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• Metamorphosis of the Political Language in West Bengal | Arup Kumar Sen

  21 September 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Rajni Kothari, the eminent political thinker in India, drew our attention to the failure of the institutions of democracy about two decades back. He argued:

• Unraveling the Contemporary Decision Making in International Relations: A Critical Analysis | Musssaib Rasool Mir, Santosh Kumar

  21 September 2024

  Introduction
  International decisions are often complex due to the interconnected nature of global issues. Humanitarian, security, environmental, and economic problems frequently overlap. Interdependence means that decisions taken by one nation or group of nations can have profound effects on other nations, requiring coordinated responses. But depending on how well the interests of each state match, prioritizing their sovereignty and national interests during the decision-making process may (…)

• A mother’s letter regarding work overload that killed her daughter | Anita Augustine

  21 September 2024

  Letter to Ernst & Young India chairman Rajiv Memani regarding the death of Anna Sebastian Perayil, a chartered accountant who worked for the audit team at SR Batliboi, in Pune, a member firm of Ernst & Young (EY) Global.
  From:
  Anita Augustine, Mother of Late Ms Anna Sebastian Perayil
  To,
  Rajiv Memani, EY India Chairman
  Dear Rajiv,
  I am writing this letter as a grieving mother who has lost her precious child, Anna Sebastian Perayil. My heart is heavy, and my soul is (…)

• Sudan

  21 September 2024

  September 18, 2024
  In September 2024, the United Nations

• Diplomacy and Foreign Policy in the Age of AI: A New Frontier of Integrity and Truth | Santhosh Mathew

  21 September 2024

  For centuries, diplomacy has often operated in a space where truth is moulded, concealed, or reshaped to suit the interests of nations. Sir Henry Wooten’s famous aphorism,

• War expanding to Lebanon . . . / India abstains from UN resolution calling for end to Israel’s unlawful presence

  21 September 2024, by Humra Quraishi

  19 September 2024
  The war is definitely expanding

• Analysing India

  21 September 2024, by P S Jayaramu

  9th September, 2024
  The purpose of this write-up is to understand India

• Suspense Over High Court Judgement to Prosecute Siddaramaiah | J P Gadkari

  21 September 2024, by J P Gadkari

  September 20, 2024
  Even as there is suspense over the delay in pronouncing the reserved judgement by the Karnataka High Court granting permission to prosecute Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in the alleged MUDA land scam case, the State Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot has sought a "comprehensive" fresh report on the alleged scam from the Chief Secretary of Karnataka Govt Shalini Rajneesh.
  In a letter to the Chief Secretary Gehlot has sought more information on the basis of a fresh complaint (…)

• Hostages be damned, Netanyahu out to expand the war | Faraz Ahmad

  21 September 2024, by Faraz Ahmad

  With barely a fortnight to go for the first anniversary of the Palestinian daredevilry of entering South Israel and whisking away hundreds of Zionists on their motorcycles, it is amply clear that securing the safe release of more than a hundred hostages, still in Hamas captivity, is not a priority of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
  Contrary to that, the latest surreptitious

• The Centre

  21 September 2024

  Vanya Vaidehi Bhargava has written a thought-provoking article [1] for The Hindu. Commenting on the term centrism, she writes that it is a term scornfully invented by the Left for those