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• Seeking A Way | Sagari Chhabra

  17 May 2025, by Sagari Chhabra

  They walked into a meadow
  blossoming with flowers,
  asking tourists their religion;
  separating them
  they shot the newly-weds,
  transmuting sindoor into blood
  as the earth shrivelled
  into a terrified flood,
  of entrenched corpses.
  The chinar trees bent and wept
  as the pony man leapt
  to save them, instead
  he was shot in the head.
  It

• India

  17 May 2025, by Gopal Krishna

• What Monarchy

  17 May 2025

  The wheel of history turns, but in Nepal, it is turning very rapidly. Thousands of people are back on the streets demanding the return of 77-year-old former king, Gyanendra. The roads are filled with people, tear gas, clashes, and curfews are common. Hundreds have been detained, yet protests continue. Reports of two deaths have emerged. It

• Statesmanship, not rhetoric, is the need of the hour: Prime Minister

  17 May 2025

  War brings misery and deaths.

• Obituary: The Death Of Joseph Nye Sounds Requiem For Soft Power | Vijay Kumar

  17 May 2025, by Vijay Kumar

  Like Life, the trajectory of history, too, cannot be wholly immune from irony. Joseph Samuel Nye, the distinguished Political Scientist and Professor Emeritus of Harvard University, who propounded the concept of

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  Joint Statement from a Platform of India’s Labour Movement (May 15, 2025)

  17 May 2025

  Press release
  The following joint statement was issued to the press after meeting of the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent Sectoral Federations/Associations on 15th May 2025
  The Platform of Central Trade Unions defers Nation-wide General Strike to 9th July, 2025
  The meeting of the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent Sectoral Federations/Associations was held on 15th May 2025 in New Delhi to review the preparatory activities for the countrywide (…)

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  Feminists from India and Pakistan Issue Urgent Call for Peace and Dialogue | May 15, 2025 — Press Release

  17 May 2025

  PRESS RELEASE
  Feminists from India and Pakistan Issue Urgent Call for Peace and Dialogue

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  A Gripping Saga of India

  17 May 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  The Scam That Shook a Nation: The Nagarwala Scandal
  by Prakash Patra, Rasheed Kidwai
  HarperCollins India
  Pages: xi + 263; Price: Rs 399
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  It is a story that has been told, literally, a million times. But when Prakash Patra and Rahseed Kidwai, two extremely capable journalists, recap the story with their penchant for thorough research, it becomes a book you just cannot put down.
  The sensational incident which the book (…)

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  Caricature: Tribute to Jose Mojica (former President of Uruguay) | Jayaraj Vellur

  17 May 2025, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Video: The ecological face of the commune form | Kristin Ross

  17 May 2025

  Play
  The ecological face of the commune form by LSE Sociology https://youtu.be/NnYQGv6tc7Y?si=CyDHA-YFAoOzjmrg
  Professor Kristin Ross delivered the Department of Sociology and LSE Human Rights Annual Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity lecture in March 2025. The lecture was based on her new book, The Commune Form