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On June 6, 2019, the second anniversary of the Mandsaur firing, in which six farmers were reportedly killed after the police opened fire, thousands of farmers from across the nation, under the banner of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Samiti (AIKSS), a platform of 208 farmers’ organisations, gathered in Takrawad village, Mandsaur district, Madhya Pradesh…
Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was assassinated on 17 January 1961. This heinous crime was a culmination of two inter-related assassination plots by American and Belgian governments, which used Congolese accomplices and a Belgian execution squad to carry out the deed. Ludo De Witte,…
Modesty is not a virtue of the media in the pixel age, in which preening is a 24×7 pastime. There is neither a demand for it from consumers, nor a supply of it from the practitioners. Equilibrium has been achieved in the marketplace of the mind. Even so, while print, electronic and digital news purveyors…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was adamant—just hours after it happened—that the explosions on two Norwegian and Japanese oil tankers were the responsibility of Iran. Iran did this, he said, and Iran would have to pay the price. The United States government offered no evidence for this claim, apart from a grainy video that…
Press Statement, June 19, 2019 [Institutions associated with prominent freedom fighters Abbas Tyabji and Mahavir Tyagi—the Abbas Tyabji Educational and Charitable Trust and The Mahavir Tyagi Foundation for Political and Economic Decency—have issued the following statement.] The encephalitis scourge has been affecting east Uttar Pradesh and Bihar (India) for decades. The death roll this year…
“How many wickets”, asked Mangal Pandey, Health Minister of Bihar during a press conference to know the current status of India–Pakistan clash in the ongoing Cricket World Cup. It is just that he asked the question in the middle of a meeting of health department to tackle the outbreak of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in…
When the saffron brigade had laid siege to the Bababudangiri Dargah in Karnataka, calling it the ‘Ayodhya of the South’, journalist Gauri Lankesh mobilised writers and intellectuals to rally against the Hindutva surge in the historical site. In this piece published on December 3, 2003 in Lankesh Patrike, Gauri had recalled how Girish Karnad had…
“One has to be alive to be a patriot,” former Indian health secretary K Sujatha Rao wrote on Twitter on May 13, 2019, referring to election debates that focussed on issues of “nationalism and terror and not health”. The data back Rao’s assertion of misplaced priorities. In 2017, terrorism claimed the lives of 766 Indians,…
Millions of people in Sudan have joined a general strike called by Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), shutting down the centres of cities across the country despite a wave of arrests and intimidation. The SPA, which led the protests that overthrew former president Omar al-Bashir in April, has been demanding that the Transitional Military Council that…
Letter to Editor Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in his address to Aligarh Muslim University on 24th January, 1948, hoped, “I wish to say that, in spite of everything, I have a firm faith in India’s future. . . . Although many of my old dreams have been shattered by recent events, yet the basic objective still…
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