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  Music: Michel Camilo & Tito Puente at Festival International de Jazz de Montreal

  4 February 2023

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  Festival Internacional de Jazz de Montreal Michel Camilo & Tito Puente. by John Ospina https://youtu.be/4PLyHrED0as
  Michael Camilo piano
  Gerry González conga
  Mario Rivera flute
  Johnny dandy Rodríguez guiro
  Jimmy Frisaura trombone
  Bobby Rodríguez bass
  Edgardo Miranda guitar
  Tito Puente !!!!!!

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jan 21 & Jan 28, 2023

  21 January 2023

  * Message from Women Wrestlers Fighting Sexual Harassment is Get up and Stand up for your rights!
  * How riots formed Kolkata’s ghettos | Samaddar & Bandyopadhyay
  * Kerala Peoples Plan & Hegemony of the Left-front | Chathukulam & Joseph
  * Digital gaming market and rising health crisis | Geeta Sinha
  * Modi Govt’s Big Hydrogen Programme Poses Many Crucial Questions | Prabir Purkayastha
  * The Rafael Deal: A Chit on Our Conscience | Papri Sri Raman

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 21 & Jan 28, 2023

  21 January 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 21 & 28, 2023
  The Message from Women Wrestlers Fighting Sexual Harassment is Get up and Stand up for your rights!
  The past few days in Delhi saw an unusual protest over sexual harassment led by women wrestlers of India of national and international acclaim, many of them gold medalists with considerable popular appeal. The wrestlers’ protest was against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brijbhushan Sharan Singh and several (…)

• Salvaging Gandhi and Ambedkar’s Vision of the Republic to Safeguard the Constitution | S N Sahu

  21 January 2023, by S N Sahu

  While celebrating the 73rd anniversary of the Republic of India it is important to be mindful that leaders of freedom struggle while struggling to make our country free from British rule demanded the establishment of a Republic. Their arduous exertions eventually got fructified on 26th January 1950 when the Constitution came into force.
  Republic as Birth Right
  Lokmanya Tilak’s clarion call that “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it” is fairly well known. In fact it is lesser (…)

• The Republic of the Constitution and Modi’s India | D Raja

  21 January 2023, by D Raja

  When the Indian republic inaugurated itself on the 26th of January 1950, it was a major historic transformation in our nation’s journey towards the emancipation of its masses. After getting itself free from colonial clutches, India embarked on a journey of building a society that our freedom fighters sacrificed their lives for. That society was to build on the premise of liberty, equality, fraternity and justice as enshrined in the Preamble of our Constitution. The enactment of the (…)

• Will the BBC serial and Hindenburg disclosure affect Modi’s G20 profile? | Faraz Ahmad

  21 January 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  Much as Modi Bhakts and the Godi media may try to dismiss the two-part BBC serial on ‘Modi question’ as nothing more than condescending western propaganda against the Indian Prime Minister and implicit western interference in sovereign India’s internal affairs, fact of the matter, it seems to have woken up Hindu Hriday Samrat, Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi to repair his profile for the foreign audience.
  The BBC serial, most of which is irrefutable and fully substantiated by instances it has (…)

• Power, Corruption and Abuse In Indian Sports | Kobad Ghandy

  21 January 2023, by Kobad Ghandy

  We have already seen in an earlier article that sports is big business. In India it is not only that, but extremely political with top politicians or their close relatives dominating the lucrative bodies like cricket, wrestling, tennis, boxing, etc.
  Sports is big time politics in India. Jay Shah, son of home minister Amit Shah, is Honorary Secretary, BCCI and was elected as the President of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) following its AGM held virtually. Ten years president of the (…)

• Basic Structure has saved the Constitution and Democracy | Vijay Kumar

  21 January 2023, by Vijay Kumar

  The Vice-President, Jagdeep Dhankar, has done it again. He started by joining law minister, in his daily bout of criticism of Collegium system ever since the swearing in of the Justice D Y Chandrachud as a chief justice of India, in his inaugural address as a Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. He, in his well-orchestrated stratagem, in conference of speaker in Jaipur, made full-frontal attack on the theory of basic structure enunciated by the larger ever bench of 13 Judges of the Supreme Court in (…)

• Political and Administrative Hegemony of Left Democratic Front in Kerala in Policy Making and Policy Implementation with special reference to People’s Plan Campaign | Jos Chathukulam and Manasi Joseph

  21 January 2023, by Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph

  Abstract
  This paper closely looks into the association between the political and administrative hegemony and policy making and policy implementation process.To establish this association, the paper offers an empirical evidence from the state of Kerala by critically reviewing the political hegemony of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) over the People’s Plan Campaign (PPC) and how it helped them to capture local governments in the state. It also looks into the political hegemony of the LDF and (…)

• Is Bachchan show Kaun Banega Crorepati perpetuating a Hindutva mindset? | Radhakanta Barik

  21 January 2023, by Radhakanta Barik

  by Prof Radhakanta Barik *
  KAUN BANEGA CROREPATI (KBC), the Indian version of the American TV show, ‘Who Will be Millionaire’ has run for long years. It started in July 2000, has had fourteen seasons and 1,027 episodes. In current times, the immensely popular KBC appears to be tailored to a broad framework of conservative ideology in sync with a Hindutva worldview. The show-makers present as given the belief in Hindu religious tenets (of karma and dharma) in life. Those who do karma get (…)