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  Cartoon: The Future with Military Robots Versus Civilian Robots | Nala Ponnappa

  21 October 2023
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  Painting: Mother’s Embrace, 2013 - Nabil Anani

  21 October 2023
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  Music: The Rolling Stones - It’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll (But I Like It)

  21 October 2023

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  Video: The Battle of Chile, The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie | Patricio Guzman

  21 October 2023

  In the spring of 1973, just before the parliamentary elections in Chile, Patricio Guzmán and his crew began to film the political and social events in the country. Given the poor state of the economy, President Salvador Allende’s left-wing government, which had been democratically elected in 1970, was expected to fall. But Allende had the support of a large proportion of the working-class voters, and the predicted victory for the right failed to materialize. From then on, the opposition (…)

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 14, 2023

  14 October 2023

  * A Political Man: Memories of Ranajit Guha | Dilip Simeon
  * Karpoori Thakur: Social Justice and Its Limits | Thakur and Bhattacharjee
  * Sustainable Consumption & Production versus Green capitalism | Geeta Sinha
  * Can we fight Zionism, not Jews? | Jawed Naqvi

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 14, 2023

  14 October 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, October 14, 2023
  Following horrific assaults last week by Islamist militias of Hamas from Gaza in unprecedented raids across the border in Southern Israel that killed over a thousand civilians, Israel is now retaliating with a counter-offensive and has declared war, and the Israeli Defence Forces have been bombing and flattening Gaza. The Israeli military has issued an ultimatum to over 1.2 million inhabitants of Northern Gaza to move out of their (…)

• Interim Report of the People’s Commission on Land Acquisition and Police Repression in Dhinkia Region

  14 October 2023

  7 October 2023
  In June 2005, the Government of Orissa gave a contract to POSCO, a South Korean multinational corporation to invest approximately US$12 billion in an integrated steel venture. Due to public pressure and other factors, POSCO withdrew from the project in March 2017. Following POSCO’s exit, in June 2017, the Odisha government transferred the land to the JSW Utkal Steel Limited (JUSL). JUSL plans to build a 13.2 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) integrated steel plant that will (…)

• Gulab’s Struggle against Honour Killing Needs Help | Bharat Dogra

  14 October 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  Honor killing is a terrible crime and a serious social problem. So anyone struggling against this in the middle of great hostility deserves help and sympathy. However in the case of Gulab Rajput this help is deserved even more as he has shown great courage and determination in continuing this struggle—he was himself the victim of a hit and run incident and in this seriously injured state he sat with his wife Kamla on a fast-cum-dharna for 10 days to demand justice. Despite his rapidly (…)

• A Political Man: Memories of Ranajit Guha | Dilip Simeon

  14 October 2023, by Dilip Simeon

  NB: This is an extended reminiscence of a conversation about Ranajit Guha and the Naxalite movement. The conversation was arranged at the request of the Bangla journal Anustup; and took place between me and a History honours student at the University of Delhi. (I am obliged to Anustup for having prompted this remembrance. It is due to appear in Bangla shortly). It is based on a transcript of that conversation, but has been considerably revised. It took place on July 16, 2023; which (…)

• Karpoori Thakur: Social Justice and Its Limits | Manish Thakur and Nabanipa Bhattacharjee

  14 October 2023, by Nabanipa Bhattacharjee

  History has its own ways of revivifying past icons and their politics. Of late, Karpoori Thakur has seen such a revival in contemporary political discourse. In particular, politics in Bihar is suffused with references to his simplicity, honesty, integrity and his lifelong commitment to the welfare of the poor and the downtrodden. Parties across a wide-ranging ideological spectrum – from the real and pretentious legatees of socialist politics to the ruling JD (U)-RJD alliance and also the BJP (…)