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It is difficult to say how long the Syriza govt will survive in Greece and whether it will be successful; but if this is looked at only as national problem and not taken to be an opportunity by the left groups across Europe everyone will miss the bus. A failure of the Syriza government will certainly open the floodgates in terms of rise in social and electoral prospects the extreme nationalist formations within Greece.

But while the Modi regime is ideologically rooted in xenophobia, though only selectively - no problem with inviting foreign capital with open hands but criticism by a foreigner (if s/he is no Barack Obama) is a strict "no-no"; these feminists are only making instrumental use of this element. Xenophobic nationalism, cloaked as "anti-colonialism" / "anti-imperialism", is of course a bedrock underlying the arguments put forward by this section of feminists.

ANOTHER murderous attack on Christian worshippers. More expressions of shock and horror. And yet more crocodile tears.

In Nepal, there are hurdles to the constitution drafting that have to be resolved urgently if the radical leftists and the royalist right are not to blow away hard-won freedoms. As a player in Nepal politics, the best support India can provide is by staying outside the convention of constitution writing

Attempts to silence journalists, writers and bloggers in Bangladesh come from all political directions, but in this country, at least, it is only religious extremists, seeking to silence those who write in support of secularism, atheism or rationalism, who go so far as to attack and kill.