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  Music: Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton - Corrine, Corrina

  5 April 2025

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  Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton - Corrine, Corrina by EClaptonAddict https://youtu.be/y7eeb1MTkUY?si=jSXjdT-C5DoQXgYQ

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  Video: White supremacy & complicity: How the West enables Israel

  5 April 2025

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  White supremacy & complicity: How the West enables Israel’s war on Gaza | Pankaj Mishra | Real Talk by Middle East Eye https://youtu.be/41WAiG8QGHg?si=HO7w17ZWBKr8m7rZ

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 13, Mar 29, 2025

  29 March 2025

  * Need to go beyond puerile

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Mar 29, 2025

  29 March 2025

  A public performance of an acclaimed stand up comedian in India was attacked recently in Mumbai by a mob of supporters of the ruling state govt, he is now facing defamation charges framed by the state police [1], around the same time a Palestinian man a co-director of an Oscar winning documentary was nearly lynched by Israeli settlers & then detained in the West Bank [2]; and elsewhere a comedian was arrested in Russia for supposedly mocking war invalids [3]. Tough in different (…)

• Haryana Budget 25-26 focus on Industry and Urban Development - Debt and Regional Inequality loom Large in the State | Sher Singh Sangwan

  29 March 2025

  Overall regional Bias
  Haryana’s budget of Rs205017 crore for 2025-26 was presented by the CM and Finance Minister (FM) Naib Singh Saini on 17th March 2025. It shows an increase of 13.70 % compared to 8.38% in the previous year

• Mode of Production and Reproduction of Anti-Muslim Violence in India | Arup Kumar Sen

  29 March 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Violence against the Muslim community in diverse forms has become an organic part of statecraft in BJP-ruled India. The genealogy of such violence is a long one. A classic case is the Bhagalpur riots in Bihar in 1989. Very recently, Tanweer Fazal has narrated and analyzed the mode of production and reproduction of this anti-Muslim violence in his book, Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India. (Three Essays Collective, 2024)
  While narrating the roots of such violence, (…)

• Consumerism reduces folk politics from a movement to an ideology | Sunita Samal

  29 March 2025, by Sunita Samal

  Abstract: A new spirit of materialism, and sensual indulgence began to take root after World War II. As the commercialization of identity took an aura of prestige, the argument that the unauthorized advertising use of one

• Is Yashwant Varma the excuse to revive the NJAC? | Faraz Ahmad

  29 March 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  Evidence so far surfaced in the case of sacks full of currency notes in the bungalow of Justice Yashwant Varma of the Delhi High Court, leads anyone to believe that this raises questions on Justice Varma

• Death in Kandhamal: failure of Public Distribution System | Radhakanta Barik

  29 March 2025, by Radhakanta Barik

  for twenty four years people have forgotten the hunger related deaths in Odisha and today it has got started in Kandhamal district of Odisha. It seems that failure of public distraction system has resulted in killing two persons in the district.
  Key Words: Hunger, poverty, public distribution system, death
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  Within five months of rule in Odisha the Hanuman is dancing in the villages where lanes of thatched houses are there and people are scared of the Hanuman with (…)

• On Reservations in Higher Education | Arup Maharatna

  29 March 2025, by Arup Maharatna

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  The commentary dissects rationale and ramifications of a policy of reservation especially when it is coupled with relaxation in the tests of intellectual abilities and academic volition at the time of admission to higher educational institutions.
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  There was a time