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  Video: Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, Joseph Mankiewicz, James Baldwin and David Schoenbrun discuss the Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963

  29 April 2023

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  Hollywood Roundtable (1963) by US National Archives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u27coFlGXg

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Apr 22, 2023

  22 April 2023

  * Does ‘Justice’ Come from the Barrel of a Gun? | Arup Kumar Sen
  * Atiq Murder and SP Malik Revelations | Arun Srivastava
  * Ticket Distribution by Parties in Karnataka Elections | P S Jayaramu
  * Does NHI Truly Measure Health Status | Chathukulam, Joseph & Buch
  * student suicides

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Apr 22, 2023

  22 April 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 22, 2023
  Playing the ‘Rules’
  The Modi-led BJP Government is hard at work using the state machine to protect allies and friends and go after critics, fix public opinion via the news machines, censor out uncomfortable news, and influence the legal process to whitewash and clear names of those ideological buddies of the Hindutva spectrum who had been booked for crimes . . . ; to alter history books with the Mughal period of our History —all marked (…)

• Does ‘Justice’ Come from the Barrel of a Gun? | Arup Kumar Sen

  22 April 2023, by Arup Kumar Sen

  On April 15, 2023, former Samajwadi Party MP and alleged gangster Atiq Ahmad (65) and his brother Ashraf (52) were shot dead by gunmen at close range in Allahabad (now Prayagraj), as the Uttar Pradesh police was escorting them to a hospital for a medical check-up. The whole shootout was captured live on television with the two brothers answering questions being posed by reporters. Reportedly, the shooting took place in front of at least two dozen armed policemen, and the police allowed the (…)

• Atiq’s Live TV assassination in UP Gets Big, Displacing Satyapal Malik’s Pulwama Revelations to the Background - Who Gained? Will We Know the Truth? | Arun Srivastava

  22 April 2023, by Arun Srivastava

  by Arun Srivastava
  Notwithstanding the week-old assurance from India’s home minister Amit Shah to the delegation of Muslim leaders led by Mahmood Madani, president, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind that prompt action would be taken against the perpetrators of violence on the Muslims, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, was quite ebullient at the assassination of two famous gangsters from UP, Atiq, and Ashraf and even went up to claiming that no mafia can spread terror in Uttar Pradesh and (…)

• Who would unravel the conspiracy behind Atiq’s killing? | Faraz Ahmad

  22 April 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  “Mafia, who were a threat earlier, are themselves facing threat” announced Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath proudly, smacking his lips with tremendous confidence and satisfaction, on the third day after former Samajwadi Party MP and a presumed mafia don of Allahabad was shot dead, handcuffed in police custody along with his brother Ashraf in a similar state alongside, accompanied by a police contingent, by three young men. According to a prominent English daily, the UP Chief (…)

• 2023 Karnataka Assembly Elections: Handling of ticket distribution by the Parties | P. S. Jayaramu

  22 April 2023, by P S Jayaramu

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  (18th April,2023)
  As the election fever gathers momentum, we need to recognise the fact that though the contest is largely bipolar between the ruling BJP and the Congress Party; the third player the Janata Dal (S ) can not be ignored which in essence has made the battle tripolar or bipolar plus, if we can describe it that way. I will return to this theme later.
  First let me address the issue of selection of candidates by the BJP. Lending legitimacy to the fact that (…)

• Does the National Health Index Truly Measure the Health Status? | Chathukulam, Joseph & Buch

  22 April 2023, by Jos Chathukulam, Krishnakant Buch, Manasi Joseph

  Abstract
  This paper critically looks into the strengths and weakness of the NITI Aayog’s National Health Index. It also reflects on why India needs a Comprehensive Health Index in the post-pandemic world.
  Introduction
  India has made improvement in terms of life expectancy, in reducing fertility rate, maternal mortality rate (MMR), infant mortality rate (IMR), under five mortality rate (U5MR) over the years. However, taking into India’s commitment towards Sustainable Development Goals (…)

• Student Suicides in India | Sonu Chauhan

  22 April 2023

  by Sonu Chauhan *
  According to World Health Organization (WHO) data, every year, more than 700,000 people commit suicide worldwide, and around 77 per cent of the suicide cases are reported in low and middle-income countries. The most common causes of suicides are depression, illness, pain, stress, alcoholism, financial crisis, family issues etc. The number of suicides and their causes differ according to geographical locations, economic conditions, social and cultural status, age groups, (…)

• How India continues to punish those who attempt suicide | Fernandes & Pathare

  22 April 2023

  by Tanya Nicole Fernandes and Dr Soumitra Pathare *
  April 17, 2023
  Despite having the law on their side, people who attempted suicide in India are continually harassed by authorities and don’t receive appropriate help.
  Content warning: This article discusses sensitive topics such as suicide that some readers may find distressing.
  Early one Sunday morning, Latha (not her real name) and her husband were woken by police at their door demanding she accompany them to the local station. (…)