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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
It is the blatant objectification of women in these tweets that is deeply troublesome, and not merely because women such as I don’t prefer our appearance being compared to poorly prepared Indian food items. The plea, rather, is against the sermon by men on what ‘completes’ a woman’s look.
The concept of ‘cumulative radicalisation’ given by the British historian, Sir Ian Kershaw, to explain the horrors of Nazi Germany is a useful mechanism to explain India’s plunge towards the kind of violence and persecution that has been the hallmark of the Narendra Modi regime.
The majority in India must talk about its insensitivity to the pain of those it considers ‘others’.
In the name of spurring ‘growth’ and ‘employment’ the Modi government has decisively reduced taxes levied on big business while increasing the burden on common people through direct and indirect taxation.
Powerful narratives envelop India’s deeply troubled relationships with Pakistan and China. Fundamentally, these narratives are stories about the way things ought to be. They may help make decisions easier for leaderships that lack erudition but the consequences of such decisions can be deleterious.
Trade unions and people’s movements have called for strikes and mass protests in response to the coup by the Sudanese military on Monday morning.
In 2019, a right-wing coup deposed Bolivia’s elected government. But the people fought back — and now the socialist government they elected in its place is more popular than ever.
In 2004, the US launched a whole new strategy of financial war, with the creation of the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, to utilise Washington’s financial leverage, based on the global domination of the U.S. dollar, to cut off the economic circulation of targeted states.
The process of seeking justice for the victims of Nazism has been long and difficult, but at least it’s still pursued. The process of seeking justice for the victims of Powell, Rumsfeld and other architects of the Iraq war that led to deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis hasn’t even begun.
She is a single journalist working mostly alone, without institutional support, and largely for international publications. This makes her particularly vulnerable, but also more determined.
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