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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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An ominous warning from the past Thomas Fazi Jan 4 In December 1948, a group of prominent US Jews, including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, wrote a letter to the New York Times expressing concern over the emergence of the Freedom party (Herut), the forerunner of Likud, Netanyahu’s party. The party was described as “closely…
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Beat our Drums ! C .Subramania Bharathi -7 .3 .1920 ஜய பேரிகை கொட்டடா! பயமெனும பேய்தனை யடித்தோம் – பொய்மைக் பாம்மைப் பிளந்துயிரைக் குடித்தோம்; வியனுல கனைத்தையும் அமுதென நுகரும் வேத வாழ்வினைக் கைப்பிடித்தோம் (ஜய பேரிகை) – – இரவியி னொளி யிடைக் குளித்தோம் – ஒளி இன்னமு தினைக்கண்டு களித்தோம்; கரவினில் வந்துயிர்க் குலத்தினை யழிக்கும் காலன் நடுநடுங்க விழித்தோம் - (ஜய பேரிகை) காக்கை,குருவி எங்கள் ஜாதி – நீள்…
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JANUARY 4, 2024 Michael Armitage (Kenya), The Promised Land, 2019. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The final months of 2023 pierced our sense of hope and threw us into a kind of mortal sadness. Israel’s escalating violence has killed more than twenty thousand Palestinians to date, wiping out entire generations…
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Pointing out linguistic abuses is a perilous business BY TERRY EAGLETON January 4, 2024 What is the most overused word in the English language at present? “Incredible.” Just count how many times it crops up in an evening’s TV viewing. It’s almost never used literally. “Incredible” literally means not to be believed, but when people…
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GURSIMRAN KAUR BAKSHI·JANUARY 2, 2024 Military administration and the unequal hand of law ensure that the lives of civilians in Kashmir sell cheaper than a secret under the Official Secrets Act. — ON December 11, the Supreme Court upheld the Union government’s exercise of de-operationalisation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. The August 5, 2019 abrogation ended the special autonomy of…

