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• Still a Queen Without a Crown | Ankita

  7 June 2025

  The discussion on gender inequality has always been a never-ending topic. Although technology has advanced across various fields, with the rise of service sectors and the AI generation reaching its peak, there is still a wide gap between the two genders. I am referring to the gap in opportunities provided and the power of control over decision-making. Power is still largely vested in the hands of men. This essay argues that in both domestic and public life, women’s autonomy is undermined by (…)

• Decode the Menstrual Taboos | Richa Walia

  7 June 2025

  Every 28 May, we observe

• Participatory Museology: Museums Engaging with the Future | Prashant Khattri, Keyoor Pathak

  7 June 2025

  Life resonates even from lifeless objects, hence museums are much more than just collection of

• Statistics & Starvation: Expose the Myth of Modi

  7 June 2025, by D Raja

  India is being paraded on global and national platforms as the world

• India out of work: Unemployed youth become

  7 June 2025

  May 21, 2025
  About 28 million unemployed educated youth in India are looking for jobs. And about 100 million, mostly women, have stopped looking for jobs.
  by Santosh Mehrotra
  The employment rate, or the share of the working-age and youth population finding work [1], is falling in India.
  Our own study, based on an Indian government agency data [2], however, shows, that this is not the case.
  However, that is because of its definitions of what is

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  Statement against arbitrary crackdown and to push out Bangladeshis | May 30, 2025

  7 June 2025

  We, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), a human rights organization working for decades to monitor the India

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  Civil Society statement in solidarity with Siang Indigenous Farmers

  7 June 2025

  30.05.2025
  Media Release: All India Solidarity with Siang Indigenous Farmers

• Joint Statement by Left Parties to Observe National Day of Solidarity with Palestine

  7 June 2025

  Communist Party of India
  Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  Communist Party of India (ML)-Liberation
  Revolutionary Socialist Party
  All India Forward Bloc
  June 10, 2025
  Press Release
  The Left parties

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  Appeal to Govts. from International media & press freedom bodies for access to Gaza

  7 June 2025

  "We, the undersigned, call for immediate, independent, and unrestricted international media access to Gaza and for full protection of journalists who continue to report under siege. For 20 months, the Israeli authorities have refused to grant journalists outside of Gaza independent access to the Palestinian territory

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  Dissecting a Dictator amid Western Hypocrisy | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  7 June 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution
  by Lindsey Hilsum
  Faber and Faber
  Pages: xxi + 228; Price: Rs 599
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  That Muammar Gaddafi suffered a horrible death at the hands of some of those he had tormented for decades is no news. That he, his family as well as cronies bled Libya during the 42 years that he presided over the country is also known. What makes award-winning journalist Lindsey Hilsum