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The coordinates of transformation must change | Sunil Ray
22 February 2025, by Sunil Ray[fond noir][blanc]BOOK EXCERPTblanc]fond noir]
[ . . . ] global society witnessed several social and national movements. Many of them were anti-systemic. Some such as the Russian Revolution and the uprising in 1968 in Europe or what Wallerstein calls the -
EGI Statement on blocking of Vikatan.com
22 February 2025The Editors Guild of India
Press Statement
February 18, 2025
The Editors Guild of India is deeply shocked by the recent blocking of the Tamil magazine web portal Vikatan.Com, without any prior due process, by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) over the publication of a cartoon depicting the prime minister.
Cartoons have always been a legitimate means of journalistic endeavour and the sudden blocking of the Vikatan website is a brazen instance of overreach (…) -
PUCL Statement on Handcuffed Deportation of Indians from USA
22 February 202522nd February, 2025
PUCL Condemns Handcuffed Deportation of Indians from USA
& demands that
The Indian Government must Apologise to the migrants for the complicity of the Indian government in this inhumane treatment; and Compensate the migrants for their physical and mental suffering. Must make public the terms of the 2012 protocol with the U.S. regarding deportation procedures; and initiate its revision if it is not in conformity with international human rights (…) -
AMU: Institution of Learning or Intellectual Ghetto? | M.R. Narayan Swamy
22 February 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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AMU: Institution of Learning or Identity
by Anil Maheshwari and Arjun Maheshwari
Ink/Occam
Pages: xvii + 431; Price: Rs 899
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Anil Maheshwari, the lead author I know, is as secular an Indian as one can be. The book recognises, and rightly so, how the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has come under repeated and unfair attacks from the Hindu Right because of its Islamic character. The authors are against the Modi government -
Review of Fujiwara & Marples (eds.), Hiroshima-75
22 February 2025[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Hiroshima-75: Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts
by Aya Fujiwara, David R. Marples, eds.
ibidem Verlag, 2020. 307 pp.
(paper), ISBN 978-3-8382-1398-9
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Reviewed by Jonathan Runnels (Air University, Air War College)
In 2020, Aya Fujiwara and David R. Marples published Hiroshima-75, an edited collection commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of dropping the nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The aftermath (…) -
Photo: Bombay Cinema Actor David Abraham with Prime Minister Nehru
22 February 2025David was actively associated with the left platform of artists —Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA)
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Cartoon: In a Trumpian world all pets are not equal . . . | Hemant Marporia
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Video: The Arctic | Wenting Zhu
22 February 2025Play
THE ARCTIC by Beauty of Science https://vimeo.com/333319621
Video: Wenting Zhu
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Video: Kanishka Goonewardena on Nationalism and Imperialism in the Global South
22 February 2025Play
Conjuncture: Kanishka Goonewardena on Nationalism and Imperialism in the Global South | S4 Ep3 by Trinity Social Justice Institute https://youtu.be/IUkIcCkFq7c?si=VGF83qqAtqkpVXwr