Author: Dilip

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क्या यूपी की राजनीतिक हवा बदल रही है? – UP POLITICS / Why did the Modi government run away from debating the farm laws? / Kisan mahapanchayat in Mumbai calls for BJP's defeat in polls

 क्या यूपी की राजनीतिक हवा बदल रही है?। UP POLITICS । UP ELECTIONS /  क्या यूपी की राजनीतिक हवा बदल रही है?। लगातार आ रहे सर्वे और विभिन्न अंचलों से मिल रही प्रतिक्रिया से लग रहा है कि यूपी की हवा बदल रही है .यह बदलाव बीते एक महीने में ज्यादा महसूस किया जा रहा… Read More क्या यूपी की राजनीतिक हवा बदल रही है? – UP POLITICS / Why did the Modi government run away from debating the farm laws? / Kisan mahapanchayat in Mumbai calls for BJP's defeat in polls

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Book review: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece is finally appearing

In the mid-1970s, exiled from the Soviet Union for exposing its vast crimes against humanity, and having won the Nobel Prize in Literature for that endeavor, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) turned his back on the lionization that awaited him in New York and other cultural capitals of the West and instead settled with his family in… Read More Book review: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece is finally appearing

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Jill Lepore: Is society coming apart?

Forging stronger bonds in a post-pandemic world… will require acts of moral imagination that are not part of any political ideology or mission statement, but are functions of the human condition: tenderness, compassion, longing, generosity, allegiance and affection. These are the only answers to loneliness, alienation, dislocation and disintegration. But the fullest expression of these functions…… Read More Jill Lepore: Is society coming apart?

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Gordon Brown: A new Covid variant is no surprise when rich countries are hoarding vaccines

Despite the repeated warnings of health leaders, our failure to put vaccines into the arms of people in the developing world is now coming back to haunt us. We were forewarned – and yet here we are. In the absence of mass vaccination, Covid is not only spreading uninhibited among unprotected people but is mutating,… Read More Gordon Brown: A new Covid variant is no surprise when rich countries are hoarding vaccines

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Aryaman Jain, Irina Cheema – Farmers’ Movement in India: A Moment for Collective Introspection / Gallery: One Year of Kisan Andolan

With the Narendra Modi government, the American empire finally has at India’s helm, a reliable handyman unperturbed by factors such as the sufferings of common people. What previous governments since 1991 had failed to deliver… Modi has delivered with decisiveness. Since 2014, the government has dutifully gone about following the diktats of a fraudulent ranking… Read More Aryaman Jain, Irina Cheema – Farmers’ Movement in India: A Moment for Collective Introspection / Gallery: One Year of Kisan Andolan

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Winners of the 2021 Historical Photographer of the Year contest

This annual contest recognizes photos of some of the world’s most historic spots. Click through to see the rest of 2021’s acclaimed images. Entries were judged on “originality, composition and technical proficiency” as well as the context of the image and the story behind it. The year’s overall winner was Steve Liddiard’s image of Wales’ Whiteford… Read More Winners of the 2021 Historical Photographer of the Year contest

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RAJARAMAN SUNDARESAN: How Odisha Government Kept The Public Out Of A Public Hearing For A Bauxite Mine

How is this a public hearing? Who are they hearing? The police or the barbed wires they have put to keep us out?   See video “In Mali Parbat we grow ice, mandia, kaangu (millets), harvest roots, tubers. Because of its mountain streams, our paddy ripens, our millets ripen.  We are able to collect firewood and produce to take… Read More RAJARAMAN SUNDARESAN: How Odisha Government Kept The Public Out Of A Public Hearing For A Bauxite Mine

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BRAD REED: The walls appear to be "rapidly closing in" on Donald Trump / Chris Hedges – America’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy

Investigators are ramping up criminal probes into former President Donald Trump, and two legal experts argue that Trump may not even be able to count on his few remaining lawyers to help him. Writing in the Washington Post, legal experts Donald Ayer and Norm Eisen argue that Trump’s decades-long evasion of legal accountability may now finally be coming to… Read More BRAD REED: The walls appear to be "rapidly closing in" on Donald Trump / Chris Hedges – America’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy

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