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  Record Tenth Anti-Farmer, Anti-People Budget in a Row by Modi-led BJP Government | All India Kisan Sabha

  3 February 2024

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  ALL INDIA KISAN SABHA 36 Pt Ravi Shankar Shukla Lane, New Delhi - 110 001 011-23782890
  PRESS RELEASE
  1st February 2024
  Record Tenth Anti-Farmer, Anti-People Budget in a Row by Modi-led BJP Government
  No Step to Ensure Legal Guarantee of MSP@ C2+50%
  Promise of Doubling Farmers’ Income a Farce; Aimed at Maximising Corporate Profits
  The Narendra Modi-led BJP Government is (…)

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  Interim Budget Disappointing, Just Shows BJP’s Loyalty to Corporates: CPI MP Binoy Viswam

  3 February 2024, by Binoy Viswam

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  The interim budget presented by Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman today has been disappointing, said CPI Parliamentary Party Leader Binoy Viswam. One steady trend of the BJP government is to reduce corporate tax to benefit the rich and that has continued, while the common people are denied the same protection. Finance Minister’s speech seemed like an attempt to present a blooming picture of the (…)

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  Interim Budget 2024-25 - Statement by Communist Party of India (Marxist)

  3 February 2024

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  Press Release Date: Thursday, February 1, 2024
  The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
  Interim Budget 2024-25:
  Modi ’Development Model’ – Enriching the Rich by Squeezing the Poor
  Despite the tall claims made by the Finance Minister about the state of India’s economy, the interim Union Budget for 2024-25 reveals the grim economic situation confronting India’s working people and the (…)

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  Stop The Raids by State Agencies Against Harsh Mander - Citizens’s Statement (Feb 2, 2024)

  3 February 2024

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  Press Statement — 2nd February, 2024
  Over 250 citizens condemn the harassment by Indian State agencies of Dr. Harsh Mander, Director Centre for Equity studies, New Delhi
  Demand closure of the FIR filed by the CBI and all other investigations underway
  We the undersigned unequivocally condemn the continued victimisation and intimidation of Dr. Harsh Mander. We are deeply disturbed by the raid on the morning of 2nd February, 2024 at the (…)

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  Review of Khan’s City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh | Sajad Ahmad Dar

  3 February 2024

  BOOK REVIEW
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  City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh by Zeyad Masroor Khan
  Harper Collins India 2023 Pages: 297 Price: INR 599/- (Hardcover) ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9356998248 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9356998247
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  The book under review is a memoir of a young Muslim. It explores the everyday Hindu-Muslim strifes in the U.K (Upar Kot, not to be confused with the United Kingdom), a part of the town of Aligarh (130 kms southeast of Delhi) in Uttar Pradesh, since the 1990s. The memoir can partly (…)

• Review of Singh’s Caste, State and Society: Degrees of Democracy in North India | Radhakanta Barik

  3 February 2024, by Radhakanta Barik

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  Caste, State and Society:
  Degrees of Democracy in North India
  by Jagpal Singh
  Routledge India 2021 / 330 Pages ISBN 9780367559748 __0__
  It is an interesting work to explain the position of MBC (Most backward castes) in the context of social economic and political changes happened after Independence. This is a rare study with detailed analysis of capitalism and its impact on the various castes specifically (…)

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  Photo: 1971 Student and worker demo in Tokyo Against Supply of Materials Used in Vietnam War | Bruno Barbey

  3 February 2024

  1971 Demonstration of workers and students in Tokyo against the multinational Mitsubishi for manufacturing military material used in the invasion of Vietnam" - Bruno Barbey, Tokio, Japan (1971)

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  Music: dJarabi - Sona Jobarteh & Band with Kora Music from West Africa

  3 February 2024

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  dJarabi - Sona Jobarteh & Band by looy rosa https://youtu.be/fRB06MjfecU?si=RFzbkmQtkg8NsSBJ

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jan 27, 2024

  27 January 2024

  * Post-Ram temple inauguration politics | P S Jayaramu
  * Multiple Meanings of Consecration Ceremony of Ram Temple | Arup Kumar Sen
  * The nation is not a map drawn on a piece of paper | S D Saxena
  * Electoral uncertainty casts a shadow over Sri Lanka | Neil DeVotta
  * The necessity of equality | Harry Shutt

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 27, 2024

  27 January 2024

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, January 27, 2024
  Select thousands saw in person the pomp and grand spectacle of the inauguration of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya on 22nd January by our showman Prime Minister doubling up as a Hindu Priest. A brazen breach of secular norms just days before India’s 75th Republic Day. Live broadcast of this event marking the making of a veritable ’national temple’ being showered with flowers by taxpayer-paid helicopters, was shown in cinema halls, government (…)