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  • Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
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    Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate

  • For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
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    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance

  • A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

  • How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
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    How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design

  • Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world
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    Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world

  • Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

  • This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
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    This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings

  • What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken
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    What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken

  • Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare
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    Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare

  • Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport

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Watch: Huge anti-government protests erupt across Belarus and Thailand

In both countries, protestors are asking the government to resign.

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Aug 17, 2020 · 09:38 am
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This is what the protests in Belarus — perhaps the largest demonstration in the country's history — looked like on Sunday as tens of thousands turned out to oppose President Alexander G. Lukashenko.

Read the latest. https://t.co/mYZtASGrPK pic.twitter.com/dZAwL5vAo1

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 16, 2020

The people of Belarus are rising up to remove a dictator. This is Minsk tonight. We should pay attention folks. pic.twitter.com/zXotNR7LZy

— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) August 11, 2020

Pro-democracy protesters attend a rally to demand the government to resign, near the Democracy Monument in Bangkok, Thailand, August 16, 2020. REUTERS/Jorge Silva Trending hashtags: #WhatsHappeningInThailand#ขีดเส้นตายไล่เผด็จการ #ให้มันจบที่รุ่นเรา pic.twitter.com/nNSGXwFKVV

— Jorge Silva (@jgesilva) August 16, 2020

Students around Thailand are adorning white ribbons and raising the three finger salute at the national anthem to show their resistance against dictatorship 🕊 #โรงเรียนหน้าเขาไม่เอาเผด็จการ #upfact #ขีดเส้นตายขับไล่เผด็จการ pic.twitter.com/kZEIkAw1uu

— kichan. (@memokichan) August 17, 2020

I'm done for tonight - passing it on to you western media at #whathappensinthailand and #SaveParit via @ThaiEnquirer - #Thailand #Protests pic.twitter.com/D3HPbtIVpa

— Erich Parpart (@erich_parpart) August 14, 2020

Young people are defending freedom of speech and democracy on behalf of people of Ubon Ratchathani. #ขีดเส้นตายไล่เผด็จการ #แท็กเพื่อนไปม็อบ #ประชาชนปลดเเอก #Thailand #democracy pic.twitter.com/AeWR732HiZ

— Titipol Phakdeewanich (@Titipol) August 16, 2020

"Revolution...not reform"
anti-government protest at Thammasat University...Rangsit Campus... #Bangkok #Thailand pic.twitter.com/2VICvShCLh

— Tocamelaotravez (@tocamelaotravez) August 10, 2020

Activists in Bangkok, Thailand, held a Harry Potter-themed protest to demand democratic reforms from the country's monarchy and military-aligned government of PM Prayut Chan-o-cha ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/79mnT7TXQm

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 9, 2020
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