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The life story of Ahmad Salim, who died in December last year, is of a boy born in a West Punjabi village in 1945 who rose to be an eminent poet, writer, researcher, scholar-activist, translator, archivist and above all, a socialist of exceptional qualities who waged a life long fight for truth, justice, peace, and rights of workers, peasants, religious and linguistic minorities (especially of women in these identities) not only in Pakistan but in (…)
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Ahmad Salim - a Punjabi poet who became a pul (bridge) between three Punjabs | Pritam Singh with Nuzhat Abbas
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Give It Away | David Graeber
15 March 2024Have you noticed how there aren’t any new French intellectuals any more? There was a veritable flood in the late ’70s and early ’80s: Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Kristeva, Lyotard, de Certeau ... but there has been almost no one since. Trendy academics and intellectual hipsters have been forced to endlessly recycle theories now 20 or 30 years old, or turn to countries like Italy or even Slovenia for dazzling meta-theory.
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PUCL opposes the CAA as unconstitutional & discriminatiory | March 13, 2024
15 March 2024PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES
PRESS RELEASE
13th March, 2024
PUCL is outraged at the move of the Central Government to implement the CAA 2019 weeks before the election and demands that the law be repealed.
PUCL has filed an urgent application for stay on the implementation of the law before the Supreme Court.
PUCL will continue to fight against citizenship laws such as the CAA which are unconstitutional and discriminate on grounds of religion.
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Notification of CAA Rules - Statements by Three Left Parties (March 12, 2024)
15 March 2024Communist Party of India
Date: 12.03.2024
Press Release
CPI on Notification of CAA Rules
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on March 12, 2024) on the notification of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) amended rules:
The Union home ministry in a calculated move notified the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rules as amended by Parliament in 2019 on March 12, 2024, claiming that this would enable minorities persecuted on (…) -
Alice Oates. Review of Grossman, Sara J., Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy
15 March 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
by Alice Oates
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Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy
by Sara J. Grossman
Duke University Press 2023. Illustrations. 264 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-2502-3 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-2005-9
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Immeasurable Weather is the story of “how settler colonialism, white supremacy, and heteropatriachal power informed, upheld, and bolstered meteorological science and data (…) -
Tribute to Edward Webster: South African intellectual, teacher, activist | Karl von Holdt
15 March 2024[fond noir][blanc]TRIBUTEblanc]fond noir]
March 8, 2024
Eddie Webster (82), sociologist and emeritus professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, who died on 5 March 2024, lived a huge life, applying himself to many different arenas with great energy and insight.
His achievements are quite extraordinary. He was an intellectual, a teacher, a leader, an activist for social change, a builder of institutions, a rugby player (…) -
Video: Hindu nationalism and India’s coming elections [2024] | The India Report
15 March 2024Play
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Music: Minor Voyage (feat. Flavio Boltro, Louis Moutin, Gildas Boclé)
15 March 2024Play
Minor Voyage (feat. Flavio Boltro, Louis Moutin, Gildas Boclé) by Giovanni Mirabassi - Topic https://youtu.be/bCjOqR1tm_A?si=Iz6Ny6uu-sJA9WtY -
Audio: Why is India’s female labour force participation so low? And how might that change?
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Lithograph: Working Woman | Chittoprasad Bhattacharya
15 March 2024