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  Review of Hari Singh’s Looking Back with Delight | Subramanian

  12 January 2024, by K S Subramanian

  Reviewed by KS Subramanian
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  Looking Back with Delight: A Memoir by Hari Singh
  Solicitor and Notary Public, England and Wales (Academy of Business Studies, New Delhi)
  pp 320 Price Rs. 890 $ 20.99
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  This is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary personality who is solicitor and notary public in the UK and the Wales. The book tells his life experience in India, his land of birth and the UK his land of professional experience as a civil servant, legal luminary and (…)

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  Indian National Congress declines invitation to Ram temple inauguration - Press Statement, Jan 10, 2024

  12 January 2024

  STATEMENT OF SHRI JAIRAM RAMESH, GENERAL SECRETARY (COMMUNICATIONS), INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
  January 10, 2024
  Last month, the Congress President and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson, Smt. Sonia Gandhi and the Leader of the Congress Party in the Lok Sabha Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury received an invitation to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya to be held on January 22nd, 2024.
  Lord (…)

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  Full text of CPI’s response to the High Level Committee – One Nation, One Election (submitted on January 10, 2024)

  12 January 2024

  Communist Party of India
  January 10, 2024
  Dear Sir,
  We are in receipt of your Letter No. H. 11019/3/2023-Leg.II (HLC) Dated 1st of January, 2024 asking for the views of my party, the Communist Party of India, on the issue of holding simultaneous elections.
  The Communist Party of India does not approve of or endorse holding simultaneous elections and the complex issues involved in coming to this viewpoint are examined in detail in the enclosure to this letter. (…)

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  Caricature: Tribute to Ustad Rashid Khan | Jayraj Vellur

  12 January 2024
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  Egon Schiele, Drawing of his desk the prisoner of war camp in Mühling, 1916

  12 January 2024
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  Audio: Let It Come Down by Michael Robson | BBC Radio

  12 January 2024

  Play
  BBC RADIO DRAMA: LET IT COME DOWN by Michael Robson by Arch Phoenix Stanton https://youtu.be/iQZoigyUxEk?si=XK0nENyl8ZsSoPUV
  Let It Come Down by Michael Robson was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 3 April 1976.
  Story:
  Alan Scott , key witness for the prosecution, is too conscientious, a murderer goes free and thereafter someone has it in for Scott. Who is that someone?
  Cast:
  Alan Scott: William Lucas
  Sue Crichton: Ros Drinkwater
  QC: Peter Woodthorpe
  Moira (…)

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  Music: Dharti Tumhari, Dharti Hamari (English subtitles) | Hindi adaptation of “This Land is Your Land”

  12 January 2024

  “Dharti Tumhari, Dharti Hamari” is a Hindi adaptation of “This Land is Your Land” written in 1940 by American singer Woody Guthrie (1912-67). The song has been sung by Deepak Castelino in memory of activist Father Stan Swamy, photographer Danish Siddiqui, historian Hari Vasudevan, hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens whose deaths on account of Covid left India’s rulers unmoved, and in solidarity with protesting farmers. Produced by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, the music video is a documentary on the times we are living in.

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  Video: South Africa presents arguments accusing Israel of ’genocidal acts’ in Gaza at the ICJ - 11 Jan 2024

  12 January 2024
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jan 6, 2024

  5 January 2024

  * Returning Magsaysay award & US degrees over US role in war on Gaza | Sandeep Pandey
  * India and the World: Loud claims, little ground support | Apratim Mukarji
  * Katwaroo Death Case, 1876 | A K Biswas
  * Reviewing the experience of Italy in the 1970s | Toni Negri
  * Sewage Workers Public Hearing Dec 28, 2023, New Delhi
  * Gene editing has arrived | Merlin Crossley

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 6, 2003

  5 January 2024

  Letter to the Readers, January 6, 2024
  As the year 2023 wound to a close a strange incident flashed India on to front-pages of world media. A jet plane operated by a Romanian airlines with over 300 Indian passengers on board had flown out of Dubai and on way to Nicaragua was detained by French authorities during technical halt in France on suspicion of Human trafficking. This flight came under the French scanner since it was just days after a new french law with restrictions on immigration (…)