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• Capital, governments, multilateral agencies and non-governmental organizations | Pradip Baksi

  4 February 2022

  by Pradip Baksi
  Abstract:
  Contemporary transnational capital aims at full spectrum dominance over the entire political economy of our planet. We learn from the first sentence of the Foreword of Karl Marx (1859), Zur Kritik derPolitischen Ökonomie: Erstes Heft, that he wished to critically investigate the system of bourgeois economy involving the six domains of capital, landed property, wage-labour, state, foreign trade and world market. Critical investigations on the contemporary system (…)

• Myanmar: while the world sits on its hands, people fight military junta with violence and silence | Ronan Lee

  4 February 2022

  by Ronan Lee
  January 31, 2022
  A year after a military coup, Myanmar remains mired in conflict. The country’s military, the Tatmadaw, has failed to convince most of Myanmar’s 55 million people of the legitimacy of its rule. Anti-coup resistance continues to be widespread nationwide.
  The anniversary will be marked within Myanmar by a “silent strike”, with participants acknowledging those jailed or killed by the junta during the last year by avoiding public space, leaving Myanmar’s (…)

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  Music: Nani Nana by Sundar Popo

  4 February 2022

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  Sundar Popo - Nani Nana by surinamheritage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22T_K_PrhC0

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  Video: The History of the Dutch Slave Trade 1600- 1863

  4 February 2022

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  The History of the Dutch Slave Trade 1600- 1863 by Timescape Indonesia https://youtu.be/6icWBxDVgLg

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jan 29, 2022

  28 January 2022

  * Democracy is Inconceivable Without Rights | Vijay Kumar
  * Kerala: Male bias behind acquittal of Bishop Franko Mulakkal | Sukumaran CV
  * Pressing Issues before Budget 2022-23 | Sarma & Sunder
  * Amendments to Biodiversity Legislation Weaken Conservation | Soma Marla
  * Letter to President of India - alternative proposal on Bose Statue at India Gate

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Jan 29, 2022

  28 January 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, January 29, 2022
  At the time of the 2014 or the 2019 national elections, the Narendra Modi’s BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) promised the moon, millions of jobs, and welfarist measures which failed to appear on a required scale, but this has not evoked much adverse social reaction or protest in India. There have been scattered regional protests that have come up, on single issues and these are mostly blocked out in the national media. We hardly (…)

• The Odd thing about the assassins and their worldviews are that they think they have Killed Gandhi | S N Sahu

  28 January 2022, by S N Sahu

  In 1968 after the tragic killing of Martin Luther King the Chicago Sun-Times published a cartoon showing assassinated Mahatma Gandhi talking to assassinated Martin Luther King in the heavens and telling, “The odd thing about assassins, Dr. King, is that they think they’ve killed you.”
  That cartoon is so appropriate in today’s India, often called New India of Modi regime, marked by vilification of Gandhi, glorification of his assassin and deafening silence of those claiming to be the (…)

• Democracy is Inconceivable Without Rights | Vijay Kumar

  28 January 2022, by Vijay Kumar

  The recent speech of the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi exhorting the citizens of this country to discharge their duty and his calculated attack on the assertion of their rights has grave implications for the very survival of democracy. Disregarding all the evidence, Prime Minister Modi asserted that the culture of asserting for their rights is impeding the development of the country, and a prosperous future could be secured only through the enforcement of duty. This statement has an ominous (…)

• Kerala: Male bias in the judiciary led to acquittal of Bishop Franko Mulakkal | Sukumaran C.V.

  28 January 2022, by Sukumaran C.V.

  The Sessions Court verdict that acquitted Bishop Franko Mulakkal who was accused of raping a nun, by casting aspersions on the character of the nun, unequivocally proves the masculine bias of the judiciary.
  The revolt of Nora, the protagonist of the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece play A Doll’s House, was a thunderbolt to the male-centric social and moral ethos of Europe. In the notes made for the play in 1878, Ibsen says: “a woman cannot be herself in the society of the (…)

• Pressing Issues before Budget 2022-23 | Sarma & Sunder

  28 January 2022

  by Atul Sarma, Shyam Sunder *
  Budget 2022-23 has to be framed under the shadow of three sets of pressing issues. One relates to the devastating economic impact of Covid-19, the second to restoring growth and putting the economy on a higher growth trajectory and the other to a few major issues emanating from the above two needing urgent government attention.
  Covid-19 exposed utter inadequacy in health infrastructure and health personnel in the country. This is not the first pandemic nor (…)