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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
There are, in effect, two Africas. One is the version that dominates global headlines: a continent defined by poverty, disease, and conflict. The other is the Africa I came to know firsthand—a dynamic, hardworking society of men and women striving for a better future.
In these troubling times, when many countries experience the unlimited abuse of people’s civil liberties, it is useful to remember the value of individual acts of human courage.
The tide of anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish sentiment throughout the world, which seems to be on the rise, demands a historical revision of relations between Muslims and Jews. An almost forgotten episode during World War II can shed light on this issue.
This year’s September 23 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, whom Gabriel Garcia Marquez called “the greatest poet of the 20th century — in any language.”
The world is desperate for peace. Many see war as an opportunity for profit, and not as the abdication of the human spirit it truly is. In the meantime, millions of lives continue to be lost and families irreparably destroyed, while the mercenaries of war increase their profits.
One consequence of the ever-evolving COVID-19 pandemic is increasing levels of violence against women of all ages. Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global pandemic that affects the lives of one in three women.
One of the most forceful voices defending the rights of the Guatemalan indigenous population has been Rigoberta Menchú. Born to a poor indigenous family from El Quiché, a rural area in north-central Guatemala, her activism won her international recognition.
The accusation against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for “crimes against humanity” on public health grounds made by Brazilian Congressional panel – many of these crimes mimic the actions and policies of Donald Trump and could be the basis for similar actions against the former U.S. president.
It was in Cuba that Hemingway wrote his iconic novel ‘The Old Man and the Sea’. That book won him the Nobel Prize in October 1954. “This is one prize that belongs to Cuba, because my work was conceived and created in Cuba,” he said.
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