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By Sushil Kutty Here in India, women are in all sorts of emotional quandaries including wondering if women’s reservation isn’t humiliation of sorts for women who think they’re already empowered and, therefore, what’s this euphoria for, forgetting that it’s not just women in the third world who need a...
INDIA Alliance Can Promise And Showcase Healthcare For All
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The first Lok Sabha election in India after the unprecedented COVID-19 health crisis of 2020 and 2021 will be held in 2024, which will provide a great opportunity to INDIA alliance not only one of the most important campaign issues to promise enough healthcare access...
Nijjar Murder Has Similarities With Assassination Of Saudi Journo Khashoggi
By K Raveendran The pace at which the India-Canada diplomatic row is deteriorating, manifesting in tit for tat diplomatic expulsions, suggests that Khalistan activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing may be an action replay of the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi-born critic of the Saudi royal...
CPI(ML)–L Is Ready To Align With Mamata In Bengal To Fight The BJP In Lok Sabha Polls
By Arun Srivastava Fighting RSS fascism and saffron authoritarianism has been the major task before the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation and for achieving this mission, the party would continue to work for strengthening the INDIA block. Like the CPI(M), the CPI(ML-Liberation) does not suffer with any ambiguity. The...
Great Tagore Songs Singer Suchitra Mitra Mesmerised Bengalees For Decades
By Tirthankar Mitra Rendition of any Rabindra Sangeet in Suchitra Mitra’s powerful yet melodious voice has always left her audience asking for more. More often than not, the singer extraordinary of Bengal obliged. On the occasion of her birth centenary this month, one once again feels the appeal of...
Deepika Padukone Is Now A Leading Female Actress In Indian Film Industry
By Harihar Swarup When you have an incredible face, an incredible figure and incredible talent, you really have it all. Film star Deepika Padukone works harder than anyone. She has inherited from her parents a lot of discipline. Deepika, 37, is India’s highest paid film female actress. She reportedly...
Khalistan Movement Is Weak In India But Its Influence Is Quite Strong In Sikh Diaspora
By Girish Linganna After India gained freedom from Britain in 1947, some people didn’t think a country with so many different regions could stay together. India has managed to stay united, but there have been challenges to its unity. One significant challenge is the Khalistan movement, which wants to...
Significance Of Putin-Kim Summit For Rest Of The World And Global Power Balance
By M A Hossain On September 13, North Korean leader Chairman Kim Jong-un embarked on his first foreign visit, following the global public health crisis. His arrival was marked by disembarkation from his bullet-proof train at the Vostochny Cosmodrome spaceport, located in the Amur Oblast in the Russian Far...
United Auto Workers Indefinite Strike Is Impacting 2024 US Presidential Polls
By Satyaki Chakraborty The United States is witnessing one of the biggest working class actions in its history as the United Auto Workers (UAW) affiliated workers are on an indefinite strike action from September 15 after the talks with the three top automakers General Motors, Ford and Stellantis failed...
Ukraine Adviser’s Racist Remark On India And China Creates A Big Row
By Girish Linganna In a recent interview, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, mentioned that he believed countries such as India and China might not have strong intellectual capabilities and might not fully think through the outcomes of their actions. Podolyak’s remarks followed just...
The Miss Universe From Pakistan Brings Cheers To Countrymen At Last
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Finally, there is news from Pakistan not about looming bankruptcy or anarchy. It’s about one of those beautiful things that Pakistan has in abundance. Indian people have been following Sachin Meena and Seema Haider’s love story, gasping at the beauty and lean figure of Seema...
At Current Pace World To Take 197 To 430 Years To Close Gender Gap
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On the current pace of reforms, the world may take between 197 to 430 years to close the global gender gap, which means misallocation of women’s talents and abilities would remain a major issue to the detriment of societies for a long time. The estimate...
India Is Behind Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka In Gender Pay Parity
By Rejimon Kuttappan On March 10, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a post-budget webinar on Economic Empowerment of Women that, “India can move forward only by raising the levels of the respect for women and the sense of equality.” On August 15, in his Independence Day speech at...
Presenting Women Reservation Bill In Special Session Is A Milestone In Indian Democracy
By Sushil Kutty For the misogynist, waking up on Ganesh Chaturthi morning was disappointing. Overnight the Modi Cabinet had, during the course of an unscheduled meeting, cleared the Women’s Reservation Bill, which had been lying dormant for years much to the giddy happiness of male chauvinists, who deep down...
Seabed Warfare Has Been Accentuating In Europe Impacting Indian Ocean
By Girish Linganna The use of seabed warfare is growing in Europe and could extend to the Indian Ocean. The recent Ukraine conflict highlights the vulnerability of crucial seabed infrastructure. Australia and India should get ready for the possibility of seabed warfare and its implications and work together to...
Decoding The Legend Of Bengali Theatre Sova Sen On Her Birth Centenary
By Tirthankar Mitra Many present day patrons of the stage together with a large group of film goers in Bengal would balk at referring to Sova Sen as a thespian. The roles she had essayed on stage and screen, they feel did not rise to such heights to dub...
Columbian President Petro Has Done Commendable Job In His First Year In Office
By Carlos Cruz Mosquera Just over a year ago, no one would have thought Colombia could provide an example of a leftist governing model. The nation has long been the bastion of what supporters see as liberal-democratic rule in South America — falling to neither left-wing revolution nor the...
Congress Leadership Confident Of Taking On BJP In 2024 Under INDIA Banner
By Kalyani Shankar The Congress leaders are upbeat after the weekend Congress Working Committee meeting in Hyderabad. They are ready to plunge into poll mode. The C.W.C., the Party’s highest policy-making body agreed on several contentious and sensitive topics and planned its future course. The meeting was the first...
