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• Modi’s New Discovery | J P Gadkari

  29 November 2024, by J P Gadkari

  November 24, 2024
  Our Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi has a habit of inventing some things that never happened or existed in the chequered history of our country and falsely charging the Indian National Congress (INC) and holding it responsible for using it to its political advange.
  Look at this. While addressing the boisterous BJP supporters at the victory rally at party H Q in Delhi after his party’s massive win in Maharashtra, Modi accused the Congress of "forming the Wakf (…)

• Culture of

  29 November 2024, by Sunita Samal

  Abstract: Are confessions and revelations hidden truths? Augustine wrote his

• Gandhi

  29 November 2024

  Mahatma Gandhi is globally renowned for his non-violent movement and Satyagraha during the Indian freedom struggle. But can we truly regard him as a feminist? When evaluating Gandhi in the context of Indian feminism, we must also focus on the feminine virtues he embodied throughout his life. Gandhi not only supported women

• Violence in Sambhal . . . along expected lines of the Sangh

  29 November 2024, by Humra Quraishi

  27 November 2024
  What is taking place in Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh is not just too shocking but along the expected format of the Sangh

• Counter-Insurgency Operations in Chhattisgarh | Arup Kumar Sen

  29 November 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The counter-insurgency operations against the

• Farmers Scarred by Mining Recover Lost Ground as Green Crops Smile on Rocky Land | Bharat Dogra

  29 November 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  Farmers of Makanpurswami village, located in Mandrayal block of Karauli district (Rajasthan) were experiencing a lot of difficulties about a decade back. This is a rocky area known for its stone mining, and cultivation had been adversely affected (although not to the same extent as seen in the context of very large-scale mining). Increasing water scarcity had combined with this to create conditions in which most farmers were unable to cultivate a significant part of their land, while the (…)

• Pakistan politics at its worst

  29 November 2024

  Beyond the headlines as ousted prime minister Imran Khan’s supporters take protest to the politicians in the federal capital - will force or reason win the day? If force wins, Pakistan loses. This is a different Pakistan than in the past. The people want more. They are demanding respect from their leaders, and for their rights and their needs to be recognized and met.
  by Kathy Gannon / Sapan News
  Tens of thousands of protesters belonging to the party of Pakistan

• The ongoing collapse | Amitav Ghosh

  29 November 2024

  Full Text of Acceptance Speech of 2024 Erasmus Prize
  It takes only a glance at a newspaper nowadays to see that much of what we once took for granted is either being cast aside or turned on its head. Indeed, with floods sweeping away entire cities, and the prospect of a nuclear war closer than it has ever been, I couldn

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  Statement from National Unions and a Peasants platform / Joint Representation from CTUs and SKM to President of India (Nov 26, 2024)

  29 November 2024

  Press Release
  The Following Statement released to the press by CTUs and SKM today- 26th November about Nationwide protest.
  Nationwide Massive protest by Workers and Farmers on 26th Nov.
  Determined to intensify the agitations in the coming days
  More than a million join nationwide mass mobilisation today called upon by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha and the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent Sectoral Federations and Associations. The programmes were held in more (…)

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  Review of Davaram’s ’Munnar to Marina: The Journey’

  29 November 2024, by K S Subramanian

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Munnar to Marina: The Journey
  By W I Davaram
  Notion Press, 2O24
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  reviewed by K. S. Subramanian
  This is a brilliant book by W I Davaram, IPS Retd., former Director General of Police, Tamilnadu. The book is in English (with a separate translation in Tamil). Along with a large number of photographs the book is fascinating and an enjoyable read. The book with 408 pages lacks an Index. The author