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  Statement against Sexual violence - Central Trade Unions and Samyukt Kisan Morcha | Aug 26, 2024

  31 August 2024

  Press Release
  The following statement was issued to the press jointly by the Central Trade Unions and Samyukt Kisan Morcha on 26th August 2024
  Justice to the Victims and survivors Unitedly Fight to End Violence Against Women Violence against women - deep rooted issue of patriarchy and commodification of women
  The brutal rape and murder of a young medico in R G Kar medical (…)

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  Hema Committee Report constituted by the Govt of Kerala on various issues faced by women in cinema (Dec 2019)

  31 August 2024

  The original 295 page Hema Committee report on issues faced by women in the Malayalam film industry was submitted to the Kerala government on December 31, 2019. It is not available publicly. The Kerala government released a heavily redacted version of the report on August 19, 2024, after removing 63 pages

• Census Operations Are Starting In September But The Data Collection Process Must Improve | Tirthankar Mitra

  31 August 2024

  by Tirthankar Mitra
  For India, correct data compilation is of paramount Importance at the present stage
  August 29, 2024
  KOLKATA: India’s population census was initially due for completion in 2024 but was delayed by COVID-19 pandemic. It’s resumption scheduled to begin in September this year will be a pivotal moment. The history of Indian census can be traced back to 1800 during the British colonial period. The first census of an Indian city was conducted in Dhaka in 1830 by Henry (…)

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  For Others’ Sins, Ordinary Afghans Suffer | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  31 August 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Return of the Taliban: State, Society and Terror
  by Apratim Mukarji
  Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd 2023, Pages: lii + 292 ISBN-10 8119670035 ISBN-13 978-8119670031
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  With very little hope that the Taliban may become a responsive administration, one does not know when millions of Afghans can even dream of a better tomorrow.
  This is the price ordinary Afghan men, women and children are today paying for the needless aggression (…)

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  Thom Loyd. Review of Iandolo, Alessandro, Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968

  31 August 2024

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968
  by Alessandro Iandolo
  Cornell University Press 2022. xv + 287 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-6443-1.
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  Reviewed by Thom Loyd (Augusta University)
  In his 1955 novel, Flamingo Feather, the Afrikaner writer Laurens van der Post painted a sinister picture of Soviet influence in Africa, one in which the Soviet Union used whatever underhand means it (…)

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  Music: Georges Delerue - Tendre Poulet

  31 August 2024

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  Georges Delerue - Tendre Poulet by Ricardo Maraña https://youtu.be/QZeLh7Nkx4I

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  Audio/Video: Looking Back at Grunwick the 1976-78 Strike in the UK

  31 August 2024

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  Look Back at Grunwick by Concord Media https://youtu.be/0uDkIPOPV98

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  Film Still: A gathering of Chikankari workers of Lucknow in ’Anjuman’ directed by Muzaffar Ali (1986)

  31 August 2024
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  Caricature: Tribute to A G Noorani | Jayaraj Vellur

  31 August 2024
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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 24, 2024

  24 August 2024

  * Interrogating a Case of Rape and Murder | Arup Kumar Sen
  * State, No State, or the Missing State | Ajay Mishra & Shraddha Rishi
  * Austerity and Managed Democracy | Sai Mukhesh
  * India’s palm oil plans wreak havoc on the ground | Ravi Chellam
  * The Truth about Kronstadt | Marie Isidine