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Happiness In its Living Social Context | Kobad Ghandy
4 February 2023, by Kobad GhandyHappiness has many interpretations. The first is the vulgar materialist approach to it, where we seek happiness for ourselves in luxuries, consumer products, personal gratifications of various types, etc. - most of these with a selfish (...) -
Is The BBC Documentary: Much Ado About Nothing? | Papri Sri Raman
4 February 2023, by Papri Sri RamanPOOR BBC. THE Left never liked the BBC. Its offences include the cold war reporting, Vietnam, North Korea, China, reporting of so many events. The Afghans would tune in to BBC to learn about how many Soviet battalions had retreated and how soon (...) -
Fasting Himalayan activist draws scorn from insensitive Modi government | K Raveendran
4 February 2023by K Raveendran
(India Press Agency, January 31, 2023) Even the British succumbed to the moral pressure of Satyagraha, but that is not the case with the present day Indian rulers, who have responded to a fast by a Magsaysay award winner to (...) -
Lessons unlearned from India’s online schooling emergency | Dipanjan Chakraborty
4 February 2023by Dipanjan Chakraborty *
The poor miss out when teaching goes online, leaving millions without proper education.
Millions of children in India may never return to school following the severe disruptions of rolling COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 and (...) -
Remembering Respected Shanti Bhushan, My First Teacher in Law Practice | Aurobindo Ghose
4 February 2023, by Aurobindo GhoseTributes to respected Shanti Bhushan-ji, a tall lawyer, great teacher, and humble leader! Instrumental in dethroning Indira Gandhi, gathering of forces for the post-Emergency Janata Party, and bringing AAP and Kejriwal to the political (...) -
As Morning Light Glows in the Eastern Sky | Lakshmi Rameshwar Rao
4 February 2023A Future of White
If a past is grey and circumstances seem black, A future of white can well be distilled, If the being fills with light (Haiku, adapted, 2007)
Proof of Rock
Let us go then all of us, As morning light glows in the (...) -
From the Commander of Knowledge | Mohammad Talib
4 February 2023* From the Commander of Knowledge
Olive green judgements. Brass button reflections. Thinking tied around cross belts. To see or not to see, that is the question. Seeing ‘the sea of trouble’** and suffer its ‘slings and arrows’, is banned. ‘Not (...) -
Vietnam’s social insurance dilemma | Tu Phuong Nguyen
4 February 2023by Tu Phuong Nguyen *
February 2, 2023
At the end of 2022, there were reports of long queues of employees in Ho Chi Minh City who had been waiting since dawn at several local offices to claim lump sum payments from their social insurance (...) -
Closure of Moscow Helsinki Group another blow to human rights and civic space in Russia | OHCHR
4 February 2023Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Press release
Comment by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Marta Hurtado on Russia
26 January 2023
The court order to close down Russia’s oldest human rights organization, the Moscow Helsinki (...) -
CPI Demands Thorough Probe into Adani Deals | Press Release Jan 28, 2023
4 February 2023New Delhi, January 28, 2023
Press Release
Communist Party of India Central Office Ajoy Bhavan, 15 Com. Indrajit Gupta Marg, New Delhi 110002
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (January (...)
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