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• The Taliban’s war on women in Afghanistan must be formally recognized as gender apartheid | Vrinda Narain

  18 August 2023

  August 8, 2023
  The second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is fast approaching. Since then, Afghan women have been denied the most basic human rights in what can only be described as gender apartheid.
  Only by labelling it as such and making clear the situation in Afghanistan is a crime against humanity can the international community legally fight the systematic discrimination against the country’s women and girls.
  Erasing women from the public sphere is central to (…)

• How Women’s Federations balance feminism and Party discourse in China | Junyi Cai

  18 August 2023

  As a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organisation, the All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF) wields influence in shaping the discourse and progress of women’s rights in various aspects at the state level. But because the ACWF must walk a fine line between adhering to CCP discourse and advocating for women’s issues, the extent to which it functions as a feminist organisation is limited.
  The ACWF holds the dual responsibility of representing the interests of women and assisting with the (…)

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  Why Nature Turned Furious on Kedarnath Region? | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  18 August 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  The Raging Himalayas and A Warming Planet: Recollections of the 2003 Himalayan Floods and Reflections on Global Warning by Asokan Vengassery Krishnan
  Konark ISBN: 9788195678693 Pages: 210; Price: Rs 495
  __0__ Even as he entered the scenic Himalayan region of Kedarnath in June 2003, Asokan Krishnan felt disgusted on seeing the ugly all-round construction in brazen violation of the environment. There were plenty of multi-storey lodges and hotels built on the delicate (…)

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  Carol Winkler Review of The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate by Neil Krishan Aggarwal

  18 August 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Carol Winkler (Georgia State University)
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  The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate: The Culture and Psychology of an Online Militant Community
  by Neil Krishan Aggarwal
  Columbia University Press
  2016. xix + 211 pp. Ill. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17426-8
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  Neil Krishan Aggarwal’s The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate provides a much-needed, theoretically grounded analysis of the cultural and psychological dimensions of the discourse of the Taliban. His book (…)

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  Cartoon: When Tomatoes Became Super Expensive. . . | Hemant Morparia

  18 August 2023
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  Cartoon: Many Faces of Climate Chnage | Rohan Chakravarty

  18 August 2023
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  A photo from AIDWA convention in Delhi on Aug 17, 2023

  18 August 2023
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  Photo: Bertolt Brecht testifying before House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 1947 | Leonard McCombe

  18 August 2023
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  Audio: A Certain Justice (1997) by PD James BBC Radio Drama

  18 August 2023

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  Adam Dalgliesh A Certain Justice BBC RADIO DRAMA by Serenity Sounds https://youtu.be/SHuDSJZmukI

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Aug 12, 2023

  12 August 2023

  * What Went Wrong With The Communist Movement In India | T. Vijayendra
  * Why is the reality of the Prime Minister’s political capital veiled! | Prem Singh
  * On 1980 Moradabad Riots | Arup Kumar Sen
  * Can An Award Chain the Conscience of an Individual? | Sandeep Pandey