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India’s First Metadata case: Why no to electoral bond and Sangh’s donor driven One Nation, One Election and One Unique Identifier? Part 8 | Gopal Krishna
19 October 2024, by Gopal KrishnaIn a functional democracy, election is a dialogue with the people. The frequent dialogue and deeper dialogue is like sunlight for democracy and which is good for the health of citizens
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Red Signals and Rouge Faces: The Intersection of Trans Visibility | Disha
19 October 2024, by DishaAbstract
This article explores the metaphorical significance of red traffic signals in relation to transgender visibility and societal barriers. Through the imagery of a transgender individual navigating a city intersection, adorned with heavy makeup as both armor and expression, the red light symbolizes the systemic impediments faced by transgender people. The red light’s role as a signal for stoppage, danger, and caution parallels the numerous obstacles that hinder transgender (…) -
Marx in London | Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule
19 October 2024Time seemed to be paused and basking in the serene atmosphere, we were sipping our hot coffee. The very pleasant British climate provided much energy at Hendon Central in London for me and Comrade. Prakash Reddy. His infectious energy was evident in our conversation while discussing the recently conducted Lok Sabha Elections as well as the British Elections. While chit chatting on the Left Movement in Maharashtra, he out of no context asked me whether I had visited the places in central (…)
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Terrorism and Territory in the Era Of Globalisation | Sunita Samal
19 October 2024, by Sunita SamalAbstract: In number of ways, the war on terror has important of Lefebvre
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Well-Wishers of Canada, Including Senior Officials, Have Been Warning Against the Proliferation of Terror Groups | Bharat Dogra
19 October 2024, by Bharat DograOn June 23, 1985 a bomb exploded in the Air India 182 Kanishka airplane flight from Canada to India, killing all 329 passengers and crew. This was till then (and before 9/11) the biggest terrorist attack involving passengers in word history. In fact the tragedy could have been much bigger— as a part of the same planning another suitcase bomb was to be placed in another Air India plane in Tokyo but this exploded at the airport itself killing two baggage handlers and injuring four. If this had (…)
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Navigating India - Bangladesh Relations In The Post- Rebellion Context: From Irksome Chapter To The Horizon Of Possibility | Gouri Sankar Nag & Arpan Bhattacharya
19 October 2024Time is volatile with newer crises that make the beacon of hope a more challenging pursuit not only in the war-ravaged Eastern Europe or in the Middle East but even the episode of the July rebellion of Bangladesh that torpedoed the Indian peninsula. We don
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Israel is not
19 October 2024by Kenan Malik
Both sides believe they have right on their side and use it as an excuse to perpetuate bloodshed -
Michael Degani Review of Mohsin’s, Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development
19 October 2024BOOK REVIEW
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Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development
by Anto Mohsin
University of Wisconsin Press
2023. xvii + 245 pp.
(cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-34540-2
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Reviewed by Michael Degani (University of Cambridge)
By the beginning of the twenty-first century, Indonesia -
Memoirs of an Exalite | Sreejith K
19 October 2024BOOK REVIEW
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Oranweshanathinte katha
by K. Venu
DC Books 2023, 752 pages ISBN: 9789354829383
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Reviewed by Sreejith K
In an iconic scene from Sandesham, which has over the years acquired a cult status amongst the Malayalis for its trenchant political satire, a communist party worker, Sreenivasan, during a pennukaanal (would-be bride seeing), after some perfunctory questions on Marxism to the bewilderment of the girl, asks her whether she would be willing to spend the (…)