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  Music: Mandingo Ambassadors N’Diagno | Tougna

  17 June 2022

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  Mandingo Ambassadors N’Diagno by EngineStudiosNYC https://youtu.be/26fZR8lXHdY
  Off the record, Tougna released July 24, 2012 on Engine Studios, Brooklyn NY.
  Guitarist, Mamady Kouyate, draws on the musical expressions in his native Guinea. He was part of emerging musical currents in newly independent Guinea. In 2004, Mamady moved to the USA as a political refugee and formed "Mandingo Ambassadors."

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, June 11, 2022

  11 June 2022

  * Social Unrest And National Security | S G Vombatkere
  * High Command culture and Democracy in India | P S Jayaramu
  * Towards Prudent Fiscal Management in Assam | A Sarma and S Sunder
  * Stop talk of purity of races - Concerned Scholars’ Letter to the Ministry of Culture
  * Not all the Soviet dead of the World War II were ’Russians’ | Yorgos Mitralias
  * Nationalism and Economic Life | Leon Trotsky

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 11, 2022

  11 June 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 11, 2022
  Muslims and other minorities in India have long been repeated targets of intimidation, discrimination, hate speech, and communal violence but this process has seen an acceleration since mid-2014 with a new style of aggressive Hindu Right and the BJP-led government allowing a whole majoritarian ideological and media eco-system to flourish. A daily fare of communal slurs and innuendo have become normalised on TV and in society with officials (…)

• Social Unrest And National Security | S.G.Vombatkere

  11 June 2022, by S G Vombatkere

  Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal reportedly made remarks against Prophet Muhammad. Indian Muslims are outraged. Islamic nations Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and Iran, have taken serious diplomatic objection, and Qatar has reportedly demanded “public apology” from India.
  In some of these countries, there are “... protests being lodged with the Indian missions, Indian goods being moved out of the supermarts, hashtags against India’s treatment of (…)

• High Command culture and Democracy in India | P S Jayaramu

  11 June 2022

  by P S Jayaramu
  31st May, 2022
  Since direct democracy is not possible to be practised, countries across the world have accepted indirect democracy, be it Parliamentary or Presidential system. The central feature of such a system lies in the importance attached to the role of political parties in the practice of democratic form of government. In India, after much deliberation in the Constituent Assembly, we accepted the Parliamentary system of Government. We have noticed, over the (…)

• Caste Census is precursor to war of attrition between Modi and Nitish for the top job | Arun Srivastava

  11 June 2022

  by Arun Srivastava
  With the opposition parties yet to project their candidate who can take on directly Narendra Modi at the 2024 Lok Sabha elections for the office of the prime minister, the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has thrown his cap in the ring. An astute politician, he refrained from making a public announcement, but he made his intentions known to the political fraternity by proclaiming to implement the caste census programme in Bihar.
  Modi and his mentor RSS has been (…)

• Hindu Hate versus The Mahatma | M R Narayan Swamy

  11 June 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

  It was pathetic to hear the other day a BJP spokesperson pour venom on the Prophet. Abusing the icon of a religion cannot be accepted in any sensible society. What was said was not just a punch delivered at Islam but at all the good things that Hindu religion stands for. Equally important, the remarks were a slap on the face of what Mahatma Gandhi repeatedly preached.
  The Mahatma agonized in his last 200 days. This was when all that he had believed in appeared to be crashing amid wild (…)

• Gender, Environment & Development: Contributions of Indian Feminist Environmentalists | Shweta Prasad

  11 June 2022, by Shweta Prasad

  Abstract
  The debate around the relationship between women, environment and development have come a long way. These debates started, expanded and evolved due to the significant contributions of many ‘feminist environmentalists’ belonging to different disciplines and even outside the realm of disciplinary boundaries. The present article is a tribute to the Indian feminist environmentalists, Vanadana Shiva and Bina Agrawal - one who is closely associated with the WED approach while the other (…)

• Rethinking The History Of European Philosophy After Encountering Marx And Nietzsche | Murzban Jal

  11 June 2022

  by Murzban Jal
  Philosophy is nothing but religion rendered into thought and expounded by thought, i.e., another form and manner of existence of the estrangement of the essence of the human essence (Form und Daseinweise der Entfremdung des menschliche Wesens); hence equally to be condemned. —Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. ‘All gods are dead: now we want the superman (Ubermensch) to live’—let this be our last will one day at the great noontide. —Friedrich Nietzsche, (…)

• Capitalising On The Greatness Of Modiji | T J S George

  11 June 2022, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  There is something phenomenal about the way literature is building up on Narendra Modi. There is only one viewpoint that is presented in all these books: The greatness of Modiji as prime minister and as leader of people. Typical is Smriti Irani’s thesis: How Modi empowered India’s women in just eight years.
  Modiji, given his background, is unlikely to be embarrassed by the way he is projected for posterity. Former Union Minister Vijay Goel described him as a (…)