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  Caricature: Tribute to BRP Bhaskar | Jayaraj Vellur

  7 June 2024, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Video: Tales of the Unexpected: gender equality and social progress in Bangladesh (2016)

  7 June 2024

  2016 panel discussion on why gender indicators for Bangladesh have shown a marked improvement despite various development indices not reflecting a similar upswing.

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  Short Film: Afternoon Clouds by Payal Kapadia

  7 June 2024

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  Afternoon Clouds by Payal Kapadia by Psych Ward https://youtu.be/0swHYYx8hLE?si=WKrMd0K4rundkqYU

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  Music: Gabriel Faure - Après un rêve for cello & piano (1878) | Sheku Kanneh-Mason

  7 June 2024

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  Sheku Kanneh-Mason - Fauré: Après un rêve for cello & piano by ShekuKannehMasonVEVO https://youtu.be/Xdjosc8HIhI

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jun 1, 2024

  1 June 2024

  * Direct Taxes, Growing Disparity & Need for Redistribution | Arun Kumar
  * The Fantastic Marionette (WiP) | Papri Sen Sri Raman
  * BJP’s electoral strategy: its inner contradictions | Pritam Singh
  * An Overview of the Left in Spain | Martin Alonso Zarza

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 1, 2024

  1 June 2024

  We are in the last lap of the 6-week long election where hundreds of millions have been voting. Within hours the last round of voting in India’s 2024 General election will get underway on June 1 and as the day ends exit polls will start coming and keep coming till the day of the declaration of results on June 4, 2024. The election campaign has been deeply polarising, and divisive and disturbingly the Election Commission of India has chosen not to take action as per due process. Some (…)

• UP politics is taking new turn like 1977 | Barik, Malik & Maurya

  1 June 2024, by Radhakanta Barik

  by Prof Radhakanta Barik, Prof Malik from Meerut and Dasharathi Maurya a political activist from the Eastern UP.
  UP is the fourth largest state comparable to the size of United kingdom. It plays key role in the political mapping of the Indian Republic. With its eighty parliamentary seats and for the BJP it is the important state as the party got sixty seats in the last general election. In their planning of getting 400 seats in 2024 general election UP works as pivotal role. There are (…)

• Direct Tax Collections, Growing Disparity and Need for Redistribution | Arun Kumar

  1 June 2024, by Arun Kumar

  [rouge] ( This is a longer version of the article published in the Businessline on May 09, 2024, Titled ’Direct tax collections reflect disparities’ )rouge]
  CBDT has said that net direct tax collection has exceeded its target for 2023-24. It has increased 17.7% over last year and much faster than the income increase of about 9%. Analysis of these facts is important in the light of the contentious debate set in motion by the PM regarding redistribution of wealth in the economy.
  Trying to (…)

• Poem: The Scream | Murzban Jal

  1 June 2024

  I was one day Standing in a very long line No, No In a very, very, very long line I don’t know why I was standing In this very, very, very long line.
  I looked forwards and backwards And saw only a line A very, very, very long line Yes, Yes, a very, very, very long line.
  And then I looked sideward And I saw people lying on the roadside Lying down in a very, very, very long line Next to this very, very, very long line.
  I tapped the shoulder of the person Standing ahead of me And (…)

• India’s decade of democratic deficit | Avinash Kumar and Puja Rani

  1 June 2024

  May 23, 2924
  Parliamentary procedures have been tossed aside as an increasing number of laws are passed with little or no debate.
  It took decades of people’s struggles to establish India as a democratic state. The central democratic institution of this state is its parliament. In recent years, parliament’s role has been undermined by a government with a brute majority in the lower house, the Lok Sabha, culminating in a "democratic deficit" in its functioning.
  In August 2023, under the (…)