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• First, Talk About Employment Creation Not For A Few, But For Many | Sunil Ray

  26 August 2022, by Sunil Roy

  Introduction
  Let me begin by quoting of what I wrote a couple of months ago in an article titled “Reinventing the spirit of freedom” published by Mainstream on November 27, 2021.
  “Perhaps the next wave of the resistance movement (after farmers’ movement against farm laws had begun) is in its embryonic stage. It is against unemployment and new labor laws to be followed by barbaric social discrimination that manifests in all forms and holds back civilizational progress. The parade of the (…)

• Marx’s mathematical manuscripts - an overview | Sankar Ray

  26 August 2022, by Sankar Ray

  “Mathematics itself is always an empty calculus, pure syntax. To use it in social theory, we must give its terms meanings. We need semantics. We must ‘interpret’ the calculus”, wrote Roger Kopl, professor of finance at the Whitman School of Management of Syracuse. Marx scholar and polymath Pradip Baksi in his latest book, ‘Karl Marx and Mathematics, A Collection of Essays in Three Parts refers to Bruno Bukhberger, professor of Computer Mathematics, Research Institute for Symbolic (…)

• Separating the Wheat from the Chaff in the Age of Fake News and Misinformation Syndrome: A Case from Kerala | Jos Chathukulam

  26 August 2022, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract
  Dissemination of fake news on social media platforms and web portals, especially planted news with communal overtones is increasing at an alarming rate in India. The recent attempts to communalise protests against a tainted bureaucrat, who is one of the prime accused in the death of a journalist in Kerala, is the biggest example in this regard. Protest by a section of Muslim groups against an IAS officer, who happened to be an individual from Hindu community, was given a communal (…)

• Can we expect the apex court to revise its remission decree of May? | Faraz Ahmad

  26 August 2022, by Faraz Ahmad

  As new skeletons tumble out of the cupboard of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) every day, it is becoming evident that the 14 years of incarceration the 11 convicts of the Bilkis Bano gangrape along with her mother and two sisters, and barbaric murder of her three-year-old daughter before her eyes in Gujarat’s Dahod district on March 2/3, 2002 and 14 others members of her family, was an eyewash with prime accused enjoying frequent furloughs and paroles during this supposed (…)

• Release of culprits in the Bilkis rape case exposes the misogyny of the VHP-RSS & BJP | Arun Srivastava

  26 August 2022

  by Arun Srivastava
  THE SUPREME COURT has issued notices to the BJP government of Gujarat and the Modi government at the Centre asking them to ascertain whether there was application of mind by a government panel that on 13 May granted remission to the eleven convicts in the Bilkis Bano rape case. The question that should have been put to the Gujarat government was to ask if it had the ‘power of remission’ in the matter.
  Bilkis Bano is the victim of the RSS and the Modi government’s (when (…)

• The Ugly Underside of the Everyday Sense of Humour in India | Gaganjot Kaur

  26 August 2022

  by Gaganjot Kaur *
  Are you already offended when someone preludes a joke with, “Sorry, this may be racist/sexist/classist/ableist... but it’s funny...”? And, then, they ask, “Why can’t you just take a joke as a joke for once?”. Many of us find ourselves in these situations every now and then — sometimes with colleagues, or with friends, and, of course, a lot of times within our families. I earnestly believe in the potential of humour and how it can make people connect with one another and (…)

• Himachal Pradesh’s Vulnerability to Floods and Landslides is Increasing Dangerously | Bharat Dogra

  26 August 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  Following excessive rain in many parts of Himachal Pradesh on August 20, the situation deteriorated rapidly and flash floods as well as landslides were reported from many areas. In a particularly sad incident, 8 members of a single family in Gauhar ke Kashan village were buried under their collapsed house and died. In the same district nearly 900 students and their teachers who had gathered in Mandi district for a sports event were trapped for some time due to a flash flood, spreading a lot (…)

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  Cartoon: R. K. Laxman, 15 August, 1959

  26 August 2022
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  Fearing it’s defeat, BJP avoid elections in J & K deliberately: Press Release CPI Kashmir State Council (Aug 22, 2022)

  26 August 2022

  COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA
  Kashmir State Council
  Press Release
  Fearing it’s defeat, BJP avoid elections in J & K deliberately: CPI
  Srinagar, August 22: Communist Party of India (Jammu and Kashmir) held its 15th state conference in Srinagar on Sunday.
  Former Rajya Sabha member Com. Aziz Pasha and Com. Annie Raja, National Executive member CPI and general secretary National Federation of Indian Women attended the conference.
  During the conference, the party expressed grave (…)

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  Pegasus Case: Judiciary must ensure accountability of the Executive - Press Statement by CPI(M) | August 26, 2022

  26 August 2022

  Communist Party of India (Marxist) | cpim.org
  Press Release
  Friday, August 26, 2022
  The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly denounces the refusal of the Union Government to be accountable before the judiciary and to the country on the use of Pegasus, a military grade spyware, against our own citizens. The committee appointed by the Supreme Court to investigate the use of this spyware has informed that the government was “not cooperative”. This is unacceptable.
  The Supreme Court had (…)