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LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.15
4 July 2020Letter to the Readers – Mainstream, July 4, 2020
Consolidating National Solidarity: PM Narendra Modi’s speech at the frontier post at Nimo in Ladakh yesterday has been interpreted in various ways today. Several press analyses have pointed out that (...) -
Tribute to Jolly Mohan Kaul | Sankar Ray
4 July 2020, by Sankar RayJollyda joined the Communist Party of India (CPI) in 1941 and started working among railway workers. His parents thought of him as a member of Indian Civil Service after he passed B A with first-class honours in English, but his life changed after he befriended Prasanta Sanyal, a bright leader of All India Student Federation, a frontal organisation of undivided CPI. He was elected a member of Calcutta district committee in 1943.
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Jolly Mohan Kaul (22 Sept 1921 - 29 June 2020) | Aditi Roy Ghatak
4 July 2020Jolly Mohan Kaul would have stepped into his 100th year on September 22. That he fell a trifle short of his century does not detract from the scintillating innings that he has played, nor the stout defence" "against death that he put up at Bellevue, where he breathed his last at 5.55 pm.
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Early India, Goats and Brahmins | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
4 July 2020by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
I met Tony Joseph, the author of Early Indians - the History of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From, first in Jaipur Literature Festival in 2019 and next at Mathrubhoomi Literature Festival in January, 2020 at (...) -
Russian bounty killing forces Trump’s hands on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
4 July 2020, by M K BhadrakumarAs expected, the controversy over Russia’s alleged bounties for killing American and NATO troops in Afghanistan is steadily snowballing. The New York Times has come out with more leaks such as bank transfers from accounts identified with the Russian military intelligence to the Taliban, “hawala” transactions as well as the Afghan government’s assistance to the US intelligence to zero in on the Russian-Taliban nexus.
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The Escalating Crisis on the India-China Border | Achin Vanaik
4 July 2020In the last week, simmering tensions on the Indian-Chinese border in the Himalayas have escalated to open conflict, with fatalities on both sides. India’s foreign policy, and not just China, deserves much blame for the escalation.
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Page from History: Nehru and Dange | Nitin Deshpande
4 July 2020by Nitin Deshpande
This is just a note on a piece of history that no one seems to remember in the ongoing debate on the issue of the Chinese problem facing India today. Surprisingly even the media seems lost in endless debate on whether the (...) -
An open letter to International NGOs who are looking to ‘localise’ their operations
4 July 2020An open letter to International NGOs who are looking to ‘localise’ their operations
Our plea is that you work with us, not against us. We need to be supported, not competed with. -
Women’s safety, protection and freedom is at stake in Poland | Caroline Hickson
4 July 2020We are witnessing the degradation of the rule of law, democracy and common sense in Poland by ultra-conservative and authoritarian actors only concerned with keeping their grip on power.
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Putin set to get his new constitution. But Russians ask, ’Why now?’ | Fred Weir
4 July 2020Vladimir Putin had a plan to reform the Russian Constitution. Then the pandemic happened. Now he’s changed the plan and is rushing it through a referendum, to many Russians’ confusion. What’s going on?
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