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• Vasant-Rajab Exemplary of Communal Harmony in Gujarat | Pandey and Rahman

  7 July 2023, by Sandeep Pandey

  by Sandeep Pandey and Sophia Rahman
  Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi is known for his supreme sacrifice at a young age of 41 years in trying to stop communal violence in Kanpur in 1931, two days after his colleague Bhagat Singh was hanged. He was part of the struggle for freedom both as part of the Congress led movement and with the revolutionary group led by Bhagat Singh and Chandrasekhar Azad. Through his newspaper Pratap he raised issues of common people and became part of struggle (…)

• We are because of the Deer Park – The Deer Park is not because of us! | Jeevesh Gupta

  7 July 2023

  60 acres of green city forest oxygenating a major portion of South Delhi, called the Deer Park, is one of the few left over green belts in Delhi city. The park beholds archaeological monuments from yester era spanning 9-10 centuries along with innumerable variety of trees, birds, insects, deer, ducks, bats, snakes and a beautiful lake supporting 1000s of visitors including daily walkers, artists, sports enthusiasts along with toddlers and young children for whom forest is already a rarity in (…)

• Pakistan pays high price for China corridor | Claude Rakisits

  7 July 2023

  by Claude Rakisits*
  5 July 2023
  The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor promised plenty when it launched. Ten years on, Islamabad faces a sobering reality check of its true cost.
  The ambitious USD$60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which stretches almost 3000km from the port of Gwadar in Pakistan’s rugged southwestern province of Balochistan to Kashgar in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, was launched 10 years ago this July.
  Labelled a “game changer” by its backers, the (…)

• India’s discontent with the SCO | M K Bhadrakumar

  7 July 2023, by M K Bhadrakumar

  July 6, 2023
  The virtual summit meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on July 4 welcomed Iran as its tenth member
  To be out of sync with the contemporary life anywhere at anytime becomes indeed a despairing situation. That was the tragic predicament of the Austrian writer of the inter-war period, Stefan Zweig, who once wrote, “One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others” — alluding to the rising tide of fascism in Europe in the twenties and (…)

• Metamorphosis of the revolutionary intellectual | Issa G. Shivji

  7 July 2023

  by Issa G. Shivji
  Nov 02, 2017
  Revolutionary intellectuals led our liberation movements. They initiated and organised the left and democratic formations. Thugs and mercenaries of imperialism and their hirelings have tortured and murdered revolutionary intellectuals all over the continent. But with Thomas Sankara they continue chanting: “While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.” —The Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture 2017 University of Wits, South Africa (…)

• Khushwant Singh was far-sighted saw fascism rising / Dipankar Gupta’s book of Lockdown | Humra Quraishi

  7 July 2023, by Humra Quraishi

  6 July 2023
  Khushwant Singh was far-sighted. Over 10 years back, before he passed away in 2014, he was worried about — RISE OF FASCISM in the country.
  Khushwant Singh’s worries were several in terms of the political scenario in the country. He would talk and write of the communal poisoning spreading around, and the rise of the fascist forces, spreading fear.
  Khushwant Singh brought to the fore this vital fact: ‘Don’t overlook the fact that before Jinnah had come up with the two-nation (…)

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  Review: Fighting the Left | Matthew A. Hall

  7 July 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Matthew A. Hall (University of California, San Diego)
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  Anti-Leftist Politics in Modern World History: Avoiding "Socialism" at All Costs
  by Philip B. Minehan
  Bloomsbury Academic 2022 - Illustrations. 288 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-17064-3 (paper), ISBN 978-1-350-22979-2
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  When Francisco Franco and other officers rose against the Spanish Republic in July 1936, it was above all the working class that fought the attempted coup d’etat to a (…)

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  Two Photos from Istanbul of 1950s | Ara Güler

  7 July 2023
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  Displaced and Detained – Rohingya in India, a short documentary by The Azadi Project and Refugees International

  7 July 2023

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  Displaced and Detained – Rohingya in India by Refugees International https://youtu.be/1Ol8rlF-J7c

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  Paul Robeson: The singer who fought for justice and paid with his life | ABC News

  7 July 2023

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  Paul Robeson: The singer who fought for justice and paid with his life | Planet America by ABC News (Australia) https://youtu.be/42MzMWjFtXQ