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• Status of Science Communication in India | Govind Bhattacharjee

  30 August 2025

  Abstract: A country aspiring to be Vishaguru needs not only to invest in science, technology and artificial intelligence but to create a culture in which common people

• Glass Ceiling Breakthroughs and Glass Cliff Risks in the Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA) Leadership and Kerala

  30 August 2025, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract
  The emergence of women in leadership roles within the Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA) represents a potentially promising development. However, the extent to which this shift contributes to addressing the broader gender paradox in Kerala remains contingent upon whether these changes are merely symbolic or reflect substantive structural transformation. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the recent AMMA elections and the rise of women leaders within the (…)

• Text of Nikita Khrushchev’s secret speech to Twentieth Party Congress of the CPSU, February 25, 1956

  30 August 2025

  Secret Speech delivered First Party Secretary before a closed plenum at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, February 25, 1956
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  Comrades, in the report of the Central Committee of the party at the 20th Congress, in a number of speeches by delegates to the Congress, as also formerly during the plenary CC/CPSU sessions, quite a lot has been said about the cult of the individual and about its harmful consequences...
  Allow me first of all to remind (…)

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  Joint Left appeal for Vice Presidential candidate Justice B Sudarshan Reddy

  30 August 2025

  AUGUST 29, 2025
  The Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Revolutionary Socialist Party and All India Forward Bloc, jointly issue the following appeal on the Vice Presidential election:
  We, the Left parties, endorse the candidature of Justice Sudershan Reddy (Retd.), who is contesting the election on behalf of all the opposition parties. Justice Sudershan Reddy is an eminent jurist, widely respected for his (…)

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  PUCL responds to the Manipur MP’s concerns over Report of independent People

  30 August 2025

  PEOPLE

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  All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) strongly condemns the BJP-led attacks and personal humiliation of Dr. Syeda Hameed,

  30 August 2025

  All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS)
  AIKS Press Release: New Delhi
  Date 27 August 2025
  The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) strongly condemns the BJP-led attacks and personal humiliation of Dr. Syeda Hameed, former Planning Commission member, Padma Shri recipient, and National President of the National Federation of Indian Women. Dr. Hameed, from a family with a distinguished freedom movement background, participated in a fact-finding delegation to Assam to assess eviction drives, citizenship (…)

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  Fiji’s Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, referred to the International Criminal Court

  30 August 2025

  Press Statement
  25 August 2025
  Fiji’s Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, referred to the International Criminal Court for Crimes Against Humanity.
  A new Fijian non-governmental group calling itself the Affected Group of Citizens of Fiji (AGCF) has reported the Prime Minister of Fiji, who was the first coup instigator in 1987, to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against the Rome Statute. Fiji is a signatory to the Rome Statute.
  The (…)

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  Testimony Against Silence: Knife by Salman Rushdie and the Dark Mirror to India’s Present | Ismail Salahuddin

  30 August 2025, by Ismail Salahuddin

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
  by Salman Rushdie
  Random House
  2024
  ISBN 10: 0593730240
  ISBN 13: 9780593730249
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  There are books that explain, books that imagine, and books that dare. But every once in a while, a book comes along that refuses to be just a book, it becomes a cry, a wound, a reckoning. Salman Rushdie

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  When America rained horror on Japan

  30 August 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb and the Fateful Decision to Use It
  by Iain MacGrego
  Constable/Great Britain (Hachette India)
  2025
  ISBN-10: ?1408719517 / Pages: 429; Price: Rs 799
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  It was finally left to a crusading American journalist to puncture Washington

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  Video: 2023 Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture by Isabella Hammad

  30 August 2025

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  Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture: Isabella Hammad by SOFHeyman https://youtu.be/XYZu0MYau3g?si=0hxBtLHFbZ8Hw3e0