How Nixon and Kissinger failed to respond to urgent need for course-correction from their own senior diplomats
This year events relating to the liberation of Bangladesh have been recalled time and again as Bangladesh has completed 50 years (...)
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Bangladesh 1971: Two Million Lives That Could Have Been Saved, but Were Not | Bharat Dogra
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Letter To Kanhaiya Kumar | Murzban Jal
17 December 2021by Murzban Jal
The time is out of joint, O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Dear Mr. Kanhaiya Kumar
In normal times one could greet you as “comrade Kanhaiya Kumar” for this is what many people thought (...) -
Reading the World of Commerce | Arup Kumar Sen
17 December 2021, by Arup Kumar SenIn his seminal book, On Ethics and Economics (Blackwell Publishing, 1987), Amartya Sen argued: “It is, in fact, arguable that economics has had two rather different origins, both related to politics, but relatedin rather different ways, concerned (...) -
Repeal UAPA, Sedition Law & AFSPA | Statement adopted by a meeting of Human rights groups, Delhi 11, Dec 2021
17 December 2021Our country has a long history of gross abuse of power and deprivation of human rights in the context of the laws relating to sedition, Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. In order to (...) -
AIFUCTO Statement on Punjab teachers Strike for UGC Pay Scales | Dec 17, 2021
17 December 2021All India Federation of University and College Teachers Organisations (AIFUCTO)
PRESS - RELEASE: PATNA
17.12.2021
AIFUCTO THREATENS ALL INDIA PROTEST PROGRAM ON PUNJAB TEACHERS DEMAND FOR (...) -
When Nationalists Backed ‘Made in India’ | M R Narayan Swamy
17 December 2021, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
Branded in History: Fresh Marketing Lessons from Vintage Brands
by Ramya Ramamurthy
Hachette India
Pages: 309; Price: Rs 499
ISBN-10 : 9388322681 ISBN-13 : 978-9388322683
Did you know that Sunlight soap is as old (...) -
Kritskiy’s Review of Glaser, Lee, (eds.) Comintern Aesthetics
17 December 2021Reviewed by Vsevolod Kritskiy (University of Amsterdam) __0__ Comintern Aesthetics
Amelia M. Glaser, Steven S. Lee, eds.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2020 Illustrations. xxi + 563 pp. $95.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4875-0465-6 __0__
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China’s BRI crown jewel joins the era of defiance and dissent | James M. Dorsey
17 December 2021by James M. Dorsey *
The crown jewel of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) increasingly looks like a powder keg that has exploded.
Mass protests have for the past month swept Gwadar, a Chinese-dominated Pakistani port city 90 kilometres from (...) -
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, seven others, jailed over Tiananmen memorial in 2020 | James Griffiths
17 December 2021(In the absence of practically no coverage on the issue in the Media in India we are carrying the below report from the Canadian paper The Globe and Mail)
by James Griffiths
December 13, 2021
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai and seven other Hong Kong (...) -
How battling France’s COVID pass led the Left to embolden the far Right | Philippe Marlière
17 December 2021Instead of focusing on changes that would ease pandemic suffering, left-wing groups have joined hysterical protests that boost conspiracy theorists