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2021 was a year of war, loss and destruction for Palestinians. Yet, it was also a year of unity, cultural achievements and hope, as a new generation is finally taking center stage, asserting its identity and its centrality to the future of its homeland.
This exchange appeared in the September 1961 issue of Monthly Review. The questions were submitted, in writing, to Comandante Guevara by Leo Huberman during the week of the Bay of Pigs invasion; the answers were received at the end of June.
When people refer to Indian “tradition” they assume it was fixed for thousands of years. But that is not true. Hindu wedding rituals contain ideas from Harappan and Vedic times, to practices that came with the Greeks, Sakas, Kushan, Huns, Turks, Afghans, Persians, Arabs, even Europeans. Over time, the concept of marriage changed as did the rituals.
This study covers the period from the 15th to the 21st century, focusing on the dramatic effects of capitalist globalisation.
UP CM Yogi Adityanath’s closure of abattoirs, meat shops has left butchers without livelihood, animal rearers have been forced to end their business and consumers have been forced to reduce or stop eating meat. Despite an Allahabad high court order, most major UP cities do not have authorised state-run slaughterhouses.
With a surge in Covid-19 cases, private hospitals in Mumbai are seeing a rise in admissions for the monoclonal antibody treatment, despite many patients not needing it. The hospitals are making large, easy profits on the treatment.
The informal sector is not made up of tax dodgers but largely of enterprises struggling to survive. It will take a structural transformation for the informal to become formal. The recent contraction of the informal was only a pandemic-induced shock.
India’s conservation laws, based on pseudoscience, have criminalised people’s defence against marauding wildlife. Democratically-constituted local bodies empowered to protect nature will be a more just way of nursing our heritage to a healthy state.
We Indians have never understood the mandate of the Constitution either as one for Indianization or a destruction of legal pluralism and personal laws as long as they are not inconsistent with the composite constitutional value-system. Instead of a call to further constitutionalize, any call to Indianize or decolonize is a fallacy, if not a fraud on the Constitution.
An aggressive campaign is under way to rehabilitate VD Savarkar as a legendary Indian nationalist and great freedom fighter who spent 50 years in the Cellular Jail. A comparison of these claims with the writings of Savarkar and record of his activities available in archival records.
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