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A very strange idea has spread in the Western media concerning Afghanistan: that the US military is withdrawing from the country next year, and that the present Afghan war has therefore entered into an “endgame.” The use of these phrases reflects a degree of unconscious wishful thinking that amounts to collective self-delusion.

Historically, communists had a rather tenuous relationship with the Muslim right. In the first flush of the Bolshevik Revolution, the new Soviet state in the early 1920s, while resisting the western imperialist offensive, sought allies from among the pan-Islamic forces which were then smarting under the wound of the defeat of their Ottoman empire by the British forces at the end of the first world war, and were looking for a platform to retaliate against the British.

The Network of Women in Media, India, an independent forum of media professionals across the country, condemns the continued victimisation of a complainant of sexual harassment, and demands her immediate reinstatement. We also demand an independent inquiry into the case and the setting up –as required by law– of formal mechanisms to redress sexual harassment at the Chennai-based Sun TV.

The Great Indian Railways
Photographer Navesh Chitrakar spent months travelling on India’s railways, documenting the world’s fourth largest rail system, with 9,000 passenger trains and 20 million daily passengers

The Telegraph, 29 March 2013
IN SEARCH OF LOST IDENTITIES
Partitioned lives: Migrants, Refugees, citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947-1965 By Haimanti Roy, Oxford, Rs 695
Innumerable books have been written on the Partition of India. Even so many years after the Partition the interest in the subject has not diminished even slightly. Scholars have tried to understand the real power game that led to the dislocation of thousands of individuals but many questions still remain unanswered. (…)