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  Lithograph: Newspaper Boys - Chittaprosad

  29 October 2022
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  Caricature - Tribute to Mike Davis | Jayaraj Vellur

  29 October 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Audio: Laleh Khalili on Sinews of War and Trade - Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula | The Dig - April 30, 2021

  29 October 2022

  on the colonial roots of contemporary maritime trade, Aden dock worker radicals, why Dubai is not exceptional, the impacts of steam engines and containerization—and so much more

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  Music: Angelo Debarre - Inquiétude (1989)

  29 October 2022

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  Inquietude by Angelo Debarre - Topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8MhNukcb_Y

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Oct 22, 2022

  21 October 2022

  * Experiences of Women Naxals from Odisha & AP | Barik & Nanda
  * Who feels Guilty? | Subhash Gatade
  * Unemployment Report Summary | Arun Kumar

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 22, 2022

  21 October 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 22, 2022
  The Congress Party which emerged out of the National Freedom movement has a long history of choosing consensus candidates for the post of its President and a real contest in internal elections for top leadership have been rare. In the past decade and more Sonia Gandhi has been its President. Rahul Gandhi had been elected President in late 2017 but he decided to resign after in July 2019 and since then the party has not had a permanent head. (…)

• Thinking Gandhi and Democracy in India | Wani & Naik

  21 October 2022

  by Gull Mohammad Wani and Ouffee Maqbool Naik
  Mahatma Gandhi after his return from South Africa was advised by Gopal Krishan Gokhale to undertake a Padyatra and meet people of all castes and communities keep the "mouth closed" and let people speak and don’t lecture them for you cannot have answers to many of their questions. The common people have a lot to tell you". Bapu as he was commonly called abided by it and moved in the length and breadth of India and thus became the (…)

• Living Experiences of Women Naxals from Odisha & AP | Barik & Nanda

  21 October 2022, by Radhakanta Barik

  by Radhakanta Barik & Manas Ranjan Nanda *
  SOCIETY IN THE east coast State of Odisha is split longitudinally into Peasant and Tribal society. Both are agrarian in nature. The State has a 450 km-long coastline and populations all along the coast from north to south farm fish. Where the Daya river falls into the sea, the lagoon spreads over three districts around Puri and forms a brackish water lake, known as Chilka lake which yields a rich harvest of fish. More than a hundred kinds of (…)

• Who feels Guilty? | Subhash Gatade

  21 October 2022

  "That which has happened is a warning. To forget it is guilt. It must be continually remembered. It was possible for this to happen, and it remains possible for it to happen again at any minute. Only in knowledge can it be prevented." — Karl Jasper ín the BBC Documentary Series ’The Nazis : A Warning from History’
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  "Are the German People guilty?”
  It was the year 1945, the Nazi government had hardly exited the scene, when Karl Jasper, then a Professor at Heidelberg University, Germany (…)

• Navigating the transgender community: education policy as a tool for inclusion in Karnataka | Anushka Singh Parihar

  21 October 2022

  by Anushka Singh Parihar *
  Summary:
  This policy brief aims to bring light to the current issues regarding the education of the transgender community. In 2021 Karnataka became the first state in India to provide 1% reservation to the transgender community in several government sectors but the issue surrounding their education remains unaddressed. If we take the 2011 census data into consideration there are more than a twenty thousand people who openly identify as transgender but only half (…)