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  NAJAR condemns the crackdown on advocates in Kashmir! | July 19, 2024

  19 July 2024

  National Alliance for Justice, Accountability & Rights (NAJAR)
  Calls for immediate release of all advocates and end to repression!
  19th July 2024: National Alliance for Justice, Accountability & Rights (NAJAR), a collective of progressive legal professionals for democratic causes, vehemently condemns the recent crackdown on multiple advocates in Kashmir. The arrests of four lawyers, part of Jammu & Kashmir High Court Bar Association, has sparked outrage and concern both (…)

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  ’This Budget will be judged by what it does to revive and rejuvenate India’s MSMEs’ | Jairam Ramesh, Gen. Sec. Communications, AICC

  19 July 2024

  STATEMENT ISSUED BY SHRI JAIRAM RAMESH, MP, GENERAL SECRETARY (COMMUNICATIONS), AICC
  16th July, 2024
  Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) account for 30% of India’s GDP and about 45% of our exports. They employ 12 crore people – second only to agriculture – and are responsible for most job creation. MSMEs, with their wide geographic dispersion, also promote balanced regional development.
  Yet, the Modi Sarkar has spent 10 years systematically bludgeoning India’s MSMEs through a (…)

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  To reclaim our country’s soul | Joydip Ghosal

  19 July 2024

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
  Review by Joydip Ghosal
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  Bharat Jodo Yatra, Reclaiming India’s Soul
  by Pushparaj Deshpande, Ruchira Chaturvedi
  HarperCollins Publishers India
  2024 | 348 pages
  P-ISBN: 978-93-5699-941-1
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  Bharat Jodo Yatra, Reclaiming India’s Soul is a comprehensive map of Bharat Jodo Jatra which was an epic nationwide march from September 2022 to January 2023. This definitive book attempts to portray the journey in its entirety. This (…)

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  Review of Aruna Roy’s "The Personal Is Political"

  19 July 2024, by Sagari Chhabra

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  The Personal Is Political: An Activist’s Memoir
  by Aruna Roy
  Harpercollins India
  2024
  Pages: 272
  ISBN-10

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  Revisiting the 1943 Bengal Famine | Arup Kumar Sen

  19 July 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
  The Bengal famine of 1943 has found expressions in the academic discourse over the years. Amartya Sen’s Poverty and Famines (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981) and Paul R. Greenough’s Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943-44 (Oxford University Press, 1982) are classic books on the subject. Madhusree Mukerjee’s more recent book titled Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II (Basic (…)

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  Burn Manipur, Burn! Documenting State-Sponsored Brutalities | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  19 July 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Viewing Indian Polity from the Prism of Manipur: A Compendium on the Continuing Manipur Conflict and Crisis
  Compiled by: Dr Syeda Hameed, Clifton D’Rozario
  Manak Publications, USA Pages: 119; Price: Rs 400/$ 15
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  There cannot be a much better example than Manipur to prove the abject and colossal failure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-touted and supposedly magical “double engine government”.
  Modi’s long silence on (…)

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  Photo: Richard Serra, Promenade at Monumenta 2008, Grand Palais, Paris

  19 July 2024
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  Film: Bhuvan Shome | Mrinal Sen (1969)

  19 July 2024

  Mrinal Sen’s Bhuvan Shome (1969). The film is a key film of the Indian New Wave or the Parallel Cinema movement that flourished in the 1970s and ’80s. Utpal Dutt and Suhansini Mulay were in the cast.

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  Odi Euterpe: Italian Monody From the Early 17th Century - Dalla porta d’oriente | Rosa Dominguez

  19 July 2024

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  Dalla porta d’oriente by Rosa Domínguez - Topic https://youtu.be/z76jbo8eVfk

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, July 13, 2024

  12 July 2024

  * Editorial - All in the Name of God | Papri Sri Raman
  * First session of the 18th Lok Sabha: A Critical Analysis| P. S. Jayaramu
  * Che Guevara’s historic visit to India-65 years ago! | Chaman Lal
  * Christians and the Political landscape in India | John Dayal
  * Northeast India’s battle against drugs | Sajal Nag
  * Emergency 1975: Some unknown facts L.S. Herdenia
  * The Higher Education of Women in Russia | Sophie Kropotkin