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  Video: Eric Hobsbawm - The Consolations of History | a documentary

  1 June 2024

  In this documentary, Anthony Wilks traces the connections between the events of Eric Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told, from his teenage years in Germany and his communist membership, to the jazz clubs of 1950s Soho and the makings of New Labour, taking in Italian bandits, Peruvian peasant movements and the development of nationalism in the modern world, with help from the assiduous observations of MI5. The film features contributions from Frances Stonor Saunders, Richard J. Evans, John Foot, Stefan Collini, Marlene Hobsbawm and Donald Sassoon, as well as Hobsbawm himself in extensive archive footage.

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  Movie: Taste Of Cherry (1997) | Abbas Kiarostami

  1 June 2024

  https://youtu.be/lNVA6LusW5M

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  Music: Save Mama Goa - Sigmund de Souza

  1 June 2024

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  Save Mama Goa - Sigmund de Souza [Official Music Video] by Sigmund de Souza https://youtu.be/QXouQ_q4XWw?si=5koWRL2ch9pOvQwW
  This song was composed by Sigmund during the Save Goa Agitation of 2006 as a clarion call to Goans to oppose the forces that threaten Goa’s cultural identity, environment and way of life

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  Video: Phyllis Bennis Calling Out the US for Arming Isreal’s Genocide in Gaza

  30 May 2024

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  Phyllis Bennis Sends Shockwaves, Fearlessly Calling Out the US for Supporting Isreal. by TANN https://youtu.be/jcQVj4wAsqI?si=ZbvGtFQ__VGtcDRv

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, May 25, 2024

  25 May 2024

  * Farmers’ Agitation & Electoral Landscape in Haryana | Mahabir Jaglan
  * Making of the Indian Constitution | L.S. Hardenia
  * Political Economy of Mass Higher Education | Arup Maharatna
  * Furthering justice through privileging politics over economics | Vijay Kumar

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 25, 2024

  25 May 2024

  Erosion of established procedure, contempt for rules is endangering safety of our democracy and society Our municipal systems lack oversight, building safety norms are violated, there is contamination in medicines, adulteration in spices, workplace safety is seriously wanting, lack of transparency in Govt agencies that refuse to reveal information despite the provision for a right to Information, rules are routinely flouted at all levels. As we approached the end of this week news came of (…)

• Will 2024 Results Spell A Change or Not? | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  25 May 2024, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  Political suspense on whether these elections will spell a major change rests on several questions being discussed at several levels, of which the key one is about whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi will return to power for the third term or not. Even those optimistic about his assuming office again are guardedly saying that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may not win as many seats as it did in 2019 and 2014. Some are also observing possibilities of the coming results spelling a shock for (…)

• ‘Ayega to Modi hi? But how? | Faraz Ahmad

  25 May 2024, by Faraz Ahmad

  The Supreme Court on May 24 dismissed the plea of two social and politically concerned organisations— the Association for Democratic Rights (ADR) and Common Cause, seeking apex court directions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to make public the exact number of votes cast in the last five phases of the general elections currently underway as per the form 17C of the ECI under Rule 93. The remaining two phases, of which the polling for the sixth phase was held on May 25 and the last (…)

• BJP’s War Against Muslims | Arup Kumar Sen

  25 May 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

  After coming to power in 2014, the BJP declared war against Muslims in diverse forms. In the ongoing Parliamentary elections in 2024, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, made derogatory remarks against the Muslim community in his election campaign. As a damage-control measure, on the day he filed his nomination papers from the Varanasi constituency (May 14, 2024), Modi said in an interview to a TV channel: “The day I do Hindu-Muslim, I will be unworthy of public life…I will not do it, it’s my (…)

• 2024 General Election: Farmers’ Agitation and the Reshaping of the Electoral Landscape in Haryana | Mahabir Jaglan

  25 May 2024

  Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has had a dream run in Haryana during last two Loksabha elections. It was a marginal political force till 2009 polls in the state as then it could garner only 12 percent votes and that too in alliance with the regional party Indian National Lok Dal (INLD). But in 2014 it contested the election in alliance with Haryana Janhit Congress and won 7 out of 10 parliamentary seats in the state with a quantum jump in its vote share as it got 41 percent of total votes (…)