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The Metamorphic Resistance: Mahmoud Darwish, Resilience (Sumud), and the Architecture of Survival
If you are not rain, my love,be a tree sated with fertility, be a tree.And if you are not a tree, my love, be stone saturated with humidity, be stone.And...
“The Modi Regime can and will be defeated”: Oxford University Union Debate
In June 2023 the Oxford University Union held a...
Why is Karnataka assembly speaker UT Khader Fareed inviting Hindutva Guru Sri Sri Ravishankar to address MLAs?
The 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections was a mile-stone in...
J’khand: BJP promises NRC, makes dubious claims of “infiltration” in tribal areas
After the party loss in the state’s Assembly election in 2019, it is arming itself with a divisive campaign for the upcoming state election in 2024
Breaking silences makes civilisations heal: theatre director, Sunil Shanbag
In this thought-provoking essay, the theatre director producer of 45 years explores multiple worlds, political, artistic and personal
White House condemns trolling of journalist who questioned PM Narendra Modi on minority rights
'It’s unacceptable,' said John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications in the White House
MHA authorises Registrar General to authenticate Aadhar for birth and death registration
This will enable the Registrar's office to authenticate Aadhar cards of those registering the death and birth
One in Manipur, another in Kashmir: Veterans slam two faces of Indian Army
'I am sure the army would have responded in a different manner if such an incident had happened in Kashmir. What we are witnessing in Manipur over the past 50 days is a complete collapse of law and order and for that the credit goes to the Prime Minister for remaining silent on the crisis'The Telegraph
Protests erupt over ECI’s new delimitation draft in Assam which is embroiled in controversy
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The delimitation exercise by the ECI, delayed from 2008, finds strong critics arguing vociferously against it stating that basic guidelines have been given the go by and older data, not the 2011 census used as its basis; moreover it is not just the Muslim minority but indigenous peoples who will be adversely impacted.
SIT should probe lynchings, compensation for families: MPCC working chief
Mumbai: Maharashtra Congress working president Naseem Khan on Monday demanded setting...
Vanishing villages depict struggle of erosion-affected families, impact migration: Assam
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For so many like 80-year-old Ziad Ali erosion and displacement have been a mental trauma. The octogenarian has been displaced a dozen times as Beki river’s destructive current has eroded Rasulpur village in Barpeta district almost every flood season “, especially since 2004”. Despite the existence of erosion benefit schemes (2021) these have not reached Barpeta district.
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