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• Kancha Ilaiah’s "Why I’m not a Hindu" complements Ambedkar analysis of Caste | Aravind

  11 March 2022

  by Aravind *
  The right-wing nationalism that we see today is confined to labelling certain progressive forces as anti-nationals and urban naxals. As Dr Ambedkar said “Caste kills the public spirit” and precludes the emergence of the notion of nation. Any project of nationalism therefore has to be preceded by strongly advocating the agenda of ‘Annihilation of Caste’. The Post-Ambedkarite movement has thrown up a gamut of ways to achieve this by treading more or less the same path. But one (…)

• Gandhi and Panchayati Raj System in Present Context: Conundrum and Possibilities - Report of a National Webinar | Siby K. Joseph

  11 March 2022

  by Siby K. Joseph
  Sevagram Ashram Pratishthan, Wardha, Maharashtra in association with Gandhian Collective India and Faculty of Gandhian Studies, Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad had organized a National Webinar on the theme Gandhi and Panchayati Raj System in Present Context: Conundrum and Possibilities on February 13, 2022. Dr. Siby K. Joseph, Director, Sri Jamnalal Bajaj Memorial Library and Research Centre, Sevagram Ashram Pratishthan, Wardha gave a brief introduction about the Webinar and (…)

• Corporate Regulator’s Decision to Split MD and Chairman positions: Once Again Deferred | Nand L. Dhameja

  11 March 2022

  The Corporate Regulator, SEBI, has announced deferment of its decision to split the post of MD and Chairman with effect from March 31, 2022, the date extended date by two years in 2020.
  Sebi had announced in 2018, on the suggestions of the Uday Kotak Committee on Corporate Governance to amend provisions of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements (LODR) Regulations, 2015. As per the recommendations:
  a). positions of the chairman and managing director (MD/CEO) or chief (…)

• How to Read Contemporary Indian Politics? | Arup Kumar Sen

  11 March 2022, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Understanding politics and political theory is a contested terrain. Rajeev Bhargava’s thought-provoking book, What is PoliticalTheory and Why do We Need it? (Oxford University Press, 2010), addressed such contentious questions.He stated in the Preface of the book: “Sound moral and ethical judgements are dependent less on classroom lessons and more on rich lived experience”. While clarifying his own position on theorization of politics, Bhargava argued: “There is wealth of lived experience in (…)

• When Thoughts Find no Words | Badri Raina

  11 March 2022, by Badri Raina

  Then there are times When thoughts find no words. Like misbegotten embryos, sans Lips that form, eyes that see, Fingers that point, Their life tosses liquid in a miasma, Unable to shape the days to come.
  When that which is said is said often, Remains in effect unsaid, Like rain that falls incessant Far away from sight or hearing. When was the last you heard What I said, insistent in my Peroration? Or if you did, it did not show In how your pupils moved Or your head nodded. Nothing in the (…)

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  Caricature Tribute to Aijaz Ahmad | Jayaraj Vellur

  11 March 2022, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Video: Tariq Ali talks to Aijaz Ahmad - Part 1 and Part 2

  11 March 2022

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  Global Empire - The World We Live In Pt 1 by TeleSUR English https://youtu.be/BiQ8N041DfQ Play
  Global Empire - The World We Live In Part 2 by TeleSUR English https://youtu.be/-B1tVeavuio

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, March 5, 2022

  5 March 2022

  * Gandhi Secularism, Reason and Faith | Anil Nauriya
  * Is the Left, Right? | Kobad Ghandy [12087]
  * Russia’s Feminists Statement Against Putin’s War on Ukraine

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, March 5, 2022

  5 March 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 5, 2022
  A study published in India’s reputed journal Science estimates that the number of Covid-19 related deaths in India between “1 June 2020 and 1 July 2021” was over 3 million which is eight times the official Government figure on coronavirus deaths of 400,000. We hope that the, universities, statisticians and public health specialists will over time produce more such studies so that they are eventually officially accepted by the Government. (…)

• Ambedkar, Mulk Raj. Where’s That India? | TJS George

  5 March 2022, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS Why is it that we don’t have writer-intellectuals like Mulk Raj Anand any more? Why is it that we don’t have reformists like B. R. Ambedkar any more? The impolite answer is that Anand’s and Ambedkar’s India no longer exists, the India whose ideology was India. When ideology took on political postures, things changed. What exists now is an India that thinks things through as per the single ideology that is identified as patriotic.
  In the old days religious and (…)