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  • Farmer hounded by loan sharks to sell kidney

    A Facebook community and a WhatsApp group set Roshan Kule on the road from Chandrapur to Cambodia, via Kolkata. PARI investigates. The Minthur series: Part II – Organ Trafficking Author Jaideep Hardikar Editor Harshita Kalyan Photo Editor Binaifer BharuchaSee all credits On his modest smartphone, Roshan Sadashiv Kule opens his Facebook account and scrolls through…

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  • The brutality in Gaza rekindles the horrible memories of women in war

    DEVANSHI BATRA AND SHRIYA SHARMA·MARCH 15, 2024 The weaponisation of women’s bodies and sexuality in conflict is as old as war itself and leaves permanent scars that are more insidious due to their invisibilisation.  — IN the harrowing theater of conflict, amidst the chaos and carnage of warfare, there exists a weapon more insidious than any bullet or…

  • Pankaj Mishra on Israel, Gaza and the Holocaust

    Russel Brand & Pankaj Mishra (as posted on Twitter (now X) on Dec 2, 2017) Many years ago, I stopped buying The London Review of Books because under Mary-Kay Wilmers it consistently published articles which criticised Israel and didn’t attempt to balance these with articles supporting Israel. So, I wasn’t surprised to see that the LRB has just published…

  • October Revolution: The first general recognition of women’s equality in history

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press  on March 10, 2024 by Armağan Tulunay (more by Defend Democracy Press)  |  (Posted Mar 11, 2024) Culture, Feminism, Movements, RevolutionsEurope, Russia, Soviet Union (USSR)Newswire Take the position of women. In this field, not a single democratic party in the world, not even in the most advanced bourgeois republic, has done in decades so much as a hundredth…

  • In a new book, economist Kaushik Basu recalls his struggle with mental health as a college student

    An excerpt from ‘Reason to Be Happy: The Unexpected Benefits of Thinking Clearly’, by Kaushik Basu. Kaushik Basu Feb 29, 2024 · 08:30 am I consider myself a person of generally happy disposition, with few anxieties, who enjoys the company – of both men and women – and who is fortunate to have stumbled upon…

  • US probing Adani Group over potential bribery, company denies foul

    1 min read 16 Mar 2024, 06:40 AM ISTJoin us Livemint , Written By Shivangini The investigation, led by the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and the Justice Department’s fraud unit in Washington, is probing whether an Adani entity is linked to the company was involved in paying officials in India for favourable…

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