Mainstream WeeklyIt is with great concern and anguish we note that mosques and members of the Muslim community and their houses were attacked in different areas in Tripura. This is said to be retaliation for the unfortunate attacks on the Puja Pandals and on members of Hindu Community in Bangladesh during the recent Durga Puja festival.
We welcome the reports of statement of Tripura BJP spokesperson Nabendu Bhattacharya said that party workers, mainly from minority cell, “are keeping a close watch (…)
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Retaliation for Bangladesh Violence in Tripura: Condemnation and Lesson for Citizens - Statement by Concerned Citizens
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Supreme Court verdict on Pegasus snooping matter - CPI Statement (Oct 27, 2021)
29 October 2021Communist Party of India
New Delhi,
October 27, 2021
Press Release
CPI Welcomes SC Verdict on Pegasus
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India has issued today (on October 27, 2021) the following statement welcoming the Supreme Court verdict on Pegasus snooping matter:
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India welcomes the Supreme Court verdict appointing a three-member expert committee into the Pegasus snooping matter. The committee has been (…) -
Don’t Call “Slaughter-Free” Meat, “Fake Meat” | Martha Rosenberg
29 October 2021, by Martha Rosenbergby Martha Rosenberg *
What PR genius came up with the catchy, dismissive moniker “fake meat”? The term, along with the euphemistic “protein plants” for slaughterhouses, shows just how threatened meat producers have become by the legions now embracing plant-based meat....and the prospect of cultured meat coming up the rear.
There are many euphemisms for killing animals that seek to occlude the struggle and fight to the last breath that animals, who value their lives and don’t want to die, (…) -
Cutting-Jones Review of Katz-Rosene, Ryan M.; Martin, Sarah J., eds., Green Meat
29 October 2021BOOK REVIEW
by Hannah Cutting-Jones
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Green Meat? Sustaining Eaters, Animals, and the Planet
by Ryan M. Katz-Rosene, Sarah J. Martin, eds.
April 2020
272 pp.
ISBN 9780228001331
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. __0__
Green Meat? takes on a critically important and complex issue: whether meat can or should be part of a sustainable food system in a future clouded by climate change. Central to the debates laid out in this collection of essays are competing (…) -
The Child and its enemies | Emma Goldman
29 October 2021Originally published in Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906
Is the child to be considered as an individuality, or as an object to be moulded according to the whims and fancies of those about it? This seems to me to be the most important question to be answered by parents and educators. And whether the child is to grow from within, whether all that craves expression will be permitted to come forth toward the light of day; or whether it is to be kneaded like dough through external forces, (…) -
A poster from the Spanish Civil War "Peasant!: the revolution needs you..." | J Subirats
29 October 2021A Socialist UGT trade union poster (in Catalan) during the Spanish Civil War. "Peasant!: the revolution needs your efforts" by Josep Subirats
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Music: Letieres Leite & Orkestra Rumpilezz — "Taboão" - Rumos Música: Mapeamento (2011)
29 October 2021Play
Letieres Leite & Orkestra Rumpilezz — "Taboão" - Rumos Música: Mapeamento (2011) by Itaú Cultural https://youtu.be/VkYfo9mjTVU -
Sagina Mahto - the story of a tea estate labour leader | Tapan Sinha (1970) [Bengali film with English subtitles)
29 October 2021https://youtu.be/1yLmZEFYJEc
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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 23, 2021
23 October 2021* India’s Covid Death Toll: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics | K N Ninan
* Global Financial Architecture Underlies the Illegality of the Rich | Arun Kumar
* Online Dating Apps: Changes and Continuities in Gender Relations | Piyali Sur
* Do Not Falsify History by Linking Gandhi to Savarkar’s Mercy Petitions | S N Sahu -
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 23, 2021
23 October 2021Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, October 23, 2021
Sections of influential media in India do a disservice to society by not highlighting public issues in a transparent manner and not challenging the public postures of the Government or of powers that be when they appear to be one-sided. The Prime Minister spoke out to commend the Covid-19 vaccination drive reaching the 1 billion mark for the single dose of the covid-19 vaccination but didn’t tell us of the massive health & social (…)