Mainstream WeeklyRadical Socialist (RS) strongly opposes the SC judgement upholding the BJP government’s policy proposal to enable 10% quota reservations for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in Central government public sector employment and for access in its higher educational institutions. This judgement further enables state governments to do the same if they wish. Given that a host of non-BJP parties---one of the few exceptions being the DMK---have welcomed this judgement, the states they rule will try (…)
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Radical Socialist Statement on the Legalisation of the EWS Quota
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CPI Press Release - Refer SC Verdict on Reservation for EWS to Full Bench
12 November 2022Communist Party of India Central Office New Delhi
November 8, 2022
Press Release
Refer SC Verdict on Reservation for EWS to Full Bench: CPI
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on November 8, 2022):
The Supreme Court judgment upholding 10 per cent reservation for EWS category by a five-member bench with three upholding and two expressing dissent has raised several questions regarding the very policy of reservations. (…) -
Selective Tragetting of Media by Governor of Kerala - Statement by Editors Guild
12 November 2022The Editors Guild of India
PRESS STATEMENT
November 8th, 2022
The Editors Guild of India takes strong exception to the arbitrary act by the Governor of Kerela, Mr. Arif Mohammad Khan, of expelling journalists of two news channels from a press conference that was organised in Kochi on November 7, 2022.
Mr. Khan expelled journalists of news channels Kairali TV and MediaOne TV from the press briefing and started interacting with the media only after the representatives of the two (…) -
A White Woman’s Secret War for South Africa | M.R. Narayan Swamy
12 November 2022, by M R Narayan SwamyThe Unlikely Secret Agent
by Ronnie Kasrils
Monthly Review Press Pages: 183 Price: $14.95 Paperback ISBN: 9781583672778 eBook ISBN: 9781583672792
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She could have led a privileged life as a white during the apartheid regime but she chose to risk everything to plunge into the struggle to build a new South Africa. She had a frail look but the soft-spoken, dainty woman had the heart of a lion. This gripping book is a well-deserved tribute to Eleanor Kasrils, written with love by her (…) -
Review: Ramesh on Dewan’s Misreading the Bengal Delta
12 November 2022Book reveiw by Aditya Ramesh*
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Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh
by Camelia Dewan
University of Washington Press 2021. Illustrations, maps, tables. 254 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-0-295-74960-0; $30.00 (paper) ISBN 978-0-295-74961-7.
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Frequent headlines emanating from South Asia on extreme weather events are now unmissable, for example, Pakistan’s devastating floods, with some sources estimating a third of the (…) -
Photo: Luís Inácio Lula da Silva by Jesus Carlos, May 1, 1981
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Photo: Memorial for refugees of Spanish Civil War at the Rivesaltes internment camp
12 November 2022Following the Retirada (the exodus of about half a million refugees from Spain to France in early 1939 during the Spanish Civil War), the French government decided to use Camp de Rivesaltes also known as the Camp Joffre to intern more than 15,000 Catalan refugees. The military camp was built in 1938, a few miles from Perpignan in Rivesaltes. Gradually, the Joffre camp became a place of internment for families of war refugees of the second world war and later for the Algerian war refugees and (…)
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Video: The truth about hydrogen | DW
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The truth about hydrogen by DW Planet A https://youtu.be/AGTjKJHu99c -
Video: Paris 1919 Directed by Paul Cowan (2008)
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Table of Contents - Mainstream, Nov 5, 2022
4 November 2022* Review of Study on Bangalore’s Street Sex Workers | Deepti Priya Mehrotra
* Struggles in Southasia raised at 4th Asma Jahangir Conference | Abdullah Zahid with Beena Sarwar
* Far right: The significance of an umbrella concept | Andrea L P Pirro