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• Debating Hindutva | Subhash Gatade

  22 July 2023, by Subhash Gatade

  Greetings
  Thanks for introducing me to Sai Deepak’s talks / interventions etc and also asking me to give my take on the debate and also understand it in light of how ’Hindutva is understood or what ’Hindutva is all about’.
  Listened to Shashi Tharoor and J Sai Deepak.
  https://youtu.be/7x-W_lIH5-4
  Before coming to the crux of the issue would love to share my impressions about debate itself, about the speakers, their styles, persuasiveness etc. and share stray comments on some of (…)

• Ban won’t stop transnational surrogacy | Jutharat Attawet

  22 July 2023

  by Jutharat Attawet
  July 17, 2023
  The nature of transnational surrogacy, where an intended parent seeks a woman to carry their baby internationally, allows people to circumvent national laws.
  Anong*, from Thailand’s northern Petchaboon province, was 25 when she decided to be a surrogate mother for the first time.
  "I was a surrogate in 2013 and 2018 … [I] was hired by a couple from a foreign country," she said, adding she needed to pay off her debt and looked online for a surrogacy (…)

• Open Letter to the UN Secretary-General and President of the World Bank Towards Setting Serious Goals to Combat Inequality

  22 July 2023

  Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres and President of the World Bank Ajay Banga,
  RE: Setting serious goals to combat inequality
  As a group of economists and leaders in the fight against extreme inequalities from around the world, we write to request your leadership towards ensuring that the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank back vital new strategic goals and indicators, that can redouble efforts to address rising extreme inequality. (…)

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  BSNL employees are rightfully demanding Justice - Press Release by Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions

  22 July 2023

  13th July 2023
  Press Release
  BSNL employees are rightfully demanding Justice
  We, the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions, have come to know the non- executive employees of BSNL are planning to launch agitations to press their long pending demands. They had a massive dharna at Jantar Mantar on 7th July and resolved to take up campaign forward. They have every right to do so.
  We are witness to the discriminatory policy followed by the Central Government towards BSNL in not offering (…)

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  55th Bank Nationalisation Day - AIBEA Press release 18 July 2023

  22 July 2023

  ALL INDIA BANK EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATION (AIBEA)
  Press Release
  by C.H. Venkatachalam, Gen Secretary, AIBEA
  WE HAIL 55TH BANK NATIONALISATION DAY – 19TH JULY 1969 – 2023
  Nationalised Banks are Nation building institutions Privatising Banks is anti-people
  18-7-2023
  19th July, 2023 marks the successful completion of 54 years since the major privately owned Banks were nationalized in our country. Thus, 19th July, 2023 marks the 55th Bank Nationalisation Day. It is an important occasion (…)

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  Radical Socialist Statement on Manipur | 22 july 2023

  22 July 2023

  It is crystal clear that it is the March 27 ruling of the Manipur High Court to award ST status to the majority Meitei community (mostly Hindu) that led to mass protests by Zo-Kukis in early May which in turn led to violent attacks by Meitei vigilante groups and then a spiral of violence on both sides but with the Kukis easily the principal sufferers. Not the least reason for this being that the ruling BJP government and its Chief Minister Biren Singh have in various ways favoured the (…)

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  Manipur Violence - Statement by CPI MP Binoy Viswam (20 July 2023)

  22 July 2023, by Binoy Viswam

  CPI Parliamentary Party Leader Shri Binoy Viswam serves notice under Rule 267 to have a discussion on the disturbing developments in Manipur
  Communist Party of India Parliamentary Party Leader and National Secretary Shri Binoy Viswam served a Notice under Rule 267 of Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Rajya Sabha to have a discussion on the disturbing developments in the state of Manipur over the last three months.

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  A Book on Forgotten Refugees | Joydip Ghosal

  22 July 2023

  Forgotten Refugees, Two Iraqi Brothers in India
  by Nandita Haksar
  Speaking Tiger Books LLP
  2022
  ISBN- 978-93-5447-311-1 __0__
  Nandita Haksar is an eminent human rights lawyer who has left her own imprint and set a precedent in the arena of human rights law. Apart from that she is a renowned campaigner and teacher. Both in Indian courts and international fields she fought tirelessly for the rights of refugees whether they were internally displaced people or refugees evicted from (…)

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  Chatterjee on Creativity from the Periphery by Deepanwita Dasgupta

  22 July 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Animesh Chatterjee (Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger)
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  Creativity from the Periphery: Trading Zones of Scientific Exchange in Colonial India
  by Deepanwita Dasgupta
  University of Pittsburgh Press 2021. 312 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8229-8802-1 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4656-4.
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  Outlining her arguments, Deepanwita Dasgupta writes that the purpose of Creativity from the Periphery: Trading Zones of (…)

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  Caricature: Tribute to Oommen Chandy | Jayaraj Vellur

  22 July 2023, by Jayaraj Vellur