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14 April 2021
Signs of fascism are spreading out, yet as mute spectators we sit all too quiet and subdued. In fact, one of the prominent signs is exactly this. That is, the masses will be rendered so fragile and helpless that they (...)
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Planned Demolition of Khuda Baksh Library / Twisting of Historical Facts | Humra Quraishi
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The Human Race | Badri Raina
16 April 2021, by Badri RainaApril 14, 2021
The human race is a fallen one, And cannot be improved; Shades of evil thus inform Its best, better, and good.
The best are reason-infected, The better sometimes converse; The good follow instruction That most suits their purse. (...) -
Athletes knock the legs from under global sports governance | James M. Dorsey
16 April 2021by James M. Dorsey *
April 14, 2021
Sports governance worldwide has had the legs knocked out from under it. Yet, national and international sports administrators are slow in realizing the magnitude of what has hit them.
Tectonic plates (...) -
Beijing Revises ’Correct’ Version of Party History Ahead of Centenary | Xue Xiaoshan
16 April 2021April 15, 2021
The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has set up a hotline for people to report each other to the authorities for failing to toe the party’s freshly revised line on matters of history.
The Cyberspace Administration said in a (...) -
Excerpt from The Right to Be Lazy | Paul Lafargue
16 April 2021Le Droit à la paresse par Paul Lafargue (1880)
[From English translation by Charles H. Kerr]
CHAPTER III
THE CONSEQUENCES OF OVER-PRODUCTION
A Greek poet of Cicero’s time, Antiparos, thus sang of the invention of the water-mill (for grinding (...) -
Table of Contents, Mainstream, Apr 10, 2021
10 April 2021* Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 10, 2021
* Kerala: Changing Criteria for Tickets in Assembly Elections | Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph & Rekha V
* Book Review: Dietrich on D’Mello’s India After Naxalbari -
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Apr 10, 2021
10 April 2021Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 10, 2021
Over the past seventy years the United Nations officialdom came to provide the space and place for debate and helped international and global commitments by the nations of the world to a more (...) -
Changing Criteria for Ticketing in Assembly Elections: The Case of Kerala in the Midst of Intense Competition| Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph and Rekha V
10 April 2021by Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph and Rekha V*
Abstract
The candidate selection process and the issues that erupt within the political parties concerned as part of this can serve as a harbinger of the election outcomes, character, and style of (...) -
Orakandi’s pilgrim Prime Minister of India: Look London see Paris? | AK Biswas
10 April 2021, by A K BiswasPart-1 Prime Minister’s pilgrimage to a shrine of untouchables
Prime Minister Narendra Damodar Modi paid on March 27, 2021 his cherished visit to Orakandi, the seat of spiritual as also social reform movement of Harichand Thakur (1812-1877) and (...) -
BJP desperate to change the cultural contour of Bengal from class to caste | Arun Srivastava
10 April 2021, by Arun Srivastavaby Arun Srivastava
Suddenly the Bengalis, both Hindus and Muslims, have started rallying behind Mamata Banerjee. Even till April 1, the day Nandigram went to the polls, the Bengalis did not share a common perception about the role and policies (...)
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