Wagner Group soldiers are in Mali, but Vijay Prashad delves into the reasons why they are not the cause of the rift with France.
By Vijay Prashad
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
On Nov. 21, Mali’s interim prime minister, Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga, issued a statement o
Remembering Siddiqui, Hasan, Ramrakha, three Indian journalists who died covering war July 18, 2021, 6:41 AM IST
A journalist who has lived all over India and is now based in Bangalore
There is this poem by Lawrence Binyon titled “For the Fallen” and commemorating those killed in war, the fourth stanza of which goes:
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Danish Siddiqui, Najmul Hasan and Priya Ramrakha were Indian journalists who died young, covering war. Siddiqui and Hasan were Indian citizens who worked from India for the wire-service Reuters and their last mission was to cover a war in a third country. I met one of them (Hasan) briefly. The other two were before and after my days of active journalism. Hasan was a correspondent while the other two were photojournalists.