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‘The Rising Voice Of The Global South’: Was India’s G20 Presidency Hope For A World In Disarray Or Just An Expensive Makeover?

1.42 billion people in India must be aware that their country is hosting the G20 summit. In cities across this vast nation, the beaming face of Prime Minister Narendra Modi adorns the giant posters rhetorically informing the public about the G20 presidency.

As some of the most powerful leaders descend into Delhi for the two-day summit, the Indian government has spent upward of Rs 9 crores to beautify the capital city and has covered up the national capital’s slum and low-lying areas as if to show that the poor never existed there.

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Dropping The Olive Branch From the Hand: Who Killed Yasser Arafat?

 

Under the ever-tightening grip of the Israeli forces that had bombed and raided his offices several times since 2002, Yasser Arafat suddenly fell ill at the dining table and thus started the biggest mystery of the modern-day Middle East. With more than seven countries involved in this mystery, the setting is no less than a thriller movie.

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Uterus For Money: India’s Medical Scandal Forcing Poor Women To Give Up Wombs

  

Menstruation is always considered a taboo in India and this problematic issue continues as a large majority of the women population who belong to poor class families, have no educational status and are forced to make choices under constraints that have a long-term irreversible impact on their health and lives.  Poor women in India, who […]

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The Diva On Roads: India’s Love with Premier Padmini

  

Fiat 1100- D (Delight) or Pad or Padmini, or Bombay’s Kalli-Peeli is emblematic of Indian enterprises that stood firm on their legs during an era of strict licensing and state control. Almost 4-decades long journey of Padmini from the 1960s made it synonymous with a family luxury car in the yesteryears. Today, well remembered as […]

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Collaboration Horizontale: Shaving Heads of French Women Who Romantically Collaborated with Nazis

  

June 6, 1944, is a significant date in the events that led to the end of the Second World War as the Allied forces comprising of the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain landed on Normandy Beach to liberate France from the German Nazi rule. Village after village, town after town, city after city […]

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: He Who Chose Shadow

  

Philip Mountbatten married then-princess Elizabeth in 1947 and their marriage became the longest royal union in the history. Just as the Queen is the longest-serving monarch, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh was the longest-serving Royal Consort in British history. He did not have any role in his wife’s official duties, but he provided her […]

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