The 24th edition of the Kolkata international film festival, held in November 2018, showed a surprisingly large number of films from Australia, which has never been counted among the foremost film-making nations of the world; no less than two dozen in all. It is hard to tell whether the ‘focus’ had anything to do with an increasing interest in Down[Read More…]
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Condemn the arrest and custodial sexual violence faced by Nodeep Kaur! 
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Illogical Thinking Leading to Illogical Actions 
Mr. MAGA Undone 
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Trump may be on trial, but the system that produced him will be acquitted 
Linguistic Deception Used Against People and Environment 
Farm Acts emasculate protective laws 
South Asian activists burn copies of unjust Indian laws on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday 
Violation of the human rights of an innocent family in Assam 
Premature Death 
Indian Farmers on the Frontline Against Global Capitalism 
The Captive Media in the USA 
The Light That Fell On The Finger 
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Lessons from the Beer Belly Putsch 
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Data Privacy And Tech Giants 
Mahatma Gandhi Meets Shahid Bhagat Singh in Heaven 
Death by lethal injection: An inhumane way to die 
Encroaching Identity 
Yearnings for Alternative Food and Farming Systems 
Preview signals Biden’s foreign policy shifts 
Encircling China and Praising India: The US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific 
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