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25 August 2021
Its about time we look towards our very own courtyards and backyards and front lawns! Not to overlook the murky happenings taking place in the very interiors of our prime setups. And, ah yes, also out there, along the (...)
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Every single week, communal onslaughts | Humra Quraishi
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Drawing parallels: British Partition Plans for India and Palestine | Komal Deol
27 August 2021by Komal Deol*
The Independence Day celebrations on 15th August 1947 were tempered by the tragedy of partition that accompanied India’s midnight ‘tryst with destiny’. Less than a year after the dominions of India and Pakistan came into (...) -
Political Crisis in Belarus Getting Aggravated | R G Gidadhubli
27 August 2021by R G Gidadhubli
Belarus has been witnessing unprecedented political crisis, even as on the 9th August 2021 the country has been passing through one year of highly disputed presidential election when Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed victory for (...) -
China threatens to nuke Japan | Rajaram Panda
27 August 2021, by Rajaram PandaLittle over a month ago, on 13 July 2021 Japan issued the Ministry of Defense’s “Defense of Japan” white paper. Before analysing its content, it may be instructive to know its significance and what does it mean in the context of Japan’s Self (...) -
Quad meets the “Saigon moment” | M K Bhadrakumar
27 August 2021, by M K BhadrakumarAugust 26, 2021
The regional tour of Southeast Asia by the US Vice-President Kamala Harris got inundated with the tsunami of criticism over the United States’ frantic efforts to complete the evacuation out of Kabul Airport by the month-end. (...) -
USA: How Animal Rights Moved From Soggy Leaflets and Skateboards to a Movement | Martha Rosenberg
27 August 2021by Martha Rosenberg
In the 1980s, the animal rights movement was a sorry sight. In Chicago, it consisted of three to five activists handing out soggy leaflets in the rain outside a fur store on a Saturday, one also holding his skateboard. No (...) -
Drinot on Birn and Necochea López, ’Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America’
27 August 2021Reviewed by Paulo Drinot
Peripheral Nerve:
Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Raúl Necochea López, eds.
Durham: Duke University Press
2020. 384 pp.
ISBN 978-1-4780-0956-6
A specter is haunting the (...) -
Comrade - 1978 poem by Prabhakar Gangurde Astitva - translated by Gail Omvedt and Bharat Patankar
27 August 2021by Prabhakar Gangurde Astitva, Aurangabad, 1978
Don’t expect revolution from those living corpses, comrade. First you become their beacon. The revolution that will flash like lightning and not be extinguished in any storm is still far far away. (...) -
Women of Afghanistan | Badri Raina
27 August 2021, by Badri RainaAugust 24, 2021
Listening to you, How my male genius is rebuked By your brilliance, Women of Afghanistan; And how ignorant and frightened Those that call themselves Taliban.
Can it be God’s will that Such imbeciles have rule Over your lives? Have (...) -
An Afghan Woman Speaks | Sagari Chhabra
27 August 2021, by Sagari ChhabraLong years ago, the British ruled, They declared: ‘the sun never sets on our Empire’, But when they left, they set off such a fire, Over a million people perished in that ire. The Partition was South Asia’s Holocaust, Yet no one asked, While our (...)
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