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  Statement from National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) Over Police Raids on the NewsClick

  7 October 2023

  October 4, 2023
  Press Statement
  The National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) strongly condemns the attack on independent media outlet the NewsClick.
  The news portal has been consistently championing the cause of the marginalised sections including disabled people. In this people-centric approach, the portal has been consistently carrying reports and articles on various struggles and issues of the disabled community and sought to lend a voice to their issues.
  One of the (…)

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  AIFRTE condemns the Delhi Police raid at the residence of Dipak Dholakia

  7 October 2023

  All India Forum for Right To Education (AIFRTE)
  AIFRTE condemns the Delhi Police raid at the residence of Dipak Dholakia, senior activist and journalist, supposedly under "some ongoing UAPA case" which remained unrevealed.
  Special Branch of Delhi Police raided the house of the 75-year-old Dipak Dholakia on the 3rd October 2023 from 6.30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Dipak Dholakia, a well- known journalist and respected civil liberties activist, retired as Chief of Gujarati NEWS from Akashwani Bhawan. (…)

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  Review of Kirkwood’s, Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900

  7 October 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Jeff S. Nagy (University of Michigan)
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  Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 by Jeffrey West Kirkwood University of Minnesota Press 2022. vii + 235 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-1253-6 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-1254-3
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  This isn’t your parents’ history of computing. It would have to be at least your great-grandparents’. Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 finds a prehistory for digital (…)

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  Cartoon: India Sliding Down in World Press Freedom Index During Modi Years | Pencil Draw

  7 October 2023

  via Facebook
  [The above cartoon by Pencil Draw is reproduced here for educational and non-commercial use]

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  Photo: Man selling Granma newspapers, Havana (1995) by Ernesto Bazan

  7 October 2023
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  Music: Ouverture-Suite for Strings & Continuo in C Major: IX. Aria · La Serenissima · Adrian Chandler · Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello | An Englishman Abroad

  7 October 2023

  Ouverture-Suite for Strings & Continuo in C Major: IX. Aria · La Serenissima · Adrian Chandler · Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello

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  Video: Weaponising the Media, Delegitimizing Citizens | Ravish Kumar

  7 October 2023

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  Ravish Kumar — Weaponizing Media - Delegitimizing Citizens by Watson School of International and Public Affairs https://youtu.be/KkW_XxFMI64?si=LbHlc_GHXRtN0GaO

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  India: A secure government job at any cost | FRANCE 24 Reportage (Sept 2023)

  7 October 2023

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  India: A secure government job at any cost • FRANCE 24 English by FRANCE 24 English https://youtu.be/20gLBCVaNOI?si=XvostixaQLoYtvLy

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Sept 30, 2023

  30 September 2023

  * Health must be fast-tracked for 2030 | K. Srinath Reddy
  * Implement Swaminathan Commission recommendations for a Real Tribute to MS Swaminathan | Soma Marla
  * One Nation, One Election: No Solution | D Raja
  * Anarchism in Germany 1945-1960s | Nick Heath

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 30, 2023

  30 September 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 30, 2023
  Over the past decades particularly in the aftermath of the demolition of the Babri Masjid and the Gujarat pogrom of 2002 communal divisions have grown in society, and most of all in an accelerated fashion under the two-term (2014-2019) BJP Government at the center led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Communal speech and language of hate have seeped into everyday life and culture. There is a banalisation of offensive language and hateful (…)