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  Music: Peaux by Trio Xenakis

  19 August 2022

  Trio Xenakis – peaux, from Xenakis révolution. Le bâtisseur du son, (documentary/biography, 2022, 56’, in French w/ French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Polish sub, and German dubbed), Directed by Stéphane Ghez, Arte / Cinétévé, 2022 Play
  TRIOXENAKIS peaux by Vivian Daval https://vimeo.com/674356718

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Aug 6 & Aug 13, 2022 [Independence Day Special]

  13 August 2022

  * 75 Years of Independent India | Anil Nauriya
  * Tribute: P M Bhargava - an excerpt from his biography | Chandana Chakrabarti
  * 10 Year-old Visionary Social Experiment in Rojava Under Threat - A Letter
  * Music: Bumpin’ On Sunset | Wes Montgomery

• 75 Years of Independent India | Anil Nauriya

  13 August 2022, by Anil Nauriya

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  The Soviet Union lasted less than 75 years even if reckoned from 1917.
  Independent India has now crossed that threshold and that is a reason for satisfaction.
  The Indian experiment has been no less bold than the Soviet if only because the challenges it has faced have been at least equally profound.
  Both Russia and India were peasant-based economies when they started out on their new journey, Russia’s in 1917 and India’s in 1947. India was under a full-scale colonialism, alien and (…)

• Indian Economy at 75: Trapped in a Borrowed Development Strategy | Arun Kumar

  13 August 2022, by Arun Kumar

  Introduction
  India at 75 is a mixed bag of development and missed opportunities. The country has achieved much since Independence but a lot remains to be done to become a developed society. The pandemic has exposed India’s deficiencies in stark terms. The uncivilized conditions of living of a vast majority of the citizens became apparent. According to a Report of Azim Premji University, 90% of the workers said during the lockdown that they did not have enough savings to buy one week of (…)

• Excerpts from the 1981 novel ’Midnight’s Children’ by Salman Rushdie

  13 August 2022

  EXCERPTS FROM Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) which delves into the end of British colonial rule in India, Independence, and the tragic partition of 1947
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  I was bom in the city of Bombay... once upon a time. No, that won’t do, there’s no getting away from the date: I was born in Doctor Narlikar’s Nursing Home on August 15th, 1947. And the time? The time matters, too. Well then: at night. No, it’s important to be more... On the stroke of midnight, as a matter of fact. (…)

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  Prof P M Bhargava, scientist and renaissance man - an excerpt from his biography | Chandana Chakrabarti

  13 August 2022, by Chandana Chakrabarti

  A tribute to Dr P M Bhargava (22nd Feb 1928 to 1st Aug 2017) - public intellectual, biologist, institution builder, administrator, crusader for scientific temper, and a connoisseur of art on his 5th death anniversary
  (Excerpt from Breaking Boundaries a biography of Dr PM Bhargava by Chandana Chakrabarti, under publication)
  The year 2017 saw the loss of several stalwarts of Indian science who have not only contributed to science but have led from the front in the propagation of scientific (…)

• Flagging independence albeit disengaging Gandhi | Teresa Joseph

  13 August 2022

  by Teresa Joseph *
  Abstract
  The official objectives behind the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign have been clearly spelt out as invoking the feeling of patriotism and promoting awareness about the National Flag. The media overdrive and the exhilaration and exuberance being witnessed as part of the campaign requires some introspection on the issues involved. In the larger context of the historical trajectory of the flag, this article examines the values in effect being promoted through the Har (…)

• How Shall We Defend our Democracy? | Mahi Pal Singh

  13 August 2022

  by Mahi Pal Singh *
  This August in 2022 we are going to celebrate the 75th anniversary of our Independence and pay our homage to the freedom fighters, who spent their lives in jails and even laid down their lives so that the people of their country may breathe in an independent country and live a dignified life. This is also an occasion for stock taking whether the rulers of Independent India have fulfilled the dreams of our forefathers and lived upto the expectations of We, the People of (…)

• What Threatens Our Independence | D Raja

  13 August 2022

  by D Raja *
  As the country is celebrating the 75th anniversary of independence, it’s an irony of history that the RSS, which remained loyal to the British, is now trying to appropriate the legacy of our secular and inclusive struggle for independence. Seventy-five years ago, our country reached an important milestone, when people of the country got liberated from the clutches of British colonialism. Our independence was the result of a century-long sustained mass struggle, with many (…)

• Gandhi will live with truth non-violence and love | Prem Singh

  13 August 2022, by Prem Singh

  Some Gandhians are feeling indignant about the special issue of ’Antim Jan’ on Sarvakar. It is a monthly magazine published by a government organization, ’Gandhi Darshan and Smriti’. Some journalists, intellectuals and party spokespersons/leaders too have expressed their unhappiness over the special issue. Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi’s statement also has come against the same. ’Gandhi Darshan and Smriti’ is an organization related to the life and thoughts of Gandhi. Opponents (…)