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  • India: Admiral Ramdas Appeals The Government To Repeal The Farm Laws0

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    • January 16, 2021

    by Admiral L Ramdas — January 16, 2021 I am Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas, former Chief of the Naval Staff . I served the country in Uniform for 45 years and came straight to this village from Delhi after retirement. First of all let me begin by offering shraddhanjali to all those who have paid with their lives

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  • Winter in Kashmir: For local Kashmiris, it’s living a nightmare0

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    • January 10, 2021

    by Prof M A Sofi — January 10, 2021 The line in the subtitle above underscores a reality that not many of those coming to visit the valley from outside Kashmir would concede as a fact of life. The fact is that whereas everything is done by their local hosts and the local administration to ensure that

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  • Development in the Indian Context0

    by Livneet Shergill — January 3, 2021 India is the world’s largest democracy and there is no denying the fact that India occupies an important place in the world economy. India is one of the world’s fastest growing economies and this is no mean distinction. But the question that remains unanswered is, ‘What is India’s development status?’

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  • A revolutionary Sindhi peasant leader: Comrade Hyder Bux Jatoi 0

    by Muhammad Abbas Khaskheli — January 3, 2021 The British colonization didn’t only produce the feudal class but also provided them with immense political power in the subcontinent. In 1793, according to Permanent Resettlement Act the lands were declared as the personal property of feudal lords. The British authorities distributed lands among their obedient and loyal ones

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  • Democracy and Indian Muslims Living In Peril0

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    • December 31, 2020

    by MD Tabrez Alam — December 30, 2020 Introduction India with 1 plus billion people stands the second-largest democratic country in the world regardless of having diversities in each and every States / UTs of it. It has so much  assortment of language, culture, caste, religion, ethnicity, etc. that except for democracy no other system of governance

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  • Reflections 20200

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    • December 30, 2020

    by Samina Salim — December 30, 2020 The year 2020 will go down in modern history as the one ravaged by a pandemic, and riddled with deep political, racial, economic, and social divisions. Most notably, the COVID-19 pandemic has humbled the entire world, from the richest and most advanced nations to the poorest and least developed,

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  • Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain0

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    • September 3, 2020

    Countercurrents       3 September 2020 by Nivedita Dwivedi This article is part of a series called “Heroes And Sheroes Of Plural India” under #AnHourForCommunalHramony campaign to celebrate the Heroes and Sheroes who struggled to shape modern India in all its plurality.  Today we celebrate Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain a pioneering woman literary person who also

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  • Israel Will Never Allow Pakistan Have Access To UAE’s F-350

    by Haider Abbas — August 26, 2020 When US made UAE and Israel to normalise their bi-lateral relations, on August 14, 2020, within ten days when the flames of Beirut, Lebanon had not even got doused, the under-cut deal which was made was that US would sell its F-35 stealth fighter jets to UAE, and

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  • Jammu & Kashmir: One Year after Abrogation of Article 370- Increasing Alienation, Relentless Repression, Simmering Conflict0

    by People’s Union For Civil Liberties — August 13, 2020 Original image courtesy : Vikar Syed PUCL appeals that the Government of India urgently listen to the people of J&K, initiate dialogue and restore peace  Withdraw the police state: Restore freedom and democracy in the region   Part A: Overview   It has been over a year since 5th August,

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  • Israel Threatens Pakistan and Saudi Arabia Ditches Pakistan on Kashmir0

    Countercurrents by Haider Abbas — August 12, 2020 The day when Lebanon blasts occurred i.e. August 4, 2020, the same day a news was floated that Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is clandestinely pursuing a nuclear-agenda with the help of China 1, only three days later on August 7, 2020, another  headline donned the world media that the

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  • Regimes Without Reason and Conscience0

    in World — by Bhabani Shankar Nayak — August 1, 2020 The world is silently witnessing the erosion of democratic, progressive, secular and liberal cultures of governance. The contemporary governments are becoming more authoritarian and threaten the multicultural mosaic of societies around the world. The governing and non-governing elites falsely argue that democracy breeds inefficiency

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  • Sri Preston Kulkarni’s RSS Problem0

    Countercurrents by Pieter Friedrich — August 10, 2020 US leadership of India’s fascist movement backs Texas Democrat In August 2019, Congressman Khanna charted a new course for the Indian-American diaspora when he commented on reportage about Tulsi Gabbard’s RSS links, stating: “It’s the duty of every American politician of Hindu faith to stand for pluralism, reject

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  • Such A Temple Would Not Have Been Acceptable To Ram And Should Not Be Acceptable To A Common Hindu0

    Countercurrents by Sandeep Pandey — August 8, 2020 Co-Written by Arundhati Dhuru and Sandeep Pandey Ram has been described as Maryada Purushottam, the most virtuous among men. He left his kingdom merely because he didn’t want to hurt the sentiments of his step mother and went on a 14 years exile. It was not in his character

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  • India: Congress party’s ‘Contribution’ to build Ram Temple in Ayodhya0

    in India — by Vidya Bhushan Rawat — August 6, 2020 Those who expect political class to be a ‘revolutionary’ and ‘radically’ ‘secular’ live in great illusion and should form their ‘own’ outfits which their own families will not support. Intellectualism and politics, frankly do not go together. Politics is sentiments, emotions and all the Saas-Bahu masala that we love to

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