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  Film: Fear (1965) | Ritwik Ghatak

  10 May 2025

  https://youtu.be/KP2dMMrSlBw?si=NKatom1rQgePIMdF

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 17, 18, Apr 26 - May 3, 2025

  27 April 2025

  * Appeal to the President of India to Halt Military Operations & Ensure a Ceasefire in Adivasi Regions
  * PUCL statement on Pahalgam Killings
  * From Dunkel to Donald: Full reversal of USA on multilateralism | Donthi Narasimha Reddy
  * Trump Induced Tariff War: Global Implications . . . | Arun Kumar
  * The spectre of spiralling violence | S.G.Vombatkere

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 26-May 3, 2025

  27 April 2025

  A terrorist attack on April 22, 2025 killed 26 tourists in Pahalgam region of Jammu & Kashmir. Government of India pointed its finger at Pakistan for this incident and the Government of Pakistan denied its involvement —we have seen this movie before. As expected, the attack has triggered high tension between the Government’s of India and Pakistan. In wake of the Pahalgam killings, Prime Minister Narendra Modi cut short his tour to Saudi Arabia. One would have expected that he would (…)

• Contested Meanings of the Indian Constitution | Arup Kumar Sen

  27 April 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The recent Supreme Court verdict on April 8, 2025, regarding powers of the governor in the context of Tamil Nadu bears testimony to the contested meanings of the Indian Constitution. To put it in the words of Gautam Bhatia (The Hindu, April 21, 2025):

• West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee Facing Political/Communal Missiles! Nilofar Suhrawardy

  27 April 2025, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  If assembly elections in West Bengal were not due within less than a year from now, in all probability, the state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would not have been facing political/communal missiles of the nature she is now. The nature of noise together with issue as well as socio-political atmosphere with which the same is linked cannot also be side-lined. If the amended Waqf Bill had not been passed by the Parliament and received the President

• The Ghilblisation of Human Aesthetics

  27 April 2025

  A long due read

• The Pahalgam Tragedy And Its Aftermath | P. S. Jayaramu

  27 April 2025, by P S Jayaramu

  May 1, 2025
  Pakistan

• Can the US counsel us on restraint and negotiations? | Faraz Ahmad

  27 April 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  May 3, 2025
  India suffered attack by communally biased terrorists from Pakistan killing 26 tourists in the serene and peaceful hills of Pahalgam in Kashmir after ascertaining that all of them, except one, a Kashmiri Muslim pony owner who dared to snatch the gun of one of the terrorists to save the victims, were non-Muslim, including a Christian Nathaniel.
  The very nature of this attack, so different from the previous terror attacks from across our western border, was so despicable that (…)

• The spectre of spiralling violence: Apocalyptic crossroads? A troubling larger picture | S.G.Vombatkere

  27 April 2025, by S G Vombatkere

  The barbaric Pahalgam terrorist attack of April 22nd 2025 (ironically Earth Day) appallingly targetting Hindus, is shocking and condemnable beyond words. This latest terrorist attack is an attempt by the perpetrators, to intensify the narrative of religious communal division, by holding entire societies to ransom. A terrorist outfit named The Resistance Front, reportedly claims responsibility for the attack.
  The President and PM and other constitutional appointees at Centre and the States, (…)

• The attack on Harvard is attack on knowledge, and the very idea of America | Vijay Kumar

  27 April 2025, by Vijay Kumar

  Trump has, literally, declared a war on Harvard and other Ivy League institutions. The freezing of 2.2 billion endowments funds of Harvard and the threat to withdraw the tax-free exemptions will annihilate the autonomy of Harvard and other universities. In fact, the attack on Harvard will negate all that are positives about America.
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