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• Abode of Beauty! | Ajit Das

  8 October 2021

  Where does beauty actually lie?
  If it is in the ‘eyes of the beholder’,
  do the searching eyes find it only
  in the hills, snow capped peaks,
  blooming flowers, flowing streams,
  far away from the quotidian?
  Or does it also dwell in the close,
  intimate shot of the moment
  focussed by mundane niceties
  of the marginalised existence
  that invites for a poetic journey
  to discover the beauty of the banal?
  — Ajit Das

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  Picture: members of the Sky Watchers’ Association, Calcutta - Photo: Amit Datta (The Telegraph, Oct 3, 2021)

  8 October 2021

  File picture of members of the Sky Watchers’ Association, Calcutta Photo: Amit Datta
  The Writing on the Sky by Bitan Sikdar (The Telegraph, 03.10.21) https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/the-writing-on-the-sky/cid/1833175

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  Photo from 1950s of three well known Hindi writers: Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Sumitra Nandan Pant and Ramdhari Singh Dinkar

  8 October 2021
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  Caricature: Congratulations to Abdulrazak Gurnah for the Nobel Prize | Jayaraj Vellur

  8 October 2021, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Video: This is what a year of climate disasters looked like in 2021

  8 October 2021

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  This is what a year of climate disasters looked like by Channel 4 News https://youtu.be/xeY9miTqzEA

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  Video: Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on Afghanistan Withdrawal

  8 October 2021

  [28 Sept 2021]
  US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley, and U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander General Kenneth McKenzie testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee at a hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal.

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  Farmers Rap - Young Daku

  8 October 2021

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  Farmers Rap - Young Daku by YoungDaku https://youtu.be/uv2xKlg1n6w

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  Video: Daring to Hope - Feminist Historian Sheila Rowbotham looks back at the early days of the women’s liberation movement in Britain

  8 October 2021

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  Daring to Hope: Liberating Women by ideaXme https://youtu.be/PjIQ4UEtwbI

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 2, 2021

  1 October 2021

  * In Memory of Kamla Bhasin: Sept 24, 2021 | John Dayal
  * Leadership Change in Punjab: Some Reflections | Prem Singh
  * How UBI can make a difference to workers lives | Sandeep Kaur, Nandlal Mishra
  * We are 99% | BB Ghosh
  * My father was brutally killed by the Taliban | Muska Najibullah
  * CNDP Statement on AUKUS and Quad

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Oct 2, 2021

  1 October 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, October 2, 2021
  The farmers’ movement was in the news again for its a national day of strike action on September 27, 2021. It is now ten months since this huge mobilisation appeared on the borders of Delhi. The news media may have stopped giving coverage to the farmers agitation but the mobilisation continues. Tens of thousands of peasants from mostly Punjab and some from Haryana and Parts of UP stay camped in the outer limits of Delhi. The long agitation (…)