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  Photo of certificate for natives in British India that granted permission to sit in the presence of British officials

  1 October 2021
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  Cartoon: 74 year old Indian Democracy | Rajendra Dhodapkar

  1 October 2021
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  Video: The Truth Behind Online Schooling: Survey Shows Shocking Disparity for Under Privileged Kids in India

  1 October 2021

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  The Truth Behind Online Schooling: Survey Shows Shocking Disparity for Under Privileged Kids by The Wire https://youtu.be/oZl6LDlV75k

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  Implications of Taliban Rule in Afghanistan - A conversation with Ahmed Rashid (Sept 29, 2021)

  1 October 2021

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  The Taliban in Afghanistan: Political and Security Challenges by Carnegie Endowment https://youtu.be/usVTzji1c_0

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 25, 2021

  25 September 2021

  * USA’s Military Base in India: Security and Sovereignty issues | S G Vombatkere
  * Capitalism From Below: Blending of Rice and Rum| Radhakanta Barik
  * Remembering J Mohan | Sankar Ray
  * Dialectic of Negativity & Chapter 6 of Marx’s Capital | Paresh Chattopadhyay
  * Woman must work (1921) | Madeleine Pelletier

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 25, 2021

  25 September 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, September 25, 2021
  We have seen how the government or powerful interests are sensitive and nervous about data that shows them in poor light. Manipulation of statistics and numbers to manage and influence public perception is an old strategy. Data of famines or on election results in post-revolution Soviet Union or China was tightly controlled and held back. We saw the data scientists uncover large-scale fudging of data on the real numbers and estimates of (…)

• USA’s Military Base in India: Security and Sovereignty issues | S G Vombatkere

  25 September 2021, by S G Vombatkere

  by S.G.Vombatkere*
  USA may operationalize the 2016 Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA), by insisting on building a military base in India, for use as a staging area for beyond-the-horizon surveillance and “launching attacks on terrorists in and around Afghanistan”.
  The US Administration is embarrassed by its capitulation to Taliban (signing a peace treaty with Taliban at Doha, February 2020, to allow withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan), the sudden collapse of the US (…)

• Capitalism From Below: Blending of Rice and Rum | Radhakanta Barik

  25 September 2021, by Radhakanta Barik

  by Prof Radhakanta Barik*
  Rural Odisha is experiencing a new type of development which is missing from the research works by many. Here we are presenting a study of dynamics of rural economy in Odisha.
  Many people raise a question that Naveen Patnaik has not done anything for industrialisation of Odisha. But they are not right as the state of Odisha was in first stage of economic growth after colonial rule of Maratha and Britishers who destroyed the economy including the ship building (…)

• Per Capita Means Of Survival In Rural India Becoming Scarce | Gyan Pathak

  25 September 2021

  by Dr. Gyan Pathak
  (India Press Agency, September 22, 2021)
  The latest situation assessment of agricultural households and land and holdings of other households in rural India made by the NSS 77th round has revealed that per capita means of survival in rural India is dwindling fast and both farm and non-farm households are in great distress. It was the situation in 2019, which the COVID-19 induced lockdowns and containment measures further exacerbated.
  For the last several decades (…)

• Seven Essential Reforms The Government Must Not Delay | Bharat Dogra

  25 September 2021, by Bharat Dogra

  Keeping in view the increasing problems, distress and discontent in the country, some big policy changes and course-corrections in India are really overdue now. To bring the kind of change that the country needs at this stage, the Modi government should announce at least seven key reforms which will provide significant relief to distressed people and also help to end the strong sense of injustice that prevails among vast sections of society, while also helping to revive economy and protect (…)