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• Dimensions of Radical Political Emancipation | Yavor Tarinski

  21 September 2024

  If we begin with the state, we end with the state. Let us begin instead with the popular reunions[

• 21 September 2024, by Sagari Chhabra

  Some years ago, I was early for a meeting at Constitution Club and seated with my notebook, pen in hand. Just then, a young man walked in with a flustered expression on his face. He sat a few rows behind me and muttered,

• The Chief Justice Must Be Like Ceasar

  21 September 2024, by Vijay Kumar

  The circulation of a viral video showing Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, performing Ganpati Puja in the company of Chief Justice, Chandrachud, and his wife at the latter’s residence has disturbing implications for the independence of the judiciary and the insulated image of judges manning it.
  The Ganpati festival is one of the most popular and pious festivals in Maharashtra. The Chief Justice, being Maharashtrian, has every right to celebrate this festival, but as a head of the judicial (…)

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  Uttarakhand Situation - Statement by Citzens for Peace (Sept 13, 2024)

  21 September 2024

  Statement by Citizens for Peace
  DEHRADUN, 13 September 2024
  UTTARAKHAND SITUATION
  We are deeply disturbed and troubled by the manner in which social and economic life in Uttarakhand is continually being disrupted by sectarian elements apparently with known political support. This situation has been aggravated in the last few months and weeks due to the administration

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  EGI Statement on Bombay High Court striking down IT Amendment Rules 2023

  21 September 2024

  The Editors Guild of India (EGI)
  Press Statement
  20th September 2024
  The Editors Guild of India welcomes the verdict of the Bombay High Court, striking down the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2023, as unconstitutional, specifically Rule 3, which sought to empower the Central government to form a Fact-Check Units (FCUs) to identify "fake and misleading" information about its business on social media platforms. (…)

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  Hao Chen Review of Price’s Cold War Deceptions

  21 September 2024

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Cold War Deceptions:
  The Asia Foundation and the CIA
  by David H. Price
  University of Washington Press
  2024. 358 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-75224-2
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  Reviewed by Hao Chen (Dartmouth College)
  In his most recent book, Cold War Deceptions: The Asia Foundation and the CIA, anthropologist and historian David H. Price offers one of the most comprehensive accounts that examines the covert operation and financial maneuvering (…)

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  Film: Naked City (1948) directed by Jules Dassin

  21 September 2024

  directed by Jules Dassin | cast includes: Barry Fitzgerald | Howard Duff | Dorothy Hart

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  Audio: Is it time for India to introduce a Universal Basic Income? Arun Kumar & N.R. Bhanumurthy

  21 September 2024
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  Music: Bella Ciao in Persian | Yashgin Kiyani

  21 September 2024

  Play
  Bella Ciao version en persan par Yashgin Kiyani sous-titrée en français by shabawaz https://youtu.be/qtiUfVXPCKo?si=wZTbIgXr0axIcaoK

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  Photo: Bedrich Grunzweig - Between Heaven and Earth, U.N. Building, New York, 1950

  21 September 2024