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• Savarkar’s Hidden Agenda was to Arrest Shudra/Dalit Liberation After Mahatma Phule’s Anti-Caste Movement | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

  15 February, by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

  The RSS/BJP Government of India started to take several steps to change the basic structure of the present political system in the light of the Hindutva thesis proposed by their father of the modern nation, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Savarkar’s main thesis in his book Essential of Hindutva though appears to be anti-Muslim and anti-Christian, its hidden agenda is to arrest the Shudra/OBC/Dalit/Adivasi liberation in the post-colonial India. It were the ancestors of these people who built this (…)

• Decoding the Presented Reality: India

  15 February

  Abstract
  This paper critically examines India

• Few Words on the New Policy by Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1921)

  15 February

  Preobrazhensky explains elements of the New Economic Policy to members of the International in the daily newspaper of the Third Congress,

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  CPI Moves Supreme Court Against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma

  15 February

  Communist Party of India Ajoy Bhavan, New Delhi
  February 10, 2026
  Press Release
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (February 10, 2026) the following statement:
  The Communist Party of India has moved the Supreme Court of India through Annie Raja, National Secretary of the CPI, seeking urgent judicial intervention against the repeated hate speeches and conduct of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. The CPI submits that a continuing pattern of (…)

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  Himanta Biswa Sarma must resign as Chief Minister of Assam for serial violations of his oath of office | PUCL

  15 February

  PEOPLE

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  Henk-Jan Dekker. Review of Romero Sommer, Gonzalo, High Voltage: Hydroelectric Development and Political Power in Peru

  15 February

  BOOK REVIEW
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  High Voltage: Hydroelectric Development and Political Power in Peru
  by Gonzalo Romero Sommer
  University of Nebraska Press
  2025. 298 pp
  (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-3512-1.
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  Reviewed by Henk-Jan Dekker (Bielefeld University)
  It is quite common for historical accounts of electrification to focus either on urban or rural electrification. The relationship between the two and the ways urban-rural relationships are defined and reconfigured in the process of (…)

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  Music:: Which Side are You On?

  15 February

  Play
  Which Side are You On? by The Almanac Singers - Topic https://youtu.be/WgmewUP-E-w?si=bMCWXsbByvZgs7E2
  Which Side are You On?

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  Documentary: The Great Nicobar Mega Project: Development at What Cost? | Newslaundry

  15 February
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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Vol 64 No 4, Feb 07, 2026

  7 February

  * The Hangman

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 7, 2026

  7 February, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  Sujalam, suphalam, malayaja sheetalam