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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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It’s the End of the Neoliberal Era, and We Still Don’t Know What Neoliberalism Is Politics is filled with words that mean different things in different mouths, but “neoliberalism” is an especially tangled case. JESSE WALKER | FROM THE MARCH 2022 ISSUE It wouldn’t be entirely accurate to say that no one knows what the hell neoliberal means. Plenty of…
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Hamas has launched an unprecedented attack against Israel, taking aim at the apartheid and colonial regime that has subjugated Palestinians for 75 years. Western reaction and media coverage of the attack have emphasized the fallibility of Israel’s military apparatus as well as Hamas’s tactics, which have not distinguished between military and civilian targets. Few Western…
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By Dr. Kai-Alexander Schlevogt – October 18, 2023 Will justice prevail for the first time in the new multicentric world order? A short manual for damage control in the Middle East Humankind is on the edge of an extremely dangerous military and moral precipice. It faces the prospect of internationally approved and widely applauded genocide (the…
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From the Emergency to the Present Day Keeping Up the Good Fight From the Emergency to the Present Day Prabir Purkayastha 978-93-92018-97-8 LeftWord Books, New Delhi, 2023 Language: English 230 pages 5.5 x 8.5 inches Price INR 425.00 ADD TO CART View CartJoin BookClub Book Club Price INR 298.00 ‘A timely memoir from an Indian journalist under siege.’…
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The Paperclip Name an Indian war hero who became a legend not only in his home but more so in a foreign land. So much so that when local people commemorate their ancestors, they remember him in every prayer. Read on to know who he is. 1/15 Qingming Festival, otherwise known as the Tomb-Sweeping Day…
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