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• Communal Harmony: Foundation of Indian Nationalism | Ram Puniyani

  7 October 2023, by Ram Puniyani

  India is a country with multiple diversities. Be it in the matter of religion, language and ethnicity, India’s diversity is a phenomenon. While we came to become an ‘Indian Nation’ during the freedom movement, we do inherit pluralism in all aspects of our life in the subcontinent. The evolving harmony gives our culture a unique essence and is the foundation of our country’s ethos.
  The beginnings
  Indian geography is such that many people kept coming here from the West and composite Indian (…)

• India’s quest for Permanent seat at the UN Security Council | P. S. Jayaramu

  7 October 2023

  22nd September 2023
  India’s success in coming up with a consensus document at the recently concluded G20 summit in New Delhi and the Chandrayaan-3 mission as the first nation to reach the south pole of the moon and the accompanying global praise of the two events should lead us to renew our claim strongly for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council. Undoubtedly, India deserves to be at the head table, though doubts are often expressed, realistically too about the efficacy of the world (…)

• India-Canada Diplomatic Tension & Electoral Politics! | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  7 October 2023, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  by Nilofar Suhrawardy
  The degree to which diplomatic relations can at times be subject to political factors is probably being manifested by tension surfacing in ties between India and Canada. It is possible, if Prime Ministers of both countries were not guided by their political plans for next elections in their respective countries, they may have given greater importance to handling the issue more diplomatically and it may not have led to any bitterness between them. Just as Prime (…)

• The Khalistan Question: An Interview with Pritam Singh (2020)

  7 October 2023, by Pritam Singh

  Feb 9, 2020
  Joe Hayns
  An interview with Pritam Singh on the demand for Khalistan
  This year, Punjabis will hold a referendum (known as “Referendum 2020”) over whether Indian Punjab should become an independent state called Khalistan. The non-binding referendum aims to gauge the interest of Punjabis in establishing Khalistan before making a formal case at the UN for a binding referendum. In this context, Joe Hayns interviews Pritam Singh, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Oxford (…)

• What Makes Social Change Successful? An Examination of Black Politics in the US | Yanis Iqbal

  7 October 2023

  Methodology: From Empiricism to Dialectics
  Distinguishing successful movements for social change from unsuccessful ones requires the establishment of specific criteria to identify the factors responsible for the former’s higher political efficacy. How do we demonstrate the existence of these criterial grids? Empiricism provides the dominant concept of criteria, suggesting that the benchmark of political success is constituted by common characteristics – a shared abstraction – that must be (…)

• Death of the Armenian dream in Nagorno-Karabakh was predictable but not inevitable | Ronald Suny

  7 October 2023

  October 3, 2023
  Thirty-five years ago, more than 100,000 Armenian protesters – an ethnically Armenian enclave stuck geographically in the neighboring republic of Soviet Azerbaijan – ought to be joined to Armenia.
  In recent days, more than 100,000 people have taken to the streets again. But this time it is Karabakh Armenians fleeing their homes to find refuge in Armenia. They have been decisively defeated by the Azerbaijanis in a short and brutal military operation in the enclave. Their (…)

• The Death of Ivan Nikitich Smirnov | Victor Serge (1936)

  7 October 2023

  Source: Les 16 fusillés. Paris, Paris, Spartacus pamphlets #1, 1936; First Published: in “La Wallonie” August 29, 1936; Translated: for marxists.org by Mitch Abidor; CopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) marxists.org 2007
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  I write with my heart broken – broken, torn, trampled on as if it had been stepped on with heavy boots – standing before the fresh grave where sixteen heads with bullet holes in them lay in a line: a house full of “agents (…)

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  India: Journalist’s Unions Condemn Police Raids on Homes of Journalists | NUJ/DUJ Oct 3, 2023

  7 October 2023

  National Alliance of Journalists (Regd.) Delhi Union of Journalists (Regd.) Flat No.29, Central Market, Connaught Place, New Delhi-1 Phone: 23413459, Email: dui.delhi[at]gmail.com
  3 October, 2023
  The National Alliance of Journalists, the Delhi Union of Journalists and the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (Delhi Unit) condemn the police raids at the houses of journalists Bhasha Singh, Urmilesh, Prabir Purkayastha, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Teesta Setalvad, Abhisar Sharma, Aunindyo (…)

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  AIDWA Condemns Raids on journalists, writers and human rights activists

  7 October 2023

  ALL INDIA DEMOCRATIC WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION
  2253-E, Shadi Khampur, New Ranjit Nagar, New Delhi – 110008
  Email: aidwacec[at]gmail.com | Website: aidwaonline.org
  Date: 3 October 2023
  AIDWA Condemns Raids on journalists, writers and human rights activists The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) strongly condemns the early morning raids on journalists, writers, satirists and human rights activists today in Delhi and Mumbai. This highly undemocratic, unjustified, repressive (…)

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  Statement by Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on BJP Government’s Fresh Attack on the Media

  7 October 2023

  [3 October 2023]
  The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) parties strongly condemn the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) government’s fresh attack on the media. We steadfastly stand with the media and for the constitutionally protected freedoms of speech and expression.
  In the last nine years, the BJP government has deliberately persecuted and suppressed the media by deploying investigative agencies to suppress the British Broadcasting Corporation, Newslaundry, Dainik (…)