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• Partition: 14 August 1947 | Sagari Chhabra

  25 August 2023, by Sagari Chhabra

  We fought for freedom but they decided, our land, our very own homeland would be divided. No one knows of the mayhem and madness that did descend; take this as my testament: the knives at the nape of necks, the rapes of women, their jumping into wells, followed by blood-thirsty yells.
  The people sleep-walked with their belongings, then just dropped them, unable to carry further; mothers abandoned their babies hoping they would find them again; a line drawn, had torn and turned our world (…)

• Message from a Pakistani on India’s moonlanding: Well done neighbour | Naeem Sadiq

  25 August 2023

  .[The following message from a Pakistani Citizen has circulated on WhatsApp groups in the past 24 hours. It is being reproduced here in public interest]
  India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft making a soft landing close to the South Pole region of moon, is a momentous event for which India deserves heartfelt felicitations and compliments. As a neighbor, I am happy and proud of India’s achievement and join the Indian people in their moment of joy and celebration. I hope that we can begin to (…)

• Pakistani minority-rights activists demand justice after church attacks | Abdullah Zahid with Beena Sarwar

  25 August 2023

  August 21, 2023
  by Abdullah Zahid with Beena Sarwar
  After the first Minority Rights March days before attacks on the Christian community, protestors gather again in Karachi to reiterate demands to end violence in the name of religion
  “Manzoor Masih – will be remembered!… The Christians of Shanti Nagar – will be remembered!… Rimsha Masih – will be remembered!… ”
  Activist and dancer Sheema Kermani led the chanting, evoking the names of a long list of Pakistani Christian individuals and (…)

• Graphic Resource: An expanded BRICS to have more than half of world’s fossil fuels

  25 August 2023

• Russia: Letter From Prison | Boris Kagarlitsky

  25 August 2023

  August 17, 2023
  This is not the first time in my life. I was locked up under Brezhnev, beaten and threatened with death under Yeltsin. And now it’s the second arrest under Putin. Those in power change, but the tradition of putting political opponents behind bars, alas, remains. But the willingness of many people to make sacrifices for their beliefs, for freedom and social rights remains unchanged.
  I think that the current arrest can be considered a recognition of the political (…)

• Art and Socialism | William Morris (1891)

  25 August 2023

  by William Morris
  My friends, I want you to look into the relations of Art to Commerce, using the latter word to express what is generally meant by it; namely, that system of competition in the market which is indeed the only form which most people now-a-days suppose that Commerce can take.
  Now whereas there have been times in the world’s history when Art held the supremacy over Commerce; when Art was a good deal, and Commerce, as we understand the word, was a very little; so now on the (…)

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  Statement on the Rejection of Police Permission for We20 Peoples’ Summit in New Delhi

  25 August 2023

  https://wgonifis.net/2023/08/20/statement-on-the-rejection-of-police-permission-for-we20-peoples-summit-on-day-3/
  Statement on the Rejection of Police Permission for We20 Peoples’ Summit on Day 3
  ON AUGUST 20, 2023
  New Delhi, 20.08.23: The Delhi Police has declined permission to continue the We20 Peoples’ Summit at the HKS Surjit Bhawan this morning through a letter on the Day 3 of the Summit. We are shocked that we need to have “permission” to practice democracy.
  This comes after (…)

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  Stop Repression of Peoples Protest Over Mining Leases Near Niyamgiri to Adani, Vedanta Press Release by All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha

  25 August 2023

  All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha, AIKMS
  Press Note - 20.08.2023 AIKMS condemns bauxite mining leases near Niyamgiri to Adani, Vedanta Condemns detention of AIKMS National Secretary Bhalchandra Shadangi and repression on Adivasis Demands withdrawal of UAPA cases on protesting tribals by BJD govt
  CEC AIKMS condemns the brutal repression and indiscriminate arrest of activists and common people opposing Vedanta and Adani’s proposed mining projects in Kashipur area of Rayagada District.
  CEC (…)

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  Blocking of the website of KashmirWalla & de-activation of social media accounts | EGI Statement

  25 August 2023

  The Editors Guild of India
  PRESS STATEMENT
  August 24, 2023
  The Editors Guild of India is disturbed by the blocking of the website as well as de-activation of social media accounts of the Srinagar-based news website, the KashmirWalla.
  As per the statement released by the KashmirWalla on August 20, 2023, the service providers [of their website], informed them that the website has been, “blocked in India by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under the IT Act, 2000”. (…)

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  An Irish legend Indians will always adore and respect | M R Narayan Swamy

  25 August 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Hero of Kumaon: The Life of Jim Corbett by Duff Hart-Davis
  HarperCollins India Pages: xii + 259; Price: Rs 399
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  It was an Ashoka moment that transformed the legendary Edward James Corbett from a widely-admired hunter of man-eaters in the hills of Kumaon to an ardent conservationist, an avid photographer of wild animals and, finally, as a successful author that fetched him unprecedented international fame.
  Jim, as he was popularly known, had once taken (…)