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• Northeast India’s battle against drugs | Sajal Nag

  12 July 2024

  July 2, 2024
  The drug menace in India’s northeastern states has major implications for the country’s external and internal security.
  When deadly ethnic clashes erupted in Manipur in India’s northeast frontier with Myanmar in May 2023, it was attributed to one group’s demands for recognition as a constitutionally-mandated Scheduled Tribe.
  Soon, large swathes of the state were engulfed in the violence. Almost a year after the first killings last summer, the total death count stood at (…)

• Emergency 1975: Some unknown facts | L.S. Herdenia

  12 July 2024, by L. S. Herdenia

  July 8, 2024
  While observing fiftieth year of the imposition of emergency it is not mentioned that the constitution has empowered the Union government to impose three types of emergency if the situation warrants. They are if the country is facing aggression, internal emergency and financial emergency. Then Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi in the best of her wisdom must have thought that the country should be put under emergency.
  There is no doubt that the country was facing severe (…)

• A personal tribute to Karamat Ali (19 August 1945 - 20 June 2024) | Mandira Nayar

  12 July 2024

  A journalist in India remembers a Pakistani peace activist who brought home her late grandfather’s ashes
  Karamat Ali was many things but for me he was always the person who returned my grandfather Kuldip Nayar to the home he was born in. The relationship between him and my grandfather defies labels but it has a bond that is deep and unbreakable, stronger than many relationships with names.
  There are many words for friendship. Arabic has twelve. You can choose from friendships of (…)

• Commemorating Che Guevara’s historic visit to India-65 years ago! | Chaman Lal

  12 July 2024, by Chaman Lal

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  I admire Cuban revolution of 1st January 1959, led by Fidel Castro as one of the most unique revolutions of world history, where just 82 determined revolutionaries, sailing from Mexico on the ship Granma, made the historic revolution with the support of Cuban peasants and workers, against very powerful army of dictator Batista. Out of 82, only about 15 had survived after the brutal attack of Batista forces, but these fifteen in the course of just two and half years organised army of (…)

• Christians and the Political landscape in India | John Dayal

  12 July 2024, by John Dayal

  We don’t matter in numbers, but did we did even try set the discourse
  There will possibly be at least 15 Christians in the Lok Sabha’s 543 members elected in the 2024 General elections.
  At 2.3 % of the national population, the Christian MPs will be about 2.7% of the newly constituted Lok Sabha, the Lower House of Parliament.
  They could even be a little more, because not every name can be identified easily by religion. Some don’t identify themselves as belonging to a religion - even if (…)

• 2024 General Election - Representation of Dalits | Arun Srivastava

  12 July 2024

  For the first time in electoral history the Lok Sabha election underlined Dalit’s determination and zeal to get political recognition
  The 2024 Lok Sabha election will be remembered for two major reasons; first, it protected Dalits from losing their identity and second, prevented India from becoming the Hindu Rashtra. The electoral battle of 2024 has also a very consequential aspect: it stoked the apparition of the peasant struggle of late sixties and inspired the old comrades of (…)

• Letter to Prime Minister Modi to form a dedicated cell to help Indian citizens abroad or citizens travelling abroad | D Raja

  12 July 2024, by D Raja

  Communist Party of India
  New Delhi,
  July 10, 2024
  To,
  Shri Narendra Modi,
  Hon’ble Prime Minister,
  Government of India,
  South Block, New Delhi.
  Sub: Request to form a dedicated cell to help Indian citizens abroad or citizens travelling abroad
  Respected Prime Minister Modi ji,
  The number of Indian students studying abroad as well as Indians working outside India have increased significantly. Similarly, the number of Indians travelling abroad for various purposes has also (…)

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  Muchkund Dubey : Many–Splendoured Personality | Vijay Kumar

  12 July 2024, by Vijay Kumar

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  The passing away of Muchkund Dubey at the ripe age of 93 years on 26th June, 2024 is a terrible loss to rarefied domain of diplomacy and public intellectualism. His death also represents the irretrievable loss to the civil society. Muchkund Dubey was born in a poor Brahmin family, and rose in his life only through hard work, fierce determination and tenacity. He had lofty goal and noble purpose, and slogged hard to realize the same. He was a man (…)

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  Muchkund Dubey (1933-2024): A Foreign Policy Sage with a Holistic Worldview | Gouri Sankar Nag

  12 July 2024

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  THESE DAYS ARE stormy, with war clouds thickly fixed on multiple hotspots with no indication of dissipating soon. So are the recent elections in South Asian countries, in Europe and other parts of the world where the pendulum is ticking not very optimistically. Back home, our entire foreign service seems roughly polarized between two groups, with many in-service cadres taking pro-government stance while many of the old guards sulky and critical of (…)

• Thr Now Dead Balasore, the city of Fakir Mohan, Nanda Kishore Bal and Radhanath Ray & BJD’s loss | Radhakanta Barik

  12 July 2024, by Radhakanta Barik

  It is a pond In the centre of the city Three people meet here. In the evening By looking at the sun set They create a new story A new poem Another folk song. All three meet for hours Then move to their homes Work out their papers Sitting on the chair Bending over the table with open pen.
  Oh, my beloved Balasore!
  The city fortunate to create a novelist And after sometime, make him a story writer The first story about women’s education. There are characters in Fakir’s novels (…)