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  Music: Wobbly & anarchist labour organizer Joe Hill’s song “The Preacher & the Slave

  9 September 2022

  Joe Hill’s song “The Preacher & the Slave” first appeared in IWW’s Little Red Song Book

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  Roundtable: Amid Tributes to Queen Elizabeth, Deadly Legacy of British Colonialism Cannot Be Ignored

  9 September 2022

  Democracy Now - September 09, 2022: We host a roundtable on the life and legacy of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at the age of 96. She was the country’s longest-reigning monarch, serving for 70 years and presiding over the end of the British Empire. Her death set off a period of national mourning in the U.K. and has thrown the future of the monarchy into doubt. “The monarchy really has come to represent deep and profound and grave inequality,” says Cambridge scholar Priya (…)

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 3, 2022

  3 September 2022

  * Tribute: Mary Roy (1933 - 2022) | John Dayal
  * Tribute: Economist Abhijit Sen (1950-2022) | Bharat Dogra
  * On the Report on Reforms in Higher Education, Kerala, 2022 | P S Jayaramu
  * Letter to Director, CBI on the Bilkis Bano matter | Jagdeep Chhokar

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 3, 2022

  3 September 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, September 3, 2022
  Weather doesn’t know borders and most of all for immediate neighbours. The same monsoons bring rain to India, Pakistan, and all of South Asia. Floods are a yearly occurrence in the countries of the region. And this year too there was large scale flooding in the region. In recent years the intensity of rains and scale of floods, cyclones but also droughts have been getting extreme. Experts clearly see a link with climate change globally. (…)

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  Sleep in peace, pathbreaker Mary | John Dayal

  3 September 2022, by John Dayal

  I have known Arundhati Roy from when she was a student at the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture, her launching pad not so much in the making of buildings, but in the breaking of shibboleths, and the silence surrounding the powerful Indian state. That was her launching pad for the script of “In Which Anne Gives it Those Ones”, on to several other films of great aesthetics and modest box office, before she became one of the most famous writers of Independent India – together with (…)

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  Economist Abhijit Sen Has Left Us At A Time When There is Great Yearning for His Ideas | Bharat Dogra

  3 September 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  Economist Abhijit Sen passed away on the night of 29 August 2022. He was 72.
  For a long time, he has been regarded as one of India’s leading agricultural economists who made a very important contribution to government policy, particularly in the context of a public distribution system.
  India’s structure of food security has been created to a considerable extent on a system of procurement of food crops at a higher price from farmers and supplying at a lower, subsidized price to consumers. (…)

• Report of the Commission for Reforms in Higher Education in Kerala, 2022 | P. S. Jayaramu

  3 September 2022

  by P. S. Jayaramu
  July 29, 2022
  The Government of Kerala appointed a Commission in 2021 headed by Shyam Menon, former Vice Chancellor of Dr. B.R. Ambedekar University, Delhi, some of the former Vice Chancellors of the universities Kerala, Prof. R. Rama Kumar of the Tata Institute of Sicial Sciences, who is also a member of the Kerala State Planning Borard, and Prof. T. Pradeep of the III, Madras, as Convenor of the Commission. The Commission recently submitted its report to the (…)

• Far Left leader Kavita Krishnan announces decision to quit responsibilites in CPIML over the cult of Stalin and authoritarian regimes of Russia & China

  3 September 2022

  via [Facebook >https://www.facebook.com/100445401928461/posts/476352384337759]
  An announcement
  I requested to be relieved of my posts and responsibilities in CPIML since I needed to pursue certain troubling political questions: questions it was not possible to explore and express in my responsibilities as a CPIML leader. The party Central Committee has agreed to my request.
  These questions include:
  1. The need to recognise the importance of defending liberal democracies with all (…)

• India at 75: What Happened to the Promise of Freedom and Democracy? | Badre Alam Khan

  3 September 2022, by Badre Alam Khan

  India has now completed 75 years of its democratic journey, and we are busy in celebrations. This time perhaps, Indian people across communities and castes have celebrated Independence Day with deep commitments and enthusiasm. In this respect, the Har Ghar Tiranga Yatra campaign has been launched by the government (from 13th August to 15), as part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav . This time Independence Day is being celebrated across the world by the Indian diaspora. To mark the said (…)

• Letter to Director, CBI on the Bilkis Bano matter (August 30, 2022) | Jagdeep Chhokar

  3 September 2022

  August 30, 2022
  Mr. Subodh Kumar Jaiswal The Director Central Bureau of Investigation Plot No. 5-B, CGO Complex Lodhi Road New Delhi – 110003 information[at]cbi.gov.in
  Dear Mr. Jaiswal,
  I am writing to you as a concerned citizen of India, and I am writing about the release of 11 men on remission by the government of Gujarat on August 15, 2022. These men were convicted and jailed in the ghastly case of gang rape of the young and pregnant Bilkis Bano and two others and the murder of her (…)