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The long-awaited unification of Nepal’s two big communist parties, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), has concluded. The two parties have signed a seven-point agreement that accepts Marxism and Leninism as guiding principle and calls for establishing the party’s hegemony through peaceful means.

’Good guys and bad guys’ by cartoonist Cathy Wilcox in The Sydney Morning Herald on all this gun violence in America and elsewhere.

Dr V. Shanta, well known cancer specialist, Chair of the Cancer Institute (W.I.A.), Chennai, and Padma Vibhushan and Magsaysay awardee, admonishes the M.D. & CEO of Punjab National Bank for misusing “cancer’ in the context of the recent banking mega-scam

In the midst of eulogies for Asma Jahangir, well deserved and well earned, I am reminded strongly of the teachings of those we now seek to remember and honour, and those who are still here. In our desire to honour a woman who many knew as a person and as a symbol, we should not reduce her, or what indeed she stood for. We are mythmaking, and that is antithetical to what these women and men stand for and have stood for all their lives. What we are doing is dangerous.

To defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism in India, we have to fight against more than just communalism.