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  Poster: Religion and Family Laws Key to Women’s Subordination

  1 March 2024

  Source: Asian’s Women’s Forum, FAO, FFHC, New Delhi

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  Animation: The Hand (1966) Jiri Trnka

  1 March 2024

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  The Hand (1966) Jiri Trnka by Tandis S. https://youtu.be/wFAoLHXou4s?si=gpSq9adLdI-SJQys

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  Documentary: Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman

  1 March 2024

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  Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman Documentary [Documentary] [RaddleTube] by RaddleTube https://youtu.be/BviTcbeRz8o?si=_INNDIhZYh_I9vTE

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Feb 24, 2024

  24 February 2024

  * Death of F.S. Nariman Marks The Loss of Voice of Conscience | Vijay Kumar
  * Bail not jail is a privilege only for a select few | Faraz Ahmad
  * NDA, India, and The Coalition Conundrum
  * We need to talk about obstetric violence | Vijayetta Sharma
  * Dwelling | Ivan Illich

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 24, 2024

  24 February 2024

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, February 24, 2024
  Over the years there has been a consistent effort by the Government of India led by Narendra Modi to scuttle anti-Government protests and criticism on the street but also in Media and the social media. In the past years — 2021, 2023, and now in 2024 the Government has repeatedly used a strategy to block specific social media accounts belonging to certain journalists, politicians, and activists. and also to shut down mobile internet (…)

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  Death of F.S. Nariman Marks The Loss of Voice of Conscience | Vijay Kumar

  24 February 2024, by Vijay Kumar

  [fond noir][blanc]TRIBUTEblanc]fond noir]
  The passing away of Fali S. Nariman is an irreparable loss to legal fraternity, nay liberal voices all over the world. He has been a voice of conscience for Indian Judiciary. He was liberal lion and lived by the principle, and never compromised with it.
  This tribute will refrain from analysing his unmatched legal acumen, his standing as a tallest constitutional lawyer and numerous distinctions, as it would amount to gilding the lily.
  F.S. (…)

• Afghanistan: Abandoned by the World | Apratim Mukarji

  24 February 2024, by Apratim Mukarji

  The world’s most dangerous terrorists, the Taliban, are now in the third year of their illegitimate rule over Afghanistan, and their connectivity with the outside world is rising constantly. “The world has abandoned us,” says a prominent Afghan rights activist after escaping to the West.
  Since August 2021 when the Taliban, originally raised and nurtured by the United States and Pakistan and sheltered in the latter country, have travelled a long way to have become the rulers of a (…)

• Bail not jail is a privilege only for the select few | Faraz Ahmad

  24 February 2024, by Faraz Ahmad

  The Supreme Court on February 12 granted indefinite extension to the interim bail granted much earlier to Ashish Mishra the son of Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra in the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence which claimed eight lives.
  A bench of Justices Surya Kant and K V Viswanathan confirmed interim bail last in September, 2023 to Ashish Mishra charged with the murder of a group of farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3, 2021
  This group was walking down the road to register its protest at a (…)

• Sunabohu: Ethnographic study of Karan; Construction of a Political Community | Radhakanta Barik

  24 February 2024, by Radhakanta Barik

  (Suna Bohu a political story written by Fakirmohan Senapati. The Karan coming from outside rose to power in colonial times. Their education shaped their community. Karan turned into a political community and captured politics of Odisha till today.)
  Introduction:
  Fakirmohan Senapati’s story Sunabohu needs to be placed in the context of sociology of its time. The story’s centres around the Karan caste. The ethnographic background of Karan is found by Malley’s District Gazetteers of (…)

• Set up fast-track and fair probe into assassination of Govind Pansare - Letter to Chief Minster of Maharashtra

  24 February 2024, by Binoy Viswam

  Binoy Viswam Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
  Date: 20th February, 2024
  To,
  Shri Eknath Shinde, Chief Minister, Government of Maharashtra
  Respected Shri Eknath Shinde Ji,
  I write this letter to register my profound disappointment with the manner in which the Maharashtra Government is probing one of the most heinous acts of political terrorism in the country. On February 20, 10 years back, Comrade Govind Pansare was shot at by cowardly armed assailants. Comrade Pansare was a (…)