With the stench of shit and damp clothes that smell of popcorn and vomit, with descriptions of bulging eyes and “sob-mucus” and sandwiches chewed with an open mouth, Ahmad builds a world able to hold the worst of acts.
A full thirty days after Ramadan comes Eid. How wonderful and beautiful is the morning of Eid! The trees look greener, the field more festive, the sky has a lovely pink glow. Look at the sun! It comes up brighter and more dazzling than before to wish the world a very happy Eid. The village is agog with excitement. Everyone is up early to go to the Eidgah mosque.
The entire SIR process (Special Intensive Revision) is not clear, full of alleged mistakes. And in Bengal its foremost target is a community.
As the war following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 enters its fifth year, the attitude of the Russian public remains difficult to gauge: Just over half of Russians, according to one recent poll, expect the war to end in 2026; yet a majority say that should negotiations fail, Moscow needs to “escalate” with greater use of force.
The concept of free trade agreements (FTAs) may appear attractive on the surface, but the political economy and social consequences behind them are often unequal and controversial.
On 21st January 2026, Free Voice successfully organized a commemorative program to mark the 129th birth anniversary of the iconic freedom fighter, Subhas Chandra Bose, fondly revered as Netaji.
Ps ranging from the prime to the poor, from the highest to the lowest and many in-between, may not be tyrants. But in the age of empire, Ps must have to be tyrants, if not happily but unwillingly, for their survival.
The top 10 percent of people in India have concentrated a whopping 65 percent of the country’s total wealth. This means approximately 140 million people control two-thirds of the country’s wealth, while the remaining approximately 1.36 billion people are left with only 35 percent of wealth.
Totalitarianism, she argued, was a radically new form of government distinguished by its ideological conception of history. For the Nazis, history was a clash of races; for Stalinism, it was class war. Either way, totalitarian leaders sought to execute historical “laws” by forcibly reshaping the humans they ruled.
A lifelong voice against injustice, Bhashani led many movements against imperialism and oppression during both the British and the Pakistani rules.