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Outside of West Bengal, Saffron Wave Appears Unstoppable While it may not make a huge difference in the national tally for Narendra Modi’s Bharatya Janata Party (BJP), which…
RABINDRANATH TAGORE, AND OUR FAILED LEGACY Rabindranath Tagore had forward looking and clearly articulated views about nationalism in the light of cross-cultural knowledge, education for freedom of the…
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INDIA VOTES The largest election in the history of democracy commenced its arduous nine-phase process in the Himalayan foothills of northeastern India, with Narendra Modi’s opposition party poised…
PRELUDE TO WORLD WAR III? The crisis in the Ukraine deepened, today, as the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk reportedly declared itself independent from the central government in…
MEXICO CITY – The family of Bassil Alejandro Da Costa Frías, the youngest of her three children, saw him for the last time on February 12th. He had…
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“I’m excited to announce that we’ve agreed to acquire WhatsApp and that their entire team will be joining us at Facebook.” – Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Facebook ZUCKERBERG’S STATEMENT:…
THE POET, THE PRIZE, AND ITS PEDAGOGY “because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed…
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