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• Return of Great Game in Post-Soviet Central Asia | M K Bhadrakumar

  28 November 2020, by M K Bhadrakumar

  November 22, 2020
  The recent Issue Brief by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission entitled The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: A Testbed for Chinese Power Projection takes a close look at the Chinese security footprint in Central Asia and its political dimensions. A perception has grown over the most recent years amongst great game watchers generally, especially the US analysts, that China is gobbling up Central Asia. On the contrary, this report takes a contrarian view. (…)

• Vladimir Putin’s Peace Deal On Nagorno-Karabakh To End Conflict Between Armenia And Azerbaijan | R G Gidadhubli

  28 November 2020

  by R.G.Gidadhubli *
  Armenia and Azerbaijan are neighboring states in the Caucasian region of the former Soviet Union. Nagorno-Karabakh is a small autonomous republic situated in the geographical territory of Azerbaijan but the majority of the population in Nagorno-Karabakh is Armenians while Azeris are minority. Moreover, there is religious diversity since people of Azerbaijan are Muslims while Armenians belong to Christianity. During the Soviet Communist era these differences had no (…)

• Bangladesh Foreign Policy over last fifty years | Monaem Sarker

  28 November 2020

  by Monaem Sarker
  We the Banglees fought the Liberation War in 1971 against Pakistan brutal army to achieve emancipation from deprivation and uplift our economic advancement to make the society egalitarian in a democratic and non-communal political entity where multi-religious, multi-cultural and multi-lingual people would live in peace and harmony. Contemporary practice acknowledges that although governments do not bear the whole burden of bilateral relations, governments lay down policies (…)

• Is French version of ‘secularism’ unrealistic and discriminatory against religion | Vidya Bhushan Rawat

  28 November 2020

  by Vidya Bhushan Rawat
  France is facing an unprecedented crisis at the moment after three citizens were killed in Nice inside a church. The killings have been brutal to say the least. This time, the killer happened to be a Tunisian migrant who had arrived a few months back. Prior to this, the horrific murder of a French teacher Samuel Paty for ‘insulting’ Prophet Mohammad has again ignited the debate of ‘free speech’ in France as well as other parts of the western world. Reports suggest (…)

• South Africa: Migrant Labour After Apartheid | Asanda-Jonas Benya

  28 November 2020

  by Asanda-Jonas Benya
  Women miners have two identities: underground, where traditional markers of femininity must be suppressed, and at home, where they are expected to be ‘good’ wives and mothers.
  4 Nov 2020
  This is a lightly edited excerpt from “Migrant Women in South Africa’s Platinum Belt: Negotiating Different Conceptions of Femininities” by Asanda-Jonas Benya in Migrant Labour After Apartheid: The Inside Story (HSRC Press, 2020) edited by Leslie J Bank, Dorrit Posel and Francis (…)

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  Video: Bjorn Borg and Vijay Amritraj 1974 US Open (Tennis) in Forest Hills, Queens, New York

  28 November 2020
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  Off the Record - 1959 documentary, Canadian concert pianist Glenn Gould | Wolf Koenig & Roman Kroitor

  28 November 2020
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  Video of Webinar on China’s Capitalism and the World (Nov 19, 2020)

  28 November 2020

  China’s Capitalism and the World
  November 19, 2020 - Webinar
  The past decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the pace and scale of global capitalist expansion; the rapidity of consequent social transformations is in part due to China’s increasing participation in these processes. The Belt and Road Initiative and its associated infrastructure projects have received a huge amount of attention, but this webinar expands the focus to less understood and less often seen aspects of the (…)

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Nov 21, 2020

  21 November 2020
  • Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, November 21
  • Ajit Roy: A forgotten Communist Activist and Intellectual| Sobhanlal Datta Gupta
  • C.P. Bhambhri (1933-2020) and the Life of a Public Intellectual

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, November 21, 2020

  21 November 2020

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, November 21 2020
  According to the World Health Organization, confirmed cases of COVID-19 now exceed 55 million (the exact figure being 55,928,327), with 1,344,003 deaths as on November 19, 2020. India has now surpassed 9 million cases of COVID-19. According to India’s top medical research body ICMR, a cumulative total of 12,85,08,389 samples have been tested up to November 18, 2020, that is, over 120 million people have been tested since February 2020, (…)