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Wars and conflicts have been one of the biggest causes of human suffering, and this suffering has been increasing over the recent centuries of

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The RSS General Secretary, Dattatray Hosabale, second in the RSS leadership hierarchy, on the eve of imposition of Emergency in 1975; stated that it was during the emergency that words Secularism and socialism were inserted in the preamble of Indian Constitution. And that these words were not there in the original preamble of the Constitution drafted by Dr. Ambedkar; so they should be removed.
This is not the first time that such a demand was raised from Hindutva quarters. When the BJP (…)

Even the most patriotic citizens would seriously hesitate to disagree that India is perennially

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In some parts of Russia, schoolgirls [1] who become pregnant are being paid more than 100,000 roubles (nearly

Sometime around 1991 I wrote to Noam Chomsky and invited him to give a few lectures in India. It felt like wishful thinking

Date: July 8, 2025
To:
Sri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India
Subject - Urgent need for Indian intervention on the proposals on the future of genetic resources in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)
The 14th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group of ITPGRFA contracting parties is taking place from 7-11 July in Lima, Peru. The specific focus of this meeting is to expand the scope (…)

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Democracy Awakening:
Notes on the State of America
by Heather Cox Richardson
W H Allen/Penguin Random House
2024
Pages: xvii + 286, ISBN-10 ? : ? 0593652983
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Is Donald Trump mad? Yes and no.
It is easy

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Gandhi and the Middle East
Jews, Arabs and Imperial Interests
by Simone Panter-Brick
I.B. Tauris
First Edition, Jan 2015
ISBN 9781784530228
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02 May 2025
Introduction
When India attained its independence in 1947, the nation was principled on two ideas --- peace and non-violence, for both, the nation and its people. These ideas were inspired from Mahatma Gandhi, one among the greatest freedom fighters and the Father (…)

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My Tributes to Socialist Leaders by Prem Singh
Foreword by Ravela Somayya, Dr. A. Raghu Kumar
Southern Springs Publishers (under the auspices of Rammanohar Lohia Samata Nyas), Hyderabad ISBN:978-81-962788-1-6 pp. 125, Price Rs 250
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It has rightly been asserted that the socialist tradition in India deserves a place in the narrative in the making of modern India. This assertion is made in the context of the contribution (…)