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  Photo: Singer Gaddar with writer Varavara Rao heading to a Jana Natya Mandali meeting in Hyderabad, India

  12 August 2023

  source: Balladeer, ‘people’s singer’, ex-Maoist ideologue: Telangana poet Gaddar dies at 77 by Sreenivas Janyala (Indian Express, August 6, 2023) | The photo from Indian Express is reproduced for non-commercial use

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  Cartoon: Hell Breaks Loose Over Flying Kiss in Parliament | Nala Ponnappa

  12 August 2023
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  Music: Dorothy Masuka - Nginje

  12 August 2023

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Aug 5, 2023

  5 August 2023

  * Militant capitalism, bad infinity, and the longing for total revolution | Dilip Simeon
  * Westinghouse reactors for Kovvada, AP Letter to Chair DAE | EAS Sarma
  * Illegal Migration Act in the UK | Sona Singh
  * Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War — The Role of Health Professionals | Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, et al
  * AIKS Press Release on Communal Violence in Haryana (Aug 3, 2023)

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Aug 5, 2023

  5 August 2023

  Letter to the readers Aug 5, 2023
  It’s been three months that widespread ethnic violence in BJP-ruled Manipur has led to nearly 60 thousand people being rendered homeless and yet no discussion and stocktaking has taken place in the Parliament. It is very creditable that opposition parties jointly went on a delegation to Manipur and have been steadfast in their demand for a discussion in Parliament. The Supreme Court while hearing a petition on Manipur recently described the situation there (…)

• Militant capitalism, bad infinity, and the longing for total revolution | Dilip Simeon

  5 August 2023, by Dilip Simeon

  [marron]NB: This work-in-progress paper was a contribution to a conference hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Bergen, Norway. The conference( May 31-June 2, 2023) was titled 200 Years of Socialism: Revisiting the Old Dilemmas: First Annual Global Research Programme on Inequality Lecture [[https://gripinequality.org/event/the-grip-annual-lecture-2023]marron]
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  Abstract: The Bolshevik confiscation of the Russian revolution was indeed a ‘bifurcation point’, (…)

• Serious concerns over import of Westinghouse’s reactors for the Kovvada nuclear power project | E A S Sarma

  5 August 2023

  From: EAS Sarma Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 at 10:31 Subject: Westinghouse’s Vogtle nuclear power reactors- Huge time/cost overruns- Likely implications for proposed Kovvada nuclear power project in AP To: Chair, DAE Cc: Secretary Power , T.V. Somanathan , Cc: Chief Secretary AP , Secretary, Energy - AP , Collector Skl
  E A S Sarma Former Secretary to the Government of India
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  Dr A K Mohanty Chairman Dept of Atomic Energy (DAE) Govt of India
  Dear Dr Mohanty,
  I refer to the Nuclear (…)

• Tracing the Genealogy of Contemporary Hindutva Politics | Arup Kumar Sen

  5 August 2023, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Politics of Hindutva represents the dominant paradigm of politics in contemporary India. The eminent historian, Gyanendra Pandey, attempted to locate the making of this paradigm of politics in the article, ‘Which of Us are Hindus?’, carried in his edited book - Hindus and Others: The Question of Identity in India Today (Viking, New Delhi, 1993). His observations and arguments enlighten us about the genealogy of Hindutva politics in modern India.
  Gyanendra Pandey argued: “The natural unity (…)

• Disturbing signs of RSS indoctrinating Police personnel | Arun Srivastava

  5 August 2023

  by Arun Srivastava
  West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is politically correct in saying that BJP has launched a riot politics. But she did not say that for implementing the politics of riots, the RSS and BJP need a strong band of committed Monus. He is not the only mastermind the saffron brigade has, through its ideological perversion has succeeded in creating a strong band of Hindutva bigots, but the fact which is regrettably ignored while analysing the emerging situation is the (…)

• India’s 2024 General elections: Who is the opposition Prime Ministerial candidate? | Thirunahari Seshaiah

  5 August 2023

  Elections to the 18th Lok Sabha are going to be held in another ten months. It seems that the political parties in the country are sharpening their strategies to win the elections. With the aim of winning the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, both the Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are holding meetings with their alliance parties in a strategy to prevent the BJP from coming to power at the Central for the third time. On the other hand, the Congress party has formed an alliance (…)