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• Jagathamma

  13 April 2025

  on the arrest of a fifteen-year-old girl who got caught in the crossfire during the first phase of the Naxalite movement in Kerala.
  When the time came to put her memories on paper, from the myriad faces she must have come across during her eventful life up to that point in time, Ajitha recollects in a few lines the one of Jagathamma, a young girl, whom she saw just once at the Manantavady police station accompanying Mandakini, her own mother, after both were arrested following the (…)

• How Far We Are in Achieving SDGs 2030: Evidence from West Bengal | Md Sahidul Islam

  13 April 2025

  Abstract
  In this paper, we underscore the acute drinking water distress in West Bengal, highlighting the promise of the United Nations

• From Physical Harm to Digital Silencing: Gender-Based Violence as a Mechanism of Control | Surbhi Nagpal

  13 April 2025

  (Author: Surbhi Nagpal, Delhi School of Economics
  Email ID: surbhinagpal555[at]gmail.com
  Abstract
  Violence is not merely an act of aggression but a deeply entrenched structure that sustains hierarchies of power across physical, social, and digital spaces. It is legitimized by the state, reinforced by cultural norms, and institutionalized through legal and economic systems that fail to protect the vulnerable ones. From national conflicts where women

• The man who would be king again? Former Nepal king

  13 April 2025

  Published on April 3, 2025
  The rise of Hindu fundamentalist and monarchist groups has made Nepal volatile and could lead to widespread anarchy.
  A protest in Kathmandu demanding the restoration of King Gyanendra Shah to the throne and declaring Nepal a Hindu State turned violent on March 28, 2025. The protest left two dead and several injured, besides large-scale arson and looting, in its wake.
  Public outcry drove King Gyanendra out of power in 2007. Now Nepal is witnessing a series of (…)

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  Global award conferred on Bina Agarwal | Video of her lecture — Hidden Inequalities, Visible Outcomes: A Gender Lens

  13 April 2025

  First Global Inequality Research Award for Bina Agarwal
  Professor Bina Agarwal received the First Global Inequality Research Award at a ceremony held at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) on 19 March 2025 for her

• Who Defines

  13 April 2025

  Nowadays, we often hear the word

• Impact of Trump

  13 April 2025, by Soma S. Marla

  Our farmers for the last four years are waging relentless struggle for legal guarantee for crop MSPs and against corporate control of markets and their land. Imposition of Trump

• Sri Lanka Today: A Visitor

  13 April 2025, by Karli Srinivasulu

  As one comes out of the Bandaranaike International Airport

• UK

  13 April 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Britain has become the third Western country to sanction select Sri Lankans for war crimes committed during the civil war in the island nation which ended 16 years ago. One can say with certainty that the decision will help neither Sri Lanka nor its Tamil minority.
  Clearly, brazen hypocrisy coupled with domestic political factors are the main reasons the United Kingdom has moved against former Sri Lankan army commanders Shavendra Silva and Jagath Jayasuriya, former navy commander Wasantha (…)

• Social Cost of Automobility | Sunil Dharan

  13 April 2025, by Sunil Dharan

  Walking on Delhi