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  Lithograph & Map with Fort Saint George, Madras from 1750s

  25 November 2023

  Lithograph: Fort Saint George, Madras (Chennai) 1754 | Jan Van Ryne
  [Map from 1755 with "Madraspatnam"!, 1755 with Fort St George coloured in pink]

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  Memorial Plaques/signs on homes & streets in memory of victims of Stalin keep disappearing in Putin’s Russia

  25 November 2023

  Restore the Last Address Plaque!
  On November 23, 2023 in St. Petersburg, a memorial plate disappeared from house 32 on the banks of the Moika River. The last address of the resident of this house, Oskar Dobelnek, who was shot in 1938 by the then-Soviet regime. More and more such instances are being reported of memorial street signs and plates put up to remember victims of repression under Stalin are being vandalised and done away with. [see BBC report here)

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  Audio: Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict | William Dalrymple, Anita Anand and Tom Segev

  25 November 2023

  The Balfour Declaration was published on the 9th November 1917. It stated the intent of the British government to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine. William Dalrymple and Anita Anand are joined by Tom Segev to discuss the declaration and the ensuing British mandate for Palestine

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  Film: Cash on Demand directed by Quentin Lawrence (1961)

  25 November 2023
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Nov 11 & Nov 18, 2023

  11 November 2023

  * Air Quality Crisis in Delhi and Agroecological Alternatives | Soma Marla
  * 2023 State polls - Toughest contest for the Congress in Rajasthan | Papri Sri Raman
  * Ill-effects of Politicisation of India’s Armed Forces | S G Vombatkere
  * IPES Food Statement on siege in Gaza, Oct 24, 2023
  * Ukrainian Letter of Solidarity with Palestinian people

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 11, Nov 18, 2023

  11 November 2023

  According to UNHCR global estimates, some 108.4 million people were forcibly displaced by the end of 2022. These days world’s media is focused on the war in Gaza it has more or less forgotten about the war in Sudan, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Russia-Ukraine war. All of these wars have left hundreds of thousands of people displaced and turned into war refugees. Closer home in South Asia, over the past five decades successive wars & conflict led to several million (…)

• 2023 State polls - Toughest contest for the Congress in Rajasthan | Papri Sri Raman

  11 November 2023, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  Elections in three key States including Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Telangana will be held in a single phase on November 17, November 23 and November 30 respectively. Results will be announced on December 3.
  Telengana
  

  Telengana will be the last State to go to the polls this year. There are 119 seats in the Telegana assembly, 60 seats give a party the right to rule. The State was carved out of northern Andhra Pradesh in June 2014, immediately after the Narendra Modi government (…)

• Why Pakistan Should Immediately Stop the Forced Deportation of Afghan Refugees | Bharat Dogra

  11 November 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  A humanitarian catastrophe is in the making as Pakistan has started preparing for the forced deportation of nearly 1.5 million Afghan refugees.
  According to official Pakistani estimates there are nearly 4 million Afghanistan refugees in Pakistan out of whom 1.7 million do not have the necessary documents. Early in October the Pakistani government asked all foreigners without the necessary documents, for practical purposes mainly these 1.7 million Afghan refugees, to leave Pakistan by (…)

• India’s Armed Forces: Ill-effects of politicisation | S.G.Vombatkere

  11 November 2023, by S G Vombatkere

  India’s professional soldier is apolitical
  The Indian Armed Forces, or “the Armed Forces of the Union”, comprise the Indian Army, the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force. They are India’s voluntary, professional body, with the primary duty to protect India against external aggression and defend India’s sovereignty and integrity.
  Before joining active service, every Indian soldier – all ranks of the Army, from jawan to General, and their equivalents in the Navy and Air Force – takes oath (…)

• MSMEs in India: Nation’s Progress Depends on Them | Arun Kumar

  11 November 2023, by Arun Kumar

  Introduction: Diverse Economy
  Indian economy is the most diverse in the world. The usual sectors primary, secondary and tertiary are there but these are further sub-divided between public and private and organized and unorganized sectors. The primary, secondary and tertiary sectors are further sub divided into agriculture, manufacturing, finance and so on. So, there are roughly 27 sectors to contend with.
  Beyond these sub-divisions there are the large, medium, small and the micro sectors (…)