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• Women of Afghanistan | Badri Raina

  27 August 2021, by Badri Raina

  August 24, 2021
  Listening to you,
  How my male genius is rebuked
  By your brilliance,
  Women of Afghanistan;
  And how ignorant and frightened
  Those that call themselves Taliban.
  Can it be God’s will that
  Such imbeciles have rule
  Over your lives?
  Have they no regard for the
  Excellence of the Prophet’s wives?
  Finding no other route to dominance,
  They use Islam of their distortion;
  What life have they without
  Women who bore them for son?
  How hollow then is their boast
  Of being (…)

• An Afghan Woman Speaks | Sagari Chhabra

  27 August 2021, by Sagari Chhabra

  Long years ago, the British ruled, They declared: ‘the sun never sets on our Empire’, But when they left, they set off such a fire, Over a million people perished in that ire. The Partition was South Asia’s Holocaust, Yet no one asked, While our children lay asleep, That history is to do a repeat, For the blood of natives runs so cheap. You have abandoned us again; After holding the controls for over a decade, You flee in choppers across the glade; The airport is overrun By people desperate (…)

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  Music: ’Memu Choostamu’ - Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s ’Hum Dekhenge’ sung in Telugu

  27 August 2021

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  Memu Choostamu by Unmasked Productions https://youtu.be/IK41IXSzTfY
  Lyrics: Madhoo
  Special thanks to Khadar Mohiuddeen, Surendra Raju Ambati, Vemana Vasantha Lakshmi and Zulfiqar Ahmad for their inputs.
  Music Arrangement and Production: Nirvan
  Lead Vocalists: Sagari R Ramdas, Charanya
  Background Vocalist: Karina Del Mar
  Recording Engineer: Khordad Edulji
  Recorded at: Le Bijou Studio, Hyderabad
  Editors: Aman Bhatia and Kashif Ali
  Director: Charanya (…)

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  Music: L. Subramaniam, Jean Luc Ponty, Billy Cobham

  27 August 2021

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  Dr. L. Subramaniam, Jean Luc Ponty, Billy Cobham by Bindu Subramaniam https://youtu.be/ytrU587-C50

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  A Documentary Film on How the Muslim-Christian divide killed Lebanon’s golden age of basketball

  27 August 2021

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  🇱🇧 How the Muslim-Christian divide killed Lebanon’s golden age of basketball | Al Jazeera World by Al Jazeera English https://youtu.be/YAcLLY5_TDo

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  Indian Muslims must reject the ‘Islamic Emirate’ in Afghanistan: IMSD

  27 August 2021

  Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD)
  August 23, 2021
  Press release:
  Indian Muslims must reject the ‘Islamic Emirate’ in Afghanistan: IMSD
  Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) rejects the very idea of a theocratic state anywhere in the world. It therefore questions the legitimacy of the “Islamic Emirate” the Taliban seek to impose on the war-torn, war-weary people of Afghanistan who are yearning for peace.
  We are deeply disturbed by the euphoria evident among a section (…)

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  Support Women In Afghanistan And Oppose Imperialism - Statement by AIDWA Aug 20, 2021

  27 August 2021

  All India Democratic Women’s Association 2253-E, Shadi Khampur, New Ranjit Nagar, New Delhi – 110008 Phone: 011-25700476, 25709565 Email: aidwacec[at]gmail.com Website: aidwaonline.org
  Date: 20 August, 2021
  Support Women In Afghanistan And Oppose Imperialism
  The AIDWA sees the recent developments in Afghanistan as a major betrayal of its people by the coalition led by US Imperialism active in the geo-politics of the region for several decades. Developments in the aftermath of (…)

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  Disastrous National Monetisation Continues: CPI

  27 August 2021

  Communist Party of India Central office: Ajoy Bhawan 15, Com. Indrajit Gupta Marg, New Delhi - 110002 cpiofindia[at]gmail.com website: communistparty.in
  August 26, 2021
  Press Release
  D. RAJA, General Secretary, Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on August 26, 2021):
  Communist Party of India disapproves and deplores the New Monetization Policy of the Union government.
  The Finance Minister has launched the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP). It comprises (…)

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 21, 2021

  20 August 2021

  * Coronacapitalism: Reverse the Reset [Part A] | Kobad Ghandy
  * Taliban says it will respect women. But we Iranians have seen this movie before | Masih Alinejad
  * Malala: I Survived the Taliban, I Fear for My Afghan Sisters
  * Sudha Bharadwaj Speaks | Arup Kumar Sen

• Open the doors to all Afghans

  20 August 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 21, 2021
  As we marked the 75th Independence Day of India on August 15, 2021, there was a dramatic development in our neighbourhood. The war-hardened Taliban fundamentalists moved into Kabul and took control of the seats of power in Afghanistan. The prospect of this happening had long been in the air ever since American President Donald Trump had announced the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. While over the past year the American (…)