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  Music: Pingouins sur la banquise | Francois De Roubaix

  4 May 2024

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  Newsclip: BG Horniman Editor of Bombay Chronicle deported in 1919 for publishing a report on Jallianwala Bagh massacre

  4 May 2024

  General Michael O’Dwyer, as lieutenant governor of Punjab (1913-1919), held sway with an iron hand and followed a policy of press censorship in the province. In defiance of censorship, The Bombay Chronicle carried a report on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The reporter who wrote the article was tried and sentenced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment and B.G.Horniman, editor of the Bombay Chronicle, was deported from India to Britain for his revelations on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The (…)

• Modi’s anti-Muslim, tirade an outcome of early Shakha training | Faraz Ahmad

  20 April 2024, by Faraz Ahmad

  It was in September 2002, after presiding over the pogrom of Muslims of Gujarat under the watchful eyes of its newly elevated chief minister Narendra Modi that he coined the term ‘paanch pachees’ to identify Muslims, the target of mob lynchings in February-March, 2002.
  It is worthwhile to recall the context in which our current Prime Minister Modiji made that shocking public statement targeting poor Muslims, sitting for months on a pile of dirt and muck for months after some semblance of (…)

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, April 20 & 27, 2024

  20 April 2024

  * The Dominant Politics has been the ‘Politics of Management’: Dipankar Bhattacharya Interview | Papri Sri Raman
  * Interview with Dipankar Bhattacharya, Gen Sec CPIML | Papri Sri Raman
  * The Disastrous Split and the Challenges Ahead | Ajayakumar Kodoth
  * The devolution of education into an examination obsession | Adama Srinivas Reddy
  * Recognizing the “De” in Degrowth | Alexander Dunlap

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 20 & 27, 2024

  20 April 2024

  The 2024 elections have begun, and there were very disturbing photos shared by a prominent social activist on social media of huge election-time hoardings in Gujarat with images of the Ram temple & photos of the incumbent Prime Minister Modi. These have been reported to the Election Commission but no action seems to have been taken over such over the misuse of religion during the election campaign in India, . Inaction by the Election Commission will only confirm that the institutions of (…)

• The Disastrous Split and the Challenges Ahead | Ajayakumar Kodoth

  20 April 2024, by Ajayakumar Kodoth

  April 2024 marks the 60th year of the CPI split in India
  Sixty years have gone by since the Communist Party of India got split right down the middle. Following the Emergency, although the mainstream Communist parties – the CPI and the CPI (M) – have been working jointly as the Left Front at the national level since 1978, they have remained as separate entities. The prevailing notion is that the time for a merger has not yet come because of ideological differences! In the first general (…)

• Fear of love and loving in India | Sarasu Esther Thomas

  20 April 2024

  April 11, 2024
  The sanctity of a marriage provides no protection to interfaith couples and those in live-in relationships are even more vulnerable
  Marriage is supposed to offer a couple legal and social protection. However, the sanctity of a marriage gives no protection to couples in interfaith and inter-caste marriages in India. Live-in relationships are increasingly fraught with danger.
  Those in interfaith marriages and live-in relationships, therefore, commit to each other with one (…)

• 2024 Lok Sabha Elections: Urgent Action Required in Gandhi Nagar Lok Sabha, Gujarat against intimidation by the state machinery

  20 April 2024, by Shabnam Hashmi

  To: CEC, ECSSS, ECGK
  Shri Rajiv Kumar The Chief Election Commissioner Election Commission of India New Delhi
  19/04/2024
  Sir,
  I want to bring to your notice serious issues which need to be urgently looked into.
  Last week I got several calls from various people from the Gandhi Nagar Lok Sabha constituency about undue pressure being put on various community and political leaders by state apparatus.
  I tried discussing the issue on the phone but after several rounds of telephonic (…)

• 2024 Lok Sabha Elections - Pre-poll commentary on the Karnataka Scene | JP Gadkari

  20 April 2024, by J P Gadkari

  Karnataka election scene is hotting up with the polling day (26 April) for 14 seats from the southern half of the State Is fast approaching. The other northern half of the State will go to polls on May 7 for an equal number of seats. Since the Ram Navami day, Rahul Gandhi has landed in Karnataka to take up the party’s poll campaign and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also scheduled to take up the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaign on Saturday starting with a road show in Bengaluru (…)

• Does Congress Manifesto Reflect Muslim League thinking? | Ram Puniyani

  20 April 2024, by Ram Puniyani

  Last week (4th April 2024) Indian National Congress released its manifesto, called Nyay Patra (Promise for Justice), for 2024 General Elections. It prominently talked of Caste census, raising the cap of 50% on reservations, jobs for youth, internship, and economic support for the poor among others. Its focus has been on justice for women, Advises, dalit-OBCs, farmers, and student-youth. One of its spokespersons of Congress stated that the Manifesto addresses the steps needed to undo the (…)