Table of Contents, Mainstream, May 22, 2021
* On Sycophancy, the Indian Variety | Arup Maharatna * Socialism - Association of Free Individuals | Chattopadhyay * An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis | James Baldwin - 2021
View ArticleTable of Contents, Mainstream, May 29, 2021
In This issue Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 29, 2021 After the Supercyclone ; Barun Das Gupta Interpreting the Narada Bribery Case ; Arup Kumar Sen India's Self-Inflicted Catastrophe ; TJS...
View ArticleTable of Contents, Mainstream, June 5, 2021
* Origins of Corona and the Conspiracy Theorists | Kobad Ghandy * Chronicle of deaths foretold | Ash Narain Roy * Review of foundation document of CPI | Nityananda Ghosh * Official Marxism in India...
View ArticleTable of Contents, Mainstream, June 12, 2021
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 12, 2021 Congress reset transforms Kerala politics ; M K Bhadrakumar Two years of Indian Foreign Policy under S Jaishankar ; P S Jayaramu Letter to Manoj Sinha,...
View ArticleTable of Contents, Mainstream, June 19, 2021
In this Issue: Letter to the readers, Mainstream, June 19, 2021 Kenneth Kaunda: The Passing of an African Giant ; Anil Nauriya The Condemned Remain Condemned ; TJS George Khadija's Jail Time: A Prison...
View ArticleTable of Contents, Mainstream, June 26, 2021
In this issue: Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 26, 2021 Flabbergasted by Incompetence ; TJS George Our Nation, Our Constitution: A Layperson's understanding ; S G Vombatkere On Restoring Growth...
View ArticleTable of Contents, July 3, 2021
In this Issue: Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 3, 2021 Gagging retired bureaucrats? ; AK Biswas Political Dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir ; Gautam Sen There is Freedom, But No Mercy ; TJS George...
View ArticleTable of Contents, July 10, 2021
In this issue: Letter to the Readers, July 10, 2021 That Tear-Drop Of Love Matters ; TJS George Union Cabinet Reshuffle and Its Impact on Bengal BJP ; Barun Das Gupta How to take on the BJP in 2024 ;...
View ArticleTable of Contents, July 17, 2021
* Which Leaders Are 'Good And True'? | TJS George * Tribute: Rabi Dash - A Unique revolutionary | Manoranjan Mohanty * A Troubadour and A Revolutionary | Durba Bose * Radical Democratic Ideals for the...
View ArticleCuba: Resist Imperialism, Defend the Democratic Rights of People, Question...
Statement on Cuba by Radical Socialist 19 July 2021 Since 1992, Cuba has brought the demand to end the U.S. embargo every year in front of the UN — a motion that is approved annually with the...
View ArticleCPI Demands JPC Probe into Snooping Incident - Press Release, July 20, 2021
Communist Party of India July 20, 2021 Press Release The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on July 20, 2021) demanding a Joint Parliamentary...
View ArticleIncome Tax raids in Dainik Bhaskar and Bharat Samachar - Statement by Editors...
The Editors Guild of India PRESS STATEMENT July 23rd, 2021 The Editors Guild of India is concerned about the Income Tax raids on July 22, at the offices of country's leading newspaper group, Dainik...
View ArticleStatement by The Editors Guild of India on Pegagsus snooping | July 21, 2021
The Editors Guild of India PRESS STATEMENT July 21st, 2021 The Editors Guild of India is shocked by the media reports on the wide spread surveillance, allegedly mounted by government agencies, on...
View ArticleIFF's Statement on Hacking Revelations made by the Pegasus Project
On July 18, 2021, The Wire, as part of an international collaborative investigation titled “Pegasus Project”, revealed that the Israeli spyware firm NSO targeted “over 300 verified Indian mobile...
View ArticleNinth Report of the Concerned Citizens' Group on Jammu & Kashmir (July 5 -7,...
The Concerned Citizens' Group (CCG) made its ninth visit to Kashmir from July 5 to 7, 2021. The latest visit came in the wake of a meeting called by the Indian prime minister on June 24 of all the...
View ArticleDocumentary: Traveling Ecuador by train - The Trans-Andean railroad
PlayTraveling Ecuador by train | DW Travel Documentaryby DW Documentaryhttps://youtu.be/8P-iPXsylrk - Video / Audio Collection
View ArticleVideo: Edward Snowden on spyware: 'This is an industry that should not exist'
PlayEdward Snowden on spyware: 'This is an industry that should not exist'by The Guardianhttps://youtu.be/I5WjTTi67BE - Video / Audio Collection / Audio / Video
View ArticleVideo: Perspectives on China - Yesterday and Today (july 2019) | Frank Dikötter
PlayFrank Dikötter (University of Hong Kong) – Perspectives on China: Yesterday and Todayby 1990 Institutehttps://youtu.be/Jv4cBUgyO88 - Video / Audio Collection / Audio / Video
View ArticleJazz: 1978 - Larry Coryell (g), Philip Catherine (g), Joachim Kühn (p) at...
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View ArticlePhoto: Komsomol Member at the wheel of papermaking machine, 1929 | Arkady...
In 1924, at the age of 26, he became one of the leading photojournalists for the newspapers Krasnaya Niva and Moscow Proletarian. In 1925, Shaikhet joined the staff of the national illustrated magazine...
View ArticleDanish Siddiqui Speaks (1983 – 2021) | Sagari Chhabra
I am Danish Siddiqui And I am dead; I have been killed in Kandahar By the Taliban; They call it a casualty of war But I ask you, what is casual About losing my life, Turning my young wife Into a widow,...
View ArticleCome Pegasus, Come Pegasus! | Suhas Borker
Come, Come, Pegasus, snoop away, snoop away, into the dark till we trace your master(s) in remorseless hot pursuit to tick and mark find you we shall up to the up-up find you we shall down to the...
View ArticleThe Winged Horse | Badri Raina
July 22, 2021 Pegasus, the winged horse, Sprang from Medusa's blood, When Perseus, the virtuous, Detached the wicked Gorgon's head. Next it flew to the firmament, And became a constellation bright,...
View ArticleRichard Lewontin - Pioneer of molecular evolution who campaigned against...
by Michael R. Dietrich * July 13, 2021 Richard Lewontin was a groundbreaking geneticist, best known for bringing molecular tools into evolutionary biology and for his advocacy against the use of...
View ArticleSouth Africa is turning on itself | Buthelezi and Satgar
by Awande Buthelezi and Vishwas Satgar * Jacob Zuma is like Michael Jackson in Thriller, a master of the great disaster. He has played his endgame: you bring me down, I bring it all down. The mass...
View ArticleA Call for Solidarity with the People of Haiti, 7/16/21
The media and governments are saying that Haiti finds itself at the center of another crisis, this time for the assassination of the ex-president Jovenel Moïse on July 7. In fact, Haiti has been in...
View Article2020 Tokyo Games: Why allow men to compete with women? | Linda Blade
by Linda Blade May 4, 2021 Dear Olympic Games Officials and people of Japan: The modern Olympic Games was envisioned as a festival where sports competition would remain a merit-based domain where...
View ArticleThe Rwanda Myth | Tom Zoellner (LARB)
Review by Tom Zoellner April 3, 2021 Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong New York: Public Affairs Books March 2021, 512 pages Hardcover /...
View ArticleA tale of love, truth and victimhood | Prasenjit Chowdhury
BOOK REVIEW by Prasenjit Chowdhury __0__ One Love, and the Many Lives of Osip B by C. P. Surendran Niyogi Books, New Delhi www.niyogibooksindia.com/Email: niyogibooks[at]gmail.com IMPRINT: OLIVE TURTLE...
View ArticleSnooping / War over our past / Sahir | Humra Quraishi
MUSINGS 21 July 2021 I have been focusing on the fact that the Coronavirus is just one aspect to our dismal existence. Today many more unsettling realities are intruding into our lives, making our...
View ArticleWitch Killings of Malda: A Study in ‘Our' Conspiracy | Sujit Chakraborty
by Sujit Chakraborty* INVESTIGATION Dozens of women are killed in the tribal belts of North Bengal each year, accused of being ‘witches'. But more than superstition, the story is really about...
View ArticleRemembering Parbati Giri: Role in India's Freedom Struggle | Roul & Raul
by Kamalakanta Roul and Bimal Kumar Raul* Introduction: India's Freedom Struggle Empowered the Women The contribution of women to India's freedom struggle occupies a prominent space in the history and...
View ArticlePopulation Control: Will Coercive Measures Work? | Ram Puniyani
by Ram Puniyani On the back of population control policy adopted by Assam, where those having more than two children will be barred from contesting local elections and will not considered for...
View ArticleThe reality of China's fertility decline | Zhao & Zhang
by Zhongwei Zhao and Guangyu Zhang * 8 July 2021 The relaxation of China's one-child policy in 2013, and its termination in 2015, generated only a moderate and temporary fertility increase. China's...
View ArticleChinese Communism: A Left Critique | Shubham Sharma
by Shubham Sharma* History As a young Marxist dreaming about the triumph of labour over capital, it was a moment of near absolute nausea to stand witness to the uncritical applause received by the...
View ArticleCentenary of Foundation of Communist Party of China | Anil Rajimwale
The completion of hundred years of CPC (Communist Party of China) is a historic event, both in its positivity and negativity. Officially, its centenary was completed on July 1, though the foundation...
View ArticleTowards Creating A Parallel Pandemic Due To Mis-Management of Wastes In Patna...
by Papia Raj and Aditya Raj* Waste management has been a chronic problem, especially in Patna, which was called “garbage city” of India by the High Court of Judicature at Patna in 2010. The situation...
View ArticleEconomic Crisis and MGNREGS | Singh & Dhaka
by Ranbir Singh and Rajvir Dhaka* The two ways of Corona that have adversely affected all the sectors of Indian economy in 2020 and 2021 culminated in large scale unemployment in almost all the states...
View ArticleVulnerabilities and Insecurities of Fisheries Workers in times of Pandemic...
by Kingshuk Sarkar & Helen R. Sekar* Fishery workers constitute a very significant segment of the workforce in India. Natural calamities and pandemic induced lockdown dealt a severe blow to already...
View ArticleAddressing the Nutrition Crisis in India in the time of Covid 19 Pandemic |...
by Jos Chathukulam and Manasi Joseph * Abstract This article briefly examines the status of nutrition in India before the onset of the Covid 19 pandemic and after the outbreak. It also suggests how...
View ArticleSonia Gandhi reconstitutes Parliamentary groups, retains control over the...
(20th July, 2021) With the objective of ensuring that the Congress Party plays an active role in the Parliament during the monsoon session and later, a series of moves have been initiated by the...
View ArticleHow To Preserve, Protect & Defend The PM | TJS George
IMPRESSIONS Just because somebody occupies the most exalted seat in the country, he does not automatically become the most appreciated personality in the country. Presidents like Rajendra Prasad and K....
View ArticleIndia's Political Institutions Suffering From Trust Deficit in wake of the...
by Arun Arivastava July 22, 2021 Former American president Richard Nixon would have been feeling much happier lying in his grave that the Watergate scandal which finished his career and pushed him to...
View ArticleBengal BJP Is In Deep Crisis Due To Growing Factionalism In Districts - Many...
(India Press Agency: July 19, 2021) The disastrous defeat of the BJP in assembly elections in Bengal has not only demoralized the party workers at all levels but has also intensified factionalism in...
View ArticleThe Politics of Defection: A Shattering Blow to the Indian Democracy and the...
by Gouri Sankar Nag and Manas Mukul Bandyopadhyay * The politics of defection is one of the major obstacles to the glory of parliamentary democracy in India. An Anti-Defection law was passed in the...
View ArticleLetter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 24, 2021
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 24, 2021 The week began with major news of hack-in of phones using Pegasus spyware provided by NSO an Israeli Defence company (which licenses its technology to...
View ArticleTable of Contents, July 24, 2021
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 24, 2021 The Politics of Defection ; Nag & Bandyopadhyay Bengal BJP in Deep Crisis - Many May Join TMC ; Barun Das Gupta Further Trust Deficit in wake of the...
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