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  Images: ASHA women health workers protest in Kerala, India (March 2025)

  13 April 2025

  Read about the 2025 ASHA health workers’ agitation in Kerala An Agitation That Woke Up Kerala by Shyam G Menon (Rediff.com, March 20, 2025) https://www.rediff.com/news/special/asha-workers-an-agitation-that-woke-up-kerala/20250320.htm India’s frontline health workers fight for better pay and recognition by Ashraf Padanna (BBC, 13 March 2025) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6185v4x5yo

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  Video: How Section 44(3) of India’s Data Protection Act weakens the Right to Information ? | Anjali Bhardwaj

  13 April 2025

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  How does Section 44(3) of the DPDP Act weaken the RTI? | In Focus podcast by The Hindu https://youtu.be/eqvkfqHu8-g?si=s6RKyNrSEqwfRmAp

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  Video: The Economics of a Dying Empire (w/ Richard Wolff) | The Chris Hedges Report

  13 April 2025

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  The Economics of a Dying Empire (w/ Richard Wolff) | The Chris Hedges Report by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/-1aFnl-x_3M?si=7cj5MkyiZcxzrw9B

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  Music: Last Night (1961 instrumental single by The Mar-Keys

  13 April 2025

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  Last Night by The Mar-Keys - Topic https://youtu.be/Krr9QIZ7ok4?si=5hmoDLy7AHXpZRmB
  The track was written by Charles Axton, Floyd Newman, Gilbert C. Caple, Jerry Lee Smith and Chips Moman

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 14, Apr 5, 2025

  5 April 2025

  * The Political Failure of Maoist Line in India | Pallab Sengupta
  * AIKS statement on US Tariff

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 5, 2025

  5 April 2025

  On April 1, 2025, the Supreme Court of India blasted the Prayagraj Development Authority for the illegal demolition of the homes of citizens and for not following due process. This time, the court ordered compensation for each home that was demolished. Over zealous officials who carried out these actions are looking for reward & recognition from a strongman who has promoted the idea, supposedly to check encroachments; The hardline Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh (UP), Swami Adityanath, (…)

• Deconstructing

  5 April 2025

  Very recently (April 1, 2025), the Supreme Court characterized as

• Wrong doers do not bother about the barking judiciary | Arun Srivastava

  5 April 2025

  It does not appear that UP CM Yogi Adityanath had bothered to listen to the directive of the Supreme Court on the bulldozer action. Though belated, the court ought to have taken note of this new persecutory cultural move, soon after it was unleashed by Yogi in his home state Uttar Pradesh, it does not appear to have any impact on Yogi. After SC verdict Yogi described use of bulldozer as a

• Who was fooled by the

  5 April 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has asked Muslim members of

• Why educational inequality remains high in India | Aneesh M R

  5 April 2025

  March 25, 2025
  The availability of educational infrastructure is highly uneven between the rich and the poor, urban and rural areas and between different castes.
  The unequal distribution of education leads to unequal outcomes for different social groups.
  Investment in human capital plays a decisive role in economic growth. India, which seeks to become the engine of global economic growth and swears by inclusive growth, however, shows shocking trends in rural-urban educational (…)