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• Marxist desperation to retrieve the lost ground in the backdrop of Hindutva narrative of RSS | Arun Srivastava

  13 August 2021

  by Arun Srivastava
  The big brother of the Indian communist parties, the CPI(M), is in the process of reinventing its relevance and existence. While its Kerala unit has managed to maintain its identity by winning the assembly election and forming the government in the state, its Bengal unit is completely in disarray and groping in the bind.
  It is said that the CPI(M) has become the victim of worst nature of personality clash between the Bengal Line and Kerala Line, the fact is the party (…)

• See to it that the fabric isn’t ruptured | Humra Quraishi

  13 August 2021, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS 11 August, 2021
  Hate and hatred-laced speeches and slogans have reached right up to New Delhi’s Sansad Marg. All out in the open. Last week-end several Hindutva communal brigades and their promoters and organizers reached right up to that significant central spot of this capital city and rendered anti-Muslim hate filled slogans and speeches. In fact, this was a repeat of what took place a week back at Delhi’s Dwarka locality where a Hajj House is coming up.
  Such blatant (…)

• Sports Policy Should Aim to Promote Health, Joy and Team-Spirit | Bharat Dogra

  13 August 2021, by Bharat Dogra

  Some of the most heartwarming memories of the recent Olympic Games for India will remain of sportspersons from humble backgrounds overcoming very heavy odds to perform very well at the biggest international sports event. Whether their hard work and perseverance resulted in medals or not, the great effort they put in won widespread admiration.
  The most obvious example is that of the women’s hockey team of India which gave such a splendid performance and displayed such a spirit to fight (…)

• Undaunted by temple attack, Pakistani Hindu stuck in India with three children wants to go home | Beena Sarwar

  13 August 2021

  by Beena Sarwar A Pakistani Hindu stuck in India with three children after his wife died in April is pleading with the authorities to let him return to before Independence Day, August 14.
  “Mein TooT gaya huN - I am broken,” says Ajeet Kumar Nagdev, 41, speaking on phone in Urdu from Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh. His wife Rekha Kumari, 38, died on April 22, a day before the last Attari-Wagah border opening. “What can I do? The children break me, but I have to get up and keep going.” (…)

• Untouchability is worse than slavery in Mauritania | Vidya Bhushan Rawat

  13 August 2021, by Vidya Bhushan Rawat

  Mohammad Cheick Mkhaitir belongs to an untouchable community in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, a country of nearly five million population colonised by French once upon a time in Western Africa and surrounded by Atlantic Ocean, Western Sahara, Algeria, Mali and Senegal. Most of the Western Africa was under French control who tried to push ‘secular’ laws in these countries and yet after their decolonisation process old superstructure of these societies. Mauritania is 28th biggest (…)

• Recollections from visit to the CeBIT fair in Hannover, Germany in 1997 | B S Chauhan

  13 August 2021, by B. S. Chauhan

  CeBIT used to be an annual fair in the city of Hannover, Germany. It was last held in 2018 and then discontinued due to declining footfalls. CeBIT is German acronym for Centrum für Büroautomation, Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation, which translates to “Centre for Office Automation, Information Technology and Telecommunications” in English. The name says it all about the fair. The annual fair was devoted to advances in these areas of electronics. It was held on the Hannover Fair (…)

• The Train of Thought | Sagari Chhabra

  13 August 2021

  Eichmann said, he only organized the trains; He was able to dictate A meticulous timetable, For the mass transfer of the Jews; They left as per schedule To their destinations: Auschwitz, Birkenau and Dachau; Of their fate he did not know, That they went to the concentration camps He could not tell; For his job was well, Only to organize the trains; Just the trains. Did he heed his voice of conscience; Or for that matter his brains, To ask where the Jews were going; What fate befell them? (…)

• Taliban neutralises the Afghan warlords | M K Bhadrakumar

  13 August 2021, by M K Bhadrakumar

  August 12, 2021
  The Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s visit to the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Wednesday ( August 11, 2021) had an air of high drama — the C-in-C visiting the frontline — even as the Taliban’s relentless onslaught is bringing it close to the city, traditionally an anti-Taliban bastion. The historic city and its inhabitants are cut off from the rest of the country and awaiting the worst.
  But Ghani’s real agenda was to form an anti-Taliban front comprising the (…)

• Afghanistan on a flexuous course | Sheel Bhadra Kumar

  13 August 2021

  by Sheel Bhadra Kumar*
  The U.S. government’s ultimate time limit of total military withdrawal from Afghanistan is nearing [31st August 2021] the world and the people of Afghanistan are in total confusion and uncertainty about the future of Afghanistan which has witnessed a civil strife, terrorism, violence, numerous deaths, war and foreign interventions for many decades. It has long been a prize sought by empire-builders and superpowers. But the country’s forbidding landscape of deserts (…)

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  Keynote - Soil Not Oil International Conference 2017 | Dr. Vandana Shiva

  13 August 2021

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  Keynote - Dr. Vandana Shiva, Soil Not Oil International Conference 2017 by Soil Not Oil Coalition https://youtu.be/rkSa-3HGAVg