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Statement Condemns Taliban’s Ban of Female Students from Universities in Afghanistan
On December 20, 2022, the Taliban announced a new edict banning girls from higher education. Women’s Regional Network (WRN) condemn the ban of female students from University Education. This decision of the Taliban against girls and women in Afghanistan demonstrates that the regime deliberately and systematically erases women by implementing gender-apartheid policies. While the (…)
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Statement on Taliban’s Ban of Female Students from Universities in Afghanistan - W R N | Dec 20, 2022
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Text of Statement from Foreign Ministers on Taliban Decision to Ban Women from Universities (Dec 21, 2022)
24 December 2022Statement from Foreign Ministers on Taliban Decision to Ban Women from Universities (21 Dec. 2022)
The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the High Representative for the European Union strongly condemn the Taliban’s recent decisions to ban women from universities, to continue to bar girls from secondary schools, and to impose other harsh restrictions on the ability (…) -
Review: Thøgersen on Gasma’s ’Harbin: A cross-cultural biography’
24 December 2022Reviewed by Stig Thøgersen (Aarhus University)
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Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography
by Mark Gamsa
University of Toronto Press
2022. 394 pp.
ISBN 978-1-4875-4424-9.
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This ambitious book runs along three parallel tracks. It tells the history of the city of Harbin in northeastern China; it gives an account of the life of Baron Roger Budberg, a physician with Russian citizenship who spent most of his life in that city; and it discusses, from several angles, the (…) -
Photo: Diaethria phlogea, the 89’98 butterfly from Colombia
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Trial form of Louise Michel after the repression of the Paris Commune, 11th December 1871
24 December 2022Louise Michel (1830-1905) was a French anarchist, who played a key role in the revolutionary events of the Paris Commune (1871). Following the brutal military repression of the Commune, most of the Communards or leaders of the Paris commune were sentenced to death or were deported to New Caledonia, as was Louise Michel. This document is the original trial form of Louise Michel, which lists her charges before the trial
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Music: Bella Ciao in Persion
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Kalpana (1948) by Uday Shankar
24 December 2022Directed by - Uday Shankar
Starring - Uday Shankar, Amala Shankar, Lakshmi Kanta, Usha Kiran, etc.
Music by - Vishnudas Shirali
Lyrics by - Sumitranandan Pant
Cinematography - K. Ramnoth
Edited by - N. K. Gopal Play
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Table of Contents - Mainstream, VOL 60 No 52, Dec 17, 2022
16 December 2022* Tribute to Gita Ramaswamy | Anand Chakravarti
* Results of 2022 Assembly Elections in Gujarat & Himachal | P Jayaramu
* Crony Capitalism System Perfected | Sandeep Pandey
* How the brain tunes in to unfamiliar voices during sleep | Jakke Tamminen -
Census: What’s the delay?
16 December 2022, by Faraz AhmadGUEST EDITORIAL
One thing one can safely say about Narendra Modi without fearing any contradiction from any quarter is that he despises the past. Not just his past, about which this is not the proper forum to discuss but the Indian nation’s past and I am not talking about the medieval/Mughal past, which no graduate from his alma mater the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) make any bones about acknowledging. But the past of modern India, or rather independent India. And so he is determined (…) -
A Personal Tribute to Gita Ramaswamy Based on Reading Her Book, ’Land Guns Caste Woman: The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary’ | Anand Chakravarti
16 December 2022, by Anand Chakravartiby Anand Chakravarti
Introduction: Why Am I Writing This Piece?
Fundamentally, it is an exercise in self-criticism because it charts the politics of a person who devoted a part of her life to serving the marginalized — which I also aspired to do, but failed. Gita Ramaswamy’s book, by presenting a model of selfless work and the inherent challenges, shows that it requires exceptional commitment to bridge the gulf that separates noble aspirations from the practise of a mode of existence (…)