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• Israel may win its battle against Hamas but has already lost the war | James M. Dorsey

  21 October 2023

  October 20, 2023
  Israel will likely win the Gaza war on the battlefield. Even so, it has already been defeated in the court of public opinion.
  It no longer really matters who attacked Gaza’s Al Ahli Arab Hospital in which hundreds of innocent civilians were killed or the Greek Orthodox Saint Porphyrius Church in the Strip.
  Public opinion has issued its verdict on the streets of cities across the Middle East and beyond.
  It took the attack on the hospital, which Israel asserts involved (…)

• Happiness | A poem by Louise Gluck, 1980

  21 October 2023

  A man and a woman lie on a white bed.
  It is morning. I think
  Soon they will waken.
  On the bedside table is a vase
  of lilies; sunlight
  pools in their throats.
  I watch him turn to her
  as though to speak her name
  but silently, deep in her mouth–
  At the window ledge,
  once, twice,
  a bird calls.
  And then she stirs; her body
  fills with his breath.
  I open my eyes; you are watching me.
  Almost over this room
  the sun is gliding.
  Look at your face, you say,
  holding your own close to (…)

• Mimesis | Fady Joudah

  21 October 2023

  My daughter
  wouldn’t hurt a spider
  That had nested
  Between her bicycle handles
  For two weeks
  She waited
  Until it left of its own accord
  If you tear down the web I said
  It will simply know
  This isn’t a place to call home
  And you’d get to go biking
  She said that’s how others
  Become refugees isn’t it?
  Source: The above poem is available online at Poetry Foundation it appeared in Alight (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). This poem is reproduced here for educational and non-commercial (…)

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  CASR (Campaign Against State Repression) strongly condemns the Indian state’s brutal repression on Palestinian solidarity demonstrations all over India to show loyalty towards israel

  21 October 2023

  October 17, 2023
  Unlawful attacks by the Indian government have intensified since the 7th October 2023 Palestinian resistance against the Zionist entity of Israel, against all who are coming in solidarity with the Palestinian people. In Uttar Pradesh, four students at Aligarh Muslim University were booked under IPC’s Sections 153A (promoting enmity among different groups), 188 (disobedience to order promulgated by public servant) and 505 (statements conducting to public mischief) for (…)

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  PUCL Statement on Supreme Court Verdict that denies right tomarry to the LGBTQ community

  21 October 2023

  PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES
  332, Patpar Ganj, Opp. Anand Lok Apartments, (Gate No. 2), Mayur Vihar-I, Delhi 110 091
  Founder: Jayaprakash Narayan; Founding President: V M Tarkunde
  President: Ms. Kavita Srivastava (Rajasthan); General Secretary: V Suresh (Tamil Nadu); E.mails:, Please visit our website: www.pucl.org
  20th October, 2023
  PUCL Statement:
  Marriage Equality Judgment not on constitutional (…)

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  Supreme Court Ruling Denies Marriage Rights for LGBTQ+ | Binoy Viswam

  21 October 2023, by Binoy Viswam

  Binoy Viswam Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) 116, North Avenue New Delhi - 110 001 Mob: 9605766702 E-mail: binoyviswam55[at]gmail.com
  PRESS STATEMENT Date: 17th October 2023
  Denial of Rights to LGBTQ+ Community Unfortunate: CPI MP Binoy Viswam
  The Supreme Court of India today passed a judgement on the issue of marriage equality for persons from the LGBTQ+ community. The Hon’ble Supreme Court in a split verdict of 3:2 have refused to instate the right to civil union for LGBTQ+ (…)

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  Letter to Election Commission of India Regarding Infringement of Model Code of Conduct | E A S Sarma

  21 October 2023

  E A S Sarma Former Secretary to the Government of India
  To
  Shri Rajiv Kumar Chief Election Commissioner Election Commission of India (ECI)
  Shri A C Pandey Election Commissioner Election Commission of India (ECI)
  Shri Arun Goel Election Commissioner Election Commission of India (ECI)
  Dear S/Shri Rajiv Kumar/ Pandey/ Goel,
  The Department of Personnel, vide F.no. 1-28047/8/2023 dated 17-10-2023 seemed to have instructed all Ministries to nominate senior officers as "District Rath (…)

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  Review of Mansoor Khan’s ’ONE: The Story of the Ultimate Myth’ | T Vijayendra

  21 October 2023, by T. Vijayendra

  BOOK REVIEW
  by T. Vijayendra
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  ONE: The Story of the Ultimate Myth
  by Mansoor Khan
  Harper Collins India 2023, Pp. 145
  Available at Amazon Rs. 449/-
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  It is a gem of a book! It is a small book, 145 pages. It is a fiction, a novella. Very satisfactory reading! Reminds me of the feeling I got after reading some of the great novellas - Lu Hsun’s ‘The True Story of Ah Q’ or Rajinder Singh Bedi’s ‘Ek Chadar Maili Si’. It has the touch of a film editor – not a single wasted (…)

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  Powerful endeavour to counter the identity of the country on an ascriptive criteria | Naveen R Nath

  21 October 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
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  The Theory of the Basic Structure: Saviour of the Constitution and Democracy
  by Vijay Kumar
  Aakar Books Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 202 pages ISBN‏ : ‎ 9789350028278 Price: Rs.595/-
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  The theory of the ‘basic structure’ of the constitution propounded by the largest–ever bench of 13 judge by the Supreme Court in historic Kesavanand Bharti is in news, not only for 50 years of its formulation, but also for well-orchestrated attack on the theory by the former Chief (…)

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  Caricature: Tribute to Louise Gluck | Jayaraj Vellur

  21 October 2023, by Jayaraj Vellur