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  Misinformation and Bias in the Name of NCERT Reforms - Statement by Indian History Congress | July 14, 2021

  16 July 2021

  The Indian History Congress
  Recently, the Rajya Sabha Secretariat came out with a notice stating that the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports (EWCY&S) has “taken up for examination and consideration the subject ‘Reforms in the Content and Design of School Text Books’ with focus on removing references to un-historical facts and distortions about national heroes; ensuring equal or proportionate references to all periods of Indian history and (…)

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  US Hands off From Cuba - Press Statement by All India Forward Bloc | July 14, 2021

  16 July 2021

  All India Forward Bloc - Central Committeee Netaji Bhawan T 2235/2, Ashok Nagar, Faiz Road, Karol Bagh New Delhi - 110005 www.forwardbloc.org
  PRESS RELEASE
  14th July 2021, New Delhi
  US, HANDS OFF FROM CUBA
  Over the past six decades the Cuba has been hit by the economic sanctions imposed by the US administration. The US attempts of putting “Maximum Pressure” on Cuban government and instigate the people for counter revolution are being thwart by the revolutionary people of Cuba again (…)

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 10, 2021

  9 July 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 10, 2021
  The week gone by saw a sudden news that a court in France had accepted a law suit filed by an NGO regarding possible corruption in the Rafale warplane sale deal between a French firm and the Indian government. This is good news for India’s opposition parties that have long demanded a parliamentary probe into this affair, it confirms some of their doubts. Given the current balance of forces in India’s Parliament it seems difficult to imagine (…)

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  Table of Contents, July 10, 2021

  9 July 2021

  * Union Cabinet Reshuffle and Its Impact on Bengal BJP | Barun Das Gupta
  * How to take on the BJP in 2024 | Sanjay Jha
  * Stan, now part of the Adivasi folklore of resistance->http:/et | John Dayal

• That Tear-Drop Of Love Matters | TJS George

  9 July 2021, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  July 4, 2021
  From Shah Jahan to Narendra Modi is a long way. But we need to take note of it because it is a journey dictated by history and, like all such journeys, it opens a window to the making of the country. It brings out the contradictions that made India now a triumph of mankind, now a misadventure. In many ways, it is something of a wonder that Shah Jahan’s India and Narendra Modi’s India are one and the same. But are they?
  Shah Jahan was no doubt a (…)

• Union Cabinet Reshuffle and Its Impact on Bengal BJP | Barun Das Gupta

  9 July 2021, by Barun Das Gupta

  The Union Cabinet was reshuffled on Wednesday. Four new Ministers of State were inducted from West Bengal and two sitting MoS were sacked. But this time also, West Bengal did not a get a cabinet rank minister in Modi’s team, though the State had sent a dozen and a half members to Lok Sabha in 2019. The new ministers from West Bengal have obviously been chosen with an eye on 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
  The inclusion of John Barla from North Bengal has raised many eyebrows even in the State BJP (…)

• To take on BJP in 2024, opposition needs a leader who’s proudly secular, leads without fear and enjoys a big fight | Sanjay Jha

  9 July 2021

  by Sanjay Jha *
  July 5, 2021
  Is ideology going to be the final arbiter of India’s destiny in 2024? Is a country of nearly 140 crore people today hypnotised by one individual largely because they know what he stands for? That it has nothing to do with moral grandstanding, rhetorical promises, oratorical flourish, campaigning style etc?
  Who cares for a V-shaped economy and transparent governance? All they want is a leader who walks the talk. They may not agree with him, they may even (…)

• Issues in stitching together an Opposition Front to BJP | P S Jayaramu

  9 July 2021, by P S Jayaramu

  by P. S. Jayaramu *
  2nd July, 2021
  There has emerged and is still emerging, plenty of writings about the need for stitching together an Opposition Front to take on the BJP behemoth in the Parliamentary elections of 2024. The need part is emphasised not only by opposition politicians who are seeing an opportunity to take on the Modi led BJP in the wake of its failure to unseat Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal recently and its not so impressive performance in the Tamilnadu election and even (…)

• Stan, now part of the Adivasi folklore of resistance - Judicial and Jail systems guilty in ’death by default’ | John Dayal

  9 July 2021, by John Dayal

  Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
  Stan Swamy died a prisoner in a Mumbai hospital, was cremated after a funeral Mass, and his ashes taken to his beloved people of Jharkhand to dispersed amidst the forests and the fields. Fr Stan Swamy, the Jesuit, has now become part of the Adivasi folklore of resistance. He is also a martyr to their cause of protecting their heritage, the ‘Jal, Jangal, Zameen’ [Water, Forest, Land] from the lusting eyes of the men in political power and their crony (…)

• Patriotism of those who have never been patriotic | Sukumaran C.V.

  9 July 2021, by Sukumaran C.V.

  The oppressive laws like the Sedition Clause of the IPC which is a colonial vestige and the UAPA which is the creation of ’democratic’ India make our democracy truly autocratic. It is now an open secret that the Maharashtra police under the then BJP-Shiv Sena government failed to curb the anti-social elements from disrupting the Bhima Koregaon commemoration event and causing violence in which one person was killed. Then alleging that the Elgar Parishad conclave incited the violence, the (…)