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Dev Anand Remains An Iconic Ideal Lover Of Hindi Cinema 100 Years After His Birth
By Tirthankar Mitra Talk of Dharamdev Pishiorimal Anand and one will be greeted by an yawn. But the audience is all ears even at the passing mention of Dev Anand. The evergreen star will turn 100 on September 26. The month long celebrations are already on for remembering the...
Chile Is Still Bitterly Divided By The Legacy Of Pinochet’s Dictatorship
By Craig Johnson Over thirty years after the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990, the government of Chile has formally admitted responsibility for the disappearance, and presumed deaths, of over two thousand individuals at the hands of the Chilean military and associated paramilitary groups. The government has also...
Looking Back At The Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity Govt In Chile
By Guillermo Teillier The following assessment of the Allende years and the CIA-backed coup of Gen. Augusto Pinochet was written by Guillermo Teillier, the late President of the Communist Party of Chile. Teillier died on August 29, 2023. This article was written before his death. It was 1952, and...
India’s G20 Summit Was A Big Success For Modi’s Electoral Prospects
By Annie Domini In hindsight, the New Delhi summit of G20 countries under India’s presidency, from September 8 to 10, could be seen as a one-size-fit-all type of clothing, which wrapped around deep differences of rival geopolitical blocs, primarily led by the United States on the one hand, and...
Government Helped Many First-Time Entrepreneurs Turn Tycoons
By Nantoo Banerjee The political opposition may be desperate to establish businessman Gautam Adani’s link with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but it is absolutely absurd to expect the Prime Minister to react to such suggestions. Over the years, almost all enterprising and ambitious businessmen managed to establish links with...
G-20 Summit’s Success Has Catapulted India As A Reliable Leader Of Global South
By Girish Linganna Xi Jinping’s absence from the recent Group of 20 summit may have been a deliberate move to prevent India from taking the spotlight. However, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with the United States and Europe, managed to find more effective ways to challenge China’s influence on...
Fifty Years Later, Decoding Chile’s Military Coup And Marxist President Allende’s Killing
By Nitya Chakraborty September 11, 1973 was the day when fifty years ago, the first democratically elected left wing president of Chile Dr. Salvador Allende, a leading Marxist was, overthrown through a bloody military coup which had the full backing of the US administration led by the President Richard...
International Labour Organisation Welcomes G20 Support For Just Transition Measures
By Satyaki Chakraborty International Labour Organisation Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo, has welcomed the G20 Leaders’ support for the UN Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions. In their final Declaration the G20 leaders pledged to, “support progress on the implementation” of the UN Global Accelerator, a...
India-US Joint Statement Takes Forward The June 22 Deals To Implementation Stage
By Girish Linganna Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden held a bilateral meeting on Friday (September 8, 2023) on the sidelines of the just-concluded G20 Summit, where both leaders underscored the close ties between India and the United States. They reaffirmed their commitment to the cause...
Sukumar Roy Pioneer Of Nonsense, Rhyme Will Remain A Literary Icon In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Being born and brought up when the all time greats of the world of Bengali letters like Rabindranath Tagore and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay were at the height of their creative powers would not have been considered propitious by most aspiring authors. But Sukumar Roy whose 100th...
