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  2001 Photo of Migrant Workers in Calcutta | Raghu Rai

  17 September 2021
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  Cartoon: Spreading Harmony Considered Subversive in Times of Hate | Rajendra Dhodapkar

  17 September 2021
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  Video: The Invisible Woman | Jayati Ghosh

  17 September 2021

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  The Berlin Wall, our family and us | DW Documentary

  17 September 2021

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Sept 11, 2021

  11 September 2021

  * Gandhi, Godot and Pandemic Plague | Muzaffar Assadi
  * Language Policy in India With Reference to Northeast Tribes | J J Roy Burman
  * Taliban get a government! | M K Bhadrakumar
  * The Kharasrota River Not for Sale | Bhabani Shankar Nayak
  * Some thoughts on the Ganesh festival and related matters | S G Vombatkere
  * A Sordid Saga of Caste And Backwardness Politics | P Radhakrishnan

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 11, 2021

  11 September 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, September 11, 2021
  For the past ten months farmers from Punjab, Haryana regions mostly but with support from other parts of India have been engaged in a protest movement against three farm laws brought in by the Modi Government. The most remarkable thing about this farmers agitation which started on November 26, 2020 has been that it has remained peaceful except for a few incidents of violence witnessed on the January 26, 2021. The Modi government and the (…)

• Azadi, Amrit Mahotsav & Savarkar | TJS George

  11 September 2021, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Those who have an ideological baggage to sell tend to overdo things, making them look foolish in the process. The latest example is the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and the way it fell into a booby trap. This is supposed to be a scholarly organisation with no links to politics and politicians. But it has now been pushed into taking political sides. The result is that the ICHR lost, and the political operators did not win.
  The objective of the ICHR is (…)

• Gandhi, Godot and Pandemic Plague: Interrogating Two Accusations | Muzaffar Assadi

  11 September 2021

  by Muzaffar Assadi
  Two accusations have been levelled against Gandhi while detailing the pandemic plague during the last century: that Gandhi had less concern about taking up the case of pandemic plague in India than in South Africa. Secondly, the plague was not the major reason that made him a nationalist leader.
  Gandhi went to South Africa in the year 1893. The plague spread to the Indian colony in South Africa in 1904. As part of apartheid policy, Indians were settled in an exclusive (…)

• Language Policy Issues in India With Some Reference to Northeast Tribes | J.J. Roy Burman

  11 September 2021, by J.J. Roy Burman

  The language issue has become a highly sensitive agenda in the nation building process all over the globe, India not excluded. According to Khare (2002) language being a channel of communication, it has two major roles in society. It influences distribution of power and wealth, particularly in an under literate society. It also acts as an emotional and culture cement for social bonding. The language issue in India has been a major prickly point of politics since the nation- state was founded (…)

• Taliban get a government! | M K Bhadrakumar

  11 September 2021, by M K Bhadrakumar

  September 8, 2021
  The regional states will be shell-shocked by the brazen way Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed, head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), coerced the Taliban to announce an interim government that is guaranteed to preserve Rawalpindi’s control over the levers of power in Kabul.
  There are several things to be noted about the so-called interim government announced by the Taliban on September 7. The “moderate” Taliban political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, supposedly (…)