2025

The past few months have been emotionally and psychophysically draining

ABSTRACT
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Cheena Bhavan in Shantiniketan has the rare quality of being an institution that is both historic and futuristic. It is futuristic not because of buildings of glass and metal, or an endowment, but because of the content of its project, its students and members and the vision of Rabindranath Tagore and Tan Yun Shan that forms its foundation. Cheena Bhavana is one of the oldest Bhavanas on the campus, and was established a year before even Hindi Bhavana. Founded by the work of Tan Yun Shan in (…)

Poem by Rabindranath Tagore on the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937
The war drums are sounded.
Men force their features into frightfulness and gnash their teeth;
and before they rush out to gather raw human flesh for death

Just six months after he led his party to an unprecedented two-third majority in Sri Lanka

On 28th April this year, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UNs top court and one of its principal organs, has begun hearings on Israels legal obligations to facilitate deliveries of relief material and life-sustaining goods to the Palestinians in Gaza. This in the backdrop of more than 2 million Gaza-based Palestinians affected by internal displacement and also death and destruction on an unimaginable scale consequent on the HAMAS-Israel conflict raging since October 7th 2023. (…)

Drugmakers in the US have been exempted from tariffs but the pills and capsules may soon hit the fan. They are lobbying US president Donald Trump for more time to absorb tariffs and perhaps move their manufacturing sites according to published reports.
Many realize the trillion dollar a year Pharma industry has

UNITED NATIONS
05 May 2025
Secretary-General’s press encounter on India and Pakistan
Tensions between India and Pakistan are at their highest in years.
I deeply respect and am profoundly grateful to the Government and people of both countries — and their significant contributions to the work of the United Nations, not least UN peacekeeping.
And so it pains me to see relations reaching a boiling point.
I understand the raw feelings following the awful terror attack in Pahalgam on (…)

Press Release
The following statement was issued to the press by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent Sectoral Federations/Associations on 9th May 2025.
The Platform of the Central Trade Unions and Independent Sectoral Federations met on 8th evening, reviewed the preparations for the scheduled Nationwide General Strike on 20th May. The preparations have been in full swing for the Strike. The anguish among workers is on rise as the Government of India and the (…)

Comrades, we in Pakistan are disappointed with the statement of CPI and CPM on the war. [see statements of the CPI and the CPM posted below]
The statements are viewing Operation Sindhoor only from the point of view of