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• Essaying The Muslims: Some Issues In The Indian Freedom Movement And After | Anil Nauriya

  18 September, by Anil Nauriya
  [This year marks the 100th year of the Non-cooperation movement, a landmark moment in India’s Freedom Struggle. The below extended review essay allows us to travel back and reflect on the aspects of history of the non-cooperation movement and  (...)

• Revisiting Foundations of Welfare State during Current Pandemic Period: A Normative Analysis for India | Manish Sharma, Akhilesh Mishra

  18 September
  by Manish Sharma, Akhilesh Mishra
  When society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when  (...)

• Crisis of Capitalism | Govind Bhattacharjee

  18 September
  by Govind Bhattacharjee *
  Abstract: Despite its many flaws, capitalism has survived many challenges, showing a remarkable resilience for adaptation. But the current pandemic has thrown it into a crisis that calls for resetting its very premises.  (...)

• Moment of History | Suranjita Ray

  18 September, by Suranjita Ray
  The nomination of Kamala Harris, the first Asian American woman of colour as the Democratic Party’s Vice-Presidential candidate is historic. It marks a moment of celebration for immigrant communities and the black community in particular across  (...)

• ‘Black Lives Matter’: Slavery and Racism in the historical context | Ish Mishra

  18 September

  Racism, like communalism, Brahmanism (casteism) and the gender, is not an attribute of biology but an ideology that is constructed, reconstructed, nurtured and perpetuated in the day-to-day life and intellectual discourses

• 1917 Poster of Liberty League Negro Americans meeting notice

  18 September

• ‘Forty Rules’, Gita, Commusings and the question of Inner Change | Kobad Ghandy

  18 September, by Kobad Ghandy
  Why did socialist societies reverse, inspite of being economically far more just? Why did some of their leaders become dictators? Why does money and power corrupt the best of persons? Why do comrades willing to give their lives for revolution,  (...)

• The Stranded Migrants: Plights, Predicaments and Paybacks | Nupur Pattanaik

  18 September
  Deprivation, Unemployment, poverty migrants across the world are stranded in different places after the evacuation and unlock measures with strict protocols we come across that there are also several migrants who have not reached their  (...)

• SSR Drama, Silencing of young voices, Pamela Rooks lives on ... | Humra Quraishi

  18 September, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS
  September 16, 2020
  In Mumbai, Sushant Singh Rajput’s death is turning into a full-fledged political war between the BJP and the Opposition. Its also being ‘used’ by starlets and socialites to get into the political arena and grab all  (...)
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  Criminalising and Silencing Dissent: Delhi Police Investigations into the February Violence - Text of Press Release by Concerned Citizens | Sept 16, 2020

  18 September
  PRESS STATEMENT released on 16th September 2020 Press Club of India, New Delhi,
  We have gathered here today to express our collective anguish at the sheer brazenness with which the Delhi police has turned the investigation into the February  (...)

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