Mainstream WeeklyCCG Open Statement – Growing influence of religion in state and society
8 February 2024
1. As a group of former civil servants deeply committed to the Constitution of India and its morality, we issue this open statement to express our deep disquiet about the manner in which the Indian state was closely associated with the consecration ceremony of the Shri Ram Temple in Ayodhya on 22 January 2024.
2. Religion is a private matter according to India’s constitutional arrangements. All (…)
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Former state officials express disquiet over close involvement of Indian state with the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on 22 January 2024
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Jairus Banaji’s Comment on the 1990 English Translation of Report from Xunwu by Mao Zedong
9 February 2024, by Jairus Banaji[fond noir][blanc]BOOKSblanc]fond noir]
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Report from Xunwu
by Mao Zedong
Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Roger R. Thompson
Stanford University Press
1990
292 pages
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9 February 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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Crime, Grime and Gumption: Case Files of an IPS Officer by O.P. Singh
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Woodard’s Review of ’Toxic Exposures’ by Susan L Smith
9 February 2024[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
Reviewed by Scott C. Woodard
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Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States
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Rutgers University Press Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series 2017. 209 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8135-8609-0
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Table of Contents - Mainstream, Feb 3, 2024
3 February 2024* Hindutva Fascism and the Future of Indian Politics | Kobad Ghandy
* Consequences of Ram Mandir Inauguration by the Prime Minister | Vijay Kumar
* 2024 Interim Budget - Statement by All India Kisan Sabha
* India’s 2024 elections may bring a new political epoch | Robin Jeffrey -
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 3, 2024
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