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  Painting: Indian Village Rajasthan, 1977 | Françoise Gilot

  13 May 2023
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  Audio: Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish in QUOTOMANIA 324

  13 May 2023

  Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish was born in al-Birwa in Galilee, a village that was occupied and later razed by the Israeli army. Because they had missed the official Israeli census, Darwish and his family were considered “internal refugees” or “present-absent aliens.”

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  Music: Mais Que Nada · Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66

  13 May 2023

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  Mais Que Nada by Sergio Mendes - Topic https://youtu.be/30IePC8c99g

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Apr 29 & May 6, 2023

  29 April 2023

  * Re-imagining Social Justice Politics in India Today | K Srinivasulu
  * Struggle of Women Wrestlers Against Sexual Harassment Needs Wider Support | Bharat Dogra [13383]
  * Rahul, a hero in the fight against Modi’s communal politics | Radhakanta Barik
  * Sudan: Violence between army and militia is destroying Africa | Paul Jackson

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Apr 29 & May 6, 2023

  29 April 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 29, & May 6 2023
  Brazen Abuse of Powers to Protect Those on the Right Side of the Fence
  There is a recurring cycle of immunity and protection enjoyed by people seen to be on the right side of the ruling party & Government circles. So, those politico-religious figures who delivered hateful sermons and attempted to instigate violence in the past few years, have not been or hardly been moved against, despite repeated calls from civil society. (…)

• Re-imagining Social Justice Politics in India Today: Idea, Promise and Practice | K Srinivasulu

  29 April 2023, by Karli Srinivasulu

  With the formation of the All India Federation for Social Justice (AIFSJ) at the initiative of DMK Chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, MK Stalin last year and convening of its conference in the first week of April 2023 in Chennai and the promise of regular conferences of the forum, the idea of Social Justice seems to have come back to the centre of Indian social, political and electoral discourse. Though what social justice means and what its character would be and ought to be in the (…)

• The Saga of Satya Pal Malik | Arup Kumar Sen

  29 April 2023, by Arup Kumar Sen

  by Arup Kumar Sen
  Whatever may be the rights and obligations of the governor prescribed in the Indian Constitution, post-colonial India has a long tradition of governors acting uncritically according to the will of the central government. There are plenty of such instances. Satya Pal Malik is no exception in this regard. Manu Sebastian of Live law observed in November 2018: “After Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Karnataka, yet another instance of abuse of Constitutional power by a (…)

• Why Struggle of Women Wrestlers Against Sexual Harassment Needs Wider Support | Bharat Dogra

  29 April 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  Several leading women wrestlers of India have been in the thick of a struggle against sexual harassment since the beginning of this year. They have been helped by some male wrestler colleagues as well. Although these wrestlers of both genders include those who have won several honors and medals at the international level, their struggle against powerful, politically very well-connected officials of wrestling organizations, accused of sexual harassment or colluding in it, is proving to be a (…)

• Rahul, a hero in the fight against Modi’s communal politics | Radhakanta Barik

  29 April 2023, by Radhakanta Barik

  Mahatma Gandhi had an imagination — where he finds the transformation of a society into a modern society. Jawaharlal Nehru and other national leaders started carrying that imagination forward. They articulated their imagination through a progressive constitution of free India, drafted by Ambedkar. A constitutional democracy worked out a political project of creating a modern society. In a country where political leadership is a matter of inheritance, as Nehru’s heir, Rahul Gandhi, as a (…)

• 2023 Karnataka Assembly Elections: Issues and campaign strategies | P. S. Jayaramu

  29 April 2023, by P S Jayaramu

  2nd May, 2023
  Electoral fever in Karnataka is reaching a high voltage point with the principal campaigners in all the three contesting Political Parties becoming hyperactive. Elections are often described as the festival of democracy. Yes, it appears like a festival if one looks at the banners and the head gears leaders sport. But, If we go by the negative and highly personalised attacks by senior leaders of Parties against their adverseries, what we see is the ill-will and rancour they (…)