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• The ongoing collapse | Amitav Ghosh

  29 November 2024

  Full Text of Acceptance Speech of 2024 Erasmus Prize
  It takes only a glance at a newspaper nowadays to see that much of what we once took for granted is either being cast aside or turned on its head. Indeed, with floods sweeping away entire cities, and the prospect of a nuclear war closer than it has ever been, I couldn

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  Statement from National Unions and a Peasants platform / Joint Representation from CTUs and SKM to President of India (Nov 26, 2024)

  29 November 2024

  Press Release
  The Following Statement released to the press by CTUs and SKM today- 26th November about Nationwide protest.
  Nationwide Massive protest by Workers and Farmers on 26th Nov.
  Determined to intensify the agitations in the coming days
  More than a million join nationwide mass mobilisation today called upon by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha and the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent Sectoral Federations and Associations. The programmes were held in more (…)

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  Review of Davaram’s ’Munnar to Marina: The Journey’

  29 November 2024, by K S Subramanian

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Munnar to Marina: The Journey
  By W I Davaram
  Notion Press, 2O24
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  reviewed by K. S. Subramanian
  This is a brilliant book by W I Davaram, IPS Retd., former Director General of Police, Tamilnadu. The book is in English (with a separate translation in Tamil). Along with a large number of photographs the book is fascinating and an enjoyable read. The book with 408 pages lacks an Index. The author

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  Charles Reitz’s Review of The Marcusean Mind

  29 November 2024

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  The Marcusean Mind
  Edited by Eduardo Altheman C. Santos, Jina Fast, Nicole K. Mayberry and Sid Simpson
  Routledge, London
  2025. 602 pp.
  ISBN 9781032462998
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  Reviewed by Charles Reitz
  We are living in world-historical, conflict-ridden times. Many of us have spent our whole professional lives as teachers in the multicultural education reform movement. We have worked with excellent colleagues, but we have faced strong (…)

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  Film Poster: Naya Sansar (1940) directed by N.R. Acharya

  29 November 2024

  The 1940 film Naya Sansar directed by N.R. Acharya and written by Khwaja Ahmed Abbas. The film is the story of Sansar a progressive newspaper.

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  Song: Talking Union - Millard Lampell, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger (1941)

  29 November 2024

  Play
  Talking Union - Pete Seeger by solidaritet2010 https://youtu.be/C13JFv4JfH8?si=thH4XZUqbdRbLZ4T

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  Poster for International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Nov 29

  29 November 2024
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  Documentary: Untold Story of Stalin’s Daughter - Svetlana Alliluyeva

  29 November 2024

  https://youtu.be/f9Dns9MEgkc?si=YDa7Ke1obRwqQWb7

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 23, 2024

  24 November 2024

  * Supreme Court Prohibits Bulldozer Injustice | Narender Nagarwal
  * Those who protect the poor also need protection | Bharat Dogra
  * The Crisis in Manipur: A Call for Accountability | Pallab Sengupta
  * Durga Puja & R G Kar Agitation In West Bengal | Sujit Kumar Paul & Souradeep Sarkar
  * A Veritable Revolution in Sri Lanka

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 23, 2024

  24 November 2024

  Arrest warrants [1] from the International Criminal Court (ICC) on November 21 for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu & former defence minister Yoav Gallant are of great significance for international justice. The court that came into force in 2002 has an impeccable reputation for following rigorous investigative standards on crimes of Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Its attempts to book top officials from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Darfur, Sudan, (…)