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  Photo: Dispute between Serra Pelada gold mine worker and military police in Brazil (1986) | Sebastiao Salgado

  25 February 2023
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  Music: Michel Blavet: Flute Sonata in D minor op. 2/2, "La Vibray"

  25 February 2023

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Feb 18, 2023

  17 February 2023

  * On the Legacies of Jawaharlal Nehru and Narendra Deva | Anil Nauriya
  * Paresh Chattopadhyay and his time | Pradip Baksi
  * Black days ahead if coal city does not change | Shatabdi Das
  * Low Budgets, Inequalities Impede Educational Progress | Bharat Dogra
  * Raid on BBC offices in India - Statements by the Editor’s Guild, CPI(M), CPI

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 18, 2023

  17 February 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 18, 2023
  Will Having More Makeup Artists Help?
  Starting Dec 2022 India assumed the rotating presidency of the G20 (group of 20 most industrialized countries in the world) and this sparked a big political marketing blitz inside the country. So where ever you go in New Delhi the city is plastered with huge billboards and posters with a logo for G20 on one side and on the other side it says ‘Mother of democracy to host G20’ in a supposed reference to (…)

• Rise and Fall of a ‘Growth King’ | Arup Kumar Sen

  17 February 2023, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Long back, two eminent Marxist thinkers, Harry Magdoff and Paul M Sweezy, observed how the massive growth of the financial sector, both absolutely and relative to the underlying productive sector, gave birth to speculative activity on an unprecedented scale. They also noted the dangers that lie ahead and the ineffectiveness of monetary authorities in this connection. (See Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy, Stagnation and the Financial Explosion, 1987)
  The recent financial crisis in India, (…)

• The Jawaharlal Nehru and Narendra Deva Legacies in the Socialist and National Movements in India: A Preliminary Exploration | Anil Nauriya

  17 February 2023, by Anil Nauriya

  Jawaharlal Nehru is an intrinsic part of the nationalist legacy of Indian freedom; nor can the Indian socialist legacy be defined or recalled by excluding him. And on inter-communal questions, which have a bearing on the very definition of India, Nehru’s record is par excellence and second only to that of Mahatma Gandhi.
  The massacre of unarmed civilians who had gathered for a protest meeting against the Rowlatt legislation at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, took place on 13 April 1919. (…)

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  Paresh Chattopadhyay and his time | Pradip Baksi

  17 February 2023

  by Pradip Baksi
  Paresh Chattopadhyay/Pareshda was born in Rudrakar of undivided Bengal. That place is now located within the Shariatpur district of Bangladesh. He died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  I had only one face to face encounter with him. It was sometime in 1966. I was then an enthusiastic supporter of the “Cultural Revolution” launched by Mao Zedong and some of his colleagues in Beijing and Shanghai. In those days Pareshda taught at the IIM, Calcutta and signed some of his (…)

• ‘The war is a plot’ - Conspiracies, detachment and confusion in Russia | Anna Matveeva

  17 February 2023

  by Anna Matveeva
  13 February 2023
  Almost a year in to the war in Ukraine, Russians seem to be seeking ways to distance themselves from the state
  The Russian public was unprepared for the invasion of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin felt no need to build any kind of patriotic momentum in society, apparently believing the war would be over within days. But now, as the war approaches its first anniversary, Russian citizens have had time to digest and react to this unprecedented situation. (…)

• Will China Ultimately Benefit from Russia-Ukraine War? | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  17 February 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  President Vladimir Putin probably thought – or was led to believe – that Russian forces would make mincemeat of Ukraine in no time. Unfortunately for him, it has turned out to be almost like the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. At least the Germans made great advances before the Russian winter and infrastructure bottlenecks forced them to pull back. In comparison, the Russian military has had much less success.
  As the first anniversary of the Russian blitzkrieg nears, Europe is wrapped (…)

• Continuity of Ukraine War: Diplomatic Lapse! | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  17 February 2023, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  Diplomatic Lapse specifically with reference to Ukraine-crisis appears to be deliberately indulged in as at least at present there seem to be so sign of this war coming to an end. Of course, a lot of importance is being accorded by so-called friends of Ukraine to help it with arms and weapons. This certainly is likely to help only in further prolonging the war. Ukraine is also keen to be included in the European Union and NATO, prospects of which happening at least in near future are not (…)