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• Disability, A Lived Experience | Allen David Simon

  18 January
  Excluded, illtreated and left behind
  Although disability rights movement has not registered a presence in India, it has undoubtably made significant progress in the lives of persons with disability, pushing a more disabled-friendly policy  (...)

• Manmohan Singh’s Contribution to India’s Rightward Drift | Arun Kumar

  18 January, by Arun Kumar
  A shorter version of this article appeared in The Wire on January 5, 2025. Titled, ‘If Manmohan Singh had been more Firm, the Right may not have been as Dominant as it is Today’
  Glowing tributes have been paid to Dr. Manmohan Singh at his death.  (...)

• Battle of ideas, not battle of leaflets | Ash Narain Roy

  18 January, by Ash Narain Roy
  US President-elect Donald Trump’s “first buddy” Elon Musk has become what Guardian columnist Alexander Hurst calls a “one-man rogue state.” It is not clear who is basking in whose reflected glory. The tech billionaire is the de facto leader of the  (...)

• Free Speech: A Matter of Debate | Suranjita Ray

  18 January, by Suranjita Ray
  The recent news headlines on the display of the book ‘The Satanic Verses’ by Salman Rushdie - as the hot new item at Bahrisons Booksellers at Khan Market in Delhi remind us of 1988, when the book was banned in India by the Rajiv Gandhi government.  (...)

• Navigating the Irony of Exceptionalism and Status Dilemma in the India-US-China Strategic Triangle | Musssaib Rasool Mir, Santosh Kumar

  18 January
  Abstract
  A complex interaction of exceptionalism and status dilemma characterizes the international relations of three crucial countries India-US-China. While China aims to restructure the global order around its economic supremacy and  (...)

• A Christmas Carol For Our Times / Where Lies Hope | Sagari Chhabra

  18 January, by Sagari Chhabra
  A Christmas Carol For Our Times
  Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer had a shiny nose, and in the dark every one swore it glowed! All the children made fun of Rudolph and his nose, so the story goes; never included him in their games, which is an  (...)

• We want violence | Rahul Ray

  18 January, by Rahul Ray
  No matter what we say We want violence More violence, more, more, and more, Pile up, please.
  We pray to God every day Please, You, almighty Shower us with not peace, but violence. Peace is for the feeble in heart We mighty humans have a stomach  (...)

• Beyond the “growth” doctrine | Yavor Tarinski

  18 January
  “Society has been locked into thought dominated by progressivist growth economics; the tyranny of these has made imaginative thinking outside the box impossible. […] But our ever-increasing consumption is not sustainable; sooner or later we will  (...)
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  AIFUCTO Demands tha UGC withdraw the Draft UGC regulation 2025

  18 January
  All India Federation of University & College Teachers’ Organisations (AIFUCTO)
  Patna/New Delhi 15 January 2025
  PRESS RELEASE
  All India Federation of University & College Teachers’ Organisations (AIFUCTO) opposes Draft UGC (Minimum qualification  (...)
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  Radical Socialist Statement on the Latest Deal Between Israel and Hamas

  18 January
  The latest Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the envoys of both Biden and Trump that is to start on January 19th has been accepted by Hamas but still has to get formal Israeli Cabinet approval because some far-right  (...)

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