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  Documentary: Climate Protest Crackdown | Al Jazeera

  12 January 2025

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  Why critics label Germany’s ’Last Generation’ climate activists as ’criminals’ | People & Power by Al Jazeera English https://youtu.be/SrvXFIPUBRE?si=JxzMcZB7zBrH9q1N

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  Music from the film Once a Thief - The Cat by Lalo Schifrin (1965)

  12 January 2025

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  The Cat by Lalo Schifrin - Topic https://youtu.be/4YEENDAjTYw?si=1Mdbmweqbh5EAOQJ

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 1, Jan 4, 2025

  4 January 2025

  * Privatization of Vizag Steel Plant | Soma Marla
  * Challenges To Democracy In India | Avatthi Ramaiah
  * Looking back at the Hindu Code Bill episode of 1940s-50s | Bhuvak
  * The changing face of employment in the 21st century | Upal Chakraborty
  * Municipal Socialism | Petr Kropotkin

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 4, 2025

  4 January 2025

  Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Jan 4, 2025
  In what is known to the world as one of the worst industrial disasters

• Manmohan Singh: A gentleman politician India was lucky to have |

  4 January 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

  I was one of some 30 or 40 academics, scholars and journalists who went to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

• Dr. Manmohan Singh

  4 January 2025

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• Rare are people of integrity and compassion | Humra Quraishi

  4 January 2025, by Humra Quraishi

  2nd January 2025
  As Khushwant Singh and I put together his book

• A Tragic Coincidence | J P Gadkari

  4 January 2025, by J P Gadkari

  The nation had the tragic coincidence of a huge nature being struck to it when it was about to celebrate in a big way the Centenary of Mahatma Gandhi having completed 100 years of his presiding over the only time as the president of he oldest national political party in the country, the INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS, when one of its stalwarts, late Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, who changed the face of the country a decade ahead of the last Century breathed his last.
  The Congress had (…)

• 2024 and its lessons for India | P. S. Jayaramu

  4 January 2025, by P S Jayaramu

  29th December 2024
  I like to indulge in some broad reflections on the lessons of the year that is ending. My focus is largely on the political arena with some thoughts expressed on the direction of the economy, specially in view of the legacy of Dr. Manmohan Singh who passed away a few days ago and finally in the field of education, which is dear to my heart.
  On the Political/electoral front:
  My views on Politics in this write-up are influenced by the results of the Lok Sabha and (…)

• Privatization of Vizag Steel Plant | Soma Marla

  4 January 2025, by Soma S. Marla

  The UK based steel multinational ArcelorMittal, has found favour with both Union and Andhra Pradesh (AP) state governments to establish a steel factory, located hardly a few miles away from the public sector Visakhapatnam steel plant (RINL). Both governments are actively working together to fast-track clearances for the steel plant largesse, including free power, land, water,