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  Arbitrary suspension of social media accounts of several journalists and media organisations | Statement by Editors Guild (April 3, 2023) in Punjab

  8 April 2023

  The Editors Guild of India
  PRESS STATEMENT
  3rd April, 2023
  The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned about the arbitrary suspension of social media accounts of several journalists and media organisations in Punjab over the last few days. The official Twitter account of BBC Punjabi was withheld on March 27, though it was restored later in the day. Similarly, social media accounts of a senior staffer at the Indian Express as well as some other prominent journalists were also (…)

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  Statement by Concerned Historians on the Recent Changes Made by the NCERT in School Textbooks (April 7, 2023)

  8 April 2023

  Date: 07.04.2023
  The recent decision of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to drop entire chapters from the history textbooks for class 12, as well as from other classes and to delete statements from other textbooks is a matter of deep concern. Using the period of the pandemic-cum-lockdowns to argue that there was a need to lighten the load of the curriculum, the NCERT initiated a contentious process of dropping topics like the history of the Mughal courts, (…)

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  Reverse Deletions in NCERT Text Books - Statement from CPI (M)

  8 April 2023

  Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  Date: April 6, 2023
  The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
  The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the efforts by the government to change the syllabus of history through the NCERT text books.
  The NCERT chief’s specious argument that this has been done to rationalize the syllabus and reduce the burden on the students is totally misleading and is part of a (…)

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  Solidarity with the ongoing struggle for justice & accountability in Joshimath! - Statement by Campaign To Defend Nature And People

  8 April 2023

  Not natural but development policy-induced disasters in the Himalaya!
  Solidarity with the ongoing struggle for justice and accountability in Joshimath!
  A call for a campaign to defend nature and people from destructive development!
  Towards an ecosystem-based human rights approach to development!
  We as representatives of diverse social and environmental groups from across the country express grief and concern for the people of Joshimath, facing forced displacement from their homes in (…)

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  Maruti Suzuki Workers’ Struggle: Inside Stories | Deepti Priya Mehrotra

  8 April 2023, by Deepti Priya Mehrotra

  BOOK REVIEW
  by Deepti Mehrotra __0__
  Japanese Management, Indian Resistance: The Struggles of the Maruti Suzuki Workers By Anjali Deshpande and Nandita Haksar
  Speaking Tiger, Harper Collins https://speakingtigerbooks.com/ 2023 / 366 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354474446 | ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354474446 __0__
  Real Stories: Behind the scenes
  Maruti Suzuki workers have been in the public eye, largely due to the death of a manager, on 18 July 2012. Worker-management tension seemed to snowball (…)

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  The Art of Collecting Priceless Books | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  8 April 2023

  BOOK REVIEW The Book Beautiful: A Memoir of Collecting Rare and Fine Books
  by Pradeep Sebastian
  Hachette India Pages: 306; Price: Rs 699
  Bengaluru-based Pradeep Sebastian would have remained a simple bibliophile who venerated bookshops all his life until he began came across books the likes of which he had never seen or handled earlier. And so was born, around 2015, a no-doubt costly but immensely satisfying hobby of chasing and collecting rare and fine books in a (…)

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  Photo: Brick making women worker at Rajasthan canal (1989) | Sebatiao Salgado

  8 April 2023
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  Caricature - Tribute to Suneet Chopra | Jayaraj Vellur

  8 April 2023, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Music: The Click Song (1960) | Miriam Makeba

  8 April 2023

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  The Click Song by Miriam Makeba - Topic https://youtu.be/H65t14JqNGo

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  Video: Mission Mind Control (1979) | ABC News

  8 April 2023

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  Mission Mind Control (1979) | feat James Thornwell MKULTRA by Reelblack One https://youtu.be/OxFxLWaTNAM