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  Editors Guild of India concerned over take down rules on ’Fake’ news

  21 January 2023

  The Editors Guild of India
  PRESS STATEMENT
  January 18th, 2023
  The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned by the draft amendment made to the Information Technology Rules, 2021, by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MEITY) that gives authority to the Press Information Bureau (PIB) to determine the veracity of news reports, and anything termed ‘fake’ will have to be taken down by online intermediaries, including social media platforms. The amendment was uploaded on the Ministry’s (…)

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  The Rafale Deal: A Chit on Our Conscience | Papri Sri Raman

  21 January 2023, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  BOOK REVIEW
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  The Rafale Deal-Flying Lies:
  The Role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India’s Biggest Defence Scandal
  by Ravi Nair & Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
  Publisher: Paranjoy
  Pages:560
  Price: Rs 795
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  IN 1987, VP SINGH, the ruling party’s Rajya Sabha leader and a sitting minister (who had held powerful portfolios like finance and defence) in a popularly elected government went around pointing to a chit in his pocket. My parliament reporter friends used to (…)

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  Review of Sainath’s The Last Heroes | KS Subramanian

  21 January 2023, by K S Subramanian

  Reviewed by KS Subramanian
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  The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom by P Sainath
  (Penguin India) 2022
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  The book is dedicated to the author’s mother whose stories of freedom fighters including those of her father who spent years in British jails inspired him. The author’s grandfather was VV Giri who became President of India after its independence.
  While at university, the author had learnt that almost all the major uprisings against the British had begun in the (…)

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  Valour and Distress in India-Pakistan Wars | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  21 January 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
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  1971, 1999 War Stories
  by Air Commodore Nitin Sathe
  Vitasta
  Pages: 223; Price: Rs 525
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  Air Commodore Jawahar Lal Bhargava survived Pakistani custody in the 1971 war because — believe it or not — he had a cricket coach who had helped him once play for the Ranji Trophy.
  Bhargava was flying an Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jet over Pakistan when it got hit by ground fire and he ejected using a parachute. He was captured after hitting the land.
  “Dalle nu (…)

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  Video: US biotech cartel behind Covid origins and cover-up | Jeffrey Sachs

  21 January 2023

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  Jeffrey Sachs: US biotech cartel behind Covid origins and cover-up by The Grayzone https://youtu.be/morj-3rdWwM

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  Our History, Their History or Whose History? | Lecture by Prof Romila Thapar

  21 January 2023

  Dr CD Deshmukh Memorial Lecture 2023 | 14 Jan 2023 held at IIC, New Delhi Play
  Dr. C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture 2023 by IIC Programmes https://youtu.be/DjyyezAoB80

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  Video: India - The Modi Question: Part 1 (BBC 2 documentary)

  21 January 2023
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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jan 14, 2023

  14 January 2023

  * China and India - as ’merchants of death’ | Sumanta Banerjee
  * The Multi-Billion Dollar Sports Money Machine | Kobad Ghandy
  * Destruction of Nature and Disneyfication of Himalayan Pilgimage Sites | Anon
  * Ukraine: Letter on behalf of the trolleybus drivers of Kharkiv | Vitaliy

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 14, 2023

  14 January 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 14, 2023
  Attacking Democracy Fashionable, After Assaults in Washington and Brasila, Where next?
  The Presidential elections in Brazil of October 2, 2022 were very hotly contested. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a leading figure on the Left, did finally win the election getting 50.90 percent of the vote and the losing candidate, the incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro representing the Far-Right camp getting a little over 49 percent. Both candidates had been (…)

• China and India - as ’merchants of death’ | Sumanta Banerjee

  14 January 2023, by Sumanta Banerjee

  China and India, while fighting with each other over their borders, have however recently become partners as ‘merchants of death’ in the global arena. While China has been accused of giving birth to a chemical that caused Covid-19 and exporting it all over the world, India on a minor scale has been found to be exporting pharmaceuticals that have led to the death of children in Gambia and Uzbekistan.
  The term ’merchants of death’ was originally used to describe the bankers and arms (…)