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  Music: Conny and the Bellhops - Bop Sticks (1960)

  14 January 2023

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jan 7, 2023

  7 January 2023

  * Awards Drama in Maharashtra | Kobad Ghandy
  * Mobilisation and right to the city | Prachy Hooda
  * Rammohan Roy on 250th Birth Anniversary | Jayanta Kumar Ghosal
  * Mysterious missing pages of Babarnama | Sankar Ray

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 7, 2023

  7 January 2023

  Letter to the Readers Mainstream, 7 Jan 2023
  In the past days the media has reported on a crisis situation in the mountain town of Joshimath in the Chamoli district in Uttarakhand state in the North of India. Shifting and sinking of ground beneath the surface has caused considerable damage, hundreds of homes, public buildings, temples and roads have become danger prone having developed major cracks and fissures in walls, roofs and in the ground. There have been protests from the affected (…)

• Awards Drama in Maharashtra | Kobad Ghandy

  7 January 2023, by Kobad Ghandy

  The government’s Marathi language department on December 6 announced the Yashwantrao Chavan Literature Award 2021 to Anagha Lele for her translation of Kobad Ghandy’s book ‘Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir’. 33 awardees were announced on that day and the translation of Fractured Freedom was chosen for the Tarktirth Laxmanshashastri Joshi Puraskar. The book was published by Lokwangmay Gruha.
  The next day, Deepak Kesarkar, minister in charge of the department, stated that he would (…)

• Anjali Singh’s death is not a simple hit and run accident case | Faraz Ahmad

  7 January 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  Sanjeev Nanda the grandson of former Indian Navy chief Admiral S.M. Nanda and son of well known Arms dealer Suresh Nanda drove his brand new BMW not even registered yet through the police barricade at Lodhi Road in the early hours of 10 January, 1999 at a reported speed of 140 kilometres killing six people, mostly policemen on security duty manning the police checkpost. After years of to and fro in Delhi courts he was finally awarded only two years of imprisonment for rash and negligent (…)

• Mobilisation and right to the city: Analysing collective action of Indian farmers through Lefebvre’s lens | Prachy Hooda

  7 January 2023

  by Prachy Hooda *
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  The article seeks to undertake a review of literature related to the idea of the right to the city that first emerged in the works of twentieth century French Marxist scholar Henri Lefebvre and the ways in which the concept has been used to analyze social movements and mobilisation processes. The catchphrase of ‘the right to the city’ has been appreciated for its potential for a renewed urban democracy. It seems useful since it helps us envision a more (…)

• Rammohan Roy on 250th Birth Anniversary | Jayanta Kumar Ghosal

  7 January 2023

  by Jayanta Kumar Ghosal *
  In the year of 250th birth anniversary of Raja Rammohan Roy, the inaugurator of Modern Age in India, we remember the ‘Luminous Star’ who through the dynamic power of his personality and ‘his uncompromising freedom of the spirit’ became the path maker of this country removing the obstacles on the way of our progress at every step and placed us in the path of world wide co-operation of humanity. He was the only person in his time, in our country, to realise (…)

• Mahatma Gandhi’s Vow of Fearlessness Getting Reflected in Rahul Gandhi’s Appeal to People to Shed Fear | S N Sahu

  7 January 2023, by S N Sahu

  While spearheading Bharat Jod Yatra (BJY) and undertaking the arduous journey on foot from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, Rahul Gandhi, apart from stressing the objectives of BJY, among others, to unify India by countering hatred has been recurrently telling people, "Daro Mat”, (Do not be afraid of ) and act fearlessly to defeat politics of divisiveness and intolerance . He is exhorting lakhs of people spontaneously joining the BJY with abounding enthusiasm that they should get rid of fear. His (…)

• Recent Pandemic Debates Emphasize Careful Review of All Evidence in Policy | Bharat Dogra

  7 January 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  While health policy makers need to be guided by careful evidence-based approach in all times, this need has increased all the more in recent times due to two important factors. Firstly, of course there are the pandemic related factors. Secondly, there is the rapid increase in the dominance of the profit motive in health sector. Although in India the economic discourse has been dominated more by the Adani-Ambani discussion, it is in the health sector (which ideally should be the sector which (…)

• Understanding Bollywood Boycotts | Ahmed Raza

  7 January 2023

  by Ahmed Raza *
  EVER SINCE THE film Pathaan’s song ‘Besharam Rang’ has been released, a call for boycotting the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer has been doing the rounds on social media in India. This is nothing new. Shah Rukh has come back to films after a five-year hiatus looking sleeker than either Aamir or Akashay, all in their post-50s and contemporaries, even younger-looking than Salman who makes a cameo appearance in this film.
  Every time a big Bollywood star comes with a new film, the (…)