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  Israel is reaping what it has sowed | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  1 March 2024

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir] __0__
  The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine by Michael Scott-Baumann
  Picador India; Pages: 279; Price: Not given
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  After the killing of an Israeli woman and her two children in a Palestinian grenade attack, Israeli forces entered the West Bank village of Qibya in October 1953 and killed 69 of its inhabitants, most of them women and children. This was part of a policy Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion put in place to force (…)

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  Wan on Williamson and Guffey, ’Making Disability Modern: Design Histories’

  1 March 2024

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  Reviewed by Shu Wan (University at Buffalo)
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  Making Disability Modern: Design Histories Bess Williamson, Elizabeth Guffey, eds.
  Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020 Illustrations. 264 pp. (paper) ISBN 978-1-350-07042-4
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  Wan on Williamson et. al, Making Disability Modern
  As a promising academic field, disability studies is currently undergoing a material turn. The proliferation of scholarly writings about the past and present of (…)

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  Tribute to Kumar Shahani | J Vellur

  1 March 2024, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Poster: Religion and Family Laws Key to Women’s Subordination

  1 March 2024

  Source: Asian’s Women’s Forum, FAO, FFHC, New Delhi

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  Animation: The Hand (1966) Jiri Trnka

  1 March 2024

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  The Hand (1966) Jiri Trnka by Tandis S. https://youtu.be/wFAoLHXou4s?si=gpSq9adLdI-SJQys

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  Documentary: Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman

  1 March 2024

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  Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman Documentary [Documentary] [RaddleTube] by RaddleTube https://youtu.be/BviTcbeRz8o?si=_INNDIhZYh_I9vTE

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Feb 24, 2024

  24 February 2024

  * Death of F.S. Nariman Marks The Loss of Voice of Conscience | Vijay Kumar
  * Bail not jail is a privilege only for a select few | Faraz Ahmad
  * NDA, India, and The Coalition Conundrum
  * We need to talk about obstetric violence | Vijayetta Sharma
  * Dwelling | Ivan Illich

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 24, 2024

  24 February 2024

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, February 24, 2024
  Over the years there has been a consistent effort by the Government of India led by Narendra Modi to scuttle anti-Government protests and criticism on the street but also in Media and the social media. In the past years — 2021, 2023, and now in 2024 the Government has repeatedly used a strategy to block specific social media accounts belonging to certain journalists, politicians, and activists. and also to shut down mobile internet (…)

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  Death of F.S. Nariman Marks The Loss of Voice of Conscience | Vijay Kumar

  24 February 2024, by Vijay Kumar

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  The passing away of Fali S. Nariman is an irreparable loss to legal fraternity, nay liberal voices all over the world. He has been a voice of conscience for Indian Judiciary. He was liberal lion and lived by the principle, and never compromised with it.
  This tribute will refrain from analysing his unmatched legal acumen, his standing as a tallest constitutional lawyer and numerous distinctions, as it would amount to gilding the lily.
  F.S. (…)

• Afghanistan: Abandoned by the World | Apratim Mukarji

  24 February 2024, by Apratim Mukarji

  The world’s most dangerous terrorists, the Taliban, are now in the third year of their illegitimate rule over Afghanistan, and their connectivity with the outside world is rising constantly. “The world has abandoned us,” says a prominent Afghan rights activist after escaping to the West.
  Since August 2021 when the Taliban, originally raised and nurtured by the United States and Pakistan and sheltered in the latter country, have travelled a long way to have become the rulers of a (…)