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• Understanding the Primitive State and Contradictory Narratives of India | Ajay Kumar Mishra

  5 October 2024, by Ajay Kumar Mishra

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  Recognizing and accommodating contradictory narratives within Indian Nationhood is crucial for fostering unity and progress. This essay explores the discourse on anti-nationalism in India through the lens of conflicting narratives. It scrutinizes the state’s prominence against the backdrop of state-individual dichotomies. The analysis of the government’s monopolization over the state seeks to unravel the labelling of pro-regime as national and anti-regime as anti-national. It (…)

• Controversy over Bengal Floods Revives Concerns on Role of Dams | Bharat Dogra

  5 October 2024, by Bharat Dogra

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  Recently on September 20, 2024, the Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which she stated that at least seven districts in Bengal are facing floods because of the

• For Meitei-Kuki Peace in Manipur | Sandeep Pandey

  5 October 2024, by Sandeep Pandey

  The violence which shows no sign of abating in the ongoing Meitei-Kuki conflict in Manipur is a matter of concern. The alienation of the two communities and hatred generated for each other is unprecedented. The Meiteis cannot leave Manipur by road because the next district North on the way to Kohima in Nagaland is Kangpokpi, a Kuki dominated area where the young Kuki men and women are guarding the district borders and would not let any Meitei pass through the national highway. So, any Meitei (…)

• Demands of Ladakhi people —Statement by Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere

  5 October 2024, by S G Vombatkere

  *Statement by Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere (Retd), 30.09.2024*
  Over 200 Ladakhi people of all ages, left Leh on 2nd September 2024, walking in peaceful procession over very difficult high-altitude, mountainous terrain, to reach Delhi on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanthi, 2nd October 2024.
  The purpose of the Ladakhis’ peaceful and disciplined procession led by Shri Sonam Wangchuk, is to express and convey the aspirations and demands of Ladakhi people to the Central Government.
  Their main (…)

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  Letter to the President of India from Concerned Citizens of North-East India

  5 October 2024

  To, Smt. Draupadi Murmu, The Honourable President of India, Rashtrapati Bhavan New Delhi India.
  We, concerned women leaders, human rights activists, peace builders, journalists, community leaders and concerned citizens from North East India are totally outraged and unequivocally condemn the recent dastardly and vicious attack based on trumped up allegations against Babloo Loitongbam[[https://sabrangindia.in/india-human-rights-defender-babloo-loitongbams-house-vandalised-in-manipur] a (…)

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  PUCL condemns the detention of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk & about 150 Ladakhi Padyatris by the Delhi police

  5 October 2024

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  Open Letter to Biden & Harris from American Doctors who served in Gaza

  5 October 2024
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  CPI Welcomes SC Verdict Declaring Caste Discrimination in Prisons

  5 October 2024

  Communist Party of India
  New Delhi,
  October 4, 2024
  Press Release
  CPI Welcomes SC Verdict Declaring Caste Discrimination in Prisons Unconstitutional, Demands Comprehensive Reforms in the Penal Justice System
  D. Raja, General Secretary, Communist Party of India issued today (October 4, 2024) the following statement:
  Supreme Court

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  Subramanian’s Review of Kathmandu Chronicle by Rajan and Thakur

  5 October 2024, by K S Subramanian

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  Kathmandu Chronicle
  Reclaiming India

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  Quinn’s Review of Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism by Jason A. Heppler

  5 October 2024

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
  by Jason A. Heppler
  University of Oklahoma Press
  2024. 224 pp.
  (paper) ISBN 978-0-8061-9374-8
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  Reviewed by Adam Quinn (University of Oregon)