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  Sweeping Western Sanctions Fail to Cripple Putin | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  2 November 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring down Russia
  by Stephanie Baker
  Mudlark
  Pages: xiv + 351; Price: Rs 699
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  When Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it heralded the largest land war in Europe since World War II. But there was no way the West was going to go for a direct military confrontation with a country with more nuclear warheads than any other. That would have been (…)

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  A poignant docu-memoir on the Sikhs of Kashmir | Joydip Ghosal

  2 November 2024

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Those Who Stayed, The Sikhs of Kashmir by Bupinder Singh Bali
  Manjul Publishing House Pvt Ltd 2024, 308 pages ISBN-10 ? : ? 9355436297 ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-9355436290
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  Those Who Stayed, The Sikhs of Kashmir by Bupinder Singh Bali is a poignant narrative on the Sikhs of Kashmir. In this deeply personal saga, he interweaved their past, present and future which stared at deep abyss of uncertainty. In mainstream media and (…)

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  Photo: Villagers from the threatened Hasdeo forests march against takeover of their ancestral lands in India’s Chattisgarh State

  2 November 2024
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  Audio: Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR | Karl Qualls

  2 November 2024

  SRB Podcast · Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR
  In the late 1930s, the Soviet Union took in about nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War. These kids, aged roughly from 5 to 12 years old, were placed in boarding schools in Leningrad, Moscow and elsewhere in the USSR. Their stay in this strange new land was supposed to be temporary. But fascist victory in the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of WWII made them exiles for the foreseeable future. Now responsible to (…)

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 19 & 26 2024

  19 October 2024

  * Individual Priorities over the Party-Defeated Congress in Haryana | S S Sangwan
  * Will Vikash Yadav be sacrificed in an exchange deal over Tahawwur Rana | Faraz Ahmad
  * Navigating India - Bangladesh Relations In The Post- Rebellion Context | Nag & Bhattacharya
  * Israel is not

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 19 & 26, 2024

  19 October 2024

  Last week, a major diplomatic row erupted between India and Canada, with tit-for-tat expulsions of senior diplomats by the two countries (reminding the world of what used to happen between India and Pakistan). Trouble had been brewing over the past year ever since the Canadians pointed fingers in September 2023 at the involvement of Indian officials in a targeted killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a pro-Khalistani activist living in Canada. Indian officials and the media have openly accused (…)

• Congress Party, Haryana debacle and the Polls in Jharkhand and Maharashtra | P. S. Jayaramu

  19 October 2024, by P S Jayaramu

  21st October, 2024
  After the Diwali festivals start again the elections festival, a continuing phenomenon in India amidst the BJP

• India

  19 October 2024, by Faraz Ahmad

  The Government of India is facing a charge from the United States of America (USA) and its northern neighbour Canada simultaneously of indulging in contract killing of two different Sikhs, Gurpatwant Singh Panun and Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
  But a stark difference is evident in Modi government

• Contested Meanings of Durga Puja in West Bengal | Arup Kumar Sen

  19 October 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Celebration of Durga Puja festival is a big event in the cultural life of West Bengal. However, such celebrations took contested meanings in the public life of Kolkata this year in the context of brutal rape and murder of a junior doctor on duty in R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9, 2024. Initially, the chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, made attempts to address the grievances and protests of the junior doctors as a charismatic leader of the State. When the (…)

• Modi and Shah are getting ready to repeat Haryana experiment in Maharashtra and Jharkhand | Arun Srivastava

  19 October 2024

  Just after six months of the Lok Sabha elections, India is having a mini general election in November and this time too it is once again the credibility and image of Narendra Modi that is at stake like earlier, but for different reason. Besides assembly elections to the two states, Maharashtra and Jharkhand, the country will have bypolls in 48 Assembly constituencies and two parliamentary constituencies spread across 15 states.
  Though the people of Haryana only a fortnight back had (…)