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From Plight to Solution: Tackling Mumbai’s Infrastructure Woes | S. N. Tripathy
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Chinese Communist Party branches out into private businesses | Jerome Doyon
12 August 202311 August 2023
The increased penetration of the private sector by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is causing widespread concern. The establishment of party branches within private companies is perceived as a potential lever of control, alongside financial and regulatory tools, that the government could wield to keep businesses in line. But while the increasing centrality of the CCP in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is evident, its role in private companies remains less obvious. (…) -
Women authors, Partition stories, and shared histories | Sara Arshad
12 August 2023August 12, 2023
As India and Pakistan mark 76 years of independence from British rule and simultaneous Partition, a look at the intertwined stories and work of three young women oral historians from the region
Well into her PhD studies on the medieval history of English literature at Cambridge University, Ananya Jahanara Kabir began wondering what exactly she was doing with her life. Then in 1997, the 50th year of the partition of India and Pakistan nudged her into an area she hadn’t (…) -
Colombian Left Wing Govt’s First Year Is Marked By Measures For Social Justice | Laura Capote
12 August 2023by Laura Capote
(India Press Agency - August 12, 2023)
This month August marked the first year of the first progressive government in Colombia’s history. In this short time, the government has proven its commitment to defend its victory at the polls. The Colombian people have also affirmed their will to enact radical change that brings the country closer, in the terms of the National Development Plan presented by Gustavo Petro, to being a “world power of life.”
Domestic, regional, and (…) -
Statement on Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023 | Editors Guild of India
12 August 2023The Editors Guild of India
PRESS STATEMENT
EGI Statement on Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023
August 6, 2023
The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned with some of the draconian provisions in the Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023, which was introduced in the Rajya Sabha by the Hon’ble Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Mr. Anurag Thakur, and is meant to replace the existing Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 (PRB).
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Haryana Violence: hatred being created, mass migration being forced - CPI Press release
12 August 2023Communist Party of India
Date: 06 August 2023
Press Release
Ground reality revealed after the visit of CPI delegation in violent Haryana; hatred is being created, mass migration is being forced
CPI delegation visits Haryana’s violence affected areas and interactions with various sections revealed dangerous levels of polarization and hatred in the region. CPI delegation visited violent Gurugram and Noh districts of Haryana on 06 August 2023. The delegation felt that intentionally (…) -
Statement by PUCL Maharashtra over Multiple Murders by RPF constable Chetan Singh!
12 August 2023PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES PUCL Maharashtra State Unit President: Mihir Desai; General Secretary: Lara Jesani; Treasurer: Alex D’Mello Committee Members: Ammu Abraham, Dolphy D’souza, Ramesh Awasthi, Sandhya Gokhale Email: pucl.maharashtra[at]gmail.com
August 7, 2023
PUCL MAHARASHTRA STATEMENT ON THE MULTIPLE MURDERS BY RPF CONSTABLE CHETAN SINGH OF HIS SUPERIOR OFFICER AND THREE MUSLIM PASSENGERS WHILE ON DUTY ONBOARD THE JAIPUR-MUMBAI CENTRAL EXPRESS ON JULY 31, 2023
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Mughal Kings who Promoted Sanskrit, Hindu Epics | M.R. Narayan Swamy
12 August 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court
by Audrey Truschke
Penguin Books Mar/2016 Pages: xiv + 362; Price: Rs 450 ISBN: 9780143428909
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It is not without reason that Emperor Akbar (who ruled from 1556 to 1605) was always described as Akbar the Great – till Hindutva ideologues decided that popular admiration for him should go and he must be seen as another Muslim king who Hindu-majority India would have probably preferred to do without. (…) -
Review of Electrifying Mexico by Diana J. Montaño | Jaclyn A. Sumner
12 August 2023BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Jaclyn A. Sumner (Presbyterian College)
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Electrifying Mexico:
Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City
by Diana J. Montaño
University of Texas Press 2021. Illustrations. xiv + 373 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4773-2345-8
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In Electrifying Mexico, Diana J. Montaño examines how government officials, engineers, citizens, and others worked to illuminate and power up Mexico City, the nation’s capital and emblem of progress. Montaño’s book is (…) -
Caricature: Tribute to Gaddar | Jayaraj Vellur
12 August 2023, by Jayaraj Vellur