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  Demise of jailed Kashmiri leader Altaf Shah - PIPFPD Statement (Oct 11, 2022)

  15 October 2022

  Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace & Democracy
  11th October 2022
  Annihilation of Human Rights in Indian Jails: the Demise of Mr. Altaf Shah
  The unfortunate and avoidable demise of jailed Kashmiri leader Altaf Shah is really shocking, sad and speaks volumes about the continued insensitivity of the Indian Govt towards political prisoners. Despite an SC order to get him shifted from RML to AIIMS for renal cancer treatment, the Govt delayed this and killed the possibility of any (…)

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  Book Review: Can India’s public universities be remodelled? | P.S. Jayaramu

  15 October 2022, by P S Jayaramu

  Reviewd by P.S. Jayaramu
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  Remodelling the Universities:
  Meeting Challenges of the 21st Century
  by Srinivas K. Saidapur
  (New Delhi, Atlantic Publishers, 2022, Pages189, Hard Bound, Price Rs. 795)
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  (30th September, 2022)
  The author of this book Dr. Srinivas K. Saidapur is a well known Scientist, thinker and educational administrator, having served Karnatak University, Dharwad, for long years as Professor of Zoology and Vice Chancellor. He is the recipient of many (…)

• A Discourse on Authoritarian Populism | Arup Kumar Sen

  15 October 2022, by Arup Kumar Sen

  In his preface to a recent collection of articles on ‘Authoritarian Populism’, Douglas Kellner observed: “Since the Brexit referendum in U. K., the election of Donald Trump in the 2016 U. S. election, and the rise of right-wing populist movements throughout the globe, there has been intense focus on authoritarian populism on a global scale…Trump has neither the well-articulated party apparatus, nor the full-blown ideology of the Nazis, and thus more resembles the phenomena of authoritarian (…)

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  Nehru to Najibullah: A Journalist’s Story | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  15 October 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVEIW
  Reporting India: My Seventy-Year Journey as a Journalist
  by Prem Prakash (ANI)
  Publishers: Ebury Press (Penguin Random House) Pages: 225; Price: Rs 699 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 067009398X ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0670093984 __0__
  Jawaharlal looked so tired after the 1962 war with China that he almost fell asleep while answering questions from journalist Prem Prakash. “I had to touch him gently to wake him up and tell him I could not present the Indian prime minister to the world in that (…)

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  Caricature - Tribute to Kodiyeri Balakrishnan | Jayaraj Vellur

  15 October 2022

  Kodiyeri Balakrishnan (16 November 1953 – 1 October 2022) was leading figure in the Kerala state unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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  Music: Saint-Saëns - Le Carnaval des Animaux, R. 125 - 12. Fossiles

  15 October 2022

  Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 - Saint-Saens: Le Carnaval des animaux & Danse macabre

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  Andréi Tarkovsky during the filming of ’Stalker’ (1979)

  15 October 2022
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  Video: Stories My Country Told Me - Eqbal Ahmad on the Grand Trunk Road (BBC 1 - 1996)

  15 October 2022

  produced by BBC One | 1996
  Produced and Directed: H.O. Nazareth
  Executive Producer: Anthony Wall
  Film Editor: Jon Whitson
  Cameramen: Ranjan Kamath and Arif Ali
  Original Music Composed and Performed by" The Fratelli Brothers

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  [bleu]Table of Contents - Mainstream, Sept 17 - Oct 8, 2022 - Bumper issue [/bleu]

  16 September 2022

  * Uniqueness of Habib Tanvir’s theatre | Javed Malick
  * Pakistan - India: Recent Floods and Climate Change | Soma Marla
  * Ecosystem-Based Approach to Build Climate Resilience | KN Ninan
  * Bill Gates and Techno-fix Delusions | M V Ramana and Cassandra Jeffery

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 17 - Oct 8, 2022

  16 September 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 17 – Oct 8, 2022
  India is a very diverse multilingual society and whatever their location most people in their daily lives seem to have a real familiarity with more than one language, irrespective of what the law says. The Constitution of India reflects this reality with 22 languages having formal recognition in its eighth schedule. Every now and then political tensions erupt over the question of language of instruction, official language of (…)