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• Supreme Court’ Intervention Is Cri De Coeur of Hour | Vijay Kumar

  29 May 2021

  by Vijay Kumar *
  The suo motu cognizance taken by the Supreme Court and it’ detailed order on 30th April seeking numerous relevant information on multiple issues concerning deadly second wave of covid-19 and already ongoing judicial scrutiny have triggered criticism by Advocates and intellectuals deemed close to the regime. In particular, Subhash C. Kashyap, former secretary-general of Lok Sabha and constitutional expert, in his Article “Why the Judiciary must step back” (17th May, (…)

• Bengal is witnessing a class war between centrist and rightist forces | Arun Srivastava

  29 May 2021, by Arun Srivastava

  by Arun Srivastava
  Some intellectuals and academics have been urging the leaders of the farmers’ movement to heed the message that intensification of protest would aggravate pandemic and in view of this they should call off their agitation. These people symbolising the middle class liberal cultural sensibility and concern are right. Of course fears outright could not be dismissed that some farmers would succumb to the corona virus. But once they withdraw the movement thousands of them (…)

• Dinesh Mohan, Keswani and Bahuguna Were United in Their Quests for Preventing and Reducing Accident-Related Distress | Bharat Dogra

  29 May 2021, by Bharat Dogra

  On May 21 India, and humanity, lost three distinguished persons who had made great contributions in their own chosen fields. Dinesh Mohan contributed greatly to biomedical engineering and transport planning. Rajkumar Keswani was a famous journalist. And we hardly need to introduce Bahuguna as one of the most distinguished environmentalists of our times.
  Very different areas of work, you may say, and you are right. But it so happens that all of them were united by a common quest also of (…)

• Saving Mother Teresa. . . | Sujit Chakraborty

  29 May 2021

  by Sujit Chakraborty
  This is the real-life story of how one single newspaper report had saved Mother Teresa when she was fighting for life in a Calcutta hospital in 1989, down with Plasmodium falciparum. It is an intriguing story of medical games, first by a team of doctors who could do nothing to bring her back from the jaws of almost sure death, and then a second round of end-game by a top doctor in replacing that team by his own team headed by his wife
  A deep, sinking feeling gripped (…)

• Fear of the cops / Identity politics / Simple things | Humra Quraishi

  29 May 2021, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS - 26 May, 2021
  For several minutes at a stretch, I have been seeing photographs of the dead teenaged vegetable vendor, Faisal Hussain. He was killed last week in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district. Mind you, he wasn’t killed by gangsters but by cops in the Uttar Pradesh police force. Why? Because he was seen selling vegetables near his home in these Corona-ridden times. He could have been reprimanded but he was beaten to death by men in khaki. Call it State terrorism or custodial (…)

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  Initiate Formation of a National Government - CFD’s Letter to the President of India

  29 May 2021

  CITIZENS FOR DEMOCRACY (CFD) GPF, 221-3 Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, New Delhi-110002 “Ashadeep”, XI Cross, Saptapur, Dharwad – 580001, Karnataka Email: srhiremath1944[at]gmail.com Ph: 94481 45930 _________________________________________________________________
  NO. 251/CFD-NG/2021-22
  May 12, 2021
  1. Hon’ble President of India, Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi 2. Hon’ble Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court of India, New Delhi 3. Hob’le Chairman of Rajya Sabha, Parliament Bhavan, New (…)

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  Press Release by All India Trade Union Congress - May 26, 2021

  29 May 2021

  All India Trade Union Congress
  Press Release
  The following statement was issued to the press by Ms. Amarjeet Kaur, General Secretary, AITUC today on 26th May 2021.
  AITUC congratulates kisans, workers, students, youth, front line workers for making
  26th May 2021 a memorable “BLACK DAY for INDIAN DEMOCRACY”
  The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) and the CTUs, independent sectoral federations/associations had given a call to observe 26th May 2021 as a Black Day for Indian Democracy. That is (…)

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  Instead of export, foodgrains must be used for ensuring food security of Indians | Statement by Right to Food Campaign - May 23, 2021

  29 May 2021

  Right to Food Campaign Secretariat Email: righttofoodindia[at]gmail.com | Mobile: 8527359760 Landline: 011-41613468
  23 May, 2021
  As the surge of Covid-19 continues and spreads to rural areas, along with lockdowns in most parts of the country, we are once again witnessing severe economic distress amongst people, especially informal sector workers in both urban and rural areas. The situation is even worse this time, compared to last year, as the burden of healthcare expenses is also high, (…)

• Covid 19 Management and Scientific Temper | Ram Puniyani

  29 May 2021, by Ram Puniyani

  by Ram Puniyani
  With the outbreak of Covid 19, one of the earliest claims for its treatment came from Baba Ramdev. Baba Ramdev is the leading Baba who is also close to the ruling dispensation. He began becoming popular with his Yoga exercises and later took up the manufacture of medicines etc. including cow products. He has come to stand in the row of leading Corporate of the country. He learned his craft of Yoga from his Guru. His colleague Acharya Balkishan is the one who is his partner (…)

• Lifelong Learning To Prevent Annihilation of Indigenous Culture In Lakshadweep | Ratheesh Kaliyadan

  29 May 2021

  by Dr. Ratheesh Kaliyadan * Lifelong education fosters active and informed citizenship which is one of the crucial protective measures in a misinformed and threat posed democracy (UIL, 2020). There are many kinds of pathways for misinformation flow. Ruling environment generated ones and opposition generated ones are the two ways of misinformation transmissions. Lakshadweep becomes an experimental epicenter of both pathways. This smallest Union Territory of India, earlier known as Laccadive (…)