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No Weddings And A Funeral | John Dayal
28 August 2020, by John DayalI lost my eldest surviving sister in law in July, to cancer. Amni Soshamma Thekkeveetil, the 83 year old widow of the late Kadavil Thomas of Thiruvalla, was the second of six sisuters and two brothers, was 83. The eldest brother and sister (...) -
“Kandhamal Never Again, Never Anywhere” - Appeal on 12th Anniversary of the Pogrom in Kandhamal
28 August 2020Document and Appeal
REMEMBERING KANDHAMAL
“Kandhamal Never Again, Never Anywhere”
The National Solidarity Forum, representing 70 national and regional organisations, has issued the following Appeal to observe the 12th Kandhamal Day anniversary on (...) -
PUCL and other National Organizations Call for a Week of Protest Aug 28-Sept 5
28 August 2020PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES 332, Patpar Ganj, Opposite Anand Lok Apartments, Mayur Vihar I, Delhi 110 091 Phone 2275 0014 PP FAX 4215 1459 Founder: Jayaprakash Narayan; Founding President: V M Tarkunde
President: Ravi Kiran Jain; (...) -
How to Help Belarus | Statement from International Crisis Group
28 August 2020Moscow, Brussels and other stakeholders should avoid transforming the Belarus crisis into a European one, cooperate to warn against repression and insist on new, fair elections
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Indian foreign secretary’s hasty visit to Bangladesh misfires | M Serajul Islam
28 August 2020THE Indian foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s hastily arranged and sudden visit to Dhaka is shrouded in mystery. The centrepiece of the visit was his audience with Sheikh Hasina. Not a word has come out of the Bangladesh Prime Minister’s Office, not even who were present at the important audience. The Indian side has been equally silent.
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Sources of Hope in Habermas | Michael Welton
28 August 2020Habermas’s social evolutionary learning theory carries critical insights pertaining to the way humans overcame specific “learning challenges” as history unfolded over thousands of years. In modern times, Habermas emphasizes that both the League of Nations, the United Nations and the European Union, though flawed, fan “sparks of hope” that we can learn from catastrophe. We do not simply lay down amidst the bombed-out buildings and corpse-strewn streets and perish into oblivion.
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When Haksar was Proved Right on Sri Lanka | M.R. Narayan Swamy
28 August 2020, by M R Narayan SwamyBook Title: Haksar on India’s Sri Lanka Policy; Authors: V. Suryanarayan and Ashik J. Bonofer; Publishers: Centre for Asia Studies, Chennai, and Bookventure; Pages: 96; Price: Rs 200
This is a slim but informed and, if I may say so, an (...) -
Table of Contents Mainstream - Lockdown Edition no.22 | Aug 22, 2020
21 August 2020Table of Contents - Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 36, New Delhi, August 22, 2020
Letter to the Readers - Mainstream, August 22, 2020 ; The Editor
Congress, Hindutva and Indian Nationalism ; Barun Das Gupta
Disregarding Ravi Chopra’s (...) -
Letter to the Readers No 22 - Mainstream, August 22, 2020
21 August 2020Over the past many years sections of society in India have been campaigning for the repeal of the sedition, defamation and contempt laws which are part of a colonial legacy when dissent was criminalised. Prominent figures of India’s freedom (...) -
Congress, Hindutva and Indian Nationalism | Barun Das Gupta
21 August 2020, by Barun Das GuptaAugust was an important month for India in the twentieth century. It was on August 9, 1942, that the Congress passed the momentous Quit India resolution. It was on August 15, 1947, that India attained independence. And again it was on August 16, (...)
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