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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
With a clear singing style, subtle innovations and a stress on devotion that transcended faith, Pandit Jasraj (1930-2020) redefined the way the world looked at Hindustani classical music.
While fighting for independence, the fledgling United States looked far away to the Kingdom of Mysore for inspiration.
September 3, 2020 marks 75 years since the Japanese army formally surrendered to China. More than 25 million Chinese civilians and soldiers perished in their struggle against imperialism and fascism, accounting for a full one-third of global fatalities during the Second World War.
Propaganda is vital in times of war because it is absolutely imperative that the people, who often need to make the greatest sacrifices and suffer the most, believe that such a war is justified; and that the “enemy” is sub-human.
A very small elite owns the means of production and finance and that is how they usurp the lion’s share and more of the wealth and income.
We are witnessing the transformation of the regime of democracy, that had brought us the promise of liberté, egalité, fraternité political, social and economic, to its very opposite: the highest concentration of economic, political and therefore social powers ever in history.
Mining companies stand to benefit from one of the amendments being pushed through without proper public consultation.
Big business and Big Pharma dominate our government and public health takes a back seat to the need for private profit.
Before he killed himself, 30-year-old Iraq veteran Danny Holmes would often sit in front of his computer screen looking at photographs of the children killed by the US army during the Iraq war.
It is incumbent upon the state to act and remedy the pernicious influence of caste by eradicating its hierarchies and doing so requires looking at reservation as a component of political equality.
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