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  Video: John Bellamy Foster - The Return of Nature

  8 April 2022

  John Bellamy Foster gives a 30-minute presentation about his book The Return of Nature

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  Music: Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir

  8 April 2022

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  Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir – Український народний хор ім. г. верьовки by Dystyn https://youtu.be/P-wILthmwIo
  Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir Art Director: Anatoly Avdievsky
  Oh, I’m so pretty (Urkainian folk song) A small willow board (arr. by A. Avdievsky) Oh, that violin didn’t play (arr. by V. Samiylenko) Lullaby (arr. by A. Avdievsky) The barrow by the Volga (I. Shamo – D. Lutsenko) My field (V. Filipenko – L. Reva) A WREATH OF UKRAINIAN FOLK SONGS: Grey (…)

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, April 2, 2022

  1 April 2022

  * Economic weapons of mass destruction | Raghuram Rajan
  * Rabindranath Tagore, Rural Crisis and recovering Community | Karli Srinivasulu
  * Jinnah Lives Again, What An Irony? | TJS George
  * ECI would do well to count 100% VVPAT slips | Pandey, Singh, and Singh

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 2, 2022

  1 April 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 2, 2022
  According to the World Health Organization there is a new wave of cases of Covid-19 of the now dominant BA.2 subvariant of the virus, spiking in South Korea, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Germany, the Netherlands, France and Canada, China, Ireland, New Zeeland. This is happening at a time when in many regions of the world including in India the mandatory public health & containment measures and social restrictions (such as wearing of masks, (…)

• Economic weapons of mass destruction | Raghuram Rajan

  1 April 2022

  by Raghuram Rajan *
  War is horrific, no matter how it is waged. Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine, with its scenes of Ukrainian civilians being murdered or driven from their homes as refugees, undoubtedly had to be opposed. In addition to supplying Ukraine with military weapons, governments around the world also have deployed economic weapons against Russia — a dangerous nuclear power. Russia, an economic midget relative to its military power, may still lash out by expanding the range (…)

• The Political Killings in Kerala: Is it the ’Banality of Evil’? | Jos Chathukulam and Manasi Joseph

  1 April 2022, by Jos Chathukulam, Manasi Joseph

  by Jos Chathukulam and Manasi Joseph
  Abstract
  At a time when gruesome political killings and violence are increasing at an alarming rate in Kerala, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is gearing up for the 23rd Party Congress in Kannur from April 6 — April 10, 2022. The cold-blooded murders in the name of hatred and politics should end. Similarly those who justify the murders on the lines of ‘Banality of Evil Thesis’ by Hannah Arendt should understand that when butchered human lives (…)

• Rabindranath Tagore, Rural Crisis and Recovering Community: Relevance of a Legacy for Neo-Liberal India | Karli Srinivasulu

  1 April 2022, by Karli Srinivasulu

  by Karli Srinivasulu *
  There are striking similarities between the rural life in the late colonial India that is in the inter-war period and today’s liberalising India. Rabindranath Tagore living in close contact with the rural Bengal and intellectually reflecting on the socio-economic life displayed an unusual sensitivity to the rural crisis that engulfed the agrarian and rural artisan communities. This led to certain concrete initiatives like Sriniketan with the aim of educating the (…)

• Jinnah Lives Again, What An Irony? | T J S George

  1 April 2022, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Mani Shankar Aiyar hit a political bull’s eye when he said recently that Uttar Pradesh voted for Jinnah in the latest election. Jinnah’s partition philosophy was based on the 80:20 ratio of Hindu-Muslim population. Yogi Adityanath inaugurated the UP election campaign with the same 80:20 argument without realising the trap he was getting into.
  But the trap trapped him. It became clear that there was really no difference between Muhammed Ali Jinnah and Yogi (…)

• Kashmir Files : Half Truths and falsehoods galore | Ram Puniyani

  1 April 2022

  by Ram Puniyani
  Major weapon of sectarian nationalism is to spread misconceptions and create hate against the religious minorities. This process which has been going on since long has now got a new tool, a film, “Kashmir Files”. As such misconceptions against minorities are based on half truths, selective truths, lies and this film is another addition to that. The slogans-misconceptions against religious minorities have gone through various phases. It began with communal historiography. (…)

• The Kashmir Tragedy | Humra Quraishi

  1 April 2022, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  30 March 2022
  No, I have not seen the film – The Kashmir Files. Nor do I plan to view it because the reviews that one has been reading point at two basic flaws: The projections in the film are not necessarily based on pure facts, rather on slants and tilts and distortions and much more along the strain. Also, apparent traces of the vested political interests cum motives behind these projections. And once politics creeps into creativity, it is a dangerous concoction, out to (…)