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‘Eugene V. Debs: Perseverance in the Face of Power’; and: ‘Who Was Eugene Debs?’: Zohran Mamdani’s quoting of Eugene Debs in his recent victory speech (for mayor of New York City) should awaken interest in the man who gained a name for himself as “Mr. Socialism.”
‘The Dawn of a Better Day’; ‘Mamdani’s Victory is a Mandate to Fight the Cost of Living Crisis, Defend Immigrants, and Stop Genocide’; ‘U.S. Voters Hand MAGA a Big Defeat’; ‘The Election’s Big Winner: Socialism’.
‘“New York, This City Belongs to You”: Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech’; ‘Reflections on Mamdami’s Amazing Speech by a Southasian Senior But Not Silent Citizen’: Dear Prime Minister, Home Minister, and those in positions of power—will you listen to this remarkable young man? Will you acknowledge and celebrate his roots in this country?
‘Gaza… A Phoenix Rising from the Ashes of Death’; ‘Faiz’s Wounds That Built Many Palestines’; ‘Lancet Study Shows Over 3 Million Years of Human Life Lost in Israeli Assault on Gaza’.
Catherine Connolly’s resounding victory in the Presidential election is a watershed moment. It is the first time that the left has won a majority of votes in a national election in Ireland.
‘What’s Wrong with BJP’s “Vande Mataram” Campaign’: The right-wing celebrates it precisely because of what secular leaders long denied: the song was born in a novel imagining Muslim annihilation. Also: ‘Bande Mataram Fits the BJP’s Agenda, But its History is Complicated’; ‘Behind the Official Celebration of Vande Mataram is a Reality That Can’t Be Ignored’.
‘Indian Women’s World Cup Winning Team: A Mosaic of Unity in Diversity’: The world champions personified the spirit of unity in diversity, reflecting the very essence of India. Also: ‘A Cricket Victory with Grace and Without Macho Displays of Hyper-nationalism’; ‘Jemimah, You Are the Republic’s Pride’.
For almost last 3 decades now, on every anniversary of the 1984 genocide of Sikhs in India, this author has been reminding the Nation how the Indian State and judiciary did not bother to identify and punish the perpetrators of this horrendous mass killing of the innocents of the second largest religious minority of our country.
The ninth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the opening up of India’s higher education sector to foreign universities under the NEP-2020.
Book Review: ‘Adivasi or Vanvasi: Tribal India and the Politics of Hindutva’, by Kamal Nayan Choubey. Choubey’s study reveals how the VKA uses service delivery to advance a larger agenda: dissolving tribal identity into undifferentiated Hindu majority.
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