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  Sheetla Singh—Editor Who Became A Legend in his Lifetime | Bharat Dogra

  28 May 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  Sheetla Singh, the great Hindi editor from Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, breathed his last on May 16. He was 93, and was on duty till the last day in his editorial office when he collapsed.
  Bringing out a small cooperative newspaper is not easy in the best of times, but it becomes more difficult when the editor has a tendency to frequently incur the wrath of the most powerful persons. Adding an important local factor, this task becomes even more difficult when the newspaper is coming out from (…)

• Arrogance of Power | Faraz Ahmad

  28 May 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  Never in the history of independent India has any Prime Minister betrayed such arrogance of power as our dear Prime Minister Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi.
  Narendra Modi is the 14th Prime Minister of India since 14 August 1947. Opinion among political observers and analysts is divided on whether Indira Gandhi was arrogant or a victim of circumstances. Morarji Desai the fifth Prime Minister was haughty and disdainful of his critics who were innumerable but he never betrayed a blasé disregard (…)

• Malajahna was a Milestone Social Film on Rural Odissa | Radhakanta Barik

  28 May 2023, by Radhakanta Barik

  FILM REVIEW
  SOMETIMES, LITERATURE PRESENTS a tragic end, pregnant with a revolutionary message. Poverty, unemployment, and social conservatism intermingle to create a classic story. Malajahna (Dead Moon) is a 1965 Odiya film, written and directed by Nitai Palit, based on a novel of the same title written a hundred years ago by the Odiya novelist, Upendra Kishore Das. The book and the subsequent film reflect society of the time and truth is embedded in the narration of the story in the (…)

• What is Next for the Left-Wing Politics After the Congress Victory in Karnataka Assembly Election? | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  28 May 2023

  by Bhabani Shankar Nayak *
  The defeat of BJP-led Hindutva politics in Karnataka is cause for celebration and hope for India’s secular constitutional democracy. The people of Karnataka rejected divisive and bigoted politics under Mr. Narendra Modi’s leadership. His campaign focused on polarization, while the Congress Party led a positive campaign. The Congress Party successfully consolidated its votes and organization, countering Hindutva propaganda with its five ’guarantees’ policy (…)

• Two ways to fight land subsidence | TamilSalvi Mari

  28 May 2023

  by TamilSalvi Mari *
  May 15, 2023
  Artificial recharge and deep soil mixing are two techniques showing promise in rescuing sinking cities.
  Cities all over the world are sinking [1].
  In Southeast Asia, the rapid growth of megacities has led to a pressing design problem that many governments are only just starting to address. Jakarta is considered the world’s fastest-sinking city [2], with some areas experiencing subsidence of up to 15 cm [3] per year.
  With 40 percent of the city (…)

• Reflections on the End of Work | Jeff Shantz

  28 May 2023

  From Green Anarchy #12, Spring 2003
  The meaning of work is once again on the agenda and gaining increasing relevance for contemporary struggles. Within movements such as ecology, work is being examined from novel and challenging perspectives and with a growing sense of urgency. Beyond prior theoretical understandings, either as the basis for identity (as in classical Marxism) or, conversely, as being of no relevance to social transformation, the category “jobs” is (re)opened as a crucial (…)

• America using Quad and G7 to achieve its goal to keep China away from Russia | Arun Srivastava

  28 May 2023, by Arun Srivastava

  by Arun Srivastava
  Probably this was for the first time that Narendra Modi’s self-eulogy did not find significant takers. On his return from Australia, taking a swipe at his opposition detractors, Modi reminisced about his pleasant triumph, how the incumbent PM as well as the former PM and the rest of the opposition leaders of Australia hailed him but the opposition leaders in India were opposing his move to inaugurate the newly constructed parliament house.
  In his own perception, he may (…)

• A plea to my western progressive friends who show understanding towards Putin’s regime in Russia | Boris Kagarlitsky

  28 May 2023

  by Boris Kagarlitsky
  A long-retired Russian military man was discussing current events by phone with a former colleague living in Ukraine. Both resented the war between the two recently fraternal countries and expressed the hope that this madness would soon end. A few days later, representatives of the special services raided the Russian. He did not give out any military secrets, and no one accused him of this. He was charged, however, with publicly discrediting the Armed Forces of the (…)

• I’m nobody! Who are you? | Emily Dickinson

  28 May 2023

  I’m Nobody! Who are you?
  Are you — Nobody — Too?
  Then there’s a pair of us!
  Don’t tell! they’d advertise — you know!
  How dreary — to be — Somebody!
  How public — like a Frog —
  To tell one’s name — the livelong June —
  To an admiring Bog!
  (Extract from "I’m nobody! Who are you?", in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, published by Little, Brown & Company, 1960)

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  Concerned citizens and civil society groups condemn misuse of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against scholars and activists

  28 May 2023

  PRESS RELEASE
  23.05.2023
  On 23rd May 2023, Over 500 concerned citizens, democratic rights’ activists across movements, women’s groups, students and academics condemned the misuse of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against scholars and activists raising constitutional issues and asking for the government’s accountability.
  The open letter states that ‘In the course of the last few months, several women scholars and activists have been summoned repeatedly, made to wait long (…)