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  Withdraw the prosecution against Arundhati Roy & Showkat Ali - PUCL

  14 October 2023

  PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES
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  President: Ms. Kavita Srivastava (Rajasthan); General Secretary: V Suresh (Tamil Nadu); E.mails:, Please visit our website: www.pucl.org (…)

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  Why Doesn’t India Wage War Against Tax Havens? | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  14 October 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW __0__
  Black Money and Tax Havens (Updated Edition) R. Vaidyanathan
  Penguin Books ISBN: 9780143459446 Pages: xvi + 254; Price: Rs. 399 __0__
  This is an authoritative book on tax havens and why the superrich all around the world love them. When it comes to India, two unpleasant conclusions can be drawn. One, the Congress party, whatever it may now say about the Adanis, never showed any serious intent to bring back money stolen from India and stashed away abroad. Equally (…)

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  Photo: Lula da Silva, President of ABC Metalworkers Union Brazil in 1979

  14 October 2023
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  Music: The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Barenboim-Said Akademie

  14 October 2023

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  Audio: What happened after the Oslo accords handshake | Hanan Ashrawi and Yossi Beilin

  14 October 2023
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 7, 2023

  7 October 2023

  * Social and Economic Aspects of Caste Survey in Bihar | Arun Kumar
  * Aspects of 2nd Labour Commission Still Very Relevant | Bharat Dogra
  * Restructuring & Democratising Governance, Expanding Political Autonomy | C.R Bijoy
  * Video: Weaponising the Media, Delegitimizing Citizens | Ravish Kumar
  * The Death of Ivan Nikitich Smirnov | Victor Serge

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 7, 2023

  7 October 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 7, 2023
  October 3, 2023, will go down a black day for press freedoms & civil liberties in India. Early morning onwards, police raided the homes of leading journalists, cultural activists, intellectuals, and critics including the General Secretary of the CPI(M). The police arrested Prabir Purkayastha the editor of the independent media portal NewsClick and Amit Chaudhuri, the HR in-charge of NewsClick under UAPA, the anti-terror law, and the police (…)

• Social and Economic Aspects of Caste Survey in Bihar | Arun Kumar

  7 October 2023, by Arun Kumar

  The need for caste census today is because after independence we adopted the top-down development model. It was thought that the benefits of development would flow from the upper strata to the lower ones. But this hope has been belied with the well-off capturing most of the benefits leaving little for the marginalized sections who are lagging behind in development.
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  The release of the figures from the caste survey in Bihar have immediately led to the heating up of politics in the (…)

• Why Some Crucial Aspects of the Second Labour Commission Are Still Very Relevant | Bharat Dogra

  7 October 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  Although almost two decades have passed since the Second Labour Commission submitted its report, some crucial aspects of its recommendations are still very relevant particularly in the context of the need for umbrella legislation for unorganized sector workers. This is of great significance for the welfare of nearly 270 million workers, including same of the poorest people in India. One of the gravest shortcomings of labour welfare in India has been that while as many as 90 per cent of the (…)

• Restructuring and Democratising Governance, Expanding Political Autonomy | C.R. Bijoy

  7 October 2023

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  The historical narrative of governance of peoples and lands in the Indian sub-continent seems to have two distinct trajectories that are yet to meet; the first progressively constricts democracy while the second deepens and expands democracy. In the context of the swing towards electoral autocracy, market hegemony, political chaos, social conflicts and rising aspirations, a critical examination of the latter, in law and practice, could unravel the governance structure that is (…)