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  Video: Reconceptualising India’s Environmental Paradigm | Global Forum for Democratizing Work & SBF

  13 November 2021

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  Reconceptualising India’s Environmental Paradigm | Global Forum for Democratizing Work & SBF by The Tryst https://youtu.be/XrSJ9erbcyg

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  Videos: The Pandora Papers - the 2021 revelations on high-level corruption and the offshore money machine | The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

  13 November 2021

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  Pandora Papers investigation alleges high-level corruption in India and Pakistan | DW News by DW News https://youtu.be/0RNOzs54KeM Play
  What are the Pandora Papers? by Washington Post https://youtu.be/BtMKezDN8iM

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 6, 2021

  5 November 2021

  * Japan’s imperial system faces existential crisis | Rajaram Panda
  * The Pathology of Standardized ‘Objective” Tests | Avijit Pathak
  * Tribute to Barun Das Gupta | Sankar Ray
  * Climate threat over South Asia | Jawed Naqvi

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Nov 6, 2021

  5 November 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, November 6, 2021
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise announcement at the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) UN conference in Glasgow, that India will achieve net-zero emissions of fossil carbon dioxide (CO2) by 2070 and that it would generate 50% of its power from renewable energy by 2030 and so on. Before making such commitments to the world, no discussions on the subject were held in India’s Parliament or with political parties nor any public (…)

• Barunda - a tribute

  5 November 2021, by Sankar Ray

  The end of mundane innings of Barun Das Gupta screeched a four-decade long association of mine to a permanent halt and Barunda like Jollyda- Jolly Mohan Kaul, an outstanding communist in the pre-split CPI– was a cricket lover who used to be glued to the TV screen during one-day matches. I knew about him as both of us used to write almost regularly for ‘This Fortnight’, edited by Raman Swamy. One day when I was the senior sub-editor of now-defunct Capital Weekly in the very early 1980s, BP (…)

• Gautam Navlakha shifted to high isolation zone in Prison - An open letter from Sahba Husain

  5 November 2021

  Gautam Navlakha, nearly 70, is one of the oldest of the Bhima Koregaon arrestees, who was shifted to the “Anda Circle” (high security) from the barracks on October 12, 2021. Additionally, his telephone calls to me and his lawyers, his lifeline to the outside world, have been discontinued on the pretext that physical mulaquats have resumed in jail.
  I, his partner, Sahba Husain, am over 70, and I live in Delhi. Travelling to Taloja Jail in Navi Mumbai frequently to meet him for the alloted (…)

• The Pathology of Standardized ‘Objective” Tests | Avijit Pathak

  5 November 2021, by Avijit Pathak

  It seems our academic bureaucrats and policymakers have forgotten the basic truth about the experience of learning and unlearning—wonder and awakening, or critical thinking and creative imagination. Or is it that they think that there is nothing beyond hard/technical/’objective’ facts, and every question that confronts a learner ought to have only one ‘correct’ answer? What else do you and I notice in the chronic obsession with the MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions) pattern of tests and exams (…)

• Japan’s imperial system faces existential crisis | Rajaram Panda

  5 November 2021, by Rajaram Panda

  Introduction
  Since the return of commoner Kei Komuro to Japan from the United States after a period of studying law, the talks of his impending wedding with his college girl friend Princess Mako, the eldest granddaughter of Emeritus Emperor Akihito and daughter of his second son Prince Akishino dominated headlines in leading Japanese newspapers. After a wait of three years, finally the two lovebirds tied the knot on 26 October in a simple ceremony devoid of any regalia normally associated (…)

• Weep For The Women In Afghanistan | TJS George

  5 November 2021, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  The greatest cookery advice came from, who else, the Chinese. It said: "Excess marks the amateur; subtlity signals the master chef. No ingredient must yield to another. Each should stand out proud and glorious."
  Distilled wisdom, that’s what this is. Food cooked on this principle can only be divine. The validity of the wisdom extends beyond the kitchen. All human activity is subject to the dictum, "subtlity signals the master." When that ingredient goes (…)

• Women at COPs: Journey So Far | Shweta Prasad

  5 November 2021

  by Shweta Prasad *
  Abstract The beginning of the COP 26 in Glasgow is a moment to pause for a minute and do a stock-taking of various commitments that need to go into the discussion related to emission cut and maintaining global warming at 1.5 degree. It is also a time to analyze critically the contributions women can make and their journey under the UNFCCC so far. Also, attention should be paid to making various instruments, policies, mechanisms etc. to achieve the gender-just target of (…)