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  Caricature: Tribute to Prabha Atre | Jayaraj Vellur

  19 January 2024

  [Prabha Atre was a leading Indian musician a classical vocalist from the Kirana Gharana who passed away on Jan 13, 2024]

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  Video: Protest Fast on January 22, 2024 Ram Temple inauguration - Statement by Suranya Aiyar

  19 January 2024

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  Protest Fast Against January 22 Production by suranya aiyar https://youtu.be/2cFXa5jcnrE

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  Painting: ’Annual memorial meeting at the Communards’ Wall’ | Ilya Repin (1883)

  19 January 2024

  (At the Communards Wall, located in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris where 147 combatants of the Paris Commune were shot and thrown into an open grave on May 28, 1871)

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jan 13, 2024

  12 January 2024

  * Telangana state a new beginning for the welfare policy & development | A Naidu
  * Kerala Needs More “Mariyakuttys” | J Chathukulam
  * Hindutva, Pythagoras and the Zero | Prabir Purkayastha
  * The Agony of Sri Lankan People Continues | M R Narayan Swamy
  * India gets a rude awakening in West Asia | M. K. Bhadrakumar
  * Ukraine war increasingly seen as ‘fought by the poor’ | Wolff & Malyarenko

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 13, 2024

  12 January 2024

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 13 2024
  In a commendable and gutsy move, the Indian National Congress party has declined the invitation to attend the Ram Mandir inauguration ceremony scheduled on January 22. The Congress leadership has stood up for secular ideals going against the opinion of a section of the Congress party that feels inclined to mimic the BJP’s strategy of instrumentalisation of religion for political gain. The Congress Party rationalises its stance by saying that: (…)

• Does Bilkis Bano verdict constitute an exception to the rule of capture of institutions | Faraz Ahmad

  12 January 2024, by Faraz Ahmad

  Justice B.V. Nagarathna truly deserves to be called in our difficult times a “Danial” a la Portia of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice.
  After full 21 years Bilkis Bano, then barely 21 and pregnant with her second child, finally received a consolation for the retribution awarded to her tormentors, rapists and murderers who publicly stripped her, her mother and sister, raped them all, brutally killed her three-year-old daughter by banging the child’s head against a stone, her mother and (…)

• Complete ban on demolitions needed in times of increasing difficulties of cold weather | Bharat Dogra

  12 January 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  Increasing cold weather conditions have led to many vulnerable people remaining indoors as far as possible in Delhi. The pollution of the city mixed with fog and cold weather has also prompted those having vulnerable health conditions to avoid going out particularly in night and early morning.
  It is really distressing and in fact shocking to know that the authorities have nevertheless continued to demolish hundreds of houses of poor and vulnerable people even during these times. The Indian (…)

• Kerala Needs More ’Mariyakuttys’ | Jos Chathukulam

  12 January 2024, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract
  Mariyakutty is a beneficiary under the Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (IGNWPS) from Kerala who used to get a small amount of Rs. 1600 under the scheme, ‘a purse of her own’ in the words of Susan B. Anthony. However, for the past six months, she has not received the entitled amount under this pension scheme. Though she filed a representation before the state government seeking disbursal of the pension arrears, there was no follow-up on it. This forced the 86-year-old (…)

• The upcoming Lok Sabha Elections: Some Thoughts | P S Jayaramu

  12 January 2024, by P S Jayaramu

  8th January 2024
  The upcoming elections to the Lok Sabha, consisting of the Bharatiya Janata Party’ ( BJPs) and the INDIA alliance is the flavour of the season.
  Let me first deal with the BJP’s hegemonic hold over Indian Politics in recent years.While I do not want to get into the numbers and statistical part of the electoral exercise, it is as clear as sun light that with the results of the assembly elections in Chattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madya Pradesh going in its favour, the BJP is (…)

• Telangana state a new beginning for the welfare policy regime and development | Ashok Naidu

  12 January 2024

  Almost one decade after the formation of Telangana state, Congress came into power in an anther southern state and on the go to redefine the real meaning of welfare and public good; as it was projected as the freebee culture which makes masses poor and lazy by the nations’ ruling party. Right from its inception, Congress strongly believes in the welfare policies through which the real development of the nation is possible. The legacy of welfare regimes during Nehru, Indira, P.V.Narimha Rao, (…)