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• Will there be a successful deal between US and Iran to end this war? | Faraz Ahmad

  10 April, by Faraz Ahmad

  There can be no deal to end the Iran war, started by the Zionist Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his puppet the President of the United States of America (USA) Donald Trump, hugely deficient in the ordinary intelligence quotient, much as Trump seems desperate to end it, because his puppeteer Bibi is in no mood to relent, notwithstanding the devastation of Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities, the Tel Aviv International Airport, the Mossad headquarters and civilian casualties. (…)

• New Great Game: India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan at Energy Security Frontiers | Tanishaa Pandey & Lakshmi Karlekar

  10 April

  The International Energy Agency says, the month long US-Israel conflict with Iran has

• Appeal to UN officials to save the lives and livelihoods of 35 million migrant workers in Gulf countries | Faizi S

  10 April, by S Faizi

  Email From: Faizi S:
  Date: Sat, Apr 4, 2026 at 2:37?PM
  Subject: Appeal to save the lives and livelihoods of 35 million migrant workers in Gulf countries
  To: UN sgcentral[atun.org
  cc: russia[atun.int, mission[atrussiaun.ru, chinesemission[atyahoo.com, chinapm[atun.int, usun.newyork[at, cuba_onu[atcubanmission.com, cuba[atun.int, pmun.newyork[atdirco.gov.za, southafrica[atun.int, colombia[atcolombiaun.org, colombia[atun.int, ep.nuevayorkonu[atmaec.es, spain[atun.int, (…)

• Gulf Region Migrant Workers Already Facing High Risks Now Also Exposed to War Dangers | Bharat Dogra

  10 April, by Bharat Dogra

  Migrant workers in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have often faced serious occupational hazards and other risks. Now as Iran

• Two Poems for Iran | Sagari Chhabra

  10 April, by Sagari Chhabra

  Minab
  There is a shimmering lake
  so vast that it reflects the blue sky;
  inside it many secrets lie;
  the wealth of our ancestors,
  the ashes of our forebears,
  and so many turtles, ducks and geese,
  the lake is an isle of peace.
  One looks, learns and grows
  about the universe, the planet
  and inter-connected life;
  till one day, someone cast a stone;
  the lake turned a deep blood red
  there were one hundred and fifty-two ripples,
  each ripple let out a human cry.
  Each was a voice
  of (…)

• Support Cuba | Soma Marla

  10 April, by Soma S. Marla

  In a recent seminar in New Delhi on

• Freedom Walks Through the Cemetery | Ilya Kharkow

  10 April

  (This text was written for the Anti-War Congress in Prague, Czech Republic, May 2024)
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  Anganwadi Centres are not Charitable institutions | AITUC

  10 April

  ALL INDIA TRADE UNION CONGRES
  Press Statement by AITUC released today-4th April 2026 demanding withdrawal of UGC Circular
  The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) strongly opposes the recent circular issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC) directing that Anganwadi centres be maintained as part of their social responsibility and extension activities. This move is deeply regressive and illustrative of a dangerous drift in the Union Government

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  Letter from Israelis, Indians & others — filmmakers, scholars & activists against the ban on The Voice of Hind Rajab in India

  10 April

  Banning The Voice of Hind Rajab threatens freedom of expression in India and Israel
  We are, variously, Israelis, Indians, filmmakers, journalists, academics and activists. We write in support of pluralism, democracy and freedom of expression in India and in Israel

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  Review of Leach, Melissa; Fairhead, James, Naturekind: Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human | Louise Westling

  10 April

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Naturekind:
  Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human
  by Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
  Princeton University Press
  2025. 272 pp.
  (paper) ISBN 978-0-691-27066-1
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  Reviewed by Louise Westling (University of Oregon)
  Melissa Leach and James Fairhead offer a bold new perspective of