Mainstream Weeklyby Pranjit Agarwala *
2022 began on an ominous note for Sino-Indian relations. On 1st January China again renamed 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh claiming it as “Zangnan, the southern part of Tibet”. China has been routinely intimidating India with such false claims despite India’s strong protests. India and China share a 3488 km long border. The border is demarcated by the Line of Actual Control (LAC) which is divided into three sectors: the Eastern sector covering (…)
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Sino-Indian Border Dispute & Arunachal Pradesh | Pranjit Agarwala
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Pick a Wave | Badri Raina
21 May 2022, by Badri RainaO citizen, un-besotted by zeal, Un-fathered by the state, Between the heat wave And the hate wave Take your pick; Torched by the two now Smoulders the captive republic.
Neither the all-out sun nor the bellowing Saint knows the pinch Of price rise. Once the Gorgon has spouted, What son of woman May blubber otherwise.
Have you no work, have you no food, No plaster for the broken bone, No cooking oil, nor firewood, No sympathetic microphone That may your throttled syllables To the lord of (…) -
The Police State | Radhkanta Barik
21 May 2022, by Radhakanta Barik(The agencies of state be CBI, Police or ED and drug control authority are very powerful to create a police state)
The sky Full of stars They do not give light The moon is there But its light does not fall on us A writer writes But words do not create ripples Poet creates a powerful metaphor But it does not reach people We look at the folk story Once there was a king Whose rule we enjoyed He has been turned into a god Now People worship it Forget his rule We have new rulers (…) -
An Accidental but Secular Prime Minister | M.R. Narayan Swamy
21 May 2022, by M R Narayan SwamyFurrows in a Field: The Unexplored Life of H.D. Deve Gowda
by Sugata Srinivasaraju
Vintage/Penguin Random House
Pages: 562; Price Rs 799
ISBN: 9780670093434
__0__ He was a reluctant Prime Minister but proved his worth once he entered 7 Race Course Road; he remains a devout Hindu but respects all religions; he rose in politics the hard way, taking loans each time he fought elections; he was a product of provincial politics but embraced a national vision. Meet Haradanahalli Dadde (…) -
Review of The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army
21 May 2022Reviewed by Ryan W. Booth (Washington State University)
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The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army
by Raymond Callahan, Daniel Marston
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas January 2021 296 pages ISBN-10 : 0700630414 Hardcover: ISBN 978-0-7006-3041-7 __0__
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Overthrowing Roe V Wade Texas Legacy : Crushing Blow To Women’s Rights, Right To Privacy & Human Dignity | Vijay Kumar
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A Letter to the Isareli Prime Minister from Indian Journalists (May 16, 2022)
21 May 2022To Mr. Naftali Bennett, Prime Minister of Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel
Through Mr. Naor Gilon, Ambassador of Israel to India, New Delhi, India
16.05.2022
Dear Mr Prime Minister,
We, Indian journalists, are writing to you to express our strong condemnation of the ’murder’ of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was shot in the face while she was reporting a raid by Israeli soldiers from Jenin. The shocking assassination — described as such by Al Jazeera — again underlines your (…) -
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