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• Pain and Psychotrauma of Wars | Arun Mitra

  21 June 2025, by Arun Mitra

  June 19, 2025
  Two telephone calls that shook me and are still haunting were that I made to my acquaintances today. I could feel the anguish when I called my friend in Srinagar whose son is studying medicine in Tehran and with whom they are not having easy contact in the present situation. The family is much worried about his welfare but find them-selves helpless. They had not expected Israel

• The Adverse Impact of The New Education Policy (NEP) on Bihar

  21 June 2025, by Badre Alam Khan

  Recently, I attended a one-day programme on,

• The Israel-Iran War: A Tentative Analysis | P. S. Jayaramu

  21 June 2025, by P S Jayaramu

  The hottest and the most unfortunate news in the world today is the Israel-Iran War. The war started with Israel attacking the Iranian nuclear sites on 13th June killing its chief nuclear scientists and some military generals. By all accounts, Israel started the war driven by its central objective of retaining its monopoly over its undeclared nuclear weapons

• The Failure of Indian Diplomacy Post-Operation Sindoor: External Posturing and Internal Evasion | Pallab Sengupta

  21 June 2025

  The brutal terrorist attack in Pahalgam, which claimed innocent lives and shocked the conscience of the nation, drew widespread condemnation and united the Indian people in grief and resolve. In the aftermath of the attack, the Government of India intensified its efforts to expose Pakistan’s continued sponsorship of cross-border terrorism. Building on the momentum of Operation Sindoor, New Delhi launched a high-profile diplomatic offensive aimed at globally isolating Islamabad. An all-party (…)

• The "Ram"ification of Identity Assertion | Disha

  21 June 2025, by Disha

  Abstract
  On the roads of India, something quietly profound is unfolding. The rear windows of vehicles

• Trump heads an ultra-capitalist, hyper-technological, neo-monarchy | Ash Narain Roy

  21 June 2025, by Ash Narain Roy

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• Afghanistan: Structural Violence under Taliban

  21 June 2025

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• Nuclear Options | Tariq Ali

  21 June 2025, by Tariq Ali

  17 June 2025
  The expansion of the war from Palestine to Iran, which began on 13 June, signals an Israeli obsession persisting for four decades. As the Trump administration was negotiating in bad faith with Iran over its nuclear programme, the Israeli regime took advantage of an interval to bomb Tehran, assassinating leading scientists, a senior general and other officials, some of them engaged in the talks. After a few unconvincing denials, Trump admitted that the US had been informed of (…)

• An Attempted Assassination Shocks Colombia | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  21 June 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  The attempted assassination of a popular Colombian Senator (MP), Miguel Uribe, dubbed by one of his friends in India as

• Marxism and Freedom . . . from 1776 until today (published in 1958) | Raya Dunayevskaya

  21 June 2025