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After Two Years in Bethlehem: Christmas, a New Year, and the Newborn Ray of Hope

- by Vineet Tiwari

On a personal level, this is perhaps my first such New Year and Christmas where I am profoundly happy. And the sole reason for this is an email received from Palestine. A friend from Bethlehem sent a video and informed that due to the two-year-long massacre in Gaza, Christmas had not been celebrated in Bethlehem or across Palestine for the past two years. This year, the Christmas tree has been decorated in Bethlehem. Christmas has been celebrated.

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Why Protests at AMU take a Rightward Shift?

- by Bhavuk

The Muslim Right Wing assertion both in 1981 and the current protest (August 2025) is unmistakable. The remedy still remains an administrative re-shuffle of the many teacher-administrators sticking to their respective offices since ages. Moreover,  a strong assertion of the secularists against the communal reactionaries taking over the current student agitation, is the most urgent necessity at the moment.

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Remembering Yashpal, the Hindi writer who remained true to revolution throughout life

- by Kalpana Pandey

Yashpal died on 26 December 1976 in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. He was working on the fourth volume of his book ‘Sinhavalokan’, which was written on the memories of his revolutionary movement. With his passing, a modern Marxist, a very conscious writer, was lost, which Hindi produced in those difficult days, he was the only writer who picked up the pen in the difficult times when there was a wave of individualism and alienation everywhere.

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