By Rene Wadlow. The 8 November 2020 elections; for the two houses of the Myanmar Parliament were carried out with little violence. The National League for Democracy (NLD); headed by Aung San Suu Kyi won some 80 percent of the open seats.
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(London: C. Hurst and Co. 2019). This is a lively analysis of Indian politics; since independence. The book is divided in two parts; an account of the long period when the Congress Party was in power; and a second part on the
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by Rene Wadlow. 22 August has been set by the United Nations General Assembly as the “International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief”. Due to Nazi and Japanese militarist persecution of religious groups during the
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by Rene Wadlow. On 5 August 2019; the Central Government of India put an end to article 370 of the Indian Constitution; which provided autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir; an autonomy which dated from shortly after Independence. Pre-Independence Kashmir was ultimately divided
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The Path to Indian Independence (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012, 225pp)Simone Panter-Brick Simone Panter-Brick had written two earlier books on Mahatma Gandhi: Gandhi against Machiavellism: Non-violence in Politics and Gandhi and the Middle East. Here, in a book written just before her death,
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If we claim to be civilized, if we love justice, if we cherish mercy, if we are not ashamed to own the reality of the inward light, we must affirm that we are first and foremost Citizens of the World…Our planet has
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