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• Abolish Psychiatry | Campaign for Psychiatric Abolition

  14 May 2022

  The Fight for Psychiatric Abolition
  We are the Campaign for Psychiatric Abolition (CPA), a collective of psychiatric survivors who are fighting against the violence of policing, prisons and psychiatry. We want to demonstrate that our collective struggles against imperialism, racism, capitalism, cisheteropatriarchy and the climate catastrophe are also a struggle against psychiatry. We came together to form CPA after seeing how sometimes hostile radical spaces can be towards anti-psychiatry (…)

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  Music: Mountain Love Song | Shiv Kumar Sharma

  14 May 2022

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  Mountain Love Song by Shivkumar Sharma - Topic https://youtu.be/QFE1KoSjcbA

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  1920s advertisement for P&O and British India Shipping Lines that carried merchandise and passengers

  14 May 2022
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  Video: Prisoner No. 8677 - H Y Sharada Prasad Memorial Lecture by Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi (15 April 2022)

  14 May 2022

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  2022 HYSP Memorial Lecture by Gopalkrishna Gandhi: Prisoner No. 8677 MK Gandhi Yeravada Jail 1922-24 by sanjiva prasad https://youtu.be/EcUEusqLB34
  H Y Sharada Prasad Memorial Lecture was delivered by Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi on 15 April 2022 at India International Centre, New Delhi

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, May 7, 2022

  7 May 2022

  * Will The Indian Communist Leadership Read Dimitrov? | Ajayakumar Kodoth
  * Role & behaviour of judges in a majoritarian context | Arun Srivastava
  * USA, NATO and Russia: Ukraine Crisis may Spin Out of Control | Gautam Sen

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 7, 2022

  7 May 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 7, 2022
  World Health Organization (WHO) says that the worldwide death toll linked to Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021 is much higher than the cumulative official figures provided by the authorities of each country. “. . . the total toll directly or indirectly associated with the Covid-19 pandemic between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021 is approximately 14.9 million. dead (with a range of 13.3 million to 16.6 million),” the WHO wrote in a statement (…)

• Can Congress Stop Working For BJP? | TJS George

  6 May 2022, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Some of our regional languages have a wisdom saying that goes: "Dad,.don’t keep beating me. I won’t improve." The current equivalent of that wisdom is: "Fellow citizens, don’t prefer this party over that. All are stuck in the same rut of opportunism." For a democracy, this is a tragic situation. But facts are facts, tragic or otherwise.
  Prashant Kishore thinks he can change this. Out of a scenario of cynicism, this man has emerged as a game-changer. He has (…)

• CUET Adds Further to the Tyranny of Imposing Over-Centralized, Exam-Centered ‘Education’ | Bharat Dogra

  6 May 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  One of the most important requirements of our troubled world is a meaningful system of education which is able to create joyful, interesting conditions of learning linked to strong ethical values of justice, equality, honesty, truth, compassion, non-violence, care of all living beings, protection of environment and courage. A key question that any student should be exploring is—how can I best contribute to a more just and protective world and how I can increase my potential and capabilities (…)

• Teachings in/of Covid-times | Sreedeep

  6 May 2022

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  All that we have gone through is rather unheard of, or unfelt by several generations. What we have gone through is unpredictably unsocial—as the nature of the virus mandated social-distancing, which was drastically imposed by many states in the most draconian manner. In a manner that was rather absurd that did not care for the state of its citizens to plan or prepare. Such awkward times arrive once in a century or once in several centuries. Many of us lost our near and dear (…)

• Dangers of Teaching the Bhagavad Gita in Educational Curriculums | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  6 May 2022

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  The Hindu right wing forces are planning for a while to make the Bhagavad Gita as a national scripture and access to absolute state power is allowing them to fulfil their long-time dream. The decision of the Gujarat government to incorporate the Bhagavad Gita within the school syllabus for Class-6 to class-12 students from 2022-23 academic year is a dangerous move. This announcement by Gujarat education minister Jitu Vaghani is against the ethos of the Indian (…)