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A pamphlet in Hindi by the Sampradaikta Virodhi Andolan that uncovers the truth behind the Hindutva campaign for the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.

On 12 February 2013 there is a call for a Global protest to denounce all forms of sexual violence on Egyptian women, we all know the escalation of harassment and assaults is getting out on control and this is one way to show rejection to it. Its the 1st worldwide protest in over 20 cities and capitals to support Egyptian women

All Afghan elections to date have been bankrolled - and largely organized - by international donors. In advance of 2014, Afghans and donors alike need to decide what to do to stage a credible presidential election and what can realistically be done given the timetable and costs.

In the battle for Pakistan’s soul, Sir Syed’s rational approach ultimately lost out and the Allama’s call on emotive reasoning won. Iqbal said what people wanted to hear — and his genius lay in crafting it with beautifully chosen words. Unfortunately, his prescriptions for reconstructing society cannot help us in digging ourselves out of a hole.

The two pillars of the DAE’s power, Ramana argues, are the promise or future projection of limitless energy, and the deadly attraction of the power to annihilate contained in nuclear weapons. The state seeks legitimacy through these two intimately connected parts of the nuclear programme. An elaborate charade rationalises its economic and political investment in nuclear power. Ramana shows how the DAE was crafted and run as an institution unanswerable to Parliament and the public. It abuses its power to mess up everything from uranium mining to spent-fuel reprocessing, violates its own safety norms, makes extravagant claims about developing technologies indigenously while importing/borrowing them, and hides major elements of generation costs through cheap accounting tricks.