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Shah Faesal’s Move Reflects a Diminishing of the Republic
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When the learned Faustus made his pact With the Seducer with a horn, Our souls became commodities As Capitalism was born. Capital…
The mega-mass event will go down in India’s contemporary history as a blow on the behalf of reason and constitutional rights and crowns a year of concerted mass determination to obtain gender justice in the cultural-religious domain
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In olden times illness reigned, Now sickness is the trend; Illnesses have inanimate cures, Sickness needs a friend. Friends are now in…
Let the star this Christmas Turn a lightning rod For the money-changers who, Bereft of grace, Have made of the world A…
It is an Arctic December, The ice is everywhere; But the heat of hate is colder still, Congealing life into frozen fear.…
Gandhi underscores that Hindutva is a neo-fascist theory which is far removed from Hinduism
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