Mainstream WeeklyThe former president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, popularly known as Lula, has won the country’s presidential election by an incredibly narrow margin of 50.90% of the vote against his right-wing rival and incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro’s 49.10%.
When Lula stepped down as president in 2010, he was enjoying the approval of 80% of the Brazilian people. How Lula came to lose his carisma makes a complicated story. He attributed it entirely to the ground reality that he was fighting (…)
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Lula never left Brazil’s centre stage | M K Bhadrakumar
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All India Kisan Sabha on GM Mustard - Press Release Oct 31, 2022
4 November 2022All India Kisan Sabha
kisansabha[at]gmail.com, New Delhi-1
Press Release 31.10.2022
News reports have misrepresented comments of AIKS General Secretary Hannan Mollah on GM Mustard and given an impression that the All India Kisan Sabha is welcoming the GEAC decision. These reports have wrongly conveyed an impression that AIKS is in a tearing hurry to welcome GM Mustard.
The AIKS has noted that the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) has given a green signal to production (…) -
India: Statement by DIGIPUB on police searches on the homes of the editors of The Wire (Nov 1, 2022)
4 November 2022DIGIPUB News India Foundation
DIGIPUB’s statement on police searches on the homes of the editors and a reporter of The Wire
On 31 October 2022, the Delhi Police searched the homes of The Wire’s editors Siddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu, Sidharth Bhatia, and Jahnavi Sen, and their office, searching for and seizing laptops, mobile phones and other electronic devices.
The searches took place two days after Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Amit Malviya lodged a complaint against them based (…) -
Police Searches at homes of editors of the Wire - Statement By Editors Guild
4 November 2022The Editors Guild of India
PRESS STATEMENT
November 2nd, 2022
The Editors Guild of India is extremely disturbed by the manner in which Delhi Police Crime Branch carried out search and seizures at the homes of founding editors and senior editors of the Wire, as well as their office and the newsroom in Delhi, on October 31, 2022.
The searches were carried out in a follow up to a First Information Report (FIR), registered in response to a complaint filed on October 29th, by the BJP (…) -
India: Letter to Chief Election Commissioner by Gujarat President of Socialist Party (India) [Nov 2, 2022]
4 November 2022Socialist Party (India)
Dated: 2 November, 2022
To: Chief Election Commissioner Nirvachan Sadan New Delhi
Subject: Socialist Party (India) not allowed to take out padyatra on the issue of Bilkis Bano in Gujarat whereas Bhartiya Janata Party trying to take advantage of communal polarization by releasing the convicts.
Respected Sir,
(1) When Socialist Party (India) tried to organize a padyatra from Randhikpur in Dahod district to Ahmedabad between 26 (…) -
CPI Demands Withdrawal of Case Filed against Annie Raja
4 November 2022New Delhi,
Communist Party of India
November 2, 2022
Press Release
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on November 2, 2022) demanding the withdrawal of the case filed against CPI National Executive member and general secretary of National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) Annie Raja:
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India deplores the case filed against CPI National Executive member and NFIW general (…) -
Review: Bangalore’s Street-Based Sex Workers - Experiences of Urban Transition | Deepti Priya Mehrotra
4 November 2022, by Deepti Priya MehrotraBOOK REVIEW
Review by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
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Urban Undesirables: City Transition and Street-Based Sex Work in Bangalore By Neethi P. and Anant Kamath
Cambridge University Press, New Delhi 2022, Pages 211, Hard Bound, Price 895.00 ISBN: 9781009180214 __0__
This book seeks to redraw the map of Bangalore, based on the experiences of street-based sex workers—so that we begin to see the city through their eyes. Their livelihoods rendered increasingly precarious due to neo-liberal (…) -
Hiner on Keiser’s ’Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience’
4 November 2022Reviewed by Amanda Hiner (Winthrop University)
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Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience by Jess Keiser
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press
2020. 324 pp
(e-book), ISBN 978-0-8139-4479-1 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4478-4 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4477-7
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Cognitive literary studies is a dynamic and growing field of academic research that explores intersections between cognitive science and literary texts and their production. (…) -
Photo: Ernö Vadas - Factory, Budapest, Hungary (1955)
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Music: Wes Montgomery - Here’s That Rainy Day - Live London 1965
4 November 2022Stan Tracey (piano) Wes Montgomery (guitar) Rick Laird (bass) Jackie Dougan (drums)
Television broadcast, "Tempo", ABC TV, London, England, May 7, 1965 Play
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