Mainstream WeeklyIMPRESSIONS
May 21, 2021
Dear President Joe Biden,
I’m writing to you, President Joe Biden, as you are heading America, the world’s most powerful country and the supposed ‘super power’ as far as the military might is concerned. And I must also add that I was greatly relieved when you defeated Donald Trump in the presidential elections. In fact, immediately after your victory I wrote that rays of hope and survival rose, with you as (…)
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justice for the Palestinians - Letter to President Biden | Humra Quraishi
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Odisha’s Communist activist turned Sarvodaya Leader Rabi Dash Passes Away: A Tribute | Nava Kishor Das
22 May 2021by Nava Kishor Das
Odisha’s veteran Sarvodaya leader Rabi Dash breathed his last in Cuttack on Tuesday, 11 May 2021, after a prolonged health related complications. He is survived by his three daughters who are also variously engaged in social service activities, such as the movement for ‘right to information’.
The Naxalite turned Sarvodaya leader Rabi Dash of Odisha was a unique personality. As a social activist he had devoted his life to mitigate the sufferings of farmers, labourers, (…) -
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Have you written down my name? | Suhas Borker
22 May 2021, by Suhas BorkerI knocked on the door
Have you written down my name?
I realise that was a big mistake
Never walk blindly behind anyone
I lost the power to think independently
I can see the ship capsizing
and I want to live another day
I knocked on the door
Have you written down my name?
How long is the list now?
(Overheard a andhbhakt mediaperson speaking)
18 May 2021
Translated from the original in Hindi by the author
[Suhas Borker is Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV) and Convener, Working (…) -
Reclaiming a Revolutionary: Sarala Devi Chaudhurani; Interrogating Historiography | Deepti Priya Mehrotra
22 May 2021, by Deepti Priya MehrotraBOOK REVIEW
Geraldine Forbes—Lost Letters and Feminist History—The Political Friendship of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Sarala Devi Chaudhurani. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2020.
review by Deepti Mehrotra *
Early in 1920, 47-year-old Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and 50-year-old Mohandas K. Gandhi pledged to write each other at least one letter per day. The intensity of their correspondence, and friendship, lasted barely one year. During this time a few hundred letters passed between them, for (…) -
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An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis | James Baldwin (Nov 1970)
22 May 2021Letter from James Baldwin in New York Review of Books
November 19, 1970
Dear Sister:
One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that they would themselves spontaneously rise up and strike off the manacles. But, no, they appear to glory in their chains; now, more than ever, they appear to measure their safety in chains and corpses. And (…) -
Israeli Human Rights Group B’Tselem: Israel Is Committing War Crimes by Killing Civilians in Gaza | May 18, 2021
22 May 2021"Israel has chosen a two-tiered society. Violence is the inevitable result" by Hagai El-Ad in Washington Post
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Audio: Boris Kagarlitsky on the shifting political terrain in Russia | Radhika Desai - TRNN April 16, 2021
22 May 2021With so much disinformation floating around, and with so many media outlets filtering their coverage through the geopolitical interests of the West, it’s often difficult for interested audiences to know just what is going on in Russian politics today. From the COVID-19 pandemic to mass protests and the return of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in January, who suffered a near-fatal poisoning attack this summer, major political and economic shifts are taking place in Russia. Add to that the (…)
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A biographical film and readings about the life of Eleanor Marx
22 May 2021[1] The Film - Miss Marx
https://youtu.be/ra8M9fiqxqU
Synopsis: Miss Marx is a 2020 biographical film about Eleanor, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx, written and directed by Italian director Susanna Nicchiarelli.
The film focuses on the last stage of Eleanor’s life, her militancy to spread socialist ideas, her participation in workers’ struggles, and her approach to gender oppression from a class perspective.
Datasheet:
* Direction: Susanna Nicchiarelli. * Script: Susanna (…)