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• Sri Lankan Crisis Caused by Majoritarianism, Authoritarianism and Minority Bashing Offers Lessons for India | S N Sahu

  15 July 2022, by S N Sahu

  The island nation of Sri Lanka is caught in the whirlpool of a deep political and economic crisis. The State has collapsed and people are confronting a dire situation marked by massive shortage of food items, fuel, medicines, electricity and other essential supplies so indispensable to lead a normal life. Soaring inflation and the absence of even the semblance of Governmental authority to deal with the existential threat to the lives of people have made them restless. They have come to the (…)

• Justice, Poetry and Good Looks | Papri Sri Raman

  15 July 2022, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  They say, cinema is a reflection of society. Now, it is a cliched phrase, but it continues to be true. And at a time when ‘history’ is a conflicted word, perhaps it is cinema that can be best used to tell stories of the past. Like, all the bitter truths about Allied ‘victories’ are best read through the Hollywood series on WWII. Indians are not known as great recordkeepers of the past and even to research stories of India’s freedom fight is a Herculean task. However, this decade has seen (…)

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  Cartoon: Pythagoras Theorem is Fake News says Education Policy in Karnataka | Jayaraj Vellur

  15 July 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur

  [ See relevant Newsreport: ’Pythagoras Theorem, Newton’s Apple Are Fake News’: Karnataka NEP Proposal ]

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  Photo: Writer Amitav Ghosh standing by a Park Circus–BBD BAG Route 22 Tramcar, Calcutta, 1991 | Robert Nickelsberg

  15 July 2022

• Israel’s secret weapon | Pervez Hoodbhoy

  15 July 2022, by Pervez Hoodbhoy

  IS it some international conspiracy — or perhaps a secret weapon — that allows Israel to lord over the Mid­­dle East? How did a country of nine million — between one-half and one-third of Karachi’s population — manage to subdue 400m Arabs? A country bui­lt on stolen land and the ruins of destroyed Pal­estinian villages is visibly chuckling away as every Arab government, egged on by the khadim-i-haramain sharifain, lines up to recognise it. Economically fragile Pakistan is being lured into (…)

• Shinzo Abe: A controversial visionary | M. K. Bhadrakumar

  15 July 2022, by M K Bhadrakumar

  When politicians die, especially an untimely death in tragic circumstances, obituaries tend to go overboard. A sense of perspectives is lost when obituaries become eulogies. But you can’t falsify history. And in the final analysis, it is the forces of history that write the course of politics rather than individuals, and the fact is Japan has a gory past, a blood-soaked and brutal imperial past.
  Almost all of Japan’s neighbours paid a high price for its hegemonist ambitions and thirst for (…)

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  Narmada Struggle: Tribal Suffering Continues | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  15 July 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW
  The Struggle for Narmada: An Oral History of the Narmada Bachao Andolan by Adivasi Leaders Keshavbhau and Kevalsingh Vasave
  Author: Nandini Oza
  Orient BlackSwan Pages: 273; Price: Rs 815
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  Long before anyone thought of using bulldozers to raze homes of critics, the Indian state employed far worse tactics on tribal people fighting a dam by uprooting them from areas where they had lived for centuries. In scenes from medieval times, the authorities simply flooded (…)

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  Audio: The rightwing ideologues who fuelled Putin’s dream of an expansionist Russia | Juliette Faure

  15 July 2022
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  Music: Two performances of Franz Schubert, Trio op. 100 - Andante con moto

  15 July 2022

  Schubert’s Trio no 2 or Trio in E flat major for piano and strings no 2 (D. 929 op. 100) is a romantic lyrical chamber music trio in four movements, for violin, cello, and piano, composed by the Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) in November 1827. Play
  Schubert, Trio No. 2, Op. 100, Andante con moto | Ambroise Aubrun, Maëlle Vilbert, Julien Hanck by Arpeggio Films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nioKJNp8ADE
  Franz Schubert, Trio No. 2, Op. 100, (…)

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  [bleu]Table of Contents, Mainstream, July 9, 2022[/bleu]

  8 July 2022

  * Against The Dying of The Light - Bharat Ratna Frontier Gandhi, Badshah Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988): A Note | Anil Nauriya
  * Colombia turns to the left | Juan C Hernandez
  * Sri Lanka: Gotabaya’s grand game-plan | Apratim Mukarji
  * Paper unions’ letting down China’s internal migrant workers | Jason Hung