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• Priyanka is yet to motivate her leaders to stand by the poor and Dalits of Uttar Pradesh | Arun Srivastava

  15 October 2021

  by Arun Srivastava
  Priyanka Gandhi is using all her might to rejuvenate the party rank and file and make them to take the BJP head on. During recent years Priyanka has built strong case against the Yogi government but ironically the state leaders of the party have miserably failed to take the struggles to its logical end and establish a strong connect with Dalits and harijans, those who really matter in UP politics. People recall how the victims of Sonbhadra, where tribal people were (…)

• Climate Change and Dormant Viruses | Pavittarbir Singh Saggu

  15 October 2021

  by Pavittarbir Singh Saggu*
  Because of climate change, permafrost is thawing, releasing viruses and bacteria that have been dormant for thousands of years, posing potentially catastrophic risks to humans and ecosystems.
  When a strange illness struck the Siberian tundra during the 2016 summer heatwave, a group of reindeer herders became ill and it also caused the loss of 2500 reindeer as well as a 12-year-old boy. Siberian plague, which was last seen in 1941 in the region, was thought to (…)

• Awarding a Writer in Exile | Arup Kumar Sen

  15 October 2021, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 was awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents” (Nobel Committee citation). So far, he has published ten novels and a number of short stories.
  Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in Zanzibar, East Africa, in 1948, moved to England as a refugee in the 1960s and got settled there. According to the Guardian, Gurnah left (…)

• Rehabilitating the Mahatma | Sukumaran C.V.

  15 October 2021, by Sukumaran C.V.

  Gandhi’s moral idealism, informed by political realism, hoped for a world order without war....This was the key difference between the state as envisaged by Gandhi and the one conceptualized by everyone else, including his disciple Jawaharlal Nehru.—The authors of The Murderer, the Monarch and the Fakir.
  ’Had Gandhi not been killed in 1948, had he been alive atleast for five more years,’ I have often used to think, ’India would not have remained a country of rampant inequalities.’
  The (…)

• Gandhi vs. Ambedkar Debates and Search for Real Swaraj | Badre Alam Khan

  15 October 2021, by Badre Alam Khan

  To celebrate 152 Jayanti of Mahatma Gandhi, on the one hand, most of the political parties from the Left to Right (barring a section of Ambedkarites) including secular parties are busy in celebrating Gandhi’s Jayanti with much compassion and commitment. In this respect, civil society and public intellectuals have written several articles in the newspapers and posted messages on social media to express their tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on said occasion. On the other, a section of Hindu (…)

• Nah, I am not going to wait till 10 December, World Human Rights Day. . . | Humra Quraishi

  15 October 2021, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  13 October 2021
  Nah, I am not going to wait till 10 December, World Human Rights Day, to detail the horrific human rights violations ongoing here, in our country, in these current times. Where the actual or the official killers are seldom caught and nailed. It’s the unofficial ones and those labeled ‘sympathizers’ who get hounded and harassed to such an extent that they sit ruined for generations to come.
  Mind you, the prime accused killer in the Lakhimpur Kheri killings (…)

• Shakti Sinha: A liberal man in Saffron Clothes leaves the Public Domain | Gautam Sen

  15 October 2021

  by Gautam Sen *
  Obituary of a Public Figure who could be Friend to Many
  Shakti Sinha went away unobtrusively on 4th October 2021 plus. After living a life of 64 years plus, full of zest and involvement in affairs of the state, of his friends and acquaintances, and in myriad facets of public life, Shaktiji left for the eternal world. I still remember 11th May 1998, a young virtually college lecturer-like person - actually then Joint Secretary in Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s (…)

• 50 Years of Anand — The Film Which Underlined the Purpose of Human Life in Taking Happiness to Others | Bharat Dogra

  15 October 2021, by Bharat Dogra

  Fulfillment of human life is in utilising many small and big opportunities in daily life to take happiness to others. The supreme fulfillment is in the ability to achieve this even when faced with much personal distress.
  This is the most noble message which the famous Hindi film Anand took to millions of admiring film-viewers in 1971. In the 50 years since this, the admiration for this iconic film and its message has only grown. This film has been included in several listings of ‘must see’ (…)

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  Lust and Murder Most Foul | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  15 October 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Murder on the Menu: The Sensational Story of the Tycoon who Founded Saravana Bhavan
  by Nirupama Subramanian
  Juggernaut
  2021 Pages: 190; Price: Rs 499
  ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9391165303 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9391165307 __0__
  It is difficult to believe this actually happened in our times; not in the Chambal but in Tamil Nadu. The outlines of a murder the founder of the iconic Saravana Bhavan chain of restaurants ordered because he wanted to marry the victim’s wife is known. What ace journalist (…)

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  Marina Cardozo. Review of Giannattasio, Valerio, Il fascismo nella Banda Oriental

  15 October 2021

  Reviewed by Marina Cardozo (Universdad de la República, Uruguay)
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  Il fascismo nella Banda Oriental
  Valerio Giannattasio
  Rome: Edizioni Nuova Cultura
  2020. 292 pp.
  EUR 28.00 (paper)
  ISBN 978-88-336-5318-1
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  Fascism in Uruguay
  This innovative volume reconstructs twenty years of Italian-Uruguayan relations, with special attention given to the fascist penetration in Uruguay, through channels of diplomacy, the press, and a network of Italian Fasci in the South (…)