Mainstream WeeklyStatement by Reclaim the Night Campaign, Kolkata
‘Reclaim the Night’ is a mass movement demanding justice for the RG Kar rape and murder incident. It has united many people across West Bengal, across the country and even outside India in several places. It has brought people out onto the streets, united them in rage, and one could say it is making – not “history” – but her/queer/trans* story. This movement has brought school and college students, women working in call centres, nurses, (…)
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Text of Statement by Reclaim the Night Campaign, Kolkata
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Sarah Foss. Review of Nolan, Rachel, Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
24 August 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Rachel Nolan. Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2024. 309 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-27035-0.
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Reviewed by Sarah Foss (Oklahoma State University)
Every so often, we hear a statistic that seems improbable at best, unfathomable, even, given the reality we think we know. Such a moment occurs in the opening pages of Rachel Nolan’s book, Until I Find (…) -
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Video: David Reich, "A Tale of Two Subcontinents: The Parallel Prehistories of Europe and South Asia"
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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 17, 2024
17 August 2024* Free thinking on the occasion of 77 years of independence! | Suresh Khairnar
* India’s palm oil plans wreak havoc on the ground | Ravi Chellam
* A New Model of Employment Creation in Rural India | Sunil Ray
* Algorithm of July Rebellion in Bangladesh | Gouri Sankar Nag
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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 17, 2024
17 August 2024The silence of the Modi Government and its Ministry of Finance on a seeming breach of rules in the form of a conflict of interest at India’s market regulator Stock Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is alarming. It has recently come to light via documents. How can the SEBI Chairperson be heading a probe against Adani wrongdoings while having financial interests in entities connected with the Adani group, Calls for SEBI chair to step aside are legitimate. India’s opposition parties have over the (…)
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Nehru’s vision of our flag: Text of speech in the Constituent Assembly
17 August 2024Resolution On The Indian National Flag
The Honourable Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (United Provinces: General) : Mr. President, it is my proud privilege to move the following Resolution:
"Resolved that the National Flag of India shall be horizontal tricolour of deep Saffron (Kesari), White and dark green in equal proportion. In the centre of white band, there shall be Wheel in navy blue to represent the Charkha. The design of the Wheel shall be that of the Wheel (Chakra) which appears on the (…) -
The Many Faces of Fascism in India | Vidyarthi Vikas
17 August 2024OVER TIME, WORLD society has gone through some administrative systems that were and are adopted by more than one culture, often separated by vast distances, that have helped development and progress, locally. Among these are primitive societal groupings, slave societies, semi-feudal, feudal systems, colonial systems, capitalist society, and now its latest avatar, crony capitalism. In between these phases, the Renaissance came in the form of Buddhism, Jainism, and Sufism in India and the (…)
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Intensifying brutalities in our everyday / Rays of Hope | Humra Quraishi
17 August 2024, by Humra QuraishiAugust 14, 2024
The 31 year old lady doctor’s murder and rape at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College seems so brutal that no amount of words or phrases can be adequate to describe that level of barbaric brutality … I was just reading details to the sheer emotional and mental agony her family been through.
At first they were told by the hospital authorities that she’d died by suicide but after three hours wait when they saw her battered-bruised-broken body, it got more than (…)