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• 2022 invasion of Ukraine - Will an anti-war sentiment grow in Russia? | Ptee Robin Robinovich

  5 March 2022

  by Ptee Robin Robinovich
  The decision and rationale by Russian President Vladimir Putin to launch a ’special military operation’ aimed at "demilitarisation and denazification" — a war on Ukraine, in simple words, came on February 24, 2022. Prior to this, there had been a month-long Russian military deployment & combat exercises involving over a hundred thousand troops near the Ukrainian border. Several prominent European leaders visited Mr Putin in Moscow for talks to get him to lift (…)

• Do the Russians Want War? | Yevgueni Yevtushenko (1956)

  5 March 2022

  [Yevgueni Yevtushenko wrote this poem in 1956 after the 20th CPSU Congress]

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  Cartoon on Putin’s War on Ukraine | Jayraj Vellur

  5 March 2022
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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Feb 19, Feb 26, 2022 [Double Number]

  17 February 2022

  * Who are We A ‘Union of States’ or a ‘Nation’ | Karli Srinivasulu
  * Remember Romesh Chandra, As the US pushes war in Eurasia | Nandita Chaturvedi
  * Lockdown As A Means of Controling Covid? | Kobad Ghandy
  * When Was Modernism? | Raymond Williams

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Feb 19, Feb 26, 2022

  17 February 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, February 19, February 26, 2022
  The Government of India under Narendra Modi has since 2014 been steadily pushing a certain vision of an imaginary history and heritage in the name of so-called Indianisation coloured by its ideological moorings in Hindutva cultural nationalism. As a result, we have seen names of cities changed, syllabi and curriculum modified, we have heard the Prime Minister making amazing claims of plastic surgery in Ancient India, we have (…)

• Who are We? A ‘Union of States’ or a ‘Nation’? Contested Terms of Discourse on Idea of India | Karli Srinivasulu

  17 February 2022, by Karli Srinivasulu

  Who are We? and what kind of a nation are we? It is a question that often crops up in the history of a country in response to new challenges and remains at the centre of political discourse often subtly and sometimes openly, raised be it by Samuel Huntington or Rahul Gandhi in the present instance.
  Rahul Gandhi’s speech in the Lok Sabha during the debate on the motion of thanks on the President’s address has gained national attention. The speech was fairly complex and was apparently meant (…)

• If you remember 2021 panchayat election results, the myth of BJP invincibility in UP is easily shattered | Bharat Dogra

  17 February 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  While elections in all states are important, state assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP) always have a special importance from a national perspective. So it is this time around too as the election scene in Uttar Pradesh is being followed very eagerly.
  Generally BJP is depicted to be strong in this state, but let us check this against the results of the panchayat elections held last year in UP. While nobody is saying that similar results will be repeated in assembly elections as these (…)

• Silence Is No Solution To Evil | T J S George

  17 February 2022, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  It wasn’t long ago that a group of professors and intellectuals sent to the Prime Minister a memo from their hearts. The subject was silence. But it sounded like thunder because it was about the crisis of conscience that threatened the country. The simplicity of the words underlined their power.
  "Your silence on the rising intolerance in our country, Honourable Prime Minister, is disheartening to all of us who value the multicultural fabric of our country," the (…)

• Lockdown As A Means of Controling Covid? | Kobad Ghandy

  17 February 2022, by Kobad Ghandy

  It has often been difficult to understand the logic of the procedures being adopted for the lockdown. For example, here in Bandra, Mumbai, taking in the fresh air on the promenade, next to the sea, was banned after 5 pm; while walking on the busy road a mere two feet away inhaling car fumes and risking one’s life (as there is no pavement) was being allowed. Yet again, when there were partial lockdowns the essential shops were allowed to be open for just a few hours in the day, resulting in (…)

• 2022 Assembly Elections for Five States: Scenario and Consequences | Prem Singh

  17 February 2022, by Prem Singh

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  The assembly elections in five states, being held from February 10 to March 7, 2022, are bound to have an impact on both: the politics of power and the politics of ideology. The impact of these elections on the politics of power is being discussed more and more in political parties, mass media and citizens’ discourse. With the acceptance and permeation of neo-liberal economic policies, the narrative that has emerged on the political and intellectual stage of India, has almost eclipsed (…)