Introduction and Background
That the Second World War (WWII) in its wake marked a watershed in the thinking and policy on higher education (HE) is perhaps not a commonplace especially among the younger generations. HE historically (roughly until (...)
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Is Standard of Higher Education Falling Under Neoliberalism? | Arup Maharatna
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The COVID-19 Crisis and the Fascist Class Politics in Hungary | Attila Antal
22 January 2021by Attila Antal
There is a misunderstanding about Hungarian government which says the novel coronavirus outbreak created a new dictatorship in Europe. In fact, the coronavirus crisis did not bring on or finalise the authoritarian turn in (...) -
Middle East futures: Decade(s) of defiance and dissent | James M. Dorsey
22 January 2021by James M. Dorsey
(An earlier version of this article appeared in Orient)
If the 2010s were a decade of defiance and dissent, the 2020s promise to make mass anti-government protests a fixture of the greater Middle East’s political landscape. (...) -
Sherlock Holmes and the case of toxic masculinity: what is behind the detective’s appeal? | Ashley Morgan
22 January 2021by Ashley Morgan *
December 16, 2020
Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective of all time. Since he was imagined into creation in 1892 by the young Scottish doctor Arthur Conan Doyle, there has been hardly a decade in which a play, (...) -
Open Letter To Władysław Gomułka and the Central Committee of the Polish Workers Party | Isaac Deutscher (1966)
22 January 2021This open letter was released on 28 April 1966 as a protest against the sentencing of Kazimierz Badowski, Ludwik Hass, Jacek Kuroń, Karol Modzelewski and Romuald Śmiech, who had been tried and found guilty of distributing illegal literature, (...) -
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* India Vaccine Rollout Plan Has Serious Shortcomings | Gyan Pathak
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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 16, 2021
15 January 2021On January 15, the 9th round of talks took place between the representatives of protesting peasants and the Government of India over the three contentious Farm Laws. There is a continuing stalemate with no end in sight.
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India Vaccine Rollout Plan Has Serious Shortcomings | Gyan Pathak
15 January 2021by Gyan Pathak
January 12, 2021
With the launch of the World’s biggest immunization drive on January 16, India is all set to create a history, but with several ominous signs too. The whole vaccine rollout plan, as stands after the meeting of our (...) -
Lame Duck – A Peril | Chittarvu Raghu
15 January 2021by Chittarvu Raghu
The United States election process requires the Congress to validate the election of the President. Congress is a bicameral legislature, the Senate being the upper house and the House of Representatives the lower house.
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Is This What Democracy Has Come To? | T J S George
15 January 2021, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
Incredible things are happening in America. An incumbent President refusing to vacate office is unheard-of. Donald Trump is doing what no US President has done in the past, indeed, what no government head in a democracy has done. (...)
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