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  Appeal for Ending of War: Continuing Dialogue for Peace - Communist Party of India (Mar 1, 2022)

  5 March 2022

  Communist Party of India Central Office New Delhi
  March 01, 2022
  Press Release
  Appeal for Ending of War: Continuing Dialogue for Peace
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (on March 01, 2022) the following statement:
  Last few days marked with the advance of Russian forces in different parts of Ukraine resulting in huge human and material loss. The CPI denounces the military action and demands stop the further advance of Russian forces in Ukraine, (…)

• The Ukrainian Crisis: Solution lies in creating a neutral Ukraine | P S Jayaramu

  5 March 2022

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  (28-2-2022)
  The Ukrainian Crisis is very much in the news. When the crisis began, it was fondly believed that Putin’s order of moving troops to the Ukrainian border was only an act of brinkmanship and that the crisis would get blown off soon. But, the invasion of Ukraine, the subsequent marching of Russian troops to the major cities of the country, including the capital city Kyiv, the intentional crippling of Ukraine’s military capabilities, the loss of civilian lives (…)

• Ukraine: Lessons not being learned | James M. Dorsey

  5 March 2022

  by James M. Dorsey
  Feb 28, 2022
  Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the international condemnation it generated contains key lessons for policymakers.
  They are lessons that should have been learned in past global crises but weren’t. However, the Ukraine crisis offers an opportunity to correct that mistake.
  A first lesson is that failure to firmly stand up to violations of international law as they occur convinces trespassers that they can get away with them. It (…)

• 2022 invasion of Ukraine - Will an anti-war sentiment grow in Russia? | Ptee Robin Robinovich

  5 March 2022

  by Ptee Robin Robinovich
  The decision and rationale by Russian President Vladimir Putin to launch a ’special military operation’ aimed at "demilitarisation and denazification" — a war on Ukraine, in simple words, came on February 24, 2022. Prior to this, there had been a month-long Russian military deployment & combat exercises involving over a hundred thousand troops near the Ukrainian border. Several prominent European leaders visited Mr Putin in Moscow for talks to get him to lift (…)

• Do the Russians Want War? | Yevgueni Yevtushenko (1956)

  5 March 2022

  [Yevgueni Yevtushenko wrote this poem in 1956 after the 20th CPSU Congress]

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  Cartoon on Putin’s War on Ukraine | Jayraj Vellur

  5 March 2022
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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Feb 19, Feb 26, 2022 [Double Number]

  17 February 2022

  * Who are We A ‘Union of States’ or a ‘Nation’ | Karli Srinivasulu
  * Remember Romesh Chandra, As the US pushes war in Eurasia | Nandita Chaturvedi
  * Lockdown As A Means of Controling Covid? | Kobad Ghandy
  * When Was Modernism? | Raymond Williams

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Feb 19, Feb 26, 2022

  17 February 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, February 19, February 26, 2022
  The Government of India under Narendra Modi has since 2014 been steadily pushing a certain vision of an imaginary history and heritage in the name of so-called Indianisation coloured by its ideological moorings in Hindutva cultural nationalism. As a result, we have seen names of cities changed, syllabi and curriculum modified, we have heard the Prime Minister making amazing claims of plastic surgery in Ancient India, we have (…)

• Who are We? A ‘Union of States’ or a ‘Nation’? Contested Terms of Discourse on Idea of India | Karli Srinivasulu

  17 February 2022, by Karli Srinivasulu

  Who are We? and what kind of a nation are we? It is a question that often crops up in the history of a country in response to new challenges and remains at the centre of political discourse often subtly and sometimes openly, raised be it by Samuel Huntington or Rahul Gandhi in the present instance.
  Rahul Gandhi’s speech in the Lok Sabha during the debate on the motion of thanks on the President’s address has gained national attention. The speech was fairly complex and was apparently meant (…)

• If you remember 2021 panchayat election results, the myth of BJP invincibility in UP is easily shattered | Bharat Dogra

  17 February 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  While elections in all states are important, state assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP) always have a special importance from a national perspective. So it is this time around too as the election scene in Uttar Pradesh is being followed very eagerly.
  Generally BJP is depicted to be strong in this state, but let us check this against the results of the panchayat elections held last year in UP. While nobody is saying that similar results will be repeated in assembly elections as these (…)