Mainstream WeeklyA Flower Blooms When did all the flowers bloom? Another season coming, Where did all the flowers go? Was it a long time ago? (l) How did all the flowers grow? Love tended every one, Whence will they ever grow? Can they be again be grown (2) Why do I feel so very alone? What will make me less forlorn? Will flowering, colours Do they in empathy also mourn? (3) Memory here in every stone No tears over-brim, Memory wind in Dylan blown The being’s drone, With time and med Better left (…)
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A Flower Blooms | Laxmi Rameshwar Rao
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Income Tax raids at the offices of BBC India | Statements by Editors Guild, and by Left parties
17 February 2023Statement by Editor’s Guild of India
The Editors Guild of India
PRESS STATEMENT
February 14th, 2023
The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned about the Income Tax surveys at the offices of BBC India. As per news reports, BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai were being “surveyed” by teams from the IT department on Tuesday, February 14, 2023.
This comes soon after the release of two documentaries by the BBC, on the 2002 violence in Gujarat and the current status of the minorities (…) -
Three blows to NREGA | NSM Press Release (Feb 16, 2023)
17 February 2023NREGA Sangharsh Morcha (NSM)
PRESS RELEASE
[February 16, 2022]
In the recent week, the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) has dealt three major, concerted blows to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA):
(1) The Budget allocation for NREGA was reduced to just Rs 60,000 crore in 2023-24 (less than Rs 50,000 crore if we deduct wage arrears from 2022-23). This makes this year’s allocation the lowest as a proportion of GDP (0.2%) in the history of the programme. (2) The (…) -
McVeigh Review of Pesic’s ’Sounding Bodies’
17 February 2023Reviewed by Bronwen McVeigh (University of Rochester)
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Sounding Bodies: Music and the Making of Biomedical Science by Peter Pesic
MIT Press
2022. 408 pp.
(paper), ISBN 978-0-262-04635-0
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Pythagoras’s acousmatic veil feels like an appropriate place to begin a review regarding the intimate connections between the seemingly disparate fields of biomedical and music history. According to the tale, frustrated Pythagoras opted to teach behind a sheath, believing that the (…) -
Caricature Tribute to Carlos Saura | Jayaraj Vellur
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Painting: End of Shift (1956) | John Wood
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Video: Former CIA Agent John Stockwell Talks about How the CIA Worked in Vietnam
17 February 2023Play
Former CIA Agent John Stockwell Talks about How the CIA Worked in Vietnam and Elsewhere by Witness to War https://youtu.be/NK1tfkESPVY -
Short film: The Bread and Alley - Abbas Kiarostami (1970)
17 February 2023https://vimeo.com/506877952
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Budget 2023-24: In Pursuit of Growth but stressful for Farmers | S S Sangwan
17 February 2023by Prof S S Sangwan *
Vision and Priorities
This Budget presented on February 1, 2023, by Hon’ble FM, at the outset clarifies that it hopes to “build on the foundation laid in the previous Budgets”. As per FM, the budget is the Vision for Amrit Kaal i.e next 25 years in which the economy will be technology-driven and knowledge-based with strong public finances and a financial sector. The Budget identifies the seven priorities viz., Inclusive Development, Reaching the Last Mile, (…) -
Table of Contents - Mainstream, Feb 11, 2023
10 February 2023* India 75 Years of Republic - Rise of Sectarian Nationalism | Ram Puniyani
* Pathan the blockbuster movie fuels jingoism | Jawed Naqvi
* Union Budget 2023-24 & its Underlying Strategy | Arun Kumar
* Remembering Martin Luther King’s trip to India | Archishman Raju
* Intimate Authoritarianism | Lee Shevek