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The current turbulence signified an abortive attempt at colour revolution in Kazakhstan, which boomeranged. CSTO forces, led by a tough seasoned general, quickly moved in to protect “strategic assets”. Presumably, such assets will include Pentagon-funded labs in Kazakhstan.
On Sept 20, 2001, President Bush declared a “war on terror”. It has meant a 20-year slide to defeat in Afghanistan, a proliferation of militant groups across the Middle East and Africa, and a world-spanning war that has killed about 300 times the number of people murdered in America on 9/11.
Among the many lies the assassin had told in court, the one that endured the most was his claim that he had left the RSS and joined the Hindu Mahasabha.
The Prime Minister thanks Maharani Ahilya Bai Holkar and Maharaja Ranjit Singh for being the inspiration behind the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor Project. However, both of these did not construct the corridor. It was built by Nawab Ali Ibrahim Khan, whom the PM has chosen to ignore.
The pandemic forced a fraction of India’s salaried workers to fall back on self-employment or casual work, or to withdraw from the workforce entirely. It was only the salaried who held secure and regular positions who were able to hold on to their jobs.
According to the currently dominant ideology, the private sector is more competent, efficient, and technologically capable than the public sector, and thus public-private partnerships save public money. An examination of these claims, through the case study of the Delhi Airport Metro.
Even as human vultures of a wide amalgam train their guns on Nehru’s years as Prime Minister, and his role in India’s freedom struggle, what stands out today are many of Nehru’s thoughtful writings, his regular press conferences, and of course his thoughts on freedom of the press and journalists’ rights and freedom.
The geniuses at IIT Kharagpur have come up with a new hoax. They have declared the unicorn that appears on Indus valley seals to be a representation of “sage Risya Sringa” of the Ramayana, thus “proving” that those ancient carvers of the Indus valley seals were one and the same as the Vedic people.
The politics in the country was not as divisive and toxic in the sixties, when I was a child, as it is now. Urdu, for we siblings, was a secular language and not associated with a community or religion.
During the 21st century, the US rulers have turned to a new coup strategy, relying on soft coups, a significant change from the notoriously brutal military hard coups in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and other countries in the 1970s. A list of 27 US-backed coups in the first 21 years of this century.
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