Devdan Chaudhuri

Literature of Inquest & Poetry of Soul (Author of 'Anatomy of Life'~ Picador India) | Essayist on Politics and Culture | Freedom Loving Truth Seeker

[Devdan Chaudhuri @DevdanChaudhuri]

My poems are featured here:

‘The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City’ (2025)

‘Converse’ (Pippa Rann, 2022)

‘The Best Asian Poetry’ (Kitaab, 2022)

‘Witness: The Poetry of Dissent’ (Red River, 2021)

‘Modern English Poems by Younger Indians’ (Sahitya Akademi, 2019)

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

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[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Huge plumes of smoke are rising from U.S. airbases in Jordan, home to more than 100 fighter jets after an Iranian strike

[Zorawar Daulet Singh @Z_DauletSingh]

One great power urges India to whittle down its sovereignty while another great power urges it to stand up and develop. And India’s world order approach towards these two antithetical philosophies — neocolonialism versus multipolarity — is performative non alignment while proactively appeasing neocolonialism.

Incredible isn’t it! But this is the fundamental problem confronting India today.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

BREAKING!
Iran just struck US targets in Kuwait after the US struck Qeshm today. Also, alarms just went off in Bahrain, seems Iran is striking there too.

Iranian source tells me Iran has stopped playing the tit-for-tat game. Instead, it's now striking back "at least 1.5x as hard" for every attack the US against Iran.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Did you notice how Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and their affiliates never shown interest in liberating occupied Syrian territory? That’s because the “blessed revolution” was a CIA-led operation designed to serve Zionism. Those who collaborated provided enormous assistance to the enemy.

[Zorawar Daulet Singh @Z_DauletSingh]

Russia’s intelligence chief warns of an era of conflict where “We can only dream of peace."

Europe is "moving by leaps and bounds toward becoming, as it did in the last century, the epicenter of global conflict."

Great Britain, the "evil, cynical genius" of Europe, is encouraging its continental allies to a direct confrontation with Russia, "convincing them of the possibility of taking historical ‘revenge’ on Moscow for past defeats."
Germany already tried to "take responsibility" for Europe in the first half of the 20th century; it should not repeat the mistakes of the past: "Well, from the history of the first half of the 20th century, we know how Germany takes ‘responsibility’ for Europe, and how it ends, including for the Germans themselves. I would not advise them to repeat it."

Germans and French should learn the lessons of history and avoid getting involved with England: "I want to give good advice to the Germans and French: finally learn the lessons of history and avoid getting involved with the hypocritical and treacherous [Foggy] Albion. It will still deceive you, then deceive you again, and then wash his hands of it."

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[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

That a Muslim majority booth votes 97% for BJP is clear evidence of EVM manipulation or EVM replacement or returning officer of ECI declaring a vote which is totally different from what the EVM recorded

[Pepe Escobar @RealPepeEscobar]

Now there's no turning back.

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[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: The Pentagon reveals Trump paused the strikes on Iran not for negotiations as he claimed, but because Iran is becoming rapidly more effective at tracking US air operations, improving its air defenses and becoming too strong at detecting signs of a surprise attack, per NYT.

Iran has used the ceasefire to successfully dig out all bombed ballistic missile sites, making them fully operational again. Iran also moved a large number of new mobile launchers across the entire country and adjusted tactics for any resumption of strikes, per a US military official.

Iranian commanders studied US fighter jet and bomber flight patterns with close Russian and Chinese help. The recent downing of an F-15E and groundfire striking an F-35 revealed American flight tactics had become "too predictable."

[Alexander Mercouris @AMercouris]

The XI TRUMP Summit was momentous in ways that no-one is saying. It was the second time TRUMP was given a CEASE AND DESIST Demand, this time backed by an implicit warning of Great Power armed conflict, in a period of just over 2 weeks.

Here is the Chinese Foreign Ministry's official translation of the readout which sets out XI's Demand:

"President Xi stressed that the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-U.S. relations. If it is handled properly, the bilateral relationship will enjoy overall stability. Otherwise, the two countries will have clashes and even conflicts, putting the entire relationship in great jeopardy. “Taiwan independence” and cross-Strait peace are as irreconcilable as fire and water. Safeguarding peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait is the biggest common denominator between China and the U.S. The U.S. side must exercise extra caution in handling the Taiwan question."

It is the word 'must' which stands out. For the first time that I can remember, certainly since the end of the Cold War, the leader of another country is telling the United States what it 'must' do.

The US often talks in this way to other countries. It does not expect to be talked to in that way. The Chinese President has however just done precisely that. Moreover, as the photo attached to the Chinese readout makes clear, this was said by the Chinese President to the US President not in a private conversation, where they were the only ones present with translators, but during the full plenary meeting with the entire US delegation present.

The word 'must' is backed by a clear threat of armed conflict. How else to interpret words like 'clashes and conflicts', which might put the entire relationship in 'great jeopardy'?

XI also made clear that for China Taiwan is the paramount issue, overriding all others. Questions of trade, technology, rare earths, Iran, the Strait of Hormuz etc. are secondary. No doubt it was precisely for this reason that China, so as not to dilute the message, declined to enter into substantive discussions on these secondary issues.

In other words China cannot be bribed or bullied or bought or frightened into changing its stance on Taiwan.

It may be that the words in the Chinese language original are softer. It is the Chinese Foreign Ministry however that translated them in this way. I do not believe that Foreign Ministry's translators do not understand the force and weight these words in English carry.

The Chinese, as they always do, were careful afterwards to soften the pill, hosting TRUMP in a banquet in the Great Hall of the People, and giving him tours of the Temple of Heaven and of Zhongnanhai.

That however does not soften the impact of the words. On the contrary, it makes the warning starker still. The fact the Chinese gave TRUMP nothing on any other matter - Boeings, trade, rare earths, Iran, the Strait of Hormuz etc - underlines the point.

This is the second time a Great Power leader has given the US President a warning of this kind in the space of just over 2 weeks.

The previous such warnings were given by PUTIN on 29th April when he warned TRUMP over the phone not to attack Iran again, and gave TRUMP a further warning of the overwhelming retaliatory action Russia would take against Central Kiev if the Victory Day Parade in Moscow on 9th May were attacked.

The fact TRUMP is now repeatedly getting warnings like this from Great Power leaders shows that China and Russia consider him a reckless leader barely under control who cannot be trusted. Certainly the Chinese, after seeing how he has acted in the last few months against Venezuela, Cuba and Iran, and perhaps against Russia in connection with the Valdai attack, don't trust him on Taiwan. Thus the decision to give him the warning.

It also shows the change which has taken place in the global balance of power. Other Great Powers now feel able to make peremptory demands to the US dictating how it should behave over issues like Taiwan.

Previously it was the US alone which did that.

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[Zorawar Daulet Singh @Z_DauletSingh]

Indians may not realize it today but multipolarity will save it from becoming a western colony again.

[Zorawar Daulet Singh @Z_DauletSingh]

“History has shown that empires in decline will stop at nothing to arrest their inevitable fates. A wounded animal will desperately claw and roar on its way down.”

— Iran’s foreign minister at BRICS meeting in New Delhi

[Pepe Escobar @RealPepeEscobar]

Araghchi absolutely RIPS at the BRICS Foreign Ministers' meeting in New Delhi.

A lesson to all BRICS and BRICS+ partners. Actually, a mini-manifesto:

"To virtually everyone in this room, our resistance against US bullying is not an unfamiliar battle. So many of us encounter slight variations of the same repugnant coercion. It is high time for us to jointly step up and work towards making clear that those practices belong in the dustbin of history. Today, our nations are closer to one another than ever before, and we cannot ignore the common and dangerous challenge we all face. History has shown that empires in decline will stop at nothing to arrest their inevitable fates. A wounded animal will desperately claw and roar on its way down."

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

Modi is sacrificing our country because he cannot stand up to Trump’s diktats. Why? Is it because he is in the Epstein files? Or it is because Trump & the CIA have some other information on him by which they can blackmail him?

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

True

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

With Iran rejecting Trump’s proposal,
Trump’s Iran strategy has entered the danger zone

Stage 1: Bombing
Stage 2: Iran controls Hormuz

Now Washington faces the real choice:
Stage 3 → escalation & possible ground war
or
Stage 4 → Iran emerges as a new center of global power

For Americans, this now means casualties OR $6–8 gas for months

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

NEW: Iran has rejected dismantling its nuclear facilities in its formal response to the US, instead laying out a three-phase framework with the US having to accept Iran's pre-conditions first, war-ending terms negotiated over 30 days, and nuclear issues addressed in a separate post-war agreement. Iran's pre-conditions include:

1. Ending the US blockade
2. Freedom to export oil
3. Lifting US sanctions
4. Releasing frozen Iranian assets
5. Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz
6. Lebanon ceasefire as a red line

The US won't accept these pre-conditions, and is demanding nuclear concessions upfront before any of them are even considered.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

The Trump and Netanyahu regimes have prepared Kurdish terrorists in northern Iraq, as well as Takfiri terrorists on the Pakistani border, along with assassination teams to attack Iran alongside a US-Zionist assault. Any combined assault will be defeated.
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[Alex (Sasha) Krainer @NakedHedgie]

Happy Victory Day to Russia and all who stood alongside, on the right side of history. They are fighting the same battle again today.

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

Trump will soon release information about unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in order to divert public attention away from the war against Iran.