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  Engage Pakistan in dialogue, address the political parties & civil society | Press Release, Socialist Party (India)

  27 April 2025, by Sandeep Pandey

  Socialist Party (India)
  Press Release
  We hope the hubris of Bhartiya Janata Party leadership related to Pakistan on Kashmir would be finally broken with the terrorist attack in Pahalgam. Starting from Narendra Modi

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  Review of Kulkarni’s World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India | Dilip Menon

  27 April 2025

  [blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]
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  World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India: Poetry, Drama, and Print Culture 1790-1890
  by Kedar Arun Kulkarni
  Bloomsbury India, Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd,
  2022
  249 pp.
  ISBN 978-93-5435669-8
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  Reviewed by Dilip Menon (University of Witwatersrand)
  A generation ago, Ganesh Devy, when commencing his degree in literature, was recommended the standard works in English literary criticism as a prior education. This (…)

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  TV movie: Chernobyl - The Final Warning [1991]

  27 April 2025

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  Chernobyl: The Final Warning [1991] by Molly Madchen https://youtu.be/IcbEx4H-bmc?si=DUW5Y9KrKq4U4e78
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  see also:
  Documentary: The Night Chernobyl Reactor 4 Exploded | The Chernobyl Disaster
  https://youtu.be/poaYpTfo5xE?si=XrJh70FAe3KSIL6W

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  Music: London Grammar - Nightcall (Live Looping Harp Cover) | Jemima Phillips

  27 April 2025

  Play
  London Grammar - Nightcall (Live Looping Harp Cover | Jemima Phillips | Live @ The Gateway) by Jemima Phillips https://youtu.be/opklSX3-p88?si=kGc6MRnHfvLZgygh

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 16, Apr 19, 2025

  20 April 2025

  * My Lords, Beware of delay tactics | Faraz Ahmad
  * Do Muslims Need Reservations? Ishrat Husain
  * International Law At Vanishing Point | Vijay Kumar
  * Vargas Llosa loved and loathed Castro

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 19, 2025

  20 April 2025

  Letter to the Readers
  India

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  Tribute: Anil Chaudhary spent a lifetime dedicated to a public cause | Nalini Ranjan Mohanty

  20 April 2025, by Nalini Ranjan Mohanty

  [fond noir][blanc]TRIBUTEblanc]fond noir]
  April 15, 2025
  It was a poignant moment last evening when many of us who knew Anil Chaudhury for more than four decades bade him final good bye at Nigambodh Ghat. Among those who were present to watch his body consigned to flames were friends, family, relatives, and many grassroots activists whom Anil had mentored over the years.
  When I joined the JNU campus, Anil was a visible face as a SFI leader; in fact, he went on to become the General (…)

• My Lords, Beware of delay tactics | Faraz Ahmad

  20 April 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  My Lords, please don

• Innocence Under Oath: The Legality of Child Testimony | Lakshmi Karlekar, Tanishaa Pandey

  20 April 2025

  ABSTRACT
  The legality of child testimony is a critical issue that needs serious attention and therefore demands to strike a balance between sensitivity and legal scrutiny. In serious cases relating to abuse, custody, and violent crimes children often serve as witnesses but questions regarding Their growing minds, unclear memory, and tendency to be influenced by others make it difficult to judge how true their statements are. The Supreme Court in The State of Madhya Pradesh v. Balveer Singh (…)

• Do Muslims Need Reservations? | Ishrat Husain

  20 April 2025

  These days, if an option is put to Muslims to choose between security and reservation in government contracts, what may be their choice? Most probably, safety and security would be preferred first, not the reservation. Parliamentary Affair Minister Kiren Rijiju while slamming the Congress party over the issue of Muslim reservation in Karnataka in the Parliament at the same time the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), under heavy police security and drone surveillance, demolished the home (…)