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Opinion: Who can claim Ambedkar as their own?

Various kinds of people could claim Dr BR Ambedkar as their own. Comparing the enormous difference between the monetary contributions made by white Americans for the betterment of blacks with the money collected by Gandhi for his Harijan Sevak Sangh, Ambedkar concluded in an unfinished work, “A People at Bay”, that “Americans have a social conscience while the Hindus have …

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2 weeks ago

New books on the shelves

The Hindu

Published : Dec 11, 2024 12:00 IST - 2 MINS READ Malayali Memorial and Other Stories Unni R, translated by J. Devika Vintage Books Rs.599 Unni R’s world consists of the rural and peri-urban areas of Kottayam, with their humans, birds, beasts, spirits, Jesus, Satan, and inanimate objects. ___ Hindi Hindu Histories: Caste, Ayurveda, Travel, and Communism in Early Twentieth …

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2 weeks ago

Indian Diplomat’s Memoir Explores Life in Islamabad During Nuclear Tests and Kargil War

The Hindu

Published : Dec 11, 2024 08:48 IST - 4 MINS READ The mundane life of Islamabad seen through the lens of an Indian woman diplomat presents interesting flavours. Ambassador Ruchi Ghanashyam’s book An Indian Woman in Islamabad 1997-2000 attempts to capture it through casual conversations with her friends and acquaintances during her posting. An Indian Woman in Islamabad By Ruchi …

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Romanian election stuns as ruling Social Democrats maintain lead as far-right surges

Firstpost

The parliamentary poll comes at a time of political turmoil sparked when a top court ordered a recount of the first round of Romania’s November 24 presidential election Ana Caroline, 3 and a half years-old, stands in a voting booth as a man votes in the country's parliamentary elections, in Bucharest, Romania. AP Romania’s ruling Social Democrats were set to …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Will Prabowo Subianto cosy up to Donald Trump or to China?

Hindustan Times

In September 1985 analysts from the CIA puzzled over who might succeed Suharto, Indonesia’s dictator and a stalwart opponent of communism. In February’s presidential election, more than a quarter-century after Suharto fell from power and democracy returned to Indonesia, Mr Prabowo won a landslide victory. Coming so soon after Mr Prabowo’s surprise decision for Indonesia to join the BRICS bloc …

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1 month, 1 week ago

From 'Little Marco' to 'Mr Secretary': Rubio shows Trump China push

Raw Story

Marco Rubio's first experiences with Donald Trump involved trading schoolyard insults, but he will now become the president-elect's face to the world -- potentially showing a more traditional, hawkish US foreign policy, especially on China. "He referred to my hands -- if they're small, something else must be small," Trump said days later at a Republican debate, as Rubio stood …

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From 'Little Marco' to 'Mr Secretary': Rubio shows Donald Trump China push

Hindustan Times

Marco Rubio's first experiences with Donald Trump involved trading schoolyard insults, but he will now become the president-elect's face to the world -- potentially showing a more traditional, hawkish US foreign policy, especially on China. "He referred to my hands -- if they're small, something else must be small," Trump said days later at a Republican debate, as Rubio stood …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Drop terrorist causes, and take centrist path

New Indian Express

Every force for good is flawed at birth. By accident or on purpose, they identify with terrorists as a Justice League of the oppressed though they wouldn’t last a day in Yemen or Sudan; in their perverse Thesaurus, terrorist equals freedom fighter. Carleton University in Canada has hired Hassan Diab, a convicted Palestinian terrorist who bombed the Rue Copernic synagogue …

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3 months ago

SEATO’s 70th Anniversary: Lessons for Asia’s Emerging Multilateral Alliances

The Diplomat

September 2024 marks the 70th anniversary of the much forgotten and often maligned Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. However, its legacy in fact provides invaluable insights for Asia’s emerging multilateral alliances, such as the “Quad,” “Quad Plus,” and the much-hyped but still hypothetical idea of an “Asian NATO.” Despite criticisms of its impotency and disunity, understanding how SEATO emerged and the …

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3 months ago

Leaders across parties pay rich tributes to Sitaram Yechury in Vijayawada

The Hindu

Rich tributes were paid to late CPI general secretary Sitaram Yechury at MBVK Bhavan on Sunday, September 22. Ms. Sharmila said that Mr. Yechury’s death was not only a huge loss for the Left parties but also an irreparable one for the Congress party. Mr. Srinivas Rao said the condolence meeting was a tribute to the “Son of the working …

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3 months, 1 week ago

‘I will only work with one goal -- to make Kejriwal the CM again’

Hindustan Times

Nominated by the Aam Aadmi Party legislative party as Delhi’s next chief minister, Atishi on Tuesday said her only objective as the Capital’s top elected officer is to make Kejriwal chief minister once again and to keep the government’s welfare schemes running. Atishi addresses the media outside Arvind Kejriwal’s residence in Civil Lines on Tuesday “The people of Delhi, the …

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4 months ago

Trump blasts Harris plan to ban price gouging as communism. But GOP states already block some price hikes.

Politico

In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, sued a large egg supplier for raising prices by about 300 percent at the height of the pandemic lockdowns in 2020. “There is no comparison between Florida’s price gouging laws that are in place to protect people in emergency situations and what Harris is proposing which, from the limited information she is …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Republicans, Now Critical Of Kamala Harris, Have Targeted Price Gouging In The Past

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING It didn’t take long after Vice President Kamala Harris announced her plans to address corporate “price gouging” on Friday for Donald Trump to accuse her of proposing Soviet-style communism. In an apparent reference to Harris’ admittedly vague plan to forbid “price gouging” on food, the former president wrote on Truth Social, “Kamala will implement SOVIET Style Price …

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4 months, 1 week ago

DANIEL HANNAN: Under the Union Jack we ended the slave trade, defeated Nazism and Communism and spread the rule of law across the world... so why is the liberal Left now so ashamed of it?

Daily Mail

Why do Lefties have a problem with our national flag? Locals in the Norfolk village of Claxton are reportedly upset at plans to fly the Union flag outside their village hall on special occasions ‘The flag is often used as a symbol against immigration and it would worry me if it was being used in the wrong way,’ said one …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Why Thailand legalized marijuana — and then almost banned it again

Salon

In sticky, sweaty Bangkok, there seemed to be more weed shops than there were Buddhist temples — and there were a lot of temples. “I don’t want my children to grow up in a country where drugs are easy to find and cannabis is liberalized,” Paetongtarn Shinawatra, leader of the Pheu Thai Party, declared at a campaign rally. Another activist …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Polish journalist suspended for calling 'Imagine' a 'vision of communism' during Olympic opening

The Independent

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Bulgarian election delivers another fragmented parliament

Al Jazeera

The centre-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party is on course to win the most votes in Bulgaria’s snap election, but it will need at least two coalition partners to form a government. That illustrated that the results of Bulgaria’s sixth election in three years were unlikely to put an end to the political instability that has plagued the …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Book Review: Emil Ferris tackles big issues through a small child with a monster obsession

Associated Press

There are two types of monsters: Ones that simply appear scary and ones that are scary by their cruelty. Emil Ferris has finally followed up on her visually stunning, 2017 debut graphic novel with its concluding half, “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book 2.” It picks up right where Book 1 left off, with 10-year-old Karen in a fever dream …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Jehanabad: JD-U struggles to retain seat it won in 2019 by a whisker

Hindustan Times

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Chandeshwar Prasad of the Janata Dal won the Jehanabad Lok Sabha seat for National Democratic Alliance in a photo finish after a protracted counting of votes, defeating Rashtriya Janata Dal nominee and strongman Surendra Prasad Yadav by 1,751 votes. In 2019 elections, CPI nominee Kunti Devi had bagged over 26,000 votes, while former MP …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Blinken's Kyiv song choice raises eyebrows as Ukraine fights fierce Russian attacks

New Indian Express

KYIV: Fresh from a day of delivering optimistic prognoses about how Ukraine would fare in the war with Russia despite gloomy news from the front lines, U.S. Secretary of State and amateur musician Antony Blinken may have thought he had the perfect upbeat song to perform with a Kyiv bar band on his fourth visit to the capital since the …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Can’t accept extreme view of all private property belonging to community: SC

Hindustan Times

A nine-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court deciding a crucial issue on whether private property can be distributed for public good by the state said an “unbridled” agenda of socialism that treats all private property of individuals to be belonging to the community cannot be envisaged in today’s context of India’s economic development as private ownership and business enjoyed …

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8 months ago

Florida Gov Ron DeSantis signs bill requiring history of communism to be taught in lower grades. What you need to know

Hindustan Times

Florida governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday, April 17, signed a bill that would require history of communism to be taught in schools in lower grades. Ron DeSantis signed a bill requiring history of communism to be taught in lower grades "We know that the Bay of Pigs was launched because the island of Cuba had succumb to communist tyranny," DeSantis …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Florida Schools Must Teach 'Evils Of Communism,' DeSantis Orders

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a bill requiring public K-12 schools to teach what he called “the truth about the evils of communism,” claiming it’s necessary to do this before students can be misled about the topic when they enter higher education. “It’s going to give the students the truth about communism,” DeSantis said of …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Even in the land of Communist uprising, very few are calling it

New Indian Express

PUNNAPRA/VAYALAR : The loyalties of the people of Punnapra and Vayalar, where the Communist revolt against the dewan of Travancore, C P Ramaswami Iyer, took place in October of 1946, have rarely been questioned. Family members of those who died in the revolt also receive pensions,” says Muraleedharan, 63, who runs a tea stall near the Punnapra-Vayalar Smarakam, the memorial …

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Opinion: Who can claim Ambedkar as their own?

New books on the shelves

Indian Diplomat’s Memoir Explores Life in Islamabad During Nuclear Tests and Kargil War

Romanian election stuns as ruling Social Democrats maintain lead as far-right surges

Will Prabowo Subianto cosy up to Donald Trump or to China?

From 'Little Marco' to 'Mr Secretary': Rubio shows Trump China push

From 'Little Marco' to 'Mr Secretary': Rubio shows Donald Trump China push

Drop terrorist causes, and take centrist path

SEATO’s 70th Anniversary: Lessons for Asia’s Emerging Multilateral Alliances

Leaders across parties pay rich tributes to Sitaram Yechury in Vijayawada

‘I will only work with one goal -- to make Kejriwal the CM again’

Trump blasts Harris plan to ban price gouging as communism. But GOP states already block some price hikes.

Republicans, Now Critical Of Kamala Harris, Have Targeted Price Gouging In The Past

DANIEL HANNAN: Under the Union Jack we ended the slave trade, defeated Nazism and Communism and spread the rule of law across the world... so why is the liberal Left now so ashamed of it?

Why Thailand legalized marijuana — and then almost banned it again

Polish journalist suspended for calling 'Imagine' a 'vision of communism' during Olympic opening

Bulgarian election delivers another fragmented parliament

Book Review: Emil Ferris tackles big issues through a small child with a monster obsession

Jehanabad: JD-U struggles to retain seat it won in 2019 by a whisker

Blinken's Kyiv song choice raises eyebrows as Ukraine fights fierce Russian attacks

Can’t accept extreme view of all private property belonging to community: SC

Florida Gov Ron DeSantis signs bill requiring history of communism to be taught in lower grades. What you need to know

Florida Schools Must Teach 'Evils Of Communism,' DeSantis Orders

Even in the land of Communist uprising, very few are calling it