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  Stoppage of India-US trade agreement! —All India Kisan Sabha Press Release, July 13, 2026

  14 July

  All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) Demands for the immediate resignation of Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and the immediate stoppage of the final India-US trade agreement! Appeal to farmers to participate in the nationwide protest against the India-US trade agreement called by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on July 22!
  New Delhi, July 13, 2026: The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has demanded the immediate resignation of the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal. The Commerce (…)

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  Prabhakaran’s militarist strategy led to doom, says revealing book | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  14 July, by M R Narayan Swamy

  The seeds for a miserable end to Velupillai Prabhakaran’s Tamil Eelam dream were laid by the man himself — a long, long, long time ago.
  This is the conclusion one draws after reading a brutally honest and at times painful sketch of the early years of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by one of Prabhakaran’s earliest associates, Ganeshan Iyer.
  The Tamil work, Porattahil Enadhu Pathivugal, was first published abroad in 2011, two years after Prabhakaran was slain. It was (…)

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  Review of Shastri’s Learning Across Continents: My Academic Odyssey | P. S. Jayaramu

  14 July, by P S Jayaramu

  Book Review: Learning Across Continents: My Academic Odyssey, by Sandeep Shastri Writers Choice Publications Pvt Ltd. New Delhi, 2026, Pp.158, Price: Rs. 495. ISBN : 978-93-49389-26-7 Prof. Sandeep Shastri , who is a well known academician writing for decades on electoral poitics, federal relations and about the functioning of India’s democratic institutions has penned a book about his academic assignments across the continents from 1993 to 2022. He refers to them as his academic odyssey. (…)

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  Video report: Inside the Secret Network Fueling Sudan’s War" - Filmmaker Julia Steers on UAE Backing RSF Crimes

  14 July

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  "Inside the Secret Network Fueling Sudan’s War": Filmmaker Julia Steers on UAE Backing RSF Crimes by Democracy Now! https://youtu.be/IWAAXuUvXYo?si=aKqG3bK_MxxPqWAT

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  Video: Looking back at British Miners’ strike of 1984

  14 July

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  Miners’ strike - 30 years since the pit crisis of 1984 by Channel 4 News https://youtu.be/OA-76QeiuSQ

• Assessment of PM Modi’s 12 Years of Rule | Arun Kumar

  25 June, by Arun Kumar

  Mr. Modi has been PM of India for the last 12 years. In 2014 the long period of coalition rule at the Center ended and hat was characterized as a period of uncertainty when hard decisions could not be taken and consequently there was policy paralysis and economic downturn. India was called a fragile economy. Since 2014, PM Modi has ruled with little challenge so it is said that there is political stability. Has that meant better economic performance externally and internally?
  BJP claims, (…)

• Arrival of Giorgio Agamben in West Bengal | Arup Kumar Sen

  25 June, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The mode of conducting the recent assembly elections in West Bengal and its aftermath signify a paradigm shift in the mode of governance. Lakhs of voters lost their voting rights through the process of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Critical political observers feel that the SIR, monitored by the Election Commission and legally ratified by the Supreme Court, played a big role in changing the ruling political regime in West Bengal. The party which came to power, the BJP, (…)

• The Commemoration of 250 Years of Epochal Declaration of The American Independence In A Time of Backsliding of Democracy | Vijay Kumar

  25 June, by Vijay Kumar

  The 4th July will mark the quarter Millennium of American Independence.The Declaration of Independence started with following ringing affirmation:
  “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Government is instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
  The (…)

• Politicians switching sides to buy the BJP’s insurance against legal (vindictive) action | Arun Srivastava

  25 June

  Rahul Gandhi’s call for a united, aggressive resistance to the RSS and BJP faces major hurdles as the opinion is deeply divided among regional opposition leaders regarding his call to transition the INDIA bloc into a permanent "resistance movement" against the ruling party. While some regional allies share his idea on unified opposition, some are sceptical of his strategic vision, electoral viability, and ability to keep the alliance intact. They feel that he should have shared his idea with (…)

• Beyond Enumeration: Reframing the Meghalaya Socio-Economic Review 2025 through Doughnut Economics | Jos Chathukulam & A M Jose

  25 June, by A. M. Jose, Jos Chathukulam

  [(Abstract
  The Meghalaya Socio-Economic Review 2025 seeks to present a comprehensive statistical overview of the state’s developmental trajectory. However, this paper argues that the document fails to meet the analytical and normative expectations of a socio-economic review. Drawing on the framework of Doughnut Economics, the study critiques the Review’s descriptive bias, conceptual limitations, and institutional omissions. It highlights the absence of engagement with Autonomous District (…)