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  Photo: Pig Iron Pouring at Azovstal Metallurgy Plant, Mariupol, Ukraine, Soviet Union (1937) | Boris Ignatovich

  4 January 2025
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  Music: Sound of Train - Ustad Zakir Hussain (2015)

  4 January 2025

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  Sound of TRAIN I Ustad Zakir Hussain I Live at BCMF 2015 by Bengal Foundation https://youtu.be/1FCUvVa_0SY?si=lBuAt_3HViYgkZ_8

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  Documentary: The Environmental Disaster that is Fuelled by Used Clothes and Fast Fashion | ABC News

  4 January 2025

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  The environmental disaster fuelled by used clothes and fast fashion | Foreign Correspondent by ABC News In-depth https://youtu.be/bB3kuuBPVys

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Dec 7 to Dec 28, 2024

  7 December 2024

  * Undertones of Parliamentary Election Schedule | Amal Mandal
  * Landmark Intervention of The Supreme Court In The Places Of Worship Act, 1991 |

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 7 - Dec 28, 2024

  7 December 2024

  32 years ago on December 6, 1992 thousands of Hindutva fanatics razed to the ground the Babri mosque

• Donald Trump & the US right he represents Versus Indian rightist forces | Arun Srivastava

  7 December 2024

  Indian rightist forces are quite elated at Donald Trump wining the US presidential election. For them it is one step closer to the burial of the centrist and liberal forces. They are quite optimist that with Trump in president

• A Day Off for Cricket in the Early Days of the Republic | Sreejith K

  7 December 2024

  The year India turned republic, by around this time when winter had set in, things had begun to look up. The riots which rocked the nation in the aftermath of the partition had subsided, the displaced and the refugees had, for the most part, found temporary shelters, and the worst seemed to be over. Much serious work, of course, remained to be done. The five-year plans would be launched the next year, and so too the first general elections which would be completed only months later the (…)

• Undertones of Parliamentary Election Schedule | Amal Mandal

  7 December 2024, by Amal Mandal

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  It is disconcerting that the role, particularly the election schedule, of the Election Commission of India (ECI) is courting controversies and insinuations. The allegation is that the ECI has been devising election schedule at the bidding of the ruling executive and the schedule offers tactical time and campaigning opportunities to the ruling regimen.
  The peek into the 2019 and 2024 parliamentary election schedules

• The ongoing controversy regarding places of worship! | Suresh Khairnar

  7 December 2024, by Suresh Khairnar

  On 24 October 1989, during the Ramshila Puja procession in Bhagalpur, riots started, which spread to almost the entire Bhagalpur Commissionerate. In which an attempt was made to destroy the houses of the people of the minority community in more than three hundred villages. And after demolishing their places of worship, we saw with our own eyes the words Ramji’s temple, Durga’s temple, Hanumanji’s temple written on the debris with black tar or red ochre. And it seemed that the existence of (…)

• Logistical comparison of the EVM and the ballot paper | Faraz Ahmad

  7 December 2024, by Faraz Ahmad

  Elections were