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  Stop these unabated sewer & septic tanks deaths - Press Release from Safai Karmachari Andolan (May 24, 2023)

  28 May 2023

  Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA)
  PRESS RELEASE
  In 379 days 100 citizens killed in Sewer-septic tank cleaning,
  We Demand for a national apology from the Prime Minister
  It is the 379th day of Safai Karmachari Andolan’s nationwide
  “StopKillingUs" campaign demanding for government action to stop these unabated sewer & septic tanks deaths immediately
  New Delhi. 24-05-2023
  Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA) has been demanding a guarantee to life from Central and state governments for (…)

• Enabling Selective Illegality Behind the Façade of Democratic Functioning | Arun Kumar

  28 May 2023, by Arun Kumar

  Guest Editorial for Mainstream
  May 27, 2023
  The Supreme Court of India appointed Committee (Expert Committee (EC)) on the Adani-Hindenburg issue submitted its Report on May 9, 2023. It disappoints because it chose not to go deeper into issues that hold back the nation from achieving its full potential. It hides behind the technicality of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) following the currently applicable rules that prevent it from investigating the real issues raised in the (…)

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  A Man Extraordinary Who Coined ’Jai Hind’ | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  28 May 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  Abid Hasan Safrani: Netaji’s Comrade-in-Arms
  Compiled by: Ismat Mehdi and Shehbaz Safrani
  Orient BlackSwan
  Pages: xxv + 148; Price: Rs 895. __0__
  He was Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s sole Indian companion on his perilous 90-day submarine voyage from Europe to Asia in 1943. He was also the inventor of the INA’s – and subsequently free India’s – patriotic slogan: Jai Hind! If the Japanese had found a third seat for Netaji on what turned out to be his final air (…)

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  Armston-Sheret. Review of Jones, Ryan Tucker, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling

  28 May 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Edward Armston-Sheret (Institute of Historical Research)
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  The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
  by Ryan Tucker Jones. Red Leviathan
  University of Chicago Press, 2022 Illustrations. xvii + 269 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-0-226-62885-1
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  Red Leviathan, by Ryan Tucker Jones, is a well-researched and clearly written book of immense interest to scholars working in a variety of fields. Jones provides a detailed and insightful history of whaling in the Soviet (…)

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  Woodcut Print: In The Evening Tramcar (1953) | Chittoprasad

  28 May 2023
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  Music: My Darling Party Line | Bill Friedland and Joe Glazer

  28 May 2023

  Song ridicules the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939 and its support by American Communists. Performed by Bill Friedland and Joe Glazer. Play
  My Darling Party Line by Jack Ross https://youtu.be/Jl1r7E3e-ks

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, May 20, 2023

  20 May 2023

  * India: Crisis of Democracy or that of its Political Leadership? | Nilofar Suhrawardy
  * Ranajit Guha (1923-2023) and his Legacy | Karli Srinivasulu
  * Spring Time for Thai Democracy | Patawee Chotanan
  * The Menace of “National Socialism” | Max Nettlau

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream May 20, 2023

  20 May 2023

  Letter to the readers, Mainstream, May 20, 2023
  The two-term Narendra Modi Government at the center seems unstoppable in its zeal to use the central agencies under its command to turn the screws on its critics and make life tough for the opposition party-ruled states. Courts of law occasionally point out the dangers and try to set limits. The Police and the CBI continue to be at the beck and call of the Government, but one central agency that is frequently mentioned in this regard is the (…)

• India: Crisis of Democracy or that of its Political of Leadership? | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  20 May 2023, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  The coronation ceremony of King Charles III may also be viewed as an illustration of the importance the dress code holds for power-holders, whether monarchical or elected, together with the fascination it holds for people across the world and the extensive media coverage given to it. Undeniably, history stands witness to leaders at practically all levels, from Kings to revolutionaries, having always accorded great importance to promoting their images through their dresses and appearances as (…)

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  Ranajit Guha (1923-2023) and his Legacy | Karli Srinivasulu

  20 May 2023, by Karli Srinivasulu

  The publication of the first volume of Subaltern Studies in 1982 under the editorship of Ranajit Guha has been viewed as a major ‘turn’ in the modern Indian historiography. The publication of Guha’s The Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency the next year added theoretical gravity to this thus making him a formidable historian of ‘lower orders’ in colonial India. The fact that Subaltern Studies series with a new volume every year came to be earnestly looked forward to by scholars across (…)