Mainstream WeeklyIn recent years increasing medical evidence has poured in regarding the serious adverse health impacts of prolonged standing and these advese impacts have been noticed in many lines of work as a serious occupational risk. Women workers are even more vulnerable than men workers.
In this context, The Tamil Nadu Government deserves praise for recently introducing an amendment in the Works and Establishment Act 1947 by adding section 22A which reads—“The premises of any establishment shall (…)
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Urgent Need to Follow Up Tamil Nadu and Kerala Initiatives on Right to Sit for Workers | Bharat Dogra
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Review Essay: Partha Chatterjee’s take on Nationalism & Popular Sovereignty | Adityaprava Mozumder
17 September 2021Review Essay
by Adityaprava Mozumder
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’The truths and lies of Nationalism:
As narrated by Charvak
by Partha Chatterjee
Permanent Black
in association with Ashoka University, New Delhi
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I am the people: Reflections on popular sovereignty today
by Partha Chatterjee
Columbia University Press, New York
2020, 208 Pages
ISBN: 9780231195492
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Partha Chatterjee, one of the leading scholars who has contributed immensely to the study of political (…) -
What internal strife can do | Humra Quraishi
17 September 2021, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
15 September 2021
As my Abba Jaan rests in his grave in a qabaristan in Uttar Pradesh, I sit back and thank our Creator that my father is not here to witness the horrifying communal build-ups in my home state, Uttar Pradesh. What, with today’s ruling lot hell bent on ruining the lives of hundreds and thousands of our fellow citizens.
Instead of paying heed to the dying children of Firozabad and the adjoining areas of the Western Uttar Pradesh belt, the rulers are busy (…) -
Income Tax “surveys” at the offices of news websites NewsClick and Newslaundry | Statement by Editors Guild (Sept 11, 2021)
17 September 2021The Editors Guild of India Address: 4/7- A, INS Building, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001
PRESS STATEMENT
September 11, 2021
The Editors Guild of India is deeply disturbed about the Income Tax “surveys” at the offices of news websites NewsClick.in and Newslaundry.com
On September 10, 2021, teams of IT officials visited the offices of the two organisations and conducted investigations through the day. While they were officially labelled as “surveys” by the IT officials, but as per the (…) -
Tasks Before the Left Today | D. Raja
17 September 2021, by D RajaThe Communist movement in India is almost a century old now and remains an important actor in the Indian political scene. From fighting the British imperialists to the inequalities of the Indian society, the Communist Left is one force which was at the forefront of these struggles and gave it a progressive ideological shape. After Independence too, through its leadership of the working class, peasant, youth, students and women’s movements it continued to be a major progressive force and (…)
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India and the Taliban regime In Afghanistan | P. S Jayaramu
17 September 2021by P. S Jayaramu *
(September 13, 2021)
Events in Afghanistan culminating with the withdrawal of American troops in a hasty manner and the swiftness with which the Taliban took control of the capital city of Kabul with no resistance from the Afghan militia in the absence of backup support by American soldiers has led to widespread analysis about the pros and cons of the development. While I dealt with this theme in a previous article in these columns calling it an abdication of the Biden (…) -
Taliban face a Hobbesian choice | Apratim Mukarji
17 September 2021, by Apratim MukarjiOne month since they grabbed power in Kabul, the Taliban have been increasingly called to sort out growing contradictions both within the group and with Pakistan, their sole mentor and manipulator.
A Taliban commander has blurted out against the ISI for trying to dominate the new government in Afghanistan, alleging that the ISI Director-General Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed exerted his influence and command over the Taliban to such n extent that he was able in th end to prevent the (…) -
Russia’s ‘Foreign Agent Act’: State Justification Against Media Reaction | R G Gidadhubli
17 September 2021by R.G.Gidadhubli*
September 7, 2021
On the 27th August 2021 a group of independent media in Russia including Forbes, Novaya Gazeta, Dozhd, and Meduza – issued six demands, including the rescinding of the Russian a law labeling certain independent media and journalists as “Foreign Agents”. This was in response to the policy of the Russian Government which has recently amended the law known as ‘Foreign Agent’ act passed in 2012 and modified repeatedly. An effort has been made to (…) -
The Aesthetics of Silence | Susan Sontag (1967)
17 September 2021by Susan Sontag (1967)
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Every era has to reinvent the project of "spirituality" for itself. (Spirituality = plans, terminologies, ideas of deportment aimed at the resolution of painful structural contradictions inherent in the human situation, at the completion of human consciousness, at transcendence.)
In the modern era, one of the most active metaphors for the spiritual project is "art." The activities of the painter, the musician, the poet, the dancer et al, once they were grouped (…) -
1914 Medical Illustration on Bandaging the Thumb - page 13 in Practical bandaging, including adhesive and plaster-of-paris dressings by Eldridge L. Eliason
17 September 2021