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  Caricature: Tribute to Derek Malcolm | Jayaraj Vellur

  22 July 2023, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Painting: Factory Strike (Voice Of Freedom), 1972 | Bhupen Khakhar

  22 July 2023
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  Audio: Rosa Luxemburg | In our Time - BBC 4 (2017)

  22 July 2023

  Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), ’Red Rosa’, who was born in Poland under the Russian Empire and became one of the leading revolutionaries in an age of revolution. She was jailed for agitation and for her campaign against the Great War which, she argued, pitted workers against each other for the sake of capitalism. With Karl Liebknecht and other radicals, she founded the Spartacus League in the hope of ending the war through revolution. She founded the (…)

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  Video: 8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities - The case for rights and choices

  22 July 2023

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  8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The case for rights and choices by UNFPA https://youtu.be/yYvfaGHugQs

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, July 15, 2023

  15 July 2023

  * Logic and Necessity of Anti-Conversion Laws in Tribal Dominant Areas in India | Chhotelal Kumar
  * Manipur: Women and Children in Conflict | Lily Sangpui
  * Malerkotla: An Opportunity to Reimagine the Educational Experiences of Muslim Girls Using a Community-Based Approach | Gupta & Kaur
  * PUCL Statement — Manipur Govt Criminalising Human Rights Work — FIR Against NFIW fact-Finding Team

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 15, 2023

  15 July 2023

  Northern India has been battered by heavy rains, causing flooding, landslides, and mudslides in the past week. The States of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, parts of Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi have been affected by these floods. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated. In our national capital, the river Yamuna has breached the danger mark, and major sections of the city’s arterial ring road are submerged under water, and so is Rajghat, Mahatma Gandhi’s resting place, and famed (…)

• Modi Regime Can Dismiss European Parliament Resolution Against Hindutva Based Divisive ideology But not Gandhi, Nehru and Ambedkar who Rejected it | S N Sahu

  15 July 2023, by S N Sahu

  July 18, 2023
  India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, in a special letter to Chief Ministers written on 9th September 1948, observed, “We must, at all costs, and with all our strength prevent any communal deterioration in any province”. “The consequence of this,” he said, “will be harmful to us in many ways”, Cautioning that “Nationally, this will impede our effort and produce complications,” he warned that “Internationally, it will not only injure our good name but may have (…)

• Logic and Necessity of Anti-Conversion Laws in Tribal Dominant Areas in India | Chhotelal Kumar

  15 July 2023, by Chhotelal Kumar

  by Chhotelal Kumar *
  Abstract
  This piece delves into the question of Anti-conversion laws in the Schedule area (Fifth and Sixth) and tries to look at the possible logic of the enaction of these laws. It argues and contrasts the shift in Indian politics with the decline of Congress and the rise of BJP and its correlations with conversion Laws. With BJP as the largest party in recent years at the centre and state level, it is trying to locate the recent upsurge in demand for the (…)

• Women and Children in Conflict: Vulnerabilities and Challenges | Lily Sangpui

  15 July 2023

  by Lily Sangpui
  Recalling the relevant provisions outlined in International humanitarian law pertaining to the protection of women and children, it is crucial to revisit the plight they face in the light of Manipur violence. Conflicts affect women and men differently in distinct ways. It is important to acknowledge that women and children who constitute the vulnerable section of society are often at receiving end during conflict. Conflict and displacement further exacerbate their (…)

• Manipur | Sagari Chhabra

  15 July 2023, by Sagari Chhabra

  Islands of vegetation float freely on the freshwater lake; at times the water lies under the land, at times it glides over it. Sometimes the islands gently collide then move away; the Manipuris call it phumdis, but the land and water do co-exist.
  Above the crystal blue waters fly in songbirds and passerines, the tragopans and pea fowls, across China, Tibet and Burma the birds follow their own route, partaking of nature’s fruit. They bask in the glinting colours of the sunset: orange, (…)