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‛The Idea of the “Uyghur Genocide” and the Realities of Xinjiang’: According to the authors, there is no evidence of a policy of physical annihilation of the Uyghur peoples by the Chinese government – the hallmarks of a genocide. Also: ‛Dismissing China’s Repression in Xinjiang: A Reply to Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak’.
‛How Microplastics Threaten Marine Ecosystems and the Food Chain’; ‛Plastics: The “Terrible Debris of Progress”’: Because of the plethora of toxic chemicals added to it, plastics are now associated with the rise of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, reproductive cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
‛Venezuela’s Window of Opportunity for Economic Recovery: Buying Time to Rebuild While Under Siege’: Although progressives are rightly concerned about US-coerced compromises and concessions, it is equally important to understand the resilience of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. Also: ‛What Cannot Be Unlearned: The Defense of the Bolivarian Revolution’.
Passages on women from Eduardo Galeano’s most recent work, “Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History”.
‛Rabindrasangeet in Revolt: Tagore’s Songs and the Politics of Famine’; ‛Bengal Between Tagore and Majoritarianism: The Battle Between Universal Humanism and Communal Nationalism’; ‛Living with Freedom: Rabindranath Tagore and the Courage to Keep the Mind Fearless’.
Against the Brahminical imagination that hardened socially contingent exclusion into a hereditary condition, B.R. Ambedkar proposed Navayana—a new Buddhism—an inheritance transformed by the demands of justice.
Gandhi’s transformative walks, particularly the contrasting Dandi and Noakhali marches, serve as profound reflections on the intersection of personal redemption and political action. The contemporary political landscape in India reveals a troubling disconnection from Gandhi’s principles of truth and nonviolence.
‛Explained: Why Uproar Over Delimitation, More LS Seats Using Women’s Quota as “Cover”’; ‛Christophe Jaffrelot on Delimitation and Modi Govt’s Plans for Centralised “Akhand Bharat”’; ‛Delimitation Could Create Permanent Winners and Losers in Representation’; ‛Ambedkar, Rajaji’s Fears of North-South Divide Resonate in Modi Govt’s Delimitation Agenda’.
‛Not for Failure to Push Bills Through Parliament, Modi Should Have Apologised to Women Over Bigger Failures’; ‛Please, Modi ji, Don’t Shed Tears for India’s Women’; ‛BJP’s “Men’s Reservation Bill” Defeated, But When Will Women’s Reservation Win?’.
‛Notes from Noida’; ‛The Workers Who Keep India’s Cities Running Have a Simple Message – Pay Us Living Wages’; ‛Noida: High Profits, Stagnant Wages, and a City on Edge’; ‛In India, Minimum Wages Exist Only on Paper’.
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