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  • Imroz (A poem)

    Imroz (A poem)

    Imroz I think passion I think of you I think devotion I think of you. I see you pouring a cup of tea More intense than her midnight poetry. Sometimes she appears, as she wrote she would Lighting your canvas with a spark Sometimes as a magical line Piercing right through your heart. Her tumultuous ink swirls and

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  • सबका साथ किसका विकास? भाजपची ग्राऊंडलेवल विचारधारा

    सबका साथ किसका विकास? भाजपची ग्राऊंडलेवल विचारधारा

      चंद्रपूर जि.प. अध्यक्षा संध्या गुरनुले व फिस्कुटी ग्रा.प. सरपंच नितीन गुरनले     पुत्रप्रेमापोटी महाभारतात धुतराष्ट्राने आपले राज्य गमाविले. महाभारतातील हे उदाहरण नजरेसमोर असतांनाच, भाजपाच्या जिल्हा परिषदेच्या अध्यक्षा सौ. संध्या गुरूनुले यांचे नितीन या पुत्रप्रेमापोटी जिल्हा परिषदेत भाजपाची सत्ता गमावेल काय? हा प्रश्न आता उपस्थित होत आहे.  फिस्कुटी या जि.प.अध्यक्षा सौ. संध्याताई गुरूनुले यांचा

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  • Hooligans versus the Hijab

    Hooligans versus the Hijab

      The point here is not whether the Hijab should be worn in college or not; whether shawls – saffron or blue – should be allowed or not and the point is not whether the Hijab is a choice or a patriarchal imposition on Muslim women.   Here the simple point is, who the hell

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  • The Intellectual Pedigree of ‘Wokeness’ 

    The Intellectual Pedigree of ‘Wokeness’ 

    Saumya Dey What is wokeness? It is the advocacy culture, or the tendency to advocate and promote this or that cause. The apparent intention of ‘wokeness’ or the advocacy culture is to deliver greater justice and equity to the citizenry or members of the social body. It seeks to do so by making constant demands

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  •  The Writing on the Wall 

     The Writing on the Wall 

      “A loving wife is a man’s best property.”  Twenty years ago, this sentence written on the wall of a village led to the youth of a village to organise. At that time the Gram Panchayat of Khedi village had painted social slogans on the walls of the houses. Some of the slogans were nice

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  • Yes to Kisan Drones and ULPIN numbers … But First Settle Land Claims 

    Yes to Kisan Drones and ULPIN numbers … But First Settle Land Claims 

    Pochu Lingu Sidam, a tribal who fought twenty years for restoration his entire village, Zaliguda, Tal. Jivti, Chandrapur   Land issues are the most contentious ones in a India why is why it immediately caught my attention when land was mentioned in the budget of 2022. The Finance Minister announced the introduction of Kisan Drones

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  •  Budget 2022 By-Passes Rural India

     Budget 2022 By-Passes Rural India

    Lack of Adequate Storage Facilities. (P.C. Internet) The rural and agricultural sectors barely figure in the Finance Minister Nirmala Seetharaman’s budget speech. Although she insists that ‘inclusive development’ was one of the pillars of the budget but there is absolutely no mention of the Adivasis, Dalits or other marginalized communities in the budget. S.C and

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  • Be Done with Nathuram Godse 

    Be Done with Nathuram Godse 

    Yesterday was 30th January, the day Mahatma Gandhi died. At least this day should have belonged to him. But no! Throughout the day you saw social media swamped with references not just to his detractors but worse, to his murderer Nathuram Godse. Things were simpler in the past. As a child growing up in the 70s and

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  • वाईन, दारू आणि राजकारण

    वाईन, दारू आणि राजकारण

      वाईन ही दारू आहे कि नाही? यावर सध्या राज्यात खल सुरू आहे.  राज्यशासनाने अलिकडेच मंत्रीमंडळाचे बैठकीत, सुपर मॉल आणि किराणा दुकानात वाईन विक्रीची परवाणगी राज्यात सर्वत्र टिका होवू लागली आणि उपमुख्यमंत्री अजित पवार यांनी वाईन ही दारू नाही असा शोध जाहीर केल्यानंतर या विषयावर वेगवेगळया चर्चा येवू लागल्या आहेत. सरकारच्या ‘वाईन’ने निर्माण केलेले प्रश्न

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  • From ‘Police Dadalora Khidki’ to Comic Strips

    From ‘Police Dadalora Khidki’ to Comic Strips

    The ‘Non-Policing’ efforts by Gadchiroli Police The Police Dada’s Window: One stop to Accessing Government Schemes Taking government-run schemes to the doorsteps of the people has far more urgency in Gadchiroli than in any other district of Maharashtra. In this district which is scarred by Maoist violence, the state has consistently tried to win over the

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