Mainstream WeeklyIndia is a land of many contradictions.
There was a time when it mesmerised people outside for being ’saperon ka desh’ or many such exquisite things
Much water has flowed down the various rivers here but it’s core essence perhaps remains intact
With the advent of Hindutva Supremacists at the top - who supposedly want India ( rather Hindu India) to be among the top notch countries of the world but who still yearn for a mythic past, such scenes have become a common sight where "Sengol’ - (…)
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New India, Old Beginnings! When NHRC Sings Paens To Manusmriti & Executive Rediscovers Urban Naxalism | Subhash Gatade
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The Psychological Structure of Fascism | Georges Bataille
3 August 2024originally published in La critique sociale 10 (Nov 1933): 159-65, 11 (Mar 1934): 205-11.
CHAPTER II: THE STATE
In the contemporary period, social homogeneity is linked to the bourgeois class by essential ties: thus the Marxist conception is justified whenever the State is shown to be at the service of a threatened homogeneity.
As a rule, social homogeneity is a precarious form, at the mercy of violence and even of internal dissent. It forms spontaneously in the play of productive (…) -
Restrictions on accredited journalists inside the Parliament | Statement by DUJ, July 29, 2024
3 August 2024DELHI UNION OF JOURNALISTS Flat no.29, New Central Market, Connaught Circus, New Delhi-110 001 Phone: 23413459, E-mail: duj.delhi[at]gmail.com July 29, 2024
PRESS RELEASE
DUJ BLASTS PRESS GAG IN PARLIAMENT
The Delhi Union of Journalists is shocked at the government’s move to restrict the movement of accredited journalists inside (…) -
Union Budget 2024-25 - Press statement by Platform of Central Trade Unions
3 August 2024Press Statement
The following joint statement is issued to the press by the Platform of Central Trade Unions on 31st July 2024
CTUs oppose Union Budget 2024-25 - exercise of betrayal yet again Pressing economic issues side stepped – Corporates catered Clarion Call for Nationwide protests on 9th August 2024 Union Budget 2024-25 of the NDA coalition government has come out as another colossal betrayal on the people. BJP has failed to learn lesson from its drubbing in the elections. It (…) -
Press release on Waynad Disaster 30 July 2024 | AIKS
3 August 2024All India Kisan Sabha
Press release on Waynad Disaster 30 July 2024
All India Kisan pays heartfelt condolences to the citizens, farmers and labourers who died in the natural calamity of Wayanad landslide in Kerala...! For the rescue & relief work of landslide victims, AIKS workers in Kerala are active along with LDF Kerala Government machinery which is working on war footing.
The Narendra Modi-led Union Government should immediately activate all its machinery NDRF Military for the (…) -
Review of Russian Revolution and the Indian Freedom Struggle Edited by Jaya Mehta | K.S. Chalam
3 August 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Russian Revolution and the Indian Freedom Struggle Conceptualization: Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, Editor: Jaya Mehta Aakar Books, Delhi
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Twenty First century India view the images of struggles that suit its history, economic structure and social base to get rid of an exploitative system that is more entrenched today than what was imagined under Imperialism during the last century. In fact, the Freedom movement in India had a (…) -
Aruna Roy’s memoir reminds us as much of some great achievements as of the bigger challenges ahead | Bharat Dogra
3 August 2024, by Bharat Dogra[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
Aruna Roy’s memoir published by HarperCollins under the title ‘The Personal is Political –An Activist’s Memoir’ has attracted a lot of attention within a short time, and for good reason. A part of the reason relates to what Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze say in their comment on the book, “Aruna Roy reflects on a life of deep engagement, weaving the personal and the political. A great inspiration.”
For most people Aruna Roy is a highly inspiring (…) -
Photo: Karabo Mooki - Soweto Skateboarders (2016)
3 August 2024source
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Music: Bulldozer Raj - Song in Bengali by various artistes
3 August 2024Lyrics in English -
The reign of the bulldozer must be defeated today
The reign of the bulldozer must be broken today
I stand with my chest pounding to stop the bulldozer
Let’s raise our voices together We are all Indians this is my identity Amidst diversity Harmony will triumph
Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Dalits, Adivasis We are all this country’s children
This country is ours Some cultivate the fields Some wield a hammer Others a pen
All of us build (…) -
Video: Wounded Hills: A documentary on the environmental issues of the Western Ghats
3 August 2024Play
Wounded Hills: A documentary on the environmental issues of the Western Ghats by The Hindu https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=bEifalaUVXXZ3U_G&v=rTV-56QagQM&feature=youtu.be