There is a quiet and visible crisis in higher education in India that runs deep: Deepak Nayyar

There is a quiet crisis in higher education in India that runs deep, distinguished academician and former Chief Economic Advisor Deepak Nayyar said here on Wednesday (July 9, 2025), delivering the 2025 B.G. Deshmukh Lecture on ‘The Crisis of Higher Education in India: Disturbing Present and Worrisome Future’. Holding the Narendra Modi government responsible for… Read More There is a quiet and visible crisis in higher education in India that runs deep: Deepak Nayyar

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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians. Turse’s central aim in Kill Anything that Moves is to expose the unparalleled obscenity of the Vietnam War: unparalleled both in terms of the devastating scale and variety of harm done and the diabolical levels of premeditation on the part of the… Read More Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

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Russia has committed flagrant human rights abuses in Ukraine since 2014, rules ECHR

Extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour among accusations upheld by court in judgment Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent Russia has committed flagrant and unprecedented abuses of human rights since it invaded Ukraine in 2014, including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour, the European court of human rights has found. The court’s grand chamber unanimously held that… Read More Russia has committed flagrant human rights abuses in Ukraine since 2014, rules ECHR

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USA + Israel + UK = moral depravity + mass murder. Period

GAZA casualties, live statistics Children killed collecting water in Gaza Gaza’s Guernica / Guernica stands in solidarity with Gaza (2024) Israel has slaughtered an average of 122 Palestinians EVERY DAY for 629 days Children queuing at Gaza health center killed in Israeli strike, medics say The bodies of two children lie on the floor of Aqsa Martyrs… Read More USA + Israel + UK = moral depravity + mass murder. Period

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S. B. Zaki: Arab women before and after Islam. Opening the door of pre-Islamic Arabian history

First posted June 19, 2016 “Islamic civilization developed a construct of history that labeled the pre-Islamic period the Age of Ignorance and projected Islam as the sole source of all that was civilized – and used that construct so effectively in its rewriting of history that the peoples of Middle East lost all knowledge of… Read More S. B. Zaki: Arab women before and after Islam. Opening the door of pre-Islamic Arabian history

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Software & Hard consequences: British Post Office scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides

NB: Here’s a thought for those who put blind trust in electronic ‘intelligence’. There’s no substitute for human wisdom, but ironically that’s in short supply. DS Julia Kollewe First report from Horizon IT hearings lays bare ‘disastrous’ human impact as 10,000 people seek compensation More than 13 people may have killed themselves as a result… Read More Software & Hard consequences: British Post Office scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides

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