Monthly Archive: July 2020

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WHY CHINA NEEDS INDIA’S FRIENDSHIP

Cover Photo: Retired Major General Harsha Kakar     HARSHA KAKAR THE STATESMAN KOLKATA 7th July 2020   This article in today's Statesman Kolkata lucidly explains why instead of muscle-flexing and browbeating India, China needs India's friendship more than India...

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Love and theft

Cover photo: A Robinhood statue at Nottingham Castle in the UK.  (Shuttercock)   Rev. Valson Thampu THE TELEGRAPH ONLINE 6th July 2020   We don’t like criminals. But we vote for them. The proportion of those with criminal records among...

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Giving Marx to our leaders! – TJS George

When & where was true Communism practiced? Giving Marx to our leaders! Since Marx was the paramacharya of communism, it’s only fair to begin by asking whether our communist leaders contributed according to their ability? – T J S George, in New...

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UNDERSTANDING CHINA

    ASWINI K. MAHAPATRA THE STATESMAN, KOLKATA 05th July 2020   The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) over-reliance on history, for legitimising one-party rule for perpetuity, constitutes a potent challenge for President Xi Jinping.  The Chinese bubble to become world's number...

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International Webinar on Covid-19: Emerging Cyber Threats, Psychological Dimension and the Way Forward

    On 26th June 2020, the Department of Social Work (St Xavier’s University Kolkata – SXUK) and International Justice Mission (IJM), Kolkata, jointly organised International Webinar on Covid-19: Emerging Cyber Threats, Psychological Dimension and the Way Forward for Students. Isaac...

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SUICIDE MISSION

  chhotebhai   During the Second World War this term referred to Japanese pilots who went on suicidal missions, where death was certain. The Kamikaze pilots flew their bomb-laden aircraft straight into enemy targets. Then we had the LTTE suicide...