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• Indo-US Relations in Historical Perspective | P. S. Jayaramu

  11 August 2024, by P S Jayaramu

  July 31, 2024
  Analysis of Indo-US relations has reacquired prominence after the first visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Russia after returning to power for the third time. Modi’s timing of his Moscow visit has come to be debated in the Western capitals, as it coincided with the 75th celebration summit of the NATO at Washington D.C.Though PM Modi said in his meeting with the Russian President that peace cannot be established in Ukraine when fighting goes on in the battlefield, the (…)

• Union Budget 2024-25-A Welfarist Rather Than Transformational Budget | Ajit Kumar Singh

  11 August 2024

  The people were waiting with bated breath for the Union budget for 2024-25 mainly for two reasons. One what strategy the budget would outline for achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat 2027 and two how would the government respond to the demand of special package for Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. On both counts the budget fails to meet the expectations. The budget does not present a road map for transformation of India into a developed country by 2047. PM Modi has totally succumbed to the political (…)

• Wayanad Landslide Disaster and Impudent Development Path | Soma Marla

  11 August 2024, by Soma S. Marla

  Recent landslides in Kerala is a gruesome reminder of imprudent developmental paradigm followed by our governments. Loss of hundreds of innocent lives in Kerala and Himalayan states are due to floods, landslides can be attributed to climate change from excessive human intervention. Query mining, tunnel construction, road widening, unsustainable buildings (often against mountain slopes) to promote tourism, diversion of forest land to agriculture and coffee plantations are regular (…)

• There was once a time of India’s close bonding with Palestine | Humra Quraishi

  11 August 2024, by Humra Quraishi

  8 August 2024
  Seeing the anarchy spreading out as never before, I’m reminded of Gulzar saab’s words, commenting on the halaats around, along the strain that if one were to pick up the day’s newspapers, they’d be so heavily laced with news reports of violent killings that just by squeezing those pages blood drops would spill out! Gulzar saab said so during one of his book launches here in New Delhi, just before 2017 had ended. Today, of course, the situation stands compounded, with (…)

• Why Top Leaders of Israel as well as Hamas Should Resign | Bharat Dogra

  11 August 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  As the Middle East crisis continues to aggravate, the possibilities of peace can still improve if some of the top leaders of both Israel and Hamas can resign. Which ones should resign? On the Israeli side the Prime Minister Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu should definitely go, as also a few of his most aggressive colleagues. Similarly a few of the most aggressive Hamas leaders should resign, particularly those identified more closely with the planning and execution of the October 7 attack. On both (…)

• Excerpts from Letters of Insurgents by Sophia Nachalo and Yarostan Vochek

  11 August 2024

  Yarostan’s first letter
  Dear Sophia,
  Forgive me for addressing you familiarly, as a friend; I have no way of knowing if you’re still the person I once knew. I can’t remember the sound of your voice, the shape of your face or the feel of your hand. I vaguely remember admiring the energy and intelligence in someone so young, but I regret that you didn’t leave a lasting mark, you didn’t become my guide in my journey through hell.
  I wouldn’t even remember your name if you hadn’t (…)

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  CPI on the Developments in Bangladesh | Aug 6, 2024

  11 August 2024

  Communist Party of India New Delhi,
  August 06, 2024
  Press Release
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (August 6, 2024) the following statement:
  The Communist Party of India expresses its deep concern on the grave situation in Bangladesh following the biggest mass protest resulting the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and subsequently leaving Bangladesh.
  Last one month Bangladesh had witnessed students protest against the reservation (…)

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  Indians for Palestine - Press Statement August 9, 2024

  11 August 2024

  Indians for Palestine STOP THE GENOCIDE! CEASEFIRE NOW! END THE ILLEGAL ISRAELI OCCUPATION FREE PALESTINE INDIAN GOVT MUST END ALL TIES WITH ISRAEL
  New Delhi, 9 August 2024
  Indians for Palestine held a silent display of solidarity with the people of Palestine to demand for CEASEFIRE and urge the Government of India to stop all ties with Israel for the time being.
  We have been detained despite informing the Delhi Police about our gathering near the APJ Abdul Kalam crossing.
  Indian (…)

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  Review of Bennett, M. Todd, Neither Confirm nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency | Chuck Steele

  11 August 2024

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Neither Confirm nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency
  by M. Todd Bennett
  Columbia University Press 2023. 384 pp ISBN 978-0-231-19347-4 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19346-7
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  Reviewed by Chuck Steele
  Despite the centrality of the ocean research vessel Glomar Explorer to this fascinating story, this is not a book intended for an audience of environmental historians. It is, however, a first-rate (…)

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  Caricature: Tribute to Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee [Bhattacharya] | Jayaraj Vellur

  11 August 2024, by Jayaraj Vellur