Baffling Silence Over Bankim-da’s Bigotry
In the dogmatic scheme of things then,‘Vande Mataram’ was more of a religious war cry to establish Hindu glory, before it became a political chant for freedom against the British.
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Pity, Contempt and Identity: The Difference Between the Hijab and the Ghoonghat
Both are oppressive tools but the Islamic veil becomes a catch-22 for the Muslim woman caught between patriarchy and prejudice.
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The Menstrual Leave Debate; Karnataka Govt Clears Menstrual Leave Policy: Welcome Step, But Very Few Women Will Benefit – 3 Articles
‘The Menstrual Leave Debate and the Silence Around Women’s Health in India’; ‘Karnataka Govt Clears Menstrual Leave Policy, Women Can Take One Paid Day Off Every Month’; ‘Left Behind: The Women Missing from India’s Period Leave Conversation’.
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Capitalism | India | Online Blog | Socialism
Why India’s Doctors Leave for Foreign Shores While Cuba’s Serve Their Poorest
India’s medical education system prepares a workforce that learns early to value personal profit over their patient’s well-being.
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The Legacy of the Progressive Writer’s Association Needs to be Reclaimed; In Memory of Urdu Poet Josh Malihabadi – 2 Articles
‘The Legacy of the Progressive Writer’s Association Needs to be Reclaimed’: Reviving the PWA’s activist legacy requires reconnecting art and literature to real struggles, confronting injustice, and defending truth, resistance and solidarity. Also: ‘Urdu Poet Josh Malihabadi (1898-1982) was a Fiery Voice of Freedom’.
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Why U.S. Action in the Western Hemisphere Now?; Understanding the U.S.’s New National Security Strategy – 2 Articles
‘Why U.S. Action in the Western Hemisphere Now?’: Progressives must stand and fight against brutal and inhumane U.S. border policies and the establishment of concentration camps. Also: ‘Understanding the U.S.’s New National Security Strategy’.
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China’s Arms Control White Paper Reconfigures Global Security Governance
China’s newly released White Paper, “China’s Arms Control, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation in the New Era,” is not simply a catalogue of policies. It is a strategic text that reveals how Beijing intends to shape the governance of the domains that will define global security in the decades ahead.
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Capitalism | Online Blog | USA
War Comes Home to the USA … Again
I stare blankly at the news. Little men with guns once again stir the country – the world – into a state of shock and grief and chaos. Attention: Every last one of us is vulnerable to being eliminated… randomly.
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Pinochetism Returns to Power in Chile – 2 Articles
‘Pinochetism Returns to Power in Chile’; and: ‘Chile Swerves to the Right and into the Past’: How well the Chilean opposition responds to this sobering defeat will determine whether Mr. Kast truly represents an ominous swerve toward the world’s current desolate panorama of would-be dictators, or whether he proves a mere parenthetical in Chile’s erratic but perpetual advance toward freedom and justice.
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The Beast’s Bargain: Arab States, Israel and the Price of ‘Peace’
When peace is demanded from the weak and defined by the strong, it ceases to be peace at all – it becomes submission disguised as justice.
