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In a repeat of 2021, BJP's chief ministerial face in Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari will take on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, this time on her home turf.
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CEC Kumar said that around 17.4 crore voters will be be casting their votes across West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Keralam and Puducherry.
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From The Handmaid’s Tale to the politics of modern wars, the language of women’s liberation is repeatedly invoked to justify power, intervention and regime change.
Tishani Doshi views war through intimate and fragile moments, where love, memory and loss blur into one another.
The Iran war looks like a high-stakes attempt by the US and Israel to reshape the balance of power in West Asia
The US and Israel through their military actions are out of control. The outcomes of their actions in the form of reconfiguring the map of West Asia will also likely be beyond their control.
For decades, US foreign policy has adopted the pattern of ‘selective liberation’—the deployment of human rights language when aligned with US strategic interests and its relative absence when it conflicts with them
Everyday exposure to violence unfolding in different regions across the world is reshaping how people process suffering, with many experiencing psychic numbing or compassion fatigue
To ignore or lampoon the attempts in Iran against the rule of clerics shrinks the space for the anti-imperialist Left to challenge other political ideologies, such as Hindutva
The Global South must learn from the West Asian crisis that the persistence of neoliberalism alongside hyper-nationalism leads to brutality and genocidal war
From the hijab ban in 1936 to the mandatory hijab by 1983, Iran has been living through extremities amidst relentless conflict over external influences for over a century
For Iran, survival is victory. The martyrdom of Khamenei has had a rallying effect, and its strategy is built on domestic civil-military endurance and regional-global deterrence
Battered for decades, southern Lebanon is, once again, witnessing people fleeing to safer places as Israel’s operation in Iran spirals into Lebanon
The immediate backdrop to the recent showdown at Jawaharlal Nehru University lay in earlier tensions
This book is a true testament of friendship and an act of solidarity
I believe it is possible, and necessary, to oppose repression inside Iran while also opposing foreign military intervention.
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Dharmendra, Manoj Kumar, James Van Der Beek and Eric Dane were included in the list of other 300 names in the Academy’s In Memoriam page on the website.
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