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A Centennial Tribute to Samaresh Basu | Jayanta Kumar Ghosal
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Why we need to regulate herbal pills | Anindita Chakrabarty
29 March 2025December 20, 2024
While normally beneficial or harmless, natural medicines and supplements can be harmful if used in excess.
Few people would pop a medical pill without a doctor -
Indonesia passes controversial law allowing greater military role in government | Kate Lamb
29 March 2025Activists in world
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The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict through a Third-World Feminist Lens | Rajeshwari Sharma
29 March 2025Understanding militarism and war through a gendered lens
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The Left Needs to Back a European Security Policy | Hanna Perekhoda
29 March 2025For decades, European countries have underinvested in defense, relying on American military power and assuming that large-scale conflict on the continent was a thing of the past. However, Russia
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Need to go beyond puerile ’definitions’ of Fascism | Aditya Nigam
29 March 2025, by Aditya NigamQuite apart from the dinosaur-like CPI-M position on fascism, there is a genuine and serious problem with the way we discuss or study the phenomenon - exclusively with reference to the Italian and German experiences (more German actually). Even that experience is reduced to some unhelpful superficial formulas like Horkheimer’s largely misunderstood statement in 1939 ’if you aren’t willing to talk about capitalism, you had better keep quiet about fascism too’, or Dimitrov’s rendering of (…)
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UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION CENTRE
FROM THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL
Following are UN Secretary-General Ant -
Review of Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts . . . | Gond & Chandravanshi
29 March 2025[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
Henry Holt and Company 2018, 160 pages, ?3,230
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Reviewed by Arun Kumar Gond, Ranjan Kumar Chandravanshi
This book highlights the importance of avoiding social media. Author Jaron Lanier, a tech expert, critiques big tech and their exploitative practices. He explains how social media harms freedom, real-life interactions, and productivity while (…) -
A tribute to a communist | Joydip Ghosal
29 March 2025[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Sitaram Yechury: Outstanding Communist
CPI (M) Publications
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Sitaram Yechury: Outstanding Communist, Tributes by Comrades is a collection of articles on the life and contribution of departed comrade. It was originally published in People -
Review of Brunstedt, Jonathan, The Soviet Myth of World War II
29 March 2025[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR
by Jonathan Brunstedt
Cambridge University Press
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Series
2021, 320 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-49875-3
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Reviewed by Christopher Bishop (University of Southern Mississippi)
In May 1945, Joseph Stalin raised a toast to the