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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

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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

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  Music: Rokia Traore - Kamounke - at Afrikafestival Hertme 2017

  30 August 2025

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  Rokia Traoré - Kamounkè - LIVE at Afrikafestival Hertme 2017 by AfricanMusicFestival https://youtu.be/kW241fVJPuU?si=Wz94-pry9Ix_ffiY

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 34, Aug 23, 2025

  23 August 2025

  * Will Rahul Gandhi succeed in mobilising the public on rigged voter rolls ? | Ajay Gudavarthy
  * Revisiting the Central Pay Commission | Amarbahadur Yadav, Nitish
  * The Paradox of Freedom for Teachers in India

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 23, 2025

  23 August 2025

  Stand up and stop the Bully
  Israel

• Will Rahul Gandhi succeed in mobilising the public on rigged voter rolls robbing Indian democracy? | Ajay Gudavarthy

  23 August 2025

  The response of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to charges of voter list manipulation by Congress party Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi suggests that there may have been massive fraud in the electoral processes.
  Instead of offering a clarification or an investigation into the alleged

• Shriman Satyawadi Amit Shah | Faraz Ahmad

  23 August 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  Shall we call Union Home Minister Amit Shah

• Revisiting the Central Pay Commission: Aspirations, Anxieties, and Accountability | Amarbahadur Yadav, Nitish

  23 August 2025

  Keywords: Central Pay Commission, Eighth Pay Cmmission, Economic Growth, Salary Increase, Allowance
  India has one of the largest central government workforces in the world, which includes the Indian Armed Forces, the Indian Railways, and India Post, among other ministries and departments. India spends about 2 percent of its GDP annually on the emoluments (salaries, allowances, and pensions) of these employees. The Central Pay Commission is responsible for reviewing salary hikes for (…)

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  Tribute to Comrade Sudhakar Reddy by the Communist Party of India (Aug 23, 2025)

  23 August 2025

  Communist Party of India
  Central Office
  New Delhi
  August 23, 2025
  For Favour of Publication
  CPI mourns the passing of our beloved leader and former General Secretary Comrade Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy
  The Communist Party of India bows its red flag in homage to Comrade Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy (25 March 1942