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Arjun Sengupta Jawaharlal Nehru was not the only aristocrat who entered politics and joined the struggle for independence in India. There were also others who came from similar background of secure family roots, extravagance and style, and who courted imprisonment, flirted with hardship and enjoyed the luxury of sacrifice. If Nehru was a…
Nino Pagliccia A coup took place in Bolivia on November 10. The fact that the president of the country, Evo Morales, resigned does not contradict the fact that a coup has taken place. Morales was forced by the military to resign. The perpetrators of the Hybrid War were envisioning this same scenario…
Zoe PC It has been five days since the violent, racist coup d’état forced the resignation of President Evo Morales and Vice-president Álvaro García Linera. Since then, the people of Bolivia and the world have remained firm in their resistance against the coup and in defense of Morales and the process of change in…
Nishrin Jafri Hussain I am the daughter of the former Member of Parliament, Ehsan Jaffri, who was brutalised, burnt in his own house and killed on February 28 during the Gujarat violence that took place in the wake of the Godhra incident. It was hard for me even to believe that he is no…
Courtesy: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research [Developed country multinational firms are engaged in plunder of Africa’s resources at a colonial scale, which is to also say that these countries do not have sovereignty over their own resources. Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research recently spoke with Gyekye Tanoh, head of the Political Economy Unit at the…
Sandeep Pandey, Yugal Kishore Shashtri and Lubna Sarwath With the exception of few, every leader of political or social importance is making an appeal to the common people to maintain peace and communal harmony in the wake of Supreme Court judgement in the Ram Janambhumi-Babri Masjid case as part of which the entire 2.77 acres…
Akash Bhattacharya, Debaditya Bhattacharya and Swati Moitra In response to the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s invitation for “inputs and suggestions” from citizens on the Draft National Education Policy (NEP) 2019, we would like to register our observations and opinions on the vision of higher education reform proposed therein. While the former HRD minister’s message…
B. Arjun Six years back, Prime Minister Modi embarked on selling the “great power” dream to the Indian masses. In 2014, Modi announced his intention to make India a “leading power” in the international order. He assumed that the country was in a perfect position to manage global affairs to serve national interests. Many Rashtriya…
Bharat Dogra While social, economic and technological progress has made possible significant improvements in health to a certain extent and within certain limits, at the same time it cannot and should not be ignored that several regressive factors have also been in at work and in some contexts these have been becoming more dangerous…
Fred Magdoff Land grabs—whether initiated by multinational corporations and private investment firms emanating from the capitalist core, sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East, or state entities such as China and India—are now in the news constantly.(1) For example, in July 2013 the Colombian ambassador to the United States resigned over his participation in a…
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