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There is a striking irony in the way Sitaram Yechury is being remembered today.
K A Shaji in Facebook Pinarayi Vijayan and the Kerala CPI(M) leadership speak of Yechury as a towering communist, an exceptional parliamentarian and a great defender of secular India. But when Yechury was alive, the CPI(M) unit in Kerala, by then firmly under Pinarayi Vijayan’s iron grip, was among the strongest forces resisting him. This…
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Yemen has shaken the trajectory of Israel’s Gaza war by attacking ships en route to the occupation state. The US and its allies now threaten to establish a naval task force in response, a move that is likely to backfire and stoke even more conflict. Khalil Harb DEC 18, 2023 Photo Credit: The Cradle Instead…
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The outcome of US-led conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia will have a profound impact on the developing world order. Washington has already lost the former, and its major adversaries are vested in making sure it loses the latter too. MK Bhadrakumar JAN 2, 2024 Photo Credit: The Cradle Geopolitical analysts broadly agree that the…
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In more than one instance, Muslims in rural Maharashtra have found the local police unwilling and hostile when asked to register complaints about Hindus attacking them. They say the cops are quick to book Muslims for alleged crimes with alacrity, but they have to fight and plead for the same privilege when they are attacked…
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Gramsci’s animality By Andy Merrifield (Posted Jan 04, 2024) Originally published: Andy Merrifield Blog on January 1, 2024 (more by Andy Merrifield Blog) Culture, Ecology, Environment, IdeologyGlobalCommentaryAntonio Gramsci, Featured One of the central “living” attractions of Testaccio’s Non-Catholic cemetery is its stray cats, a colony of twenty-five or so semi-feral moggies. We know from old paintings of the nearby Pyramid, especially those by…
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What would Gandhi have thought of a serving chief justice making public visits to temples and giving interviews about it? Ramachandra Guha Jan 08, 2024 · 07:30 am Like most of my readers, I begin the day by reading the newspapers, in my case online and then in print. On Sunday, January 7, the first…
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