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• The Paradox of Grief: Is It Too Soon to Be Happy? | Disha

  1 February 2025, by Disha

  Abstract?? This article explores the complex emotional landscape of grief, focusing on the guilt that often arises when we experience happiness after losing a loved one. It explores the paradox of feeling joy while still mourning, asking how long one should feel guilty for being happy following a loss. Drawing on personal experience and broader philosophical reflections, the article examines why happiness can feel like a betrayal of the person we

• The film Article 370: A Rationalising Project for the Abrogation of

  1 February 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]FILM REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Movie: Article 370
  Director: Aditya Suhas Jambhale
  Date of Release: 23 Feb 2024 (Theatrical) & 19 April 2024 (OTT)
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  Keywords: Kashmir, Article 370, B.J.P. (Bhartiya Janata Party), Nationalism, National Interest, Propaganda
  Introduction
  The representation of Kashmir in Hindi Cinema underwent a drastic change from the early 90

• USA: The Don Disapoints None | Jayant Gadkari

  1 February 2025, by J P Gadkari

  January 29, 2025
  From 20th January onwards when the 47th U S President Donald Trump has taken his oath of office, he has neither disappointed his admirers nor his critics. The American Don has proved himself to be true to his declared intentions of dominating the world scene by being an international bully.
  During the last more than a week, he has reiterated all his plans and how he is going to implement them. Trump’s priority of course has been on the "illegal" immigration of alleins in (…)

• Notun Ihudi: Jewishness as a code and its representations in post-partition Bangla intellectual and political production? | Arka Sen Chakraborty

  1 February 2025

  Abstract
  The question

• Both Israel, Hamas have lost the horrific Gaza bloodbath | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  1 February 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Israeli is patting its back, and loudly, after almost decimating the Hamas in Gaza and the Hezbollah in Lebanon and contributing to the ouster of Basher al-Assad in Syria. The Hamas is jubilant that it survived the savage and punishing Israeli military onslaught that pulverized Gaza and is now going to get back thousands of Palestinians locked up in Israeli prisons.
  To that extent, both sides can claim success

• Jean-Marie Le Pen died knowing his extremist far-right politics have been successfully mainstreamed in France | Aurelien Mondon

  1 February 2025

  January 7, 2025
  The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the party once known as the National Front, occurs at a time when the mainstreaming of far-right politics in France seems almost complete [1].
  Le Pen was, for most of his career, considered the devil in French politics. Yet today, his party, headed by his daughter and now called National Rally (Rassemblement National), is at the gates of power.
  Le Pen became an MP in France

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  Statement by PIPFPD on the passing of film-maker and human rights activist, Tapan Kumar Bose

  1 February 2025

  Tapan K Bose
  Born: 8.6.1946
  Died: 30.01.2025
  Tapan Kumar Bose, renowned documentary film-maker, human rights and peace activist known across South Asia, is no more. Tapan breathed his last at his home in New Delhi in the morning of Martyr

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  AITUC statement on 2025 Union Budget

  1 February 2025

  All India trade Union Congress (AITUC)
  New Delhi,
  February 1, 2025
  Press Statement
  The following statement was released to press by AITUC as preliminary reaction on Budget 2025-2026 presented by the finance minister Ms Nirmala Sitharaman today
  The Budget 2025-2026 belies hopes of workers, farmers and unemployed youth
  No relief in sight for the common man from price rise of essential commodities
  The Budget 2025-2026 reflects that there is continuity of policies which have (…)

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  Review of Bailey’s The Architecture of Empire | Rachael Maxon

  1 February 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664-1962
  by Gauvin A. Bailey
  McGill-Queen’s University Press
  2022. 488 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-01142-2
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  Reviewed by Rachael Maxon (University of Iowa)
  Bailey

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  Review of Bakhurst’s The Heart of the Matter | Corinna Lotz

  1 February 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  The Heart of the Matter: Ilyenkov, Vygotsky and the Courage of Thought
  by David Bakhurst
  Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2024. 402 pp., pb
  ISBN 9798888902165
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  Reviewed by Corinna Lotz
  Bakhurst plays a kind of devil