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• Political Polarization on Citizen Amendment Act and Campaign Strategies in Delhi Assembly Elections, 2020 | V.K. Sridhar

  9 March 2024

  Political Polarisation denotes a pronounced division of ideologies among opposing factions, accompanied by heightened partisanship and a breakdown in cross-party collaboration. The escalating religious polarisation in India’s election campaigns is characterised by divisive rhetoric and the integration of religion and identity politics. Propelled by the intricacies of caste-community-region dynamics, such polarisation impedes the mobilisation of these communities. When we examine the 2020 (…)

• Sociological Reflections on the Movie “12th Fail” - Figuring out Indian Society Through Cinema | Sanjiv Kumar

  9 March 2024

  Abstract
  This film is centered around the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) journey of the protagonist, Vikrant Massey aka Manoj Kumar Sharma. Manoj Kumar Sharma’s extraordinary journey is masked by complex social realities. This article will attempt to critically explore the main character and the “hidden privileges” that allowed him to complete his journey, which the filmmaker conveniently ignores. This article is an attempt to investigate how his unique situations, support (…)

• Hey Ram | Sukumaran C.V.

  9 March 2024, by Sukumaran C.V.

  When He was summoned to live in the new abode, Lord Ram felt being out of place; He felt He is an odd one out among gods. The gods in India have age-old homes, Which provide antique ambience In which they dwell comfortably. The new temple into which the Lord Was summoned to dwell makes Him Giddy as He is made anachronic.
  He feels loneliness in the modern abode, And talks Himself as follows: "There was a man who used to chant Hey Ram; he chanted Hey Ram Even when he was shot to death. He (…)

• Quit WTO for crop MSPs And Food security | Soma Marla

  9 March 2024, by Soma S. Marla

  In early March the price of Kinnow fruit at Gaddiannaram fruit market, Hyderabad is Rs 40 a Kilogram. While oranges and apples are increasingly dumped into Indian markets from California or New Zealand, small farmers in Punjab are distressed for not receiving even half the cost of production. Today, WTO has become a major barrier for both crop MSPs and Public Stock Holding (cheap ration under PDS). This is the outcome of India’s entry into WTO nearly three decades back. After nearly three (…)

• Hindu nationalism poses a threat to democratic politics in India and Nepal | Dhruv Rana, Laabhesh Thapa & Sandeep Pandey

  9 March 2024, by Sandeep Pandey

  In India, we can observe how nationalism is a political ideology that holds devotion to one’s country as paramount to all other concerns. It was not until the late 18th century that nationalism became a widely acknowledged sentiment shaping public and private life and one of the great, if not the greatest, single determining factors of modern history, though people have always felt a solid connection to their native countries, their parents, and their governments. When the British ruled (…)

• War on Gaza: Millions of anti-war protestors on the streets of Europe and the US are the hope for the future | Arundhati Roy

  9 March 2024

  [marron]Statement by Arundhati Roy at the meeting of Working People Against Apartheid and Genocide in Gaza, at the Press Club, New Delhi, on March 7, 2024marron]
  The richest, most powerful countries in the western world, those who believe themselves to be the keepers of the flame of the modern world’s commitment to democracy and human rights, are openly financing and applauding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The Gaza strip has been turned into a concentration camp. Those who have not already (…)

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  PIPFPD urges resumption of comprehensive dialogue between India and Pakistan | March 4, 2024

  9 March 2024

  Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace & Democracy
  Press Statement Released on the 4th March, 2024
  Peoples’ Forum urges for resumption of comprehensive dialogue between India and Pakistan
  The Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) warmly welcomes the suggestion that New Delhi and Islamabad resume the dialogue on outstanding differences and potential fields of cooperation between them. PIPFPD welcomes the dialogue offer by the Pakistani government and (…)

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  Sympathising with Maoist ideas not an offence under UAPA — Nagpur Branch, Bombay High Court In GN Saibaba Judgement | March 5, 2024

  9 March 2024
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  Repeated arrests & harassment of journalist Asif Sultan by the J& K Government - Statement by Press Club of India

  9 March 2024

  PRESS CLUB OF INDIA 1, Raisina Road, New Delhi - 110 001, INDIA Email:- pressclubofindia1[at]gmail.com, Web: presscubofindia.org
  Phone No. - 23719844 23730248 23357048 Date: - .............................
  4th March, 2024
  Press Statement
  The Press Club of India and Press Association expresses its grave concern over the treatment meted out to award-winning journalist Asif Sultan by the J & K Government and urges the Press Council of India to institute an (…)

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  Emergency Raj to Modi Raj
 - Second Coming of the Nightmare? | Sukla Sen

  9 March 2024, by Sukla Sen

  [blanc][fond noir]BOOK REVIEWfond noir]blanc]
  Keeping Up the Good Fight From the Emergency to the Present Day by Prabir Purkayastha
  LeftWord Books, New Delhi
  2023 230 pages Paperback 978-93-92018-97-8 Ebook 978-93-92018-58-9
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  The Context


  The rather slim volume, Keeping Up The Good Fight: From The Emergency To The Present Day, by Prabir Purkayastha, having some 230 pages in all – that includes, inter alia, a Foreword and seven sections of the main text plus customary (…)