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• We want violence | Rahul Ray

  18 January 2025, by Rahul Ray

  No matter what we say We want violence More violence, more, more, and more, Pile up, please.
  We pray to God every day Please, You, almighty Shower us with not peace, but violence. Peace is for the feeble in heart We mighty humans have a stomach for violence.
  There is nothing new here We are made in the image of our ancestors, are we not? We grind our teeth in rage If you do not listen, we will tear you apart, Stone you to death like Hypatia, Or burn you alive in a stake, as we did to (…)

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  18 January 2025
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  AIFUCTO Demands tha UGC withdraw the Draft UGC regulation 2025

  18 January 2025

  All India Federation of University & College Teachers’ Organisations (AIFUCTO)
  Patna/New Delhi 15 January 2025
  PRESS RELEASE
  All India Federation of University & College Teachers’ Organisations (AIFUCTO) opposes Draft UGC (Minimum qualification for appointment and promotion of Teachers and Academic staff in universities and college and Measures for the maintenance of standard in Higher Education Regulation 2025
  Dated on 06.01.2025
  AIFUCTO President Prof. Dr. M. NAGARAJAN (…)

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  Radical Socialist Statement on the Latest Deal Between Israel and Hamas

  18 January 2025

  The latest Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the envoys of both Biden and Trump that is to start on January 19th has been accepted by Hamas but still has to get formal Israeli Cabinet approval because some far-right partners in his coalition government are opposed to it. However, Netanyahu has the necessary majority both in the Cabinet and Knesset (parliament) to get it accepted. There might be a delay in its starting but with the US supporting the deal it is extremely (…)

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  CPI statement in solidarity with the people of Cuba | Jan 17, 2025

  18 January 2025

  Communist Party of India
  New Delhi,
  January 17, 2025
  Press Release
  CPI reiterates its solidarity with the people of Cuba
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (January 17, 2025) the following statement:
  The Communist Party of India (CPI) reiterates its unwavering solidarity with the people of Cuba and underscores the critical importance of continued support for their sovereignty and resilience. Cuba has long been a beacon of socialist principles, (…)

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  2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards honour individuals from Brazil, India, Navajo country, the United States and Zimbabwe

  18 January 2025

  2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards laureates announced
  For immediate release
  TAKOMA PARK, MD, January 14, 2025— The 2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards will this year honor individuals from Brazil, India, Navajo country, the United States and Zimbabwe for their achievements in working for a nuclear-free world.
  The Award laureates are chosen by an international jury of their peers and are offered in three categories: Resistance, Education and Solution. The 2025 laureates are: S.P. Udayakumar (…)

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  A Sri Lankan officer who even in LTTE custody remained a humanist |

  18 January 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]

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  Review of Jane Mumby’s Dismantling the League of Nations | Madeleine Dungy

  18 January 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Dismantling the League of Nations: The Quiet Death of an International Organization, 1945-8
  by Jane Mumby
  Bloomsbury Academic
  2024. ix + 252 pp.
  (e-book (pdf)), ISBN 978-1-350-37690-8;
  (e-book), ISBN 978-1-350-37692-2
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  Reviewed by Madeleine Dungy
  Today, as multilateral organizations are coming under strain, it has become clear that we lack insight into the processes through which they might be streamlined, (…)

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  Poster of Satyajit Ray’s film Ganashatru (1989)

  18 January 2025

  This film by Satyajit Ray is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play An Enemy of the People

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  Music Video: Colwad March at India’s Republic day parade of 1961

  18 January 2025

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  Colwad march by Scroll.in https://youtu.be/0l0ErPNQ_c4?si=7mGlXLVXqnbpsYtW
  "On January 25, the Colwad Union performed at a Concert of Songs of National Builders on All India Radio. They performed a tune written by their founder, Lawrence D’Mello, that praised Mumbai’s development, mentioning the presence of the Aarey Milk Colony, the International Airport, the Trombay Atomic Power station and ’deep sea fishing’ which had been made possible with —the mechanisation (…)