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It is a mere cliché that the Rule of Law is crucially important for efficient functioning of a market economy since timely disposal of property disputes and enforcement of contract form the core of a market (...)
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State of the Rule of Law in Assam: A Real-Life Experience of an ordinary citizen | Sarma and Sunder
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The Irresistible Bell Hooks: A Tribute | Avijit Pathak
28 December 2021, by Avijit PathakTo live fully we would need to let go of our fear of dying. That fear can be addressed by the love of living.
bell hooks
Even though death is normal and inevitable, it is not easy for me to acknowledge that bell hooks is no more amongst us. I (...) -
Assessing General Bipin Rawat - a modern re-incarnation of Bheema ? | Sumanta Banerjee
28 December 2021, by Sumanta BanerjeeI have been reading the obituaries on, and reminiscences about, India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Bipin Rawat (who along with his wife and several military personnel, was killed in a helicopter crash on December 7). His life (...) -
An Archeology of Development | Debal Deb
28 December 2021The current notion of development was born of the nineteenth century philosophical ideas of evolutionary progress, combined with the Ernst Haeckel’s ontological development metaphor. Soon after its origins, the notion of development percolated (...) -
Dear PM Modi, Aurangzeb Rule Was Also the Rule of Hindu High Castes! | Shamsul Islam
28 December 2021, by Shamsul IslamNarendra Modi, a senior swayamsevak (member) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, long back in 2013 when he occupied the office of chief minister of Gujarat, declared himself to be a ‘Hindu nationalist’. As the PM of the largest democratic-secular (...) -
Book Review: A Classic on Bangladesh Liberation War | M R Narayan Swamy
28 December 2021, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
Bangladesh War: Report from Ground Zero
Manas Ghosh
Niyogi Books
Pages: 220; Price: Rs 695
Pakistan’s military carried out a stinking genocide in East Pakistan in 1971, with the Chinese becoming accomplices in the mass (...) -
New Year | Ajit Das
28 December 2021‘The Year’s doors open
like those of language towards the unknown’.
‘January First’ by Octavio Paz
New Year
And, once again, we sketch a roadmap to enter the unknown, drawing on the balance sheet of the year fading into history (...) -
’Myanmar’s military coup redux’ | David I Steinberg
28 December 2021by David I Steinberg *
For the fourth time since Myanmar’s independence in 1948, the Tatmadaw (military) has reasserted its control. On 1 February 2021, on the cusp of inaugurating a new parliament from the 2020 national elections, the Tatmadaw (...) -
Left Smiles in Chile | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
28 December 2021by Bhabani Shankar Nayak *
In the age of rising tide of neoliberal authoritarianism and populist reactionary religious politics, the electoral victory of left brings smiles to all progressive forces beyond Chile. The people of Chile defeated (...) -
UK: ’Spend money on the NHS - not nuclear subs’ | Philip Gilligan
28 December 2021News and Star - The Cumberland News December, 12 2021
SINCE September, local Conservative politicians have seemed very eager to praise the new military pact known as AUKUS.
They are apparently unconcerned that the US and UK will be assisting (...)
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