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• Books, Films and Assassinations: The Kukunoor film a Reality Check | Papri Sen Sri Raman

  12 July 2025, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  FILMS AND BOOKS are an average educated person

• Secularism and Socialism in Constitution

  12 July 2025, by Ram Puniyani

  The RSS General Secretary, Dattatray Hosabale, second in the RSS leadership hierarchy, on the eve of imposition of Emergency in 1975; stated that it was during the emergency that words Secularism and socialism were inserted in the preamble of Indian Constitution. And that these words were not there in the original preamble of the Constitution drafted by Dr. Ambedkar; so they should be removed.
  This is not the first time that such a demand was raised from Hindutva quarters. When the BJP (…)

• Is

  12 July 2025, by Arup Maharatna

  Even the most patriotic citizens would seriously hesitate to disagree that India is perennially

• Russia is paying schoolgirls to have babies. Why is pronatalism on the rise around the world? | Jennifer Mathers

  12 July 2025

  July 4, 2025
  In some parts of Russia, schoolgirls [1] who become pregnant are being paid more than 100,000 roubles (nearly

• Chomsky in India | Jean Dreze

  12 July 2025, by Jean Dreze

  Sometime around 1991 I wrote to Noam Chomsky and invited him to give a few lectures in India. It felt like wishful thinking

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  Letter from Concerned scientists to India’s Minister of Agriculture regarding on future of International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources

  12 July 2025

  Date: July 8, 2025
  To:
  Sri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India
  Subject - Urgent need for Indian intervention on the proposals on the future of genetic resources in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)
  The 14th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group of ITPGRFA contracting parties is taking place from 7-11 July in Lima, Peru. The specific focus of this meeting is to expand the scope (…)

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  Trump Marries Republican Politics to Authoritarianism | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  12 July 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Democracy Awakening:
  Notes on the State of America
  by Heather Cox Richardson
  W H Allen/Penguin Random House
  2024
  Pages: xvii + 286, ISBN-10 ? : ? 0593652983
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  Is Donald Trump mad? Yes and no.
  It is easy

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  Review of Panter-Brick’s Gandhi and the Middle East | Vedh P. Siv

  12 July 2025

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  Gandhi and the Middle East
  Jews, Arabs and Imperial Interests
  by Simone Panter-Brick
  I.B. Tauris
  First Edition, Jan 2015
  ISBN 9781784530228
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  02 May 2025
  Introduction
  When India attained its independence in 1947, the nation was principled on two ideas --- peace and non-violence, for both, the nation and its people. These ideas were inspired from Mahatma Gandhi, one among the greatest freedom fighters and the Father (…)

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  Review of Singh’s My Tributes to Socialist Leaders | Harish Sharma

  12 July 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  My Tributes to Socialist Leaders by Prem Singh
  Foreword by Ravela Somayya, Dr. A. Raghu Kumar
  Southern Springs Publishers (under the auspices of Rammanohar Lohia Samata Nyas), Hyderabad ISBN:978-81-962788-1-6 pp. 125, Price Rs 250
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  It has rightly been asserted that the socialist tradition in India deserves a place in the narrative in the making of modern India. This assertion is made in the context of the contribution (…)

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  Photos: From a Mexico wall mural in solidarity with Palestinians

  12 July 2025