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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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  • Screams from the Army Post

    The Indian Army’s torture and murder of civilians in a restive Jammu JATINDER KAUR TUR 01 February 2024 Zainab Bi, the mother of Safeer, the Intelligence Bureau informer who was tortured and murdered by the Indian Army on 22 December 2023.  SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT {ONE} MIR HUSSAIN’S FAMILY was not a wealthy one, and they did not…

  • Israel’s assault on Gaza is exposing the holes in everything liberal politicians claim to believe

    Nesrine Malik Starmer and Biden see themselves as custodians of stability. But their support for this bloody conflict shows nothing but weaknessMon 12 Feb 2024 06.00 GMT Something odd is happening. A sort of glitch or malfunction. Liberal politicians who refuse to call for a ceasefire in Gaza or halt support for Israel’s assault are…

  • Cinema Paradiso: What Kashmir Lived, Longed for and Whispered of

    Before Kashmir was repression and violence, it was home for experiences and brushes with art. A filmmaker pens down some memories. Kashmir in the 1980s. Photo: Ole Holbech/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED) COMMUNALISMCULTUREFILMHISTORYRIGHTS10/FEB/2024 I don’t know if anyone ever asked Mr. Maniktala if it was alright for the whole neighbourhood to descend on his place…

  • The entry of a new German Left Party shakes up the Country

    By Vijay Prashad (Posted Jan 26, 2024) Ideology, Movements, Philosophy, StrategyEurope, GermanyCommentaryAlliance for Germany (AfD), German parliament (Bundestag) left Die Linke (the Left), Sahra Wagenknecht, Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance for Reason and Justice (Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW)) This article was produced by Globetrotter. In October 2023, 10 members of the German parliament (Bundestag) left Die Linke (the Left) and declared…

  • What We Imagine Knowledge to Be: James Gleick Reads Elizabeth Bishop

    BY MARIA POPOVA “What we see, we see / and seeing is changing,” begins a verse of Adrienne Rich’s stunning science poem that opened the inaugural Universe in Verse. This question of how we wade through the darkness of the unknown to evolve the way we see and understand the world was at the heart of a very different…

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