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• Ukraine Crisis may Spin Out of Control - Absence of Strategic Dialogue between USA — NATO and Russia | Gautam Sen

  6 May 2022

  by Gautam Sen *
  The Ukraine war or special military operations to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine as termed by Russian president Vladimir Putin soon after he launched a multi-dimensional military campaign on 24th February 2022, is in its fourth month with no sign of it de-escalating. There is a pause or rather different orientation to the Russian assault since March 2022 end, but no de-escalation in the real sense. Western sources indicate a strong military noose put by the Russian (…)

• Female Face of Russian Anti-war Movement: Why Women Protest? | Ella Rossman

  6 May 2022

  By Ella Rossman April 25, 2022
  Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine and the following establishment of de facto martial law in Russia, Russians have been protesting against the war. Though this protest is weak and fragmented and exposed to government repression, it is ongoing in many cities and towns of Russia. It includes not only street demonstrations and pickets but also invisible forms of resistance, like sabotage at work or different ways of distribution of information (…)

• Keeping Quiet | Pablo Neruda

  6 May 2022

  by Pablo Neruda
  Now we will count to twelve
  and we will all keep still.
  For once on the face of the earth,
  let’s not speak in any language;
  let’s stop for one second,
  and not move our arms so much.
  It would be an exotic moment
  without rush, without engines;
  we would all be together
  in a sudden strangeness.
  (Fisherman in the cold sea
  would not harm whales
  and the man gathering salt
  would look at his hurt hands.
  Those who prepare green wars,
  wars with gas, wars with fire, (…)

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  Film Still from Mr and Mrs 55 | ’Are you a Communist? No, I am a Cartoonist!’

  6 May 2022
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  Plan of the town of Madras and its limits, as surveyed in 1822 for the use of the Justices in Sessions by W. Ravenshaw Captain Civil Engineer

  6 May 2022
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  Music: Songs from the Spanish Civil War / Canciones de la Guerra Civil Española / Rolando Alarcón / Album Completo

  6 May 2022

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  Canciones de la Guerra Civil Española / Rolando Alarcón / Album Completo by Alerce La Otra Música https://youtu.be/2zczriUBRA0

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, April 30, 2022

  29 April 2022

  * A Mess Called India’s Health Sector | Govind Bhattacharjee
  * Women Workers & Emerging Body Rules in Service Work in India | Asiya Islam
  * BJP’s Propaganda Mechanism | Nagender Madavaram
  * India’s Anti-Conversion Laws attack the Dignity of Dalits, Adivasis & Women | Joe Tharamangalam

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 30, 2022

  29 April 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 30, 2022
  In the past week, an extreme heatwave has engulfed large parts of the India and Pakistan region with temperatures in the range of 46 degrees C and above. Heatwaves are of course common for us every year in the region, but this year we have seen high temperatures starting in the month of March itself – the highest recorded average in a hundred years. Such extreme conditions are no doubt driven by global climate change, but a conscious and (…)

• A Mess Called India’s Health Sector | Govind Bhattacharjee

  29 April 2022

  by Dr. Govind Bhattacharjee *
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  Nothing like the pandemic has ever exposed the decrepit state of India’s healthcare system and its extremely limited capacity. Even before the pandemic, it was not unknown— only authorities had failed to take any notice because of their inability to address the hopeless state of our public healthcare system. Underfunded and neglected for many decades, it couldn’t have been corrected within a short span of time. Some data will help to understand the (…)

• The Age of Crime and Computers | TJS George

  29 April 2022, by T J S George

  Imagine a situation where a household celebrity of Karnataka such as B. S. Yediyurappa cannot be found. That is what happened in the ultra-modern state recently. There is a special court for the trial of cases involving MPs and MLAs. Officials attached to the court failed to serve summons on Yedi, accused in a land denotification case of 2012. Reason: The accused could not be found.
  The official visited Yedi’s house on three different days. The big man was busy touring the state, (…)