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Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International Community
by Rohan Gunaratna
Penguin Books Pages: lxxvi + 238 Price: Singapore$ 28.90 __0__
It was sheer incompetence at the highest level of governance that helped the Islamic State to devastate Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday in 2019, slaughtering 275 people and injuring almost 600. The suicide bombings were the worst terrorist onslaught by the IS outside the Iraqi and (…)
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Table of Contents, Mainstream, July 20, 2024
20 July 2024* Farmers’ Movement and Save Constitution Campaign Impact Haryana General Election Results 2024 in Big Way | Mahabir Jaglan
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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 20, 2024
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India’s constitution makes no distinction between citizens based on region, religion, identity, language, colour, caste and gender. This universal logic of equality between citizens need be the guiding principle for all governments, whether local, regional or national that get elected across India. Unfortunately there have been many instances of demands across different regions to give priority to ‘locals’ or natives’ as opposed to outsiders (…) -
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Reduction of sleeper and general class coaches in railways an anti-poor move | Anandi Pandey and Sandeep Pandey
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