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  On Turmoil in Nepal - Statement by Communist Party Of India (Marxist) | Sept 10, 2025

  13 September 2025

  The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
  On Nepal Turmoil
  The Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its deep anguish over the loss of 20 precious young lives during the GenZ protests in Nepal. These protests reflect the widespread anger stemming from the growing grievances of the people, particularly the youth, against the repeated failures of successive governments to resolve their genuine problems and meet their aspirations. (…)

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  Manipur: What PM cannot achieve, Meitei and Kuki-Zo groups can achieve by talking to each other | Socialist Party of India

  13 September 2025

  Socialist Party (India)
  Website: spi.org.in
  Press Release
  Kuki National Organisation and United Peoples Front, both Kuki-Zo organisations, reached a renegotiated agreement on 4 September 2025, with the Government of India to extend the Suspension of Operations, which was first signed in 2008. As part of this agreement, Kuki militants are required to stay in designated camps and their arms are kept under lock. In return, they get a stipend from the government. The Coordinating Committee (…)

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  Letter from Indian CSOs and Activists Challenging ADB

  13 September 2025

  September 10, 2025
  National Alliance of Anti-Nuclear Movements (NAAM)
  42/27 Esankai Mani Veethy
  Nagercoil 629 002
  Tamil Nadu
  India
  Email: koodankulam[atyahoo.com
  Mobile: +91-98656 83735
  Mr. Masato Kanda, President of the ADB
  Mr. Priyantha Wijayatunga, Senior Director, Energy Sector Office
  ADB Board of Directors
  Asian Development Bank
  6 ADB Avenue
  Mandaluyong
  Metro Manila
  Philippines
  Re: Concerns and Demands of Indian CSOs and Activists Challenging ADB

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  France Rises Up: Nationwide Strikes Against Macron

  13 September 2025

  CPI-ML Liberation statement on France:
  Hundreds of thousands of workers, students, trade unions, and citizens have taken to the streets of France in a massive wave of strikes, marches, and blockades against President Macron

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  Why Haruki Murakami

  13 September 2025, by Disha

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Strange Library
  by Haruki Murakami
  Harvill Secker
  January 1, 2014, ? 88 pages
  ISBN-10: 1846559219
  ISBN-13: 978-1846559211
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  Haruki Murakami

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  A Star of Cochin Port Sounds Wake Up Call for Kerala | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  13 September 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Notes from Willingdon Island: The Past, The Present, and The Future of Cochin Port and its Hinterland
  by N. Ramachandran
  Konark
  Pages: xxvi + 334; Price: Rs 900
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  This is a beautiful and straight-from-the-heart account of the Cochin Port

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  Bliss on Jaffary, ’Abortion in Mexico: A History

  13 September 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Abortion in Mexico: A History
  by Nora E. Jaffary
  University of Nebraska Press
  Series: Engendering Latin America
  2024, 163 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-4021-7
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  Reviewed by Katherine E. Bliss (Global Policy Center, Center for Strategic and International Studies)
  In this new volume, historian Nora E. Jaffary examines how and why legal approaches to abortion in Mexico have changed over time. In particular, she seeks to (…)

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  Caricature: Tribute to Sankarshan Thakur | Jayaraj Vellur

  13 September 2025, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Documentary: The Bhutto Saga or Politics in the Blood (2011) | Arnaud Mandagaran

  13 September 2025

  https://youtu.be/Dio0r94V35M?si=IKOTM_JBMI4dB03u

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  Music: Mean Old Frisco | Eric Clapton (1977)

  13 September 2025

  Play
  Mean Old Frisco by Eric Clapton - Topic https://youtu.be/56o7wNMiYfA?si=eRblNOtVZVwdNe0w