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IRSHAD SALIM — I’ll be telegraphic: For weeks now, I’ve been sharing with a young Indian friend Z — granular news on the situation in India — as the world
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Cops beat us up and made us chant slogans like “Jai Shri Ram“ NEW DELHI — “They (policemen) burned my hand by placing a hot rod, they also tried to
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BBC reported a passenger plane belonging to Ariana Airlines crashed and caught fire in eastern Afghan Ghazni province, citing officials; Daily Mail UK said, “Boeing passenger plane carrying 83 people
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DESPARDES — Renowned social critic and political activist Noam Chomsky has dubbed the latest developments in India symptoms of fascism. Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultra-nationalism characterized by
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Largest statelessness crisis in the world could cause widespread human suffering DESPARDES — In a scathing denouncement of Modi government’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), European Union (EU) lawmakers have drafted
DESPARDES — World’s largest democracy is taking a U-turn toward becoming a Hindu state, and as it does things are unraveling: India slipped to the rank of 140 out of
“…it looks very much as though our government has gone rogue…”: Arundhati Roy DESPARDES — The Economist says India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is stoking divisions in the world’s biggest
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DESPARDES — Narendra Modi stokes divisions in the world’s biggest democracy, The Economist says in its latest issue. The lede: India’s 200m Muslims fear the prime minister is building a
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DESPARDES — The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) latest Democracy Index published today indicates how global democracy fared in 2019, providing a snapshot of the state of democracy worldwide. In South
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DESPARDES — Bollywood’s award-winning actor Naseeruddin Shah says after 70 years he has come to realize that as a ‘Muslim’ he cannot live in India. The creative Indian actor —
DESPARDES — Indian business conglomerate Reliance Industries’ proposed deal to sell a 20 percent stake in its oil to chemicals business to Saudi Aramco for an estimated $15 billion will
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CARAVAN DAILY — Amid the massive nationwide protests over the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Monday criticized the contentious citizenship law saying the prevailing situation in
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