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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicHunger strike

Topic: hunger strike

An IIT & Berkeley graduate is fasting to stop AI takeover. A protest with US, UK links

Bengaluru’s Samuel Shadrach is on Day 13 of his hunger strike against superintelligent AI. He says it could cause ‘human extinction’.

Arrested twice & on hunger strike for 18 days, Manipur transgender activist seeks end to conflict

Malem Thongam, 26, has sought a visit by PM Modi to Manipur and for him to assist in restoring peace in the state, and the revocation of the Suspension of Operations agreement.

Tripura royal scion in Delhi, says MHA has crafted ‘draft framework agreement’ to address tribal issues

Founder of TIPRA Motha, Pradyot Debbarma says he'll be forced to take agitation route ahead of LS polls if talks with Centre see no progress, since 'BJP won’t listen to us after polls'.

Immigrants, including Indians, detained in visa racket force-fed at US camps

The immigrants, who are being detained at the El Passo processing centre, were on a hunger strike to protest the conditions and lack of information on their asylum cases.

Anna could end his latest hunger strike on 29 March if satisfied with Modi govt assurances

Anna insists he will only end his strike when the government presents a detailed plan to implement his demands.

Message from the maidan

Political parties have to learn to keep talking amongst themselves even as they fight in the battleground of votes, ideas and ideology.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.