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• Tales of falsely implicated / Talks with The Kashmiris | Humra Quraishi

  2 July 2021, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS June 30, 2021
  For the last few hours, I have been reading this latest book on the situation of the prisoners. In fact, the very title of this book — Innocent Prisoners. Begunah Qaidi. Stories of Muslim Youth Falsely Implicated In The 7/11 Train Blasts and Other Terror Cases (Pharos Media) — relays the stark reality to those sitting implicated and imprisoned.
  This book has been authored by one of the former prisoners, Abdul Wahid Shaikh, who was himself implicated in the 11 July (…)

• Share Buy-Back: Wealth Maximisation Disinvestment a Bonanza for Government | Dhameja & Dhameja

  2 July 2021

  by Nand L. Dhameja and Manish Dhameja*
  Share Buy-Back is a simple way to reduce share capital. By this process, the company buys-back its shares and pays from its own cash or by borrowing for the purpose. This enables the company to reduce its capital, extinguishes the extra shares which it does not require; The process is normally followed by companies which are rich in cash, or are in a position to raise funds from the market and it enables it to reduce the capital it does not require, (…)

• Let’s sanitise | Devaraju Maharaju (translation Anishetty Shankar)

  2 July 2021

  Written in Telugu by Prof. Devaraju Maharaju
  (Original Telugu title "Deshanni sanitise Cheddam" and published in Telugu daily, "Prajashakthi" on April 24, 2021)
  English translation: Anishetty Shankar
  Editorial revision: LK Sharma
  A new virus attacked this country Be careful! This would hunt question and kill it. It openly attacks the Other. It does not let us breath in or breathe out, It conducts repeated blood test, snatches the few rupees you have, makes you penniless and throws (…)

• The Coup We Are Not Talking About | Shoshana Zuboff

  2 July 2021

  by Shoshana Zuboff
  We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.
  29 Jan 2021 – Two decades ago, the American government left democracy’s front door open to California’s fledgling internet companies, a cozy fire lit in welcome. In the years that followed, a surveillance society flourished in those rooms, a social vision born in the distinct but reciprocal needs of public intelligence agencies and private internet companies, both spellbound by a (…)

• No God, No Boss, No Husband - said the Anarcha-Feminists of Buenos Aires in 1890s

  2 July 2021

  by Anarcho
  The world’s first explicitly anarchist-feminist group was created as part of the thriving nineteenth-century Anarchist movement in Argentina. It produced the first anarcha-feminist newspaper, La Voz de la Mujer. Sadly, the history of anarchist-feminism in Argentina has rarely been acknowledged, at best mentioned in passing, at worse ignored or forgotten.
  La Voz de la Mujer was published in Buenos Aires only nine times, beginning on January 8, 1896 and ending almost exactly (…)

• What is an Apparatus? and Other Essays | Giorgio Agamben

  2 July 2021

  by Giorgio Agamben
  2006
  9.
  From this perspective, capitalism and other modern forms of power seem to generalize and push to the ex­treme the processes of separation that define religion. If we consider once again the theological genealogy of apparatuses that I have traced above (a genealogy that connects them to the Christian paradigm of oikono­mia, that is to say, the divine governance of the world), we can then see that modern apparatuses differ from their traditional predecessors in (…)

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  Photo of Comrade Sak at a Communist Party Public meeting at Trafalgar Square, 25 october 1924

  2 July 2021
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  Purples from Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours painted by Patrick Syme (1821)

  2 July 2021

  In the late 18th century, German mineralogist Abraham Werner devised a standardized scheme for classifying colors which was later adapted and revised in the 19th century by Scottish painter Patrick Syme (1821).

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  Krish - A Films Division Documentary on Ramanathan Krishnan

  2 July 2021

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  Krish by Films Division https://youtu.be/6-LR7X3oRtY
  Director: Yash Chaudhary
  Films Division: 1970

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  Audio: On the Glorification of Motherhood and the Taboo Against Being Childfree | Amrita Nandy

  2 July 2021

  The Swaddle · In Conversation With Dr. Amrita Nandy