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(This article is an enlarged version of the article titled ‘Trump’s policy flip-flop on tariffs indicates he may have a goal, but not so much a plan’. In The Leaflet, April 21, 2025) President Trump’s ...
The way people from Pahalgam faced the threats from terrorists and saved the tourists by taking them to their homes and taking them to hospitals needs a new dimension in Indian politics. Hindutva ...
Trump has, literally, declared a war on Harvard and other Ivy League institutions. The freezing of 2.2 billion endowments funds of Harvard and the threat to withdraw the tax-free exemptions will ...
A long due read – One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse, aroused my interest in Consumerism; mostly a detailed read of the ‘advanced industrial society’ and its varied aspects, and more so about the ...
PUCL strongly condemns the killings of the 26 tourists and demands that the two governments must move towards peace, de-escalation and confidence-building The PUCL strongly condemns the killings of ...
We write to you at a critical juncture for Bastar (Chhattisgarh), Gadchiroli (Maharashtra), West Singhbhum (Jharkhand), and adjoining areas where the constitutional rights and the very lives of ...
Such acts vitiate the already volatile atmosphere in south Asia Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) condemns in strong words the killing of innocent tourists at Pahalgam. The perpetrators ...
Several letters have been received by me, asking me to declare my views about the Arab-Jew question in Palestine and the persecution of the Jews in Germany. It is not without hesitation that I venture ...
The recent Supreme Court verdict on April 8, 2025, regarding powers of the governor in the context of Tamil Nadu bears testimony to the contested meanings of the Indian Constitution. To put it in the ...
If assembly elections in West Bengal were not due within less than a year from now, in all probability, the state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would not have been facing political/communal missiles ...
The barbaric Pahalgam terrorist attack of April 22nd 2025 (ironically Earth Day) appallingly targetting Hindus, is shocking and condemnable beyond words. This latest terrorist attack is an attempt by ...