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  Book Review of Anand Teltumbde, The Caste Con Census | Srinivasulu Karli

  24 January, by Karli Srinivasulu

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  The Caste Con Census
  by Anand Teltumbde
  Navayana Publishing, New Delhi
  2025
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  Reviewed by Srinivasulu Karli
  There is a strong association made out in the existing discourse on caste in which caste data collected through the census is shown to be critical to the pursuance of social justice politics. This, of course, is sharply articulated by Rahul Gandhi with the slogan of ’jitni abadi, utna haq’ (rights proportionate to one

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  Climate Conversations interview with Ashish Kothari

  24 January
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  Born in Evin Prison, Iranian Author on Protests Against

  24 January

  Sahar Delijani, speaks on 2026 protests against the Authoritarian, Theocratic Regime in Iran | Democracy Now (January 22, 2026)

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  Jazz Music: Afrodisia (Afro Cuban) —Kenny Dorham

  24 January
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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jan 10, 2026

  10 January

  * Tributes to Prof. Satish Jain
  * Call for General Strike on Feb 12, 2026

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 10, 2026

  10 January

  For long years from the 1950s to the early 1980s, India was much respected among countries of the Third World and had a position of near leadership in the non-aligned movements. But those days are long gone, particularly after the collapse of the soviet union. From the early 1990s globalisation integrated India in the world economy in ways unknown in the past and gave it a new prominence in economic terms and as a market. This new emerging India had opened a door, giving it a space on the (…)

• Rewriting tradition on Intervention | Divya Rashmi

  10 January

  When Hugo Chavez was elected as the president in 1998, a movement swept through Venezuela, embarking on a journey that would emerge as the Bolivarian Revolution. The movement sought to reassert sovereignty over political decision-making, natural resources and regional alliances.
  Hugo Chavez named the movement after Simon Bolivar, the 19th-century Venezuelan leader who played a key role in the Latin American war of independence, and whose legacy was invoked as a symbol of sovereignty and (…)

• The Law That Eats Due Process: How UAPA Became India’s Preferred Tool for Preventive Detention | Varna Sri Raman

  10 January, by Varna Sri Raman

  7 Jan, 2026
  A 3.2% conviction rate, years of pre-trial imprisonment, and a legal architecture designed to deny bail

• Death Trap In India

  10 January

  The air quality index (AQI) in Delhi has deteriorated so sharply that a bench of the Supreme Court was forced to advise lawyers to argue their cases virtually rather than come in person to the court. Responding to a submission by a leading lawyer who stated that lawyers were forced to use face masks the court observed that even face masks were ineffective against such high air pollution levels.
  With Delhi air pollution levels breaching the severe plus category in December 2025 recording an (…)

• Sri Lankan Intellectuals express concern over attacks on Prime Minister

  10 January

  07 January 2026
  Stop Sinister Attacks on Prime Minister Amarasuriya
  Our attention is drawn to a vicious campaign of vilification and personalised attacks against Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, Sri Lanka