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• A Grim Reality We Are Ignoring | Humra Quraishi

  14 January 2022, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  January10, 2022
  A Grim Reality We Are Ignoring — Many More Muslim-Haters Could Be In The Making!
  All those arrested or detained so far in the Sulli Deals and Bulli Bai app case are the young. Young students to be precise. How could they carry such perversion cum hatred cum communal anger for the ‘other’?
  This very, very vital crux needs to be studied? That’s a different story altogether who would bother to go into the very crux, in an atmosphere when communal poisoning is (…)

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  Continuing online harassment of women journalists - Statement by Editors Guild of India | Jan 11, 2022

  14 January 2022

  The Editors Guild of India condemns the continuing online harassment of women journalists, which includes targeted and organised online trolling as well as threats of sexual abuse. What is further disturbing is that most of these attacks are targeted at journalists who have been outspokenly critical of the current government and the ruling party, in an effort to silence them under the intimidation of such attacks. This is a travesty of all democratic norms, and in violation of law.

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  Why this largesse to these private TSPs, when the public sector telecom firms starve, Statement by AITUC

  14 January 2022

  Press Statement by National Secretariat of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) on 13 January 2022
  Central Government’s Vi settlement is criminal
  Reports appearing in the newspapers (IE, 12.01.2022) regarding the Central Government converting Rs.16000 Cr interest dues from Vi (Vodafone Idea) into equity shares are shocking.
  It was known that Vi owed the Government Rs.58254 Cr as Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) alone, plus penal interest for late payment. The operators (Vodafone (…)

• Education as Life Itself: Thoughts on Prof. Avijit Pathak’s Retirement from JNU | Aishwarya Bhuta

  14 January 2022

  by Aishwarya Bhuta *
  Prof. Avijit Pathak is a sociologist, educationist, and one of the most authentic thinkers in Indian academia. He is a former professor at the Centre for Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He joined the University in March 1990 and has recently retired after 31 years of teaching. The first time I saw Prof. Pathak was when I went to seek my admission at the Jawaharlal Nehru University for an MA in Development and Labour Studies in July 2019. I was (…)

• South Korea’s anti-feminism surge offers political gain, but long-term pain | Kaylin Kim

  14 January 2022

  by Kaylin Kim
  Despite being the first archer in Olympic history to win three gold medals at a single Games, An San received thousands of hate comments online. She was criticised not for her performance at the 2020 Olympics, but because of her short haircut and enrolment at Kwangju Women’s University. Commentors accused An of being a feminist, a label that is stigmatised by many South Koreans who associate the term with hating men.
  A man who attend a rally in celebration of International (…)

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  Cartoon: Uttar Pradesh Based Kalashnikov Factory in India | Hemant Morparia (Jan 3, 2022)

  14 January 2022
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  Photos: Raymond Depardon’s perspective of Hanoi 1992

  14 January 2022
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  Video: Political Economy and its Fallacies - Why Critiques and Rethinking Matter | Utsa Patnaik

  14 January 2022

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  Agrarian South 10th Anniversary Lecture Political Economy and its Fallacies by Agrarian South Network https://youtu.be/Kl90tygQeR8

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  Audio: Ballad | Shiv Kumar Sharma

  14 January 2022

  Shiv Kumar Sharma, widely considered the greatest santoor player

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  Documentary: The GDR defector and the Bulgarian border guard

  14 January 2022

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  The GDR defector and the Bulgarian border guard | DW Documentary by DW Documentary https://youtu.be/rHrdFc9kC7M