in the middle, with no refuge, no escape.”

Nehru’s record of instituting secularism as the guiding principle for a plural India and Modi’s decade of promoting a culture of conflict are incomparable.

by Ajay K. Mehra

Nehru and Contemporary Sectarianism - The Wire

18/08/2025

Mass Surveillance: Indian Railways Use Facial Recognition Tech And AI  https://www.boomlive.in/explainers/mass-surveillance-indian-railways-use-facial-recognition-tech-and-ai-26094    Herta Security is supplying its advanced facial recognition technology for the Indian railways project. Its systems can detect emotions, micro-expressions, and even gaze directions.  

There are concerns that increased surveillance could deter public protests and other forms of democratic participation, as seen in previous instances of using surveillance for policing protests.  The project adds to the growing list of government undertaking relying on citizens' sensitive personal data, implemented while India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act remains in limbo.

Headquartered in Barcelona with offices in Madrid, London, and Los Angeles, Herta provides video surveillance, access control, and marketing solutions. Currently, it services are being used for surveillance in various international projects, including safe cities, airports, train and metro stations, prisons, banks, casinos, sports stadiums, shopping malls, military, police, and forensic applications.