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NATO Threatens Putin with War!
Johannes Stern, Courtesy: Defend Democracy Press, June 15, 2016In advance of next month’s NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland, the western military alliance has organised a massive military build-up in...
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Reforming the Regulator: Parliamentary Committee Report on Medical Council of...
Amit Sengupta, June 16, 2016The World Health Organisation (WHO) identifies India as one of the 57 countries with a critically low level of human resources available for healthcare. This would not come...
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Manipur People's Convention for a United Hills & Valley Peace
Newsclick Report, June 16, 2016With increasing tensions in Manipur, some concerned citizens came together to start a dialogue. An almost historic meeting for Peace and Reconciliation was held on...
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Judge Buys Police, SIT’s Claim That Private Firing by Ahsan Jafri Triggered...
Courtesy: Sabrangindia, June 18, 2016"This is not only a complete insult to the life, work and memory of my father, Ahsan Jafri who worked and lived among his people but it makes a mockery of the...
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Yes, the Adivasi Will Not Dance!
Courtesy: IWF, June 20, 2016Statement from the Indian Writers’ ForumThe award winning writer, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, has given us insights into the conditions of Adivasi life, both as a medical...
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Brain-Dead Diplomats: Why Did 51 American State Dept. Officials 'Dissent'...
Vijay Prashad, Courtesy: Alternet, June 21, 2016A troubling internal cable signed by a host of U.S. diplomats blames Obama for not striking Syria earlier.read more
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After Five Decades of War, Peace in Colombia
Newsclick Report, June 26, 2016In a historic move, the FARC, the longest running and probably the most powerful guerilla movement in Latin America, has reached an agreement for a ceasefire with the...
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100% FDI in Defence: How Wrong can you Get?
D. Raghunandan, June 27, 2016A Golden Raspberry Award or Razzie has been awarded in Hollywood every year since 1981 to the film declared to be the worst movie of the year just a day before the Oscars....
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The Post Newspaper in Zambia: Closure of the Country’s Only Independent Paper...
In Solidarity, June 29, 2016The Post Newspaper in Zambia: Closure of the country’s only independent paper and arrest of Fred M’Membe and others The Post Newspaper in Zambia is now 25 years old. It was...
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On Brexit, or Why the EU Ought to Go
Subin Dennis, June 29, 2016The people of the United Kingdom have voted in a historic referendum in favour of the country quitting the European Union (EU). Most of the mainstream media have been telling...
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Why Hand over a National Asset to Foreign MNCs?
Amit Sengupta, June 30, 2016FDI in PharmaceuticalsIn the recent slew of measures aimed at liberalisation of norms for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), norms for the pharmaceuticals (medicine) sector...
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What Kind of Prime Minister Are You, Sheikh Hasina?
Javed Anand, Courtesy: sabrangindia.in, July 05, 2016To combat growing terrorism in Bangladesh the PM's lament over, 'What kind of Muslims are these people?' is not enough.read more
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Is TRAI Reversing its Order on Free Basics in the Name of Free Data?
Prabir Purkayastha, July 06, 2015Free Basics, promoted by Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, rejected by TRAI in February this year, appears to have made a come back with TRAI's new consultations paper...
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Perumal Murugan’s Resurrected as HC Judgement Comforts a Wilted Heart
Courtesy: sabrangindia.in, July 06, 2016Perumal Murugan's poetic comeback: The renowned author says he will start writing again with gusto. "Judgement comforts a wilted heart", says PerumalImage...
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The Artist as Activist
K. Satchidanandan, July 07, 2016Theodore Adorno’s famous statement “Poetry is impossible after Auschwitz” beautifully sums up the inevitable impact of politics on art. The statement was certainly not...
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Chilcot's Damning Report on the Iraq War
Prabir Purkayastha, July 7, 2016The Chilcot Report confirms what we have always known. That Blair and Bush had made up their minds long before the actual invasion. Both of them lied to create the WMD...
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Imprisoning Minds
Amol Palekar, Courtesy: ICF, July 9, 2016August 29, 1970: The Maharashtra Theatrical Performances Examination Board (MTPEB) banned Vijay Tendulkar’s play Gidhade (The Vultures), contending that its...
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Endangered Orangutan Eyes the White House
Newsclick Production, July 09, 2016Endangered Orangutan Eyes the White Houseread more
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The Tipping Point: New Delhi Now Faces Not Terrorists, But the Young Kashmiri...
Seema Mustafa, July 11, 2016The death of 22 year old Burhan Wani in an encounter is the tipping point for Kashmir. The thousands who walked miles to attend his funeral at Tral are testimony to the...
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Why Arms Control is the Enemy of Nuclear Disarmament
Richard Falk, July 11, 2016No First Use: Arms Control versus Disarmament Perspectives read more
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Civil Aviation Policy: Subsidize the Rich, Corporates and Foreign Companies
D. Raghunandan, July 13, 2016It is by now clear that the settled policy framework of the Modi government is to pump in public investment for infrastructure, services, taxes and other incentives for...
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Face/Off: The Unmaking of India in Bisada
Courtesy: ICF, July 14, 2016July 14, 2016: A local court in Surajpur directed the Greater Noida police to register a case of cow slaughter against Mohammad Akhlaq Saifi and his family under the UP Cow...
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International Is out and National Is Again Back
Roberto Savio, July 16, 2016A sign of the time is that Germany is raising a revolt against the President of the European Commission, Jeam-Claude Juncker, whom Chancellor Angela Merkel imposed in 2014...
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Erdogan Survives Failed Coup: Dangerous Times Still for the Region
Prabir Purkayastha, July 17, 2016pThe failed coup in Turkey shows up the fault lines that currently exist in Turkish society. Erdogan has ridden out, what appears to be a hurried attempt to beat a...
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Are you O, P, W or D.W.?
Courtesy: ICF, July 20, 2016We have recently heard from the media of the Culture Ministry’s plan to “grade” artists and writers in the country so it can extend government patronage to those considered...
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Gujarat: Where Dead Cows Valued More Than Living People
Newsclick Report, July 20, 2016On July 12, four Dalit youths who were skinning a dead cow were thrashed with iron rods, chained to a car and dragged to a police station in Una, a small town in Gujarat....
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Wealth Inequality In India
Bodapati Srujana, July 23, 2016Today, wealth inequality in India is much sharper than ever before. The top 1% that owned a little more than a third of India's wealth in 2000, now own more than half the...
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Antrix Devas: A Bad Deal and a Botched Cancellation
Prabir Purkayastha, July 28, 2016The Antrix Devas Agreement was entered into without thought and terminated equally badly. The country might pay a huge price – not only for the mistake of signing a bad...
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Mahasweta Devi: Living for Justice, Living Forever
G. N. Devy, Courtesy: ICF, July 29, 2016This is one obituary I wish I did not have to write.read more
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Why Dalits are turning against the BJP
Anand Teltumbde,Courtesy: Sabrang India, July 30, 2016With Hindutva baring its anti-Dalit fangs, the BJP is bound to feel the heat in the next elections.read more
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