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Although the recent attack on social activist Swami Agnivesh is being widely and strongly condemned, there are many people who, citing some earlier incidents involving Swami ji, perceive the attack as an inevitable and normal culmination. This is definitely most unfortunate. Those who do not agree with his earlier or present views and actions were,…
FCRA Amended to Condone Illegal Foreign Funding to BJP, Congress; Challenged in Supreme Court The Modi government used Budget 2018 to once again give the BJP and Congress a get-out-of-jail card for having illegally accepted funding from foreign companies. The parties got a free pass for violations of the law going back 40 years. In…
Nicaragua Defeats the Not-So-Soft Coup The July 19, 2018 demonstration in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, is a massive celebration of the coup’s defeat and a categorical vindication of President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista government’s efforts for peace in the country. On July 19, hundreds of thousands of people from across Nicaragua converged on the capital…
Are Africans Made to Feel Unwelcome in India? The Madras Courier of July 17, 2018 carried an article with the above caption giving the first hand experiences of some Africans. In response to that article I felt like writing my comments. In a historical–anthropological perspective, people with an African background have been living in India…
by David Schultz Democracy across the world is under siege. The latest Freedom House report that documents this for 2017 says, “democracy faced its most serous crisis in decades”, as seventy-one countries experienced declines in freedom or fair government, including the United States, and only thirty-five an improvement. This was the twelfth consecutive year of…
Shujaat Bukhari’s Notebook Shujaat Bukhari Shujaat Bukhari was among the most informed and least exultant Kashmiri journalists I have met. He let his incorrigible smile and straight reporting do the talking. He was shot dead on Thursday evening outside the Srinagar office of the Rising Kashmir newspaper, of which he was editor. There is predictable…
Prof. Keshav Rao Jadhav: A Man of Courage, Conviction and Commitment Prof. Keshav Rao Jadhav Prof. Keshav Rao Jadhav, a prominent socialist thinker and leader, passed away on 16 June 2018 at a hospital in Hyderabad at the age of 86. Prof. Jadhav was running ill for a long time. His funeral took place the…
Chavismo: Part V The Party of the Revolution President Maduro holding potrait of Hugo Chavez in a rally The fifth part of a series of seven articles by Marco Teruggi on Chavismo, the ongoing socialist revolutionary project in Venezuela, that the Venezuelans fondly call Bolivarian revolution. The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). It represents…
It says something about our times that the whole nation was glued to their television sets to watch a former president visiting the birth place of K.B. Hedgewar and the offices of a semi-secret organisation called the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Nearly all news channels ran a live telecast of not only Pranab Mukherjee addressing the…
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