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  • Vinesh: Varnished?

    8 August 2024 Truth be told, if the wrestler protests had not rocked over an administrator accused of serial and several instances of sexual abuse by lady wrestlers and wannabes, there was no way this episode of a wrestler from India challenging Olympics at a category well below her actual weight range would have had Read more

  • Shiekh-en: Bangladesh happened…

    7 August 2024 Most of India and the world was caught unawares by how quickly over the weekend a PM of long standing was coerced into a corner and had to flee her country. Sheikh Hasina was not a garden variety leader, her credentials as the sole survivor of Banga Bandhu’s immediate family following the Read more

  • The Compact with Citizens:

    The Chinese Experiment 15 July 24 The Constitution There was a moment in history, when it appeared that two ancient cultures, which were syncretic and which fortuitously had historical linkages through trade and transmission of knowledge, were to chart a similar trajectory when China after being mauled by her ‘Cultural Revolution’ and India stymied by Read more

  • An American Alternative?

    10 July 2024 Preamble: For close to half a millennia what we have seen are the rise to power of a force that is Christian in its religious beliefs, that is fuelled by Capitalism, and that has established the concept of Market Economics and Free Trade. Fundamentally, it is founded on the notions of superiority Read more

  • #Gaza: Crucible for revision of modern history

    9 July 2024 What should we call a movement that is reclaiming the human narrative and perspective from what has been largely a racist, religious, revisionist project spurred by imperialism and industrialisation of Western origin? How should we toast an author like William Dalrymple who is writing and talking about the fiction our modern history Read more

  • #Ukraine: The Appetite for Chaos

    8 July 2024 The weeks that have followed the ‘peace conference’ in Switzerland have revealed that Europe is no better in a frame of mind than it was before. However, critically information has come that America has resumed trade with Russia in key mineral and fuel imports, Uranium leading the way with near 1 billion Read more

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