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  A Woman’s Place is In The Resistance | Hanna Barczyk (2019)

  4 June 2021
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  Poster of the First Congress of National Movement for Emancipation of Women in Chile, 1937

  4 June 2021

  Afiche del Primer Congreso Nacional del Movimiento Pro Emancipación de las Mujeres de Chile, 1937
  Source: Biblioteca Nacional de Chile
  id MC: MC0023792

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  Sing Me A Song With Social Significance | Harold Rome and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union

  4 June 2021

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  Rose Marie Jun "Sing Me A Song With Social Significance".m4v by dominanefret https://youtu.be/nzgD2QvOdlk

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  Answering the call of the ocean: Artist Taloi Havini explores the sound of the sea

  4 June 2021

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  Answering the call of the ocean: Artist Taloi Havini explores the sound of the sea by FRANCE 24 English https://youtu.be/iIkl9-6qINk

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  Video: Fragments of a Past - Documentary on life & work of Comrade Mythili Sivaraman | Uma Chakravarti (2012)

  4 June 2021

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  Fragments of a Past by PSBT India https://youtu.be/-sTYlVC5dt4

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, May 29, 2021

  29 May 2021

  * Review NPR-NRC: Disruptive, expensive, impractical, illogical | SG Vombatkere
  * Return of the Military Memoir | Andrew Plowman
  * Music Suited to Party Line - Shostakovich paid a price | Harsh Kapoor

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 29, 2021

  29 May 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 29, 2021
  Cyclone Yaas struck India’s eastern coast on May 26, 2021. This has led to considerable dislocation and damage to thousands of homes in rural areas of Orissa and West Bengal. Some 1.2 million people were evacuated to shelters before the cyclone. The scale of damage assessment is still underway. One thing is clear, that greater frequency we are witnessing adverse weather events, and from what climate scientists predict this is going to be the (…)

• After the Supercyclone | Barun Das Gupta

  29 May 2021, by Barun Das Gupta

  Supercyclone Yaas made a landfall between Balasore and Paradip on May 26. Under its impact extensive damage to property, public as well as private was caused in both Odisha and the southern part of West Bengal. The Government of West Bengal undertook a massive evacuation of 1.5 million people from the areas which were to bear the main brunt of the storm. The districts most severely affected were Jhargram, West and East Medinipur and South 24-Parganas. Fourteen thousand relief camps were set (…)

• Interpreting the Narada Bribery Case | Arup Kumar Sen

  29 May 2021, by Arup Kumar Sen

  In his seminal text, State of Exception (The University of Chicago Press, 2005), Giorgio Agamben argued: “The question of borders becomes all the more urgent: if exceptional measures are the result of periods of political crisis and, as such, must be understood on political and not juridico-constitutional grounds...,then they find themselves in the paradoxical position of being juridical measures that cannot be understood in legal terms, and the state of exception appears as the legal form (…)

• India’s Self-Inflicted Catasrophe | T J S George

  29 May 2021, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS When times are normal, the quality of leadership is not on trial; even an unimaginative head of a country, an organisation, a family can get by. The situation changes when a threat looms. Covid created such a situation in India and the record shows that it was handled in a manner no one can be proud of.
  To a large extent, the situation was handled from a standpoint not of public good but of public relations. The result was that the people did not quite know what was (…)