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• Remembering Rani Gaidinliu: Tribal Woman Freedom Fighter from Northeast India | Ajailiu Niumai

  4 February 2022

  by Ajailiu Niumai *
  January 26, 2022 marked the 73rd Republic Day of India and also marking 107th birth anniversary of Rani Gaidinliu, North East India’s tribal woman freedom fighter who was born in 1915 at Nungkao village, Tousem sub-division, Tamenglong District, Manipur. I had an opportunity to have met her as a young girl during the 1980s at Tamei, Tamenglong district, Manipur when she visited. My late grandmother Mrs. Ajonliu Niumai used to be her ardent follower until she converted (…)

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  NFIW on Union Budget 2022-2023 - Preliminary response

  4 February 2022

  Press release [Feb 1, 2022]
  The National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) expresses its disappointment that the Union Budget 2022-23 does not reflect the existing socio-economic reality of our country. It is a budget for increased Corporate profit in the name of development and at the cost of people.
  It is unacceptable that the NDA government headed by BJP considers women only as tools for electoral politics and not as citizens who contribute equally in Nation building. This is (…)

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  Ignoring health in the budget as utter disappointment - Statement by IDPD Feb 1, 2022

  4 February 2022

  Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD)
  Date: 01.02.2022
  IDPD terms ignoring health in the budget as utter disappointment
  The Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) as termed the annual budget as total disappointment from the point of view of health budget. Dr S S Soodan President, Dr Arun Mitra Sr Vice President and Dr Shakeel Ur Rahman Gen Secy said that not a single word has been mentioned about increasing the expenditure on health in her long speech today. The (…)

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  Text of Statement by Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races | Jan 3, 2022

  4 February 2022

  The White House
  Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races
  January 03, 2022
  The People’s Republic of China, the French Republic, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America consider the avoidance of war between Nuclear-Weapon States and the reduction of strategic risks as our foremost responsibilities.
  We affirm that a nuclear war cannot be (…)

• Hindutva is European Fascism at work in India | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  4 February 2022

  by Bhabani Shankar Nayak *
  The Hindutva draws its ideological inspiration from the European fascist organisations like the National Fascist Party/Republican Fascist Party in Italy and the Italian Social Republic under Benito Mussolini, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party) in Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler, The Fatherland Front in Austria under Engelbert Dollfuss and Kurt Schuschnigg, the National Union in Portugal under António de Oliveira Salazar and Marcelo Caetano, (…)

• Caught in the everyday rut | Kangkana Shivam

  4 February 2022

  by Kangkana Shivam
  January 24, 2022
  This article explores the living realities of modern societies and the hypocrisy’s that we have routinely accepted and adopted in our lifestyle patterns. Do we need rectification? ... I leave it to the wider audience…
  Plot 1: Cogs in a Standardised system!
  Sipping on a hot cup of cappuccino in her routinized 15-minute coffee-break, Nisha just like any other day was staring outside her 27th-floor office window. Two small children, carefree about (…)

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  Cartoon: State Bank of India withdraws rule against pregnant women | Jayaraj Vellur

  4 February 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur

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  [SEE RELATED REPORT: SBI withdraws controversial circular on pregnant women candidates ]

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  Illustration: Darling Spring Has Sprung | Michael Leunig (Sept 6, 2016)

  4 February 2022
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  Review of Miguel La Serna. With Masses and Arms: Peru’s Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement

  4 February 2022

  Reviewed by Brenda Rupar (Universidad de Buenos Aires) on H-LatAm (January, 2022)
  With Masses and Arms: Peru’s Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
  by Miguel La Serna
  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
  2020 | 288 pp
  ISBN 978-1-4696-5597-0.
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  In 1997, TVs worldwide transmitted the images of an armed group besieging the Japanese embassy in Peru with a degree of spectacle and horror. In its last days, the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento (…)

• Nepal Uprising Against the Ranas: GB Yakthumba - Valour Unlimited | Mandeep Lama

  4 February 2022

  by Mandeep Lama
  We conclude the story of unerring vision, despite some hiccups on the way, and the ‘stop-me-if-you-can’ daring of Yakthumba, who even got two cannons and an armoured vehicle innovatively structured in the war field itself, to get rid of the terrible Ranas of Nepal [See Part 1 here]
  (Part 2)
  Attack On Birgunj
  The three Commanders, Yakthumba, Malla, and Gurung, had prepared a foolproof sort of plan for attacking the National Army barracks in Birgunj. They would attack (…)