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• Overturning Roe Vs. Wade: Grave Implications For Women’s Rights | Vijay Kumar

  1 July 2022, by Vijay Kumar

  The widely anticipated judgment of the American Supreme Court after the Politico published the Leaked Draft opinion on 2nd May, 2022 in Dobbs v. Jackson overturning 50 years old glorious legacy of the Roe v. Wade judgment is revolting in the extreme. This regressive judgment has baleful impact on constitutionalism, democracy and women’s right. With the appointment of three Conservative Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett by Donald Trump, the Supreme Court has (…)

• United States: How the Christian right took over the judiciary and changed America | Katherine Stewart

  1 July 2022

  by Katherine Stewart
  25 June 2022
  Leaders of the movement understood very well that if you can capture the courts, you can change society
  The supreme court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which reverses the constitutional abortion rights that American women have enjoyed over the past 50 years, has come as a surprise to many voters. A majority, after all, support reproductive rights and regard their abolition as regressive and barbaric.
  Understood in the (…)

• The Outlook for the Global Economy | Monaem Sarker

  1 July 2022, by Monaem Sarker

  The global economy is facing a series of obstacles this year, ranging from Covid-19 lockdowns in China, soaring energy and food prices, Ukraine crisis and a broadening drive by central banks to combat high inflation by increasing borrowing costs.
  Slowing growth, scorching inflation and rising U.S. interest rates are intensifying a squeeze on emerging-market finances and stoking concern over a fully-fledged debt crisis in low- and middle-income countries. Emerging economies world-wide feel (…)

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  Book Review: What Can India do in Afghanistan? | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  1 July 2022

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Afghanistan: The New Great Game
  Edited by Alok Bansal
  Pentagon Press LLP; Pages: 201; Price: Rs 895 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9390095492
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  Now that America has blundered and Pakistan has scored a strategic victory with the return of the Taliban, what are India’s options vis-à-vis Afghanistan?
  Can there be a meeting point between a country like India and a radical Islamist outfit like Taliban?
  One of the best known experts on the Pakistan-Afghanistan region, (…)

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  Cartoon: The Coup in Maharashtra with a Little Help via the Backdoor | Jayaraj Vellur

  1 July 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Photo: 1935 passport of Rabindranath Tagore

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  Photo: 1956 Polish Workers Strike and Uprising at Zispo metal factory in Poznan

  1 July 2022
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  Painting: Pavel Tchelitchew Deux Marins (Two Sailors) 1923

  1 July 2022
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  Music: Grandezza On Guitar | Baden Powell (1976)

  1 July 2022

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  Grandezza On Guitar - Baden Powell (1976) by Paulo Maia https://youtu.be/8viXaKorY_8

• Larger Significance of Naveen Patnaik’s Meeting with Pope Francis | S N Sahu

  24 June 2022, by S N Sahu

  Special for Mainstream
  updated on June 24, 2022
  While in Rome during his visit to Italy on the invitation of the World Food Program (WFP), for sharing the transformative initiatives of Odisha in the field of food security and disaster management Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at the MG Memorial Statue at the Plazza Gandhi in the city and called on Pope Francis in Vatican City on June 22, 2022. He met the Pope seven months after providing monetary (…)