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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Remembering Deshbandhu: a leader with enormous mass appeal, a pragmatic and a tactful politician, a legendary legal practitioner, a constitutionalist, a poet, an editor and an ambassador for Hindu-Muslim unity.
Remembering Lumumba on the 60th anniversary of his assassination by Congolese leaders complicit with Belgian police and soldiers. Lumumba was only 35 years old and could have played a very important role in his country, in Africa and at a global level.
Made 95 years ago, Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece hasn’t lost any of its power.
Since my retirement in 1993 I have been living in the village of Bhaimala in Raigad District, and greening the land. That has made me understand the harsh realities of farming and led me to support the issues our farmers are today struggling to highlight.
The culture of the farmers’ protest is an extraordinary tableau that tells us what republican values look like.
The distinguished food and trade policy analyst says that it is high time we looked at the travails of 600 million people who are involved with farming with more understanding and empathy.
Women are people with an inalienable right to live the fullest of lives. Everything that prevents their life from being lived to the fullest extent of freedom, is a form of violence.
The pandemic is not responsible for the unemployment crisis in the country, it has only worsened it. An estimation of the extent of unemployment in the country before the pandemic struck.
Even while the real economy remains in contractionary mode, not only have stock market returns exploded, but India’s stock of foreign exchange reserves have registered record-breaking increases. Nevertheless, the economic crisis is all set to worsen.
It has aimed its battering ram at the Indian Parliament, Indian federalism, the Indian press and Indian civil society organisations.
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