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• Towards Prudent Fiscal Management in Assam | Atul Sarma and Shyam Sunder

  11 June 2022, by Atul Sarma

  by Atul Sarma and Shyam Sunder *
  Despite the state government’s claim on fast growth in recent years, Assam’s per capita income is just 65.9% of all States average per capita income, or 70.9% of Northeast hill states (NEHS) average income in 2018-19, not to speak of the highest income state or even amongst the top five highest income state. Even in 2021-22 the state’s per capita income stood at 70.1 % of the national average per capita income. Clearly, the fiscal policy and its management (…)

• Texas School Shooting- If Gunman was a Black, a Muslim, an Arab...? | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  11 June 2022, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  Irrespective of whatever is ethnic identity of any shooter leading to violence and/or murders, how can approach towards him be decided by his religion, race, colour or any ethnic as well as national factor? A crime remains a crime. Sadly, double-standards of this nature still prevail. If Salvador Rolando Ramos was an Arab, a Muslim and/or a Black, the rage against United States’ gun laws would have hardly prevailed. He would have been instantly labelled as a terrorist and American media (…)

• Comrade Dange: The Struggle for National Unity and Against Imperialism Event held to commemorate S.A. Dange’s death anniversary | Archishman Raju and Nandita Chaturvedi

  11 June 2022

  by Archishman Raju and Nandita Chaturvedi
  The 22nd of May, 2022 marked the 31st death anniversary of freedom fighter and champion of worker’s rights, Sripad Amrut Dange. The event was marked by a meeting at the All India Trade Union Congress in Bengaluru, held by the Gandhi Global Family. This was one in a series of events held by the Gandhi Global Family to mark the 75th anniversary of India’s independence in Bengaluru. Several trade union activists and members, scholars, students, (…)

• Network Stars in Community Education: A Study From Bihar | Aditya Raj & Papia Raj

  11 June 2022

  by Aditya Raj & Papia Raj
  Community education (HE) is very important today because it can create processes for appropriate health seeking behavior (HSB) and help control any public health problem. HSB, defined as any action (or, series of action) undertaken by individual and/or community which enable or prevent them from making healthy choices, in either their lifestyle behaviors or their use of medical care and treatment, is a vital component of public health. HSB is context specific (…)

• Will Indian Constitution and nation be swept away in the deluge of communalism? | Prem Singh

  11 June 2022, by Prem Singh

  The Indian Constitution and the nation are facing a grave threat posed by the ongoing communal deluge. In fact, India, under three decades of neo-liberalism, had remained an amphitheater of communalism. During this time the value of constitutional secularism was doomed to stumble here and there in the corridors of political power. In the eighties and nineties of the 20th century, there was a possibility that the society could be swept away by the flood of communalism at any critical (…)

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  Worrisome to talk of purity of races - Concerned Scholars’s Open Letter to the Ministry of Culture, Government of India

  11 June 2022

  AN OPEN LETTER TO THE SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF CULTURE, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
  10 June 2022
  The Secretary Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India 502-C Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi 110001
  Sir,
  Reports appeared recently in the media to the effect that the Ministry of Culture, Government of (…)

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  Media should not be giving legitimacy to divisive and toxic voices - Statement by Editors Guild of India

  11 June 2022

  PRESS STATEMENT
  June 8th, 2022
  The Editors Guild of India is disturbed by the irresponsible conduct of some national news channels for deliberately creating circumstances that target vulnerable communities by spewing hatred towards them and their beliefs.
  Expectedly, there was a riot in Kanpur accompanied by an unprecedented trenchant reaction from many countries that were offended by the remarks of the ruling party spokespersons. In their angry statements they wondered about India’s (…)

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  India: The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) deplores the hostility repeatedly exhibited by politicians and vigilante groups towards journalists

  11 June 2022

  DELHI UNION OF JOURNALISTS (REGD)
  Flat No.29, Central Market, Connaught Place, New Delhi-1
  Phone: 23413459, Email: duj.delhi@gmail.com
  June 6, 2022
  PRESS RELEASE
  The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) deplores the hostility repeatedly exhibited by politicians and vigilante groups towards journalists.
  The targetting of Mohd Zubair, co-founder and Editor of Alt News, is a classic case of shooting the messenger. Zubair tweeted that BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma had made objectionable (…)

• Food Security Concerns in Jharkhand | Bharat Dogra

  11 June 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  People’s Campaigns Raise Serious Objections to Rice Fortification Scheme, with Special Concerns Regarding Tribal Communities
  At a time when the plans of the Government of India to hurriedly spread rice fortification have already become highly controversial with several serious objections being raised by several experts, leading food rights campaigns have prepared a detailed report in the specific context of Jharkhand and particularly its tribal communities which carries the debate and its (…)

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  Photo: Kalpana Dutt (later Kalpana Joshi)

  11 June 2022

  Member, Indian Republican Army, Chittagong Group. An 18 year old college student when she was arrested while on reconnaissance just a week before the attack on the European Club in 1931. She got bail, went underground & managed to evade the police till 1933. She graduated from Calcutta University in 1940 and joined the Communist Party of India. In 1943, she married Puran Chand Joshi, then General Secretary of the Communist Party of India. She passed away in February 1995, here is the (…)