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  Anganwadi Centres are not Charitable institutions | AITUC

  10 April

  ALL INDIA TRADE UNION CONGRES
  Press Statement by AITUC released today-4th April 2026 demanding withdrawal of UGC Circular
  The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) strongly opposes the recent circular issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC) directing that Anganwadi centres be maintained as part of their social responsibility and extension activities. This move is deeply regressive and illustrative of a dangerous drift in the Union Government

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  Letter from Israelis, Indians & others — filmmakers, scholars & activists against the ban on The Voice of Hind Rajab in India

  10 April

  Banning The Voice of Hind Rajab threatens freedom of expression in India and Israel
  We are, variously, Israelis, Indians, filmmakers, journalists, academics and activists. We write in support of pluralism, democracy and freedom of expression in India and in Israel

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  Review of Leach, Melissa; Fairhead, James, Naturekind: Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human | Louise Westling

  10 April

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Naturekind:
  Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human
  by Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
  Princeton University Press
  2025. 272 pp.
  (paper) ISBN 978-0-691-27066-1
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  Reviewed by Louise Westling (University of Oregon)
  Melissa Leach and James Fairhead offer a bold new perspective of

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  Uncovering the Ecologist in Marx: Kohei Saito

  10 April, by K. Sahadevan

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Marx in the Anthropocene
  Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
  by Kohei Saito, University of Tokyo
  Cambridge University Press
  15 January 2023 | ISBN: 9781108933544
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  Uncovering the Ecologist in Marx: Kohei Saito

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  Music: Price of Eggs by Carsie Blanton and The Burning Hell

  10 April
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  Podcast: Strait Outta Hormuz with Laleh Khalili

  10 April
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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Mar 31, 2026

  31 March

  * Questions to Narendra Modi: What

• SIR and the Great Fear of the Bengali Migrants | Arup Kumar Sen

  31 March, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The special intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list on the eve of the assembly elections in West Bengal has generated great fear among the Bengali migrants. The Telegraph reported (March 22, 2026) in this context:

• April 2026 Assembly Elections: The Jalebi Basket Test | Papri Sri Raman

  31 March, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  FIVE INDIAN STATES go to the hustings in April 2026, amidst a huge tussle going on between federalism and unitarianism. This makes these assembly elections crucial to the survival of our constitutionally mandated federal structure. Election watchers need to also keep in mind that these will be the last assembly elections with existing population numbers, assembly seats will be re-determined after the next census. Populations of southern States will be much lesser than the northern States, (…)

• Questions to Narendra Modi: What

  31 March, by K. Sahadevan

  March 24, 2026
  I would like to ask some questions to Narendra Modi, who is coming to Kerala as a campaigner for the BJP candidate. It is not without remembering that he was not ready to answer the questions of the media during his tenure as the Prime Minister. When you were the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2007, your face, which trembled before the questions of the brave journalist Karan Thapar, asked for a drink of water and ended the interview halfway, is still fresh in memory as if it (…)