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RSS at 100: Can Akhand Bharat be Reimagined?
India’s progress depends on fostering Hindu–Muslim harmony and healing. Does the RSS have the imagination to shed its exclusionary ideas?
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Which Hindi Do We Speak Anyway?
The battle has always been about “purifying” Hindi, stripping it of foreignness, limiting its vernacular inclusions.
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Historian Richard Eaton: ‘Mughals Were Not a Foreign Empire’; NCERT Seeking to Erase Their History – 2 Articles
‘“Absolutely Wrong to See Mughals as a Foreign Empire”: Historian Richard Eaton’: Calling the Mughals a foreign empire is like calling America a foreign empire. The author also points out that it is impossible to rid India today of their influence. Also: ‘Erasing the Mughals: NCERT’s Assault on Truth and Memory’.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 4 A-B: Education During the Modi Years, 2014–25
The sixth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the impact of the Modi Government’s policies on the school education system since it came to power in 2014, especially the impact of NEP-2020
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Sri Lanka’s Austerity is One of the Most Severe in History
Sri Lanka has undergone one of the sharpest and fastest episodes of austerity in history, driven by a massive retrenchment in public investment and the suppression of real wages, according to a World Bank report.
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Trump’s Imperialist Offensive in Latin America; Why is Venezuela Targeted – 2 Articles
‘The Restoration of the Monroe Doctrine and Trump’s Imperialist Offensive in Latin America’: The world has watched in shock as US foreign policy under President Trump has grown increasingly unilateral and aggressive. Also: ‘Venezuela Targeted Because it is the “Poster Child of Everything the U.S. Empire Fears”: Ben Norton’.
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Trump Uses Kirk Killing to Declare War on the Left
Having neither a subject in custody nor any confirmation of the motive of a shooter didn’t stop President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening from seizing on the killing of Christian nationalist youth leader Charlie Kirk as an excuse for declaring war on the political left.
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Bolsonaro’s Conviction and the Fight Against Amnesty in Brazil
A collective of descendants of former political prisoners weighs in on the historic ruling and the ongoing struggle for truth, justice and accountability.
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The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune: Parts I and II
Afro-Venezuelans discuss syncretism, anti-colonial resistance, and community organization on the southern shore of Lake Maracaibo. First two parts of a four-part article.
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The Prostitutes of Empire: Pakistan’s Generals and the Arab Elite – Two Articles
‘The Prostitutes of Empire: Pakistan’s Generals and Their Gulf Patrons’: There are few spectacles as grotesque as Gaza under bombardment. But if anything can compete with it in sheer offensiveness, it is the sight of Pakistani generals flying off to Riyadh like underpaid mall cops called in to protect a billionaire’s parking lot. Also: ‘Summits for Palaces, Silence for Refugee Camps’.
