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• Music, lyrics, and magic

  20 September 2025

  Music is food for the soul. I, like all music enthusiasts and connoisseurs, have always had a song to justify my moods and situations. But it is seldom that a song, and particularly its lyrics, leaves a lasting impact on you. One such song was and is

• Inter-Disciplinary Study Module: Shifting Meanings Of

  20 September 2025, by Sunita Samal

  Abstract: As art of political economy gave place to the science of economic an inevitable disadvantage with those who sought for the easily mastered rules of an art which professed to teach them

• The Bomb as Message: Politics, Motive, and the Language of Resistance | Harish Jain

  20 September 2025

  The below article appears to mark Shaheed Bhagat Singh

• Kirk loathed some fellow humans; Karma caught up with him | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  20 September 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  It is not widely known that more than 1,000 students of the Utah Valley University in the US signed a petition weeks earlier to have the Charlie Kirk event cancelled on the campus due to the hateful and divisive rhetoric he routinely unleashed, dividing human beings into superior and inferior race.
  Unfortunately, the request was not heeded. Had it been, it is possible the 31-year-old white supremacist may not have been shot dead while speaking with his usual cocky arrogance to students on (…)

• Nepal: The Failure of Refurbished Stalinism and Maoism, the Attempts by Hindutva and Imperialism | Kunal Chattopadhyay

  20 September 2025

  Nepal has been in the news. Gen Z agitators, who began agitations following a ban on several social media platforms, actually had roots in public anger at corruption and display of wealth by government figures and their families, and complaints about mismanagement of public funds. This is hardly the full story, which needs to be discussed at length. What is significant however, is that these agitations come after a protracted period of government by various parties and Prime Ministers (…)

• The Forgotten Hostages of Palestine | Abdullah Abu Shawesh

  20 September 2025

  The role of media has always been far more than reporting facts

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  AIKS on Punjab Floods | Sept 15 2025

  20 September 2025

  All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS)
  Press Release
  New Delhi, 14 September, 2025: A high-level fact-finding team of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has observed deliberate and reckless mismanagement of major dams that directly amplified the devastating floods in Punjab, transforming a natural weather event into a preventable, man-made catastrophe. AIKS holds the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB), under the BJP-led Union Government, and the AAP-led Punjab Government’s water management (…)

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  Letter from CPI (ML) Liberation MP Regarding Arrests of African Refugees in New Delhi

  20 September 2025

  RAJA RAM SINGH’ Member: Standing Committee on Labour, Textiles and Skill Development Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Jal Shakt
  Member of Parliament Lok Sabha (Karakat, Bihar) Floor Leader, CPI (ML) Liberation Parliamentary Group
  Ref no: CPIML/PO/RS/0925/19/01
  To, Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister, 7, Lok Kalyan MargJ New Delhi -110011
  Date: 19/09/2025
  Subject: Arrests of African Refugees in New Delhi
  I am writing to draw your urgent attention to the recent (…)

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  Editors Guild Letter To Chief Minister of Andhara Pradesh About Treatment of the Press by the police

  20 September 2025

  The Editor’s Guild of India
  Address: 4/7- A, INS Building, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001
  September 19, 2025
  Sri Nara Chandrababu Naidu Hon

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  Review of Chakravartty’s Coming Out of Partition: Refugee Women of Bengal | Deepti Priya Mehrotra

  20 September 2025, by Deepti Priya Mehrotra

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Coming Out of Partition:
  Refugee Women of Bengal
  by Gargi Chakravartty
  Tulika Books
  2025
  196 pages
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  Review by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
  Gargi Chakravartty chronicles the experiences of refugee women in West Bengal, post-Partition, describing travails, but even more the courage and resourcefulness with which they rebuilt lives, homes and identities. This is a significant contribution, not least because refugee women