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  Audio: Andrew Doyle - Why Free Speech Matters

  11 November 2023

  Two for Tea Podcast · 95 - Andrew Doyle - Why Free Speech Matters

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  Music: Mi Revalueshanary Fren | Linton Kwesi Johnson

  11 November 2023

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  Linton Kwesi Johnson - Mi Revalueshanary Fren by Maurizio Gelli https://youtu.be/lzpaomcpxiE?si=YkwNNfby_4z7ATf1
  Mi revalueshanary fren is nat di same agen
  Yu know fram wen?
  Fram di masses shata silence
  Staat fi grumble
  Fram pawty paramoncy tek a tumble
  Fram Hungary to Poelan to Romania
  Fram di cozy cyassle dem staat fi crumble
  Wen wi buck-up wananada in a reaznin
  Mi fren always en up pan di same ting
  Dis is di sang im love fi sing:
  Kaydar
  E ad to go (…)

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Nov 4, 2023

  4 November 2023

  * There is no perfect solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict | Pritam Singh
  * Need to amend the Karnataka State Universities Act 2000 | P S Jayaramu
  * India’s First Metadata Case | Gopal Krishna
  * The Constitutional Irrelevance of Sanatana Dharma | Andimuthu Raja
  * Why Ecosocialism? For a red-green future | Michael Lowy

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 4, 2023

  4 November 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, November 4, 2023
  Israel’s war on the Palestinian territory of Gaza has intensified causing huge human dislocation and destruction. The UN Secretary-General and all top officials from the UN are repeatedly calling for a ceasefire, appealing to the world to take note. India’s abstention from a United Nations General Assembly vote of October 27, 2023, on a resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip has disappointed (…)

• The Constitutional Irrelevance of Sanatana Dharma | Andimuthu Raja

  4 November 2023, by Andimuthu Raja

  Law and Religion have evolved as social institutions throughout history, not only in Indian society but also in Rome, Judia, in the Christian and Islamic lands and elsewhere in the world. India’s theological contributions were subjected to intense scrutiny of European scholars during the colonial administration. The book, Sanatana Dharma: An Elementary Text-Book of Hindu Religion and Ethics, published by the Central Hindu College, Benares in 1916, says, the term ‘Hindu’ referred more to (…)

• Sisodia bail: Strange are the ways of the apex court | Faraz Ahmad

  4 November 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  On October 30 a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court led by Justice Sanjiv Khanna and S.V.N. Bhatti rejected former Delhi Deputy chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia’s bail plea in the case of Money Laundering slapped upon Sisodia by the Enforcement Directorate.
  The Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) arrested Sisodia on February 26 this year under the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) charging him with taking a bribe from the liquor lobby for tweaking the (…)

• Locating Caste Survey of Bihar in the Context of President K R Narayanan’s Vision on Affirmative Action | S N Sahu

  4 November 2023, by S N Sahu

  On 9th November 2005 former President of India K R Narayanan passed away at the age of eighty-five. This year when the solemn occasion of his death anniversary is being observed on 9th November there is a countrywide discussion on the details of the data concerning the Bihar Government’s historic caste survey which was released on 2nd October 2023, on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary, and tabled in the State Assembly two days back on 7th November.
  Convergence of Caste (…)

• RSS chief blames the foreign forces for Manipur violence in his election speech on Vijayadashmi Day | Arun Srivastava

  4 November 2023

  by Arun Srivastava
  RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is not known to speak blatant lies but his yearly Dussehra discourse, which he delivered at the RSS office in Nagpur was not an honest narration. His compulsion to hang on to power and lack of moral conviction to accept the faults and absurdities of Modi government was clearly manifest in his speech. His lies also got manifest in his effort to dig out the ghost of the “foreign powers” for put the blame on it for the unabated six-month long (…)

• India’s First Metadata case: Supreme Court’s Constitution Bench to decide illegitimacy of Aadhaar Act amid Great Data Robbery | Gopal Krishna

  4 November 2023, by Gopal Krishna

  “We kill people on the basis of metadata.

• Fostering Socio-Economic Growth: Indian Immigrant Remittances | S N Tripathy

  4 November 2023, by S N Tripathy

  Backdrop:
  The remittance of Indian immigrants has been a catalyst for socio-economic development, as it has brought about significant positive changes in various domains, such as education, healthcare, and poverty alleviation in both the home country and the destination country. The remittance inflows have multiplier the Indian economy, increasing disposable income, consumption demand, and investments in various sectors. Moreover, the remittance inflows have facilitated the development of (…)