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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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Twenty-five years on, the euro has handed them victory BY THOMAS FAZI . Thomas Fazi is an UnHerd columnist and translator. His latest book is The Covid Consensus, co-authored with Toby Green. battleforeurope January 3, 2024 On January 1, as the European Union ushered in another year of economic chaos and not-so-distant wars, no one was in the mood to…
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Justice Sanghi discusses how he came to deal with PILs related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the misconceptions surrounding long court vacations and more. Justice Vipin Sanghi Prashant Jha Published on: 06 Jan 2024, 9:26 am 12 min read Having been a judge for the better part of 17 years, Justice Vipin Sanghi was one of the longest serving…
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Girls and women’s access to and experience of education is obstructed by male-preferencing power structures that guide perceptions about domestic labour, marriage, and safety. In January 2020, the United Nations Children’s Fund published a report revealing that, globally, one in three “adolescent girls from the poorest households has never been to school.” The report noted a trend…
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Socially necessary labor should entitle us to respect, decent pay, and safe conditions—not a duty to work relentlessly, without complaint.Elizabeth AndersonFall 2023 In March 2020, most of the governors in the United States issued stay-at-home orders for all but “essential workers”—people involved in providing services necessary to support basic human needs. The public hailed essential…
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Taking on such charged and sensitive topics in this series also means that almost everyone will find something to dislike in it. Informed disagreement is of course fine and necessary for better scholarship. HISTORYVIDEO22 HOURS AGO The story of India is one of profound and continuous change. It has been shaped by the dynamic of…
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