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The Secretary of State in the George W. Bush administration Condoleeza Rice once described Belarus as “the last true remaining dictatorship in the heart of Europe.” She held out the assurance that it was “time for change to come to (...)
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Belarus: Scramble for heart of Europe | M. K. Bhadrakumar
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Everyone’s an Antiracist. Now What? Recognizing that Black people deserve dignity isn’t progress | Erin Aubry Kaplan
7 August 2020by Erin Aubry Kaplan
Recognizing that Black people deserve dignity isn’t progress.
The new unbridled enthusiasm for the cause of Black lives reminds me of the Dr. Seuss fable “Horton Hears a Who.”
A kindly elephant named Horton becomes aware of a (...) -
The Augmentation Of White Supremacist Terrorism | Tejasvini Akhawat
7 August 2020by Tejasvini Akhawat
Any kind of occurrence that is violent in nature can invariably be classified as a manifestation of terrorism. The minimalism and lack of austerity associated with the white supremacist terrorism cannot be justified on the (...) -
Deeno Daan a poem Rabindranath Tagore
7 August 2020120 years ago, on this very day, Rabindranath Tagore wrote a poem "Deeno Daan". It was about a temple. Here is an English translation by Sandipto Dasgupta of some of the excerpts.
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Routine! | A.K. Das
7 August 2020Are you missing the routine: a drab, listless word, lidless stare of monotony?
Getting ready, rushing to workplace, doing the day’s job, then the sun lengthening its shadows, you return home, tired, its comforting settings, warmth of your dear (...) -
Table of Contents Mainstream - Lockdown Edition no.19 | Aug 1, 2020
31 July 2020Table of Contents - Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 33, New Delhi, August 1, 2020
Letter to the Readers of Mainstream’s Lockdown Edition 19, Aug 1 ; The Editor
FSDR — The Ghost of FRDI: Rescuing failed banks at whose cost? ; S G Vombatkere
Lenin 150: (...) -
Letter to the Readers of Mainstream’s Lockdown Edition 19 - August 1
31 July 2020Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 33, New Delhi, August 1, 2020:
Corona crisis: India is confronting its worst health crisis since independence. The Covid-19 tally is rising sharply and inching towards the 15-lakh mark. For the (...) -
FSDR — The Ghost of FRDI: Rescuing failed banks at whose cost? | S G Vombatkere
31 July 2020, by S G VombatkereIn 2019, media reported that Government was preparing to table a new legislation, the Financial Sector Development & Regulation (Resolution) Bill (FSDR, hereafter). .
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Lenin 150: Revisiting Lenin’s Understanding of Democracy in post-revolutionary Russia | Sobhanlal Datta Gupta
31 July 2020, by Sobhanlal Datta GuptaThe literature on Lenin spanning the Cold War as well as the post-Cold War era has been broadly characterized by two rather opposite viewpoints: deification or demonization of this iconic figure of the twentieth century.
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Hagia Sophia: Heritage of Entire Humanity | Irfan Engineer
31 July 2020by Irfan Engineer
The re-conversion of Hagia Sophia from a patriarchal cathedral built by Justinian I in 537 CE to Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in 1453 after the conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmet II and into a museum of the same name by (...)
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