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  Photo: Frida Kahlo in Mexico with Nayantara Sahgal and Rita Dar in 1947

  5 November 2021

• Architecture Without Architects | Bernard Rudofsky

  5 November 2021

  by Bernard Rudofsky *
  [rouge](Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture is a book based on the New York City MoMA exhibition of the same name by Bernard Rudofsky originally published in 1964.)rouge]
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  There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert’s art. The untutored builders in space and time – the protagonists of this show – demonstrate an admirable talent for fitting their buildings into the natural surroundings. (…)

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  Video: A Testimony On Nodeep Kaur | Ayan Mrinal

  5 November 2021

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  A Testimony by ayan mrinal https://vimeo.com/511779068/3feda29ace

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  Video: Martina Navratilova vs Chris Evert | Wimbledon 1978 Final | Full Match

  5 November 2021

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  Martina Navratilova vs Chris Evert | Wimbledon 1978 Final | Full Match by Wimbledon https://youtu.be/ZAYLmavIUqY

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 30, 2021

  29 October 2021

  * Pegasus Judgment: Milestone for Democratic Constitutionalism | Vijay Kumar
  * Footsteps of post-humanism | Pramod Ranjan
  * Compensating COVID Deaths: Undervalued Community Health Workers | Chemmalar
  * Cover-up of caste prejudices against Dalits | Vidya Bhushan Rawat
  * The Child and its enemies | Emma Goldman

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Oct 30, 2021

  29 October 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, October 30, 2021
  Nationalism, religion, and identity politics continue to divide people. Last week as the T20 cricket world cup tournament began, its managers imposed a well-meaning symbolic gesture on all participating teams ‘to take a knee’ in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the US that has challenged discrimination based on race. But within hours of such a gesture being televised at the start of the important Pakistan-India match, we (…)

• News of Anti-Christian Violence Precedes Modi in Vatican call | John Dayal

  29 October 2021, by John Dayal

  It is now official. The Kerala Catholic Bishops Conference has confirmed that Pope Francis, known to the Catholic community of the world as the Holy Father, will be meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi for thirty minutes in the Vatican this Saturday, 30th October. It is a courtesy call by Mr Modi, who will be in Rome for a scheduled international conference.
  The high profile scheduled meeting of US President Joe Biden with the Pope, has invited global interest because of the issue of a (…)

• Pegasus Judgment: Milestone for Democratic Constitutionalism | Vijay Kumar

  29 October 2021

  by Vijay Kumar
  After long time, marked by deference and deferment, the Supreme Court finally asserted itself and lived up to its constitutional role of sentinel on qui vive by appointing an expert committee headed by Justice R.V. Raveendran with wide mandate to look into the widespread violation of Right to Privacy through surveillance by Pegasus Spyware. The intervention of the Court has established the supremacy of rule of law over political will to power, to use the expression of (…)

• Footsteps of post-humanism | Pramod Ranjan

  29 October 2021

  by Pramod Ranjan *
  The Covid Pandemic has fundamentally transformed the way our world functions. And this transformation is not limited to just some things going online. It will bring about root-and-branch changes in every realm of human life.
  In our times, not only are inter-human relations changing but the relations between man and nature, man and other living tenants of this earth and between man and machine are also being reinterpreted.
  It is not that these changes have begun (…)

• Compensating COVID Deaths: A New Look at the Welfare of Essential yet Undervalued Community Health Workers | Chemmalar. S

  29 October 2021

  by Chemmalar. S *
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  Indispensability of health workers has deeply entrenched during the global pandemic situation which amplified the demand for their service to tide over the precarious condition. Realizing their moral imperative towards the society, health workers have put their own life in peril towards safeguarding the humanity. The clueless situation has raised the prominence of preserving the workforce of medical care to tide over the condition. Given the current pandemic, (…)