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  The Origin of Democracy, Socialism and Fascism | Sukumaran C.V.

  21 January 2022, by Sukumaran C.V.

  BOOK REVIEW
  One of the most pernicious aspects of standard world-historical narratives is precisely that they dry everything up, reduce people to cardboard stereotypes, simplify the issues in ways that themselves undermine, possibly even destroy, our sense of human possibility....One problem with evolutionism is that it takes ways of life that developed in symbiotic relation with each other and reorganizes them into separate stages of human history. By the late nineteenth century, it was (…)

• Taking Leave | Sagari Chhabra

  21 January 2022, by Sagari Chhabra

  My child asks, ‘when leaves fall do they cry?’
  ‘Not that I know’, I reply.
  ‘Then do they sigh?’
  They rustle in the wind
  and feed the microbes
  invisible as a djinn.
  They nourish the soil
  in which the tree is grounded,
  this is what in nature, is founded.
  We are surrounded
  by interbeing,
  interlinked, without ever seeing.
  The leaves do not die,
  they only change appearances,
  without so much as a sigh.
  In the beginning it is seen,
  the leaves are green;
  then they turn
  as they (…)

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  Caricature: Rosa Luxemburg | Jayaraj Vellur

  21 January 2022
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  Caricature: Tribute to Birju Maharaj | Jayaraj Vellur

  21 January 2022

• Black holes: we think we’ve spotted the mysterious birth of one | Daniel Perley

  21 January 2022

  January 12, 2022
  Astronomers are increasingly drawing back the curtains on black holes. In the past few years, we have finally captured actual photos of these fearsome creatures and measured the gravitational waves – ripples in spacetime – that they create when colliding. But there’s still a lot we don’t know about black holes. One of the biggest enigmas is exactly how they form in the first place.
  My colleagues and I now believe we have observed this process, providing some of the best (…)

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  Astor Piazzolla - Las cuatro estaciones porteñas

  21 January 2022

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  A Time to Rise - documentary on 1980s struggle to establish the Canadian Farmworkers Union | Anand Patwardhan

  21 January 2022

  A documentary about the 1980s struggle to establish the Canadian Farmworkers Union

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jan 15, 2022

  14 January 2022

  * Is the nation in crisis? | S G Vombatkere
  * On Punjab elections and farmers participation | Chaman Lal
  * Remembering the Rupaspur-Chandwa Massacre| Anand Chakravarti
  * Modi Against Kashi | Radhakanta Barik

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Jan 15, 2022

  14 January 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, January 15, 2022
  The Dates for the 2022 State Assembly elections have been announced by the Election Commission of India for the states of Uttar Pradesh (UP), Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa, and Manipur, these would be held between Feb 10 and March 7 with counting slated for March 10. The coming elections matter in every state but in UP they are of special importance, given that it is politically the most influential state of India – with the largest population (…)

• Is the nation in crisis? | S G Vombatkere

  14 January 2022, by S G Vombatkere

  At the Dharam Sansad conducted at Haridwar, December 17-19, 2021, by Hindu sants and seers, there were calls for killing Muslims to cleanse Indian society. These are calls for genocide. Speakers also called upon army and police personnel to take up arms to kill Muslims. One speaker reportedly called for socio-economic boycott of Indian Muslims, and stated that governments will have to accept and implement this call, failing which a war more gruesome than the 1857 uprising in India against (…)