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• Indian Secularism and Rise of Right-wing Politics | Manoj Kumar Mishra

  14 September 2024

  The boundaries between civic and cultural nationalism were never neatly demarcated in India. For instance, Congress leader Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s Ganesh festival was adopted by the right-wing Shiv Sena party of Maharashtra as an expression of Hindu assertion. Mahatma Gandhi spoke of the spiritualisation of politics and suggested the inseparability between religion and politics, although he did not express a preference for a particular set of religious values over any other. Right-wing (…)

• From Renuka to Pong to Bhakra, dam evictees and dam-affected people in Himachal Pradesh have been struggling for justice | Bharat Dogra

  14 September 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  According to recent reports the people being displaced by the Renuka dam in Himachal Pradesh have demanded alternative sites for their rehabilitation as most of the land earlier provided for their rehabilitation has been washed away or suffered harm in recent torrential rains. This land is located in Sirmaur district.
  The dam is an approximately INR 7000 crore project which envisages the construction of a 148 metre high rock-fill dam on the Giri river in Sirmaur district.
  According to a (…)

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  Homage to Comrade Sitaram Yechury — Communist Party of India (Marxist)

  14 September 2024

  Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  September 12, 2024
  The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
  Homage to Comrade Sitaram Yechury
  The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its profound grief at the passing away of Comrade Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary of the Party on September 12, 2024. He died after battling a severe lung infection at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He was (…)

• The Bodh Gaya Temple under the Bodh Gaya Temple Act 1949 | A K Biswas

  14 September 2024, by A K Biswas

  Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya symbolizes

• Surge in Dropouts Among Dalit Students in Higher Educational Institutions | Karamala Areesh Kumar, Aaron Nair, Paul Newman

  14 September 2024

  Keywords: Dalits, Education, Affordability, Exclusion, Marginalization, and Suicides.
  The Indian social system has been largely influenced by thoughts and perceptions of the Varna or caste system. Higher education provides a window of opportunity to Dalits who for thousands of years have lived in a culture of oppressive silence. Generally, Dalits lack the resources to enter the portals of good higher educational institutions, their problems are compounded as most of them are (…)

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  Kimberley Peters. Review of Rachael Squire, Undersea Geopolitics: Sealab, Science, and the Cold War

  14 September 2024

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  Undersea Geopolitics: Sealab, Science, and the Cold War. Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds
  by Rachael Squire
  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
  2021. 180 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78660-730-0.
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  Reviewed by Kimberley Peters
  In a recent work-related exchange with a colleague, it was mentioned that many students in the classroom today, in 2024

• Karnataka: Freedom Restricted in Freedom Park | J P Gadkari

  14 September 2024, by J P Gadkari

  In the heart of the business centre of Bangalore City, there was once the Central Jail under the control of the State Govt. In the early 1980s, the then Govt of Karnataka took a decision to close down the jail and transform it into a large public park. However, it took the Government nearly 30 years to implement this decision.
  This is the same jail where during the Emergency in 1975 all national opposition leaders were kept. It was finally opened in November 2008 by former Deputy Prime (…)

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  Legacies of Comrade Sitaram Yechury: A Personal Tribute | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  14 September 2024

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  Mr. Sitaram Yechury was everyone’s comrade. He lived his life in public like an open book of praxis. Everyone was familiar with his family background, student life, many talents, achievements, and political journey that defined his everyday life as a committed communist. Comrade Yechury possessed a unique ability to dissect complex theories in everyday language and theorise everyday issues in the colloquial language of the working people. He had (…)

• A Cry For Humanity and the 2024 Bengal Uprising | Sunil Ray

  14 September 2024, by Sunil Ray

  Now it is this side of Bengal. It is the state of West Bengal of the Indian Republic that has been witnessing a massive uprising of its people against crime against humanity. It is peoples

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  NAJAR Statement over the Prime Minister

  14 September 2024

  NAJAR: National Alliance for Justice, Accountability & Rights
  NAJAR expresses grave concern over the Prime Minister