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  Photo: Govt of India Notification of 1923 prohibited import of publications of International Working Men’s Association

  1 April 2023

  on 24 March 1923, the Government of India prohibited the import into India of any publications issued by the International Working Men’s Association

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  Audio: W.H. Auden Recites His 1937 Poem, ‘As I Walked Out One Evening

  1 April 2023

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  Wystan Hugh Auden - As I Walked Out One Evening (1937) by GhostOfRupertBrooke https://youtu.be/0q__Z185H8I

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  Music: Si tu vois ma mère (Slow) · Sidney Bechet by Claude Luter et Son Orchestre (1952)

  1 April 2023

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  Si tu vois ma mère (Slow) by Sidney Bechet - Topic https://youtu.be/NyDz4Okg-Hs

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Mar 25, 2023

  25 March 2023

  * India: Lurches Closer to “Opposition-Mukt Democracy”!? | Sukla Sen
  * Saffron Clad Babas in Orissa | Radhakanta Barik
  * Regenerating The Forest Ecosystem: Few Concerns | Suranjita Ray
  * Budgets 2023-24 of Punjab and Haryana | Sher Singh Sangwan
  * After Macron’s pension reform, all eyes on France’s trade unions | Michel Wieviorka

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Mar 25, 2023

  25 March 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 25, 2023
  Modi Government’s daily dose of ‘kitch’ self-advertising has gotten louder and bigger over the past eight years. The North Korean leader may soon be tempted to send his publicists to Delhi for a south-south cooperation agreement. Billboards with a photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Govt advertising sit atop practically every gas station, bus stop, trains station, airport, metro network, outside public toilets, and on paid frontpage (…)

• India: Lurches Closer to “Opposition-Mukt Democracy”!? | Sukla Sen

  25 March 2023, by Sukla Sen

  by Sukla Sen
  While all eyes were riveted on the unfolding tumultuous scenes in the ongoing Budget session of the Indian Parliament over the unrelenting opposition demands for a discussion on and a JPC probe into the Hindenburg report concerning Adani group of companies accusing the group of brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud — also specifically covering the alleged Modi-Adani nexus — and the persistent demands of the BJP MPs blocking proceedings in both the houses demanding (…)

• Budgets 2023-24 of Punjab and Haryana: High Temporary Loans from RBI - a Drag on Punjab Budget | Sher Singh Sangwan

  25 March 2023

  by Sher Singh Sangwan *
  The state of Punjab has projected total budget expenditure (BE) for 2023-24 at Rs 196452 crores compared to Rs183950 crores of Haryana. The increase in Punjab budget is 7 per cent while that of Haryana is 11.61 per cent over their RE of 2022-23. The highlighted 26 per cent growth in Punjab is over its previous year BE which has a little meaning. Out of this, interest expenditure will be Rs22000 crores in Punjab and Rs21250 crores in Haryana. In view size of (…)

• The upcoming 2023 Assembly Elections in Karnataka: Issues and possible outcome | P. S. Jayaramu

  25 March 2023

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  (23rd March 2023)
  The upcoming Legislative Assembly elections in Karnataka has kicked up lot of debate in the media and academia within the State if not at the national level. Newspapers and local television channels are devoting far too much space to cover the ensuing elections from the perspective of the Political Parties, the personalities involved, the role of caste and religion, including the ‘sermons’ being issued by Heads of important religious mutts. The focus (…)

• Modi government following Zia model to disenfranchise Rahul | Faraz Ahmad

  25 March 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  The residual Pakistan after its dismemberment and creation of Bangla Desh in 1971, held its first elections to the National Assembly sometime around March, 1977. The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on the lines of the Congress party in India, as the first elected Prime Minister, led the PPP under the 1973 Constitution, to a sweeping victory across the remaining four provinces of Pakistan, including numerically strong Punjab.
  The right-wing Opposition refused to (…)

• Regenerating The Forest Ecosystem: Few Concerns | Suranjita Ray

  25 March 2023, by Suranjita Ray

  As India enters a 25-year-long journey towards its centenary, policy makers must have greater responsibilities not only to enhance economic growth but also to ensure an inclusive and sustainable development. One of the major concerns is to prioritise the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which aim to promote sustainable agriculture, conservation and regeneration of forests, combating desertification, reversing land degradation and biodiversity loss, and sustainable use of oceans, seas, (…)