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The Syrian government has been keen to deepen its normalisation process with Israel. There is also no conversation anywhere about protection of the Alawi and Christian minorities, who have taken the brunt of the attacks by the government-led forces.
‘Gauri Lankesh: Writer, Fighter, Speaker, Friend’: An excerpt from “I Am on the Hit List: Murder and Myth-Making in South India”. Also a poem by Shivasundar in Gauri Lankesh’s memory on the eighth anniversary of her assassination.
‘Democracy on a Precipice’: Modi and Shah have turned their attention to the last freedom that remains: the right to decide who will rule through free and fair elections; ‘In Numbers: Making Sense of the 130th Constitution Amendment Bill’.
With processes like the revision of electoral rolls and the NRC, the State is going further down the path of sorting out who can and cannot belong in New India.
The NCERT has released a ‘Special Module’ titled as ‘Partition Horrors’, as a supplementary resource for Classes 6 to 8. It is actually not supplementary resource material for searching the guilty men / organisations for Partition of India as claimed but presents an altogether sectarian narrative as per the wishes of NCERT’s RSS masters.
Who wants to understand Syeda Hameed’s pain today? Does India still have the desire to listen to someone like her?
This interview with biographer-historian Abhishek Choudhary, author of a major new work on A.B. Vajpayee, dismantles the liberal nostalgia that paints Vajpayee as a Nehruvian moderate, portraying instead a leader whose compromises and ideological loyalties helped clear the path for the unapologetic majoritarianism of today.
‘The Bully in Donald Trump’s Bully Pulpit – How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power’; ‘Kennedy’s Firing of CDC Director: A Coup Against Science and Public Health’; ‘The Trump Administration: White Supremacy in Action’; and: ‘Like Dictators of the Past, Trump is Building a Private Army’.
An interview with Wolfgang Streeck, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, and one of Europe’s foremost social thinkers, about German politics and society.
On the final day of the Second Pan-American Congress held in Mexico, more than 60 delegates from 12 countries sent an unambiguous message: The peoples and the elected representatives of this hemisphere are ready to act to confront the global threat of fascism.
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