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  CPI Statement on Supreme Court Directions to Stop Indiscriminate Use of Bulldozer Policy of Demolition

  7 September 2024

  Communist Party of India
  New Delhi,
  September 3, 2024
  Press Release
  CPI Welcomes the Supreme Court Directions to Stop Indiscriminate Use of Bulldozer Policy of Demolition
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (September 3, 2024) the following statement:
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India welcomes the decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court directing the State Authorities to stop indiscriminate use of bulldozers to demolish the (…)

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  Journey of a city | Joydip Ghosal

  7 September 2024

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Bombay After Ayodhya, A City in Flux by Jitendra Dixit
  HarperCollins Publishers India
  P- ISBN – 978-93-5629-411-0
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  Bombay After Ayodhya, A City in Flux by Jitendra Dixit documents the change in city’s character and landscape . This book stands as a testament to author’s in- depth knowledge of the city. He loves the city and its people from the core of his heart. He knows every nooks and corner of the city. Rasheed Kidwai (…)

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  Smith on Moseley, ’Marx’s Theory of Value in Chapter 1 of Capital: A Critique of Heinrich’s Value-Form Interpretation’

  7 September 2024

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Marx’s Theory of Value in Chapter 1 of Capital: A Critique of Heinrich’s Value-Form Interpretation
  by Fred Moseley
  Palgrave Macmillan 2023. xxix + 167 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-3-031-13209-4.
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  Reviewed by Jason E. Smith (Art Center College of Design)
  Marx and Method
  For the past few decades, Fred Moseley, a professor of economics at Mount Holyoke College until his recent retirement in 2016, has been a leading figure in (…)

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  Photo: Soviet Workers Club designed by Alexander Rodchenko (1925)

  7 September 2024
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  A documentary film on the life & work of CV Raman

  7 September 2024

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  C V Raman by Films Division https://youtu.be/d9OgM6bEzb8

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  Music: Sinfonia in C Major, G.33: I. Allegro · La Serenissima · Giuseppe Torelli | Adrian Chandler - The Italian Job 2017

  7 September 2024

  Adrian Chandler - The Italian Job 2017

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  Video: Minorities & the future of Indian Politics

  7 September 2024

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  Religion, Civil Society and Social Democracy (C Jaffrelot, J Harriss, I Ahmed, R Mukherji) by Department of Political Science South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University https://youtu.be/tzsXgpipCs8?si=t4T672XhW8Q6p3up
  Session 3 of Conference on the Future of Indian Democracy (Aug 2024)
  Session 3 - Minorities & the future of Indian Politics
  Chair - Dr. Dieter Reinhardt
  Speakers - Prof. Christophe Jaffrelot, Prof. Yasmin Saikia, Prof. Yogendra Yadav

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 31, 2024

  31 August 2024

  * How the RSS is using the Kolkatta rape case to mobilise | Arun Srivastava
  * What the Indian Left Should Learn from Raya Dunayevskaya | Murban Jal
  * Text of Citizens Statement Against Sexual Violence From Kiokata to Manipur, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Bihar, UP . . .
  * Hema Committee Report on various issues faced by women in cinema (Dec 2019)

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 31, 2024

  31 August 2024

  Letter to the Readers
  India remains a conservative society is also reflected in the stance of our lawmakers across the political spectrum. On August 27, 2024, the Himachal Pradesh Assembly passed a bill brought in by the ruling Congress Party raising the marriage age for women from 18 to 21 years. This is a socially regressive move that mimics a bill proposed earlier by the Modi Government (The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021) but which lapsed. The age of marriage for (…)

• RSS is using the R G Kar rape case to deepen and expand its base across the country | Arun Srivastava

  31 August 2024

  by Arun Srivastava
  West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee was trolled and ridiculed for taking out a rally on August 16 in Calcutta demanding stringent punishment to the perpetrators of the horrid crime of rape on a trainee girl medic. A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to protect the dignity of women and asked the state governments to take action against these elements.
  While the conscience keepers, liberal intellectuals and academics questioned the moral authority of (…)