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  Music: The Chad Mitchell Trio - What Did You Learn In School Today?

  18 March 2022

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  What Did You Learn In School Today? by The Chad Mitchell Trio - Topic https://youtu.be/Z8JmKRL4D4k

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  Audio: Slavoj Zizek on the war in Ukraine (March 9, 2022)

  18 March 2022

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  Zizek on the war in Ukraine [Audio] (March 9, 2022) by phallosophia https://youtu.be/UXJp7K2jz6g

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  Audio: Geopolitics of the War in Ukraine, with Georgi Derluguian | March 16, 2022

  18 March 2022

  Georgi Derluguian on the geopolitical, economic, and social implications of the current war in Ukraine. The in-depth historical analysis, both of the current Russian invasion in Ukraine, and the larger global context outlines how the war can be understood.

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, March 12, 2022

  11 March 2022

  * Caste-patriarchy-politics nexus in an illegal adoption case in Kerala | Kalyani Menon Sen & others
  * Tribute to Professor Aijaz Ahmad | Prabhat Patnaik
  * Who wants war? | SG Vombatkere
  * A Pedagogic Experiment with Rural Children | Avijit Pathak
  * On Pakistan’s ‘Aurat March’ 2022 | Nadra Huma Quraishi

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, March 12, 2022

  11 March 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 12, 2022
  The just-concluded state assembly elections of February March 2022 in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, and Goa have forcefully demonstrated again the overwhelming dominance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a political force in India. In all four states it has been re-elected successfully for a second term. Unfortunately, since 2014 many in democratic and left circles have, repeatedly failed to realise that the party is over; (…)

• Too soon for obituaries, or naming a crown prince | John Dayal

  11 March 2022, by John Dayal

  There is a grassroots saying in the bundocks of North India, criminally casteist in its original Hindi, which could be translated into politically correct English as “Don’t write anyone off till their death anniversary has been observed.”
  It will, therefore, be too early to write the obituary of either the Indian National Congress or the Bahujan Samaj Party which are the two well-known political parties which have been the worst losers from more than one state in the just concluded (…)

• Tribute to Professor Aijaz Ahmad | Prabhat Patnaik

  11 March 2022, by Prabhat Patnaik

  (The below tribute by Prabhat Patnaik was received by us via multiple sources including WhatsApp groups and via public listserves on the evening on March 10, but there was no publication source attributed. Just prior to publication we have discovered that the tribute has been published by The Hindu. We are proceeding to publish this tribute in public interest and for non-commercial use)
  Professor Aijaz Ahmad who passed away on March 9, 2022, was a truly outstanding Marxist thinker of our (…)

• A “family matter”? Caste-patriarchy-politics nexus in a case of illegal adoption in Kerala | Kalyani Menon Sen, Nivedita Menon, JM Rugma, Cynthia Stephen, Enakshi Ganguly

  11 March 2022, by Cynthia Stephen, Enakshi Ganguly, JM Rugma, Kalyani Menon Sen, Nivedita Menon

  I. Background
  This note is a product of our effort to investigate the “Kerala illegal adoption case” where a new-born infant was forcibly snatched and handed over to an adoption agency by the mother’s family, against the mother’s will and without her consent. When all her attempts to recover the child through appeals to the authorities failed, the mother Anupama Chandran started a fast outside the State Secretariat and took her story to the media. Activists and women’s groups joined her (…)

• Pakistan’s ’Aurat March’ 2022: To be or not to be | Nadra Huma Quraishi

  11 March 2022

  March 6, 2022 by Nadra Huma Quraishi On March 8, women around the world mark a day they call their own — International Women’s Day, highlighting achievements and dialoguing about issues still unresolved. The Women’s Day theme this year is #BreakTheBias, underscoring the idea that it is not enough to acknowledge the existence of bias. Action is necessary to achieve equality.
  While the rest of the world is devising strategies to improve conditions for women, Pakistani women face the (…)

• Are ’Low-Calibre Men’ India’s Destiny? | TJS George

  11 March 2022, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Winston Churchill hated India. Which was natural because his mind was mutilated by imperialism, so he couldn’t understand why the stupid Indians agitated for independence.
  Rudyard Kipling had no such problem. Being a poet, he took a philosophical view of the world and agreed that "East is east and West is west and never the twain shall meet." If that reality had been accepted by both East and West, a great deal of the world’s problems could have been avoided. (…)