2025

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Globalizing the Avant-Garde
David Ayers, Margarida Brito Alves, Joana Cunha, Benedikt Hjartarson, eds.
Walter de Gruyter
2025. 499 pp.
(cloth), ISBN 9783111317533
ISBN-10 : ?3111317536
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Reviewed by Tania Arcimovich (Erfurt University)
Globalizing the Avant-Garde, edited by David Ayers, Margarida Brito Alves, Joana Cunha Leal, and Benedikt Hjartarson, continues the European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies series, (…)

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India-Pakistan Impasse will ease once the hawks are shown the door
India and Pakistan both just marked their independence days on August 14 and 15. It is a huge tragedy that nearly eight decades after attaining independence, our two neighbouring countries have fraught relations. Soon after an incident of terrorism in April 2025 in Pahalgam, in Kashmir. India immediately pointed fingers at Pakistan-backed individuals as being involved and chose to intervene militarily instead of dialogue. (…)

The European Centre for Law and Justice in its 2025 report on Anti Conversion laws and the Persecution of Christians in India said, inter alia, that the dark underbelly of India’s democracy was the perpetuation of Christian through the anti-conversion laws enforced in 12 major states, many of them ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party which also runs the country

On August 4, 2025, Shibu Soren, the legendary leader of the Jharkhand movement, breathed his last at the age of 81. His political journey was triggered by a traumatic experience in everyday life:

The Election Commission (EC) tried to shake off its image as a puppet of Narendra Modi

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[This is part three and the final excerpt. See parts one & two published earlier]
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The New India is a conjurer

On April 17, 2025, authorities at Chenchalguda Central Prison in Hyderabad pasted two notices at the entrance of the jail complex: one outlining new Mulakat (Visitation) rules and the other a circular memo titled Jud-3/153/2025. These notices may have appeared routine administrative instructions to some, but for the families, lawyers, and civil rights workers seeking to meet undertrial prisoners inside, they signalled a tightening noose around one of the most fundamental human rights- the (…)

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Abstract
Policy analysis is considered to be essential in any successful reforms like health promotion and public health, so does in the case of gender empowerment. After assuming power in 2011, empowering women has been a key focus of the West Bengal government. By introducing various schemes like Kanyashree Prakalpa, Lashmi Bhander, Sabla Scheme etc the state government has ensured that women lead a life of dignity and are treated at par with men. This chapter tries to highlight these (…)