by Shubham Sharma*
History
As a young Marxist dreaming about the triumph of labour over capital, it was a moment of near absolute nausea to stand witness to the uncritical applause received by the Communist Party of China (CPC) on its birth (...)
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Chinese Communism: A Left Critique | Shubham Sharma
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The reality of China’s fertility decline | Zhao & Zhang
23 July 2021by Zhongwei Zhao and Guangyu Zhang *
8 July 2021
The relaxation of China’s one-child policy in 2013, and its termination in 2015, generated only a moderate and temporary fertility increase. China’s total fertility rate further declined from 1.6 (...) -
Population Control: Will Coercive Measures Work? | Ram Puniyani
23 July 2021by Ram Puniyani
On the back of population control policy adopted by Assam, where those having more than two children will be barred from contesting local elections and will not considered for promotions in Government service, now UP is coming up (...) -
Remembering Parbati Giri: Role in India’s Freedom Struggle | Roul & Raul
23 July 2021by Kamalakanta Roul and Bimal Kumar Raul*
Introduction: India’s Freedom Struggle Empowered the Women
The contribution of women to India’s freedom struggle occupies a prominent space in the history and politics. Responding to the clarion call of (...) -
Witch Killings of Malda: A Study in ‘Our’ Conspiracy | Sujit Chakraborty
23 July 2021by Sujit Chakraborty*
INVESTIGATION
Dozens of women are killed in the tribal belts of North Bengal each year, accused of being ‘witches’. But more than superstition, the story is really about non-tribals marginalising tribals, grabbing their (...) -
Snooping / War over our past / Sahir | Humra Quraishi
23 July 2021, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS 21 July 2021
I have been focusing on the fact that the Coronavirus is just one aspect to our dismal existence. Today many more unsettling realities are intruding into our lives, making our everyday survival extremely, extremely (...) -
A tale of love, truth and victimhood | Prasenjit Chowdhury
23 July 2021BOOK REVIEW by Prasenjit Chowdhury __0__
One Love, and the Many Lives of Osip B
by C. P. Surendran
Niyogi Books, New Delhi
www.niyogibooksindia.com/
Email: niyogibooks[at]gmail.com
IMPRINT: OLIVE TURTLE June - July 2021, 372 pages (...) -
The Rwanda Myth | Tom Zoellner (LARB)
23 July 2021Review by Tom Zoellner
April 3, 2021
Do Not Disturb:
The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
by Michela Wrong
New York: Public Affairs Books
March 2021, 512 pages
Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781610398428
London: Fourth (...) -
2020 Tokyo Games: Why allow men to compete with women? | Linda Blade
23 July 2021by Linda Blade
May 4, 2021
Dear Olympic Games Officials and people of Japan:
The modern Olympic Games was envisioned as a festival where sports competition would remain a merit-based domain where excellence could be celebrated on a level playing (...) -
A Call for Solidarity with the People of Haiti, 7/16/21
23 July 2021The media and governments are saying that Haiti finds itself at the center of another crisis, this time for the assassination of the ex-president Jovenel Moïse on July 7. In fact, Haiti has been in crisis since Moïse’s inauguration in February, (...)
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