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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In West Papua, four out of ten women have been subjected to Indonesian state violence. And, since no kind of violence exists alone, it’s no accident that rape violence occurs in regions with “strategic” extractive industries like mining, oil palm plantations, aloe wood, and fishing.
The daily rise in the global coronavirus cases and deaths, as well as U.S. coronavirus cases and deaths, remind you daily that we live in a deeply wounded land on a deeply wounded planet and that, no matter the fate of Covid-19, it’s only likely to get worse.
Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Plaza de Armas in the capital of Paraguay to demand the resignation of far-right president Mario Abdo Benítez over his poor handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the deepening economic crisis.
The Korean War, which broke out on June 25, 1950, can be considered the epicenter of bombing as an instrument of war. But with North Korea too developing nuclear capability, this potential equalization puts Korea at the center of the murderous history of bombing.
The author analyses the utility of the genre for both reactionary and progressive politics.
Sahir Ludhianvi is one of the most cherished progressive poetic geniuses in the galaxy of Indian literary and culture firmament.
Unsung hero of freedom struggle who was brave enough to defy Hitler in his own land.
March 25 is the 90th death anniversary of this great freedom fighter, editor, worker and peasant leader, also deeply committed social reformer who sacrificed his life at the age of 40 while trying to stop communal violence and rescue persons from both communities trapped in it.
On what would have been his 80th birthday, a reflection on the late Palestinian poet’s extraordinarily abundant, deeply humane and brilliantly kaleidoscopic work.
Conscience is the inner voice that sustains your humanity. The author wonders how the Indian legal system treats the Narmada Dam and atomic energy as examples of sustainability. Ethics in Law Schools is treated like a hobby. We need to revitalise the subject, he argues.
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