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April 7, 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsis. The first author of this paper during his visit to Rwanda got the opportunity to interact with the survivors of the Genocide and the present-day administrators in the country. During the visit to Rwanda, the author came to know about the facts that led to the Genocide and got a first-hand experience and knowledge of Rwanda’s resurrection from the tragedy. The authors share the strategies and methods used (…)
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Rwanda Revisited: A Critical Introspection on Rwanda’s Resurrection from the Scars and Trauma left by the Genocide | Jos Chathukulam, Gireesan K, Manasi Joseph and Clement Kayitakire
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Soviet History: Anton Vlasov’s 1920 letter to the Central Committee
29 March 2024[marron]This letter was sent by Anton Vlasov, a Red Army officer, to the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (RCP) in September 1920. A copy was retained in the archive of Nikolai Bukharin, in 1920 editor of the party newspaper, Pravda, and published in 1998 by historians who found it there. While some stories of leading party members’ luxurious circumstances may be exaggerated, the letter expresses sentiments that were widespread among rank-and-file communists at the time. I (…)
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Review of Tripathi and Arun’s edited Volume on Democracy in Trouble | Bharat Dogra
29 March 2024, by Bharat Dogra[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
These are difficult times for democracy and this book on democracy in Hindi has thus been published at just the right time. Although it is mainly centered on India, it also ventures from time to time to comment on the situation in other parts of the world too.
Edited by Arun Kumar Tripathi and A.K. Arun, two names very familiar to Hindi readers, this book titled ‘Jantantra ki Jarein’ (‘Roots of Democracy’) has essays by several writers known (…) -
Audio: Nadine Gordimer Reads from “The Ultimate Safari” | 2007 PEN World Voices Festival
29 March 2024Nadine Gordimer, whose novels of South Africa portray the conflicts and contradictions of a racist society, was named winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Music: Swedish womens rights song about forgotten women through history [Eng subs]
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Video Reportage: Has India’s Media Been Captured? | India Report
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Photo: Protest of Mothers of Disappeared at Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires (1977) |
29 March 2024Hebe de Bonafini at a protest of Mothers of the Disappeared at Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, in May 1977 [Photo source: Archivo Clarín]. She was one of the founders of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo that was created in 1979 by mothers whose children has disappeared under the then military junta in Argentina.
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Drawing: The Illusion of Democracy | Sagari Chhabra
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Table of Contents - Mainstream, March 23, 2024
23 March 2024* Growing Spectre of Hate on Univ Campuses in India
* A Wedding at India’s Super Rich & the Question of Public Morality | Radhakanta Barik
* Devolution of Funds and North-South Divide | J P Gadkari
* Hunger-strikers’ Demands (1929) | Bhagat Singh, B.K. Dutt
* Collective Theory, Collective Guilt: The Frankfurt School in/and Exile | Aranya Majumder -
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 23, 2024
23 March 2024Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 23, 2024
For months now, opposition politicians or civil society leaders have been harassed & targeted by agencies under the control of the Modi government, be it the Income Tax Dept, the CBI or the Enforcement Directorate (ED); The clear intent has been to demobilise and disrupt the abilities of opposition political parties in the run-up to the 2024 elections. Now that the elections have been announced and Model Code of Conduct (MCC) (…)