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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 (…)

• The Higher Education of Women in Russia | Sophie Kropotkin

  12 July 2024

  January 1898 — Published in The Nineteenth Century vol. 43, no. 251, pp. 117–134
  THE Russian educated woman is known to some extent in this country for the part which she took in the struggles for political freedom. Very little is known, however, about the hard, and often really heroic, struggles which Russian women have sustained simply to obtain the right to a better education; still less about the wonderful organizing powers which they have displayed in the creation and maintenance of (…)

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  Radical Socialist Statement on Manipur | July 10, 2024

  12 July 2024

  It is crystal clear that it is the March 27 ruling of the Manipur High Court to award ST status to the majority Meitei community (mostly Hindu) that led to mass protests by Zo-Kukis in early May which in turn led to violent attacks by Meitei vigilante groups and then a spiral of violence on both sides but with the Kukis easily the principal sufferers. Not the least reason for this being that the ruling BJP government and its Chief Minister Biren Singh have in various ways favoured the (…)

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  IDPD Demands increase in the budget on health from 1.35% to 3 % of the GDP

  12 July 2024

  Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD
  Date: 10.07.2024
  Press Note
  In an email to the Finance Minister, Govt. of India the Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) has demanded to increase the allocation to health to at least 3% of the GDP in the upcoming budget. Dr Arun Mitra – President IDPD said that India’s current public health expenditure is merely 1.35% of its GDP, which is among the lowest in the world. It has led to high out of pocket expenditure for a vast (…)

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  Review of Haksar’s Shooting the Sun | KS Subramanian

  12 July 2024, by K S Subramanian

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  Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent
  by Nandita Haksar
  Speaking Tiger 2023, Rs 399
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  Manipur was an independent kingdom with a constitution of its own when it was forcibly taken over by India in 1949 in the name of national integration. The resulting resistance and insurgencies are characteristic features of the state. State repression (…)

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  Review of Goodman’s How the World Ran Out of Everything | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  12 July 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S Goodman
  Mariner Books New York/Boston Pages: viii + 406; Price: Rs 599
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  It is now politically fashionable in the US to blame China for all the economic ills the world’s richest country is facing. Yet it was the White House and the American monopoly capital that made Beijing what it is now – a global economic behemoth. (…)

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  Painting: Paul Gauguin - “The Swineherd” (1888)

  12 July 2024
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  Cartoon: Van Mahotsav (Play on Words) Nala Ponnappa (July 11, 2024)

  12 July 2024

  [Double meaning — Van in Hindi Means Forest but when you use English it means automobile Van]