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• Fascist Mussolini Murdered A Socialist Novelist | V M Mohanraj

  12 March 2021

  by V M Mohanraj
  Key Words: Mussolini, Fascist, Reformation, Novel, Cardinal, Italy, Socialist, Europe Few are aware that Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was a socialist before his reincarnation as the founder of the fascist party and eventually the dictator of Italy. And fewer still know that during the period of his life when he was a socialist, he edited the party’s mouthpiece and had even authored a novel which I came across by chance. Naturally, therefore, it piqued my curiosity (…)

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  Review of Rashme Sehgal’s The Flower Seller of Ganeshpuri | Enakshi Ganguly

  12 March 2021

  Reviewed by Enakshi Ganguly *
  The Flower Seller of Ganeshpuri by Rashme Sehgal Mahanadi Books. 2020 [ Available via Amazon]
  Indians love visiting religious destinations. Pilgrims are invited to explore sacred places. The sacred temple of Swami Nityananda who died in 1961 is located in the small village of Ganeshpri around 80 kilometres north of Mumbai and has emerged as a hub for pilgrims from across the world.
  Each of these pilgrim centres has a vast tribe of service providers who (…)

• In February 1921 the Kronstadt sailors issued a list of demands, including the restoration of freedom of speech from the ruling Bolsheviks

  12 March 2021

  Demands of the Kronstadt Insurgents. February 28, 1921
  Demands expressed in the “Resolution of the General Meeting of the Crews of the Ships of the Line, Kronstadt”
  Original Source: Pravda o Kronshtadte (Prague: Volia Rossii, 1921), pp. 46-7.
  Having heard the report of the representatives of the crews dispatched by the General Meeting of the crews from the ships to Petrograd in order to learn the state of affairs in Petrograd, we decided:
  1. In view of the fact that the present (…)

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  Audio: Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 and the UN - Interview with Arthur S. Lall by Jean Krasno

  12 March 2021

  In the 1950s, Arthur Samuel Lall (India, 1911 – 1998) became the Indian Consul General and its Permanent Representative to the United Nations. As diplomat, he was able to help the newly independent India come to the forefront of international affairs. An activist against the use of nuclear weapons, Mr Lall represented India at the Conference of the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament in 1962. He was the author of several books, including The UN and the Middle East Crisis, 1967 and The (…)

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  Video: ’Bangabandhu & Visions of Bangladesh’ - Talk by Prof Amartya Sen & Comments by Prof Rehman Sobhan

  12 March 2021

  LSE South Asia Centre Webinar on Jan 27, 2021:
  Professor Amartya Sen speaks on ‘Bangabandhu & Visions of Bangladesh’ to commemorate the Birth Centenary (2020–21) of the Founding Father of Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
  This event is in collaboration with the Bangladesh High Commission in the United Kingdom.
  PANELISTS
  Professor Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics & Philosophy, Harvard University. (…)

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Mar 6, 2021

  5 March 2021

  * ’Marry The Rapist, No Sir’ Feminists Call for Chief Justice of India to Step Down
  * New Language of Politics of the Left | Arup Kumar Sen
  * Message of Chauri Chaura: Violence or Nonviolence ? | Siby K. Joseph
  * Democratization in Myanmar and the Rohingya Issue (2011-2021) | Nazia Khan
  * Book Review: Indian Left in a Pit - The Way Out? Prof Achin Vanaik Examines | Sukla Sen

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Mar 6, 2021

  5 March 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 6, 2021
  What business does the Chief Justice of India have asking a rape accused in Court whether he would marry the victim? This is shocking, to say the least for people with a democratic & liberal mind-set, but they seem a minority in India today. Such views represent a base misogynist instinct of people in most backward societies. Who gave the Chief Justice the authority to speak like this? Was the consent of the victim sought?. There has (…)

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  Letter from Feminists Calling for Chief Justice of India for Stepping Down For Asking Rapist to Marry Victim (March 2, 2021)

  5 March 2021

  OPEN LETTER FROM FEMINISTS AND WOMEN’S GROUPS
  March 2, 2021
  To, The Chief Justice of India, Justice S.A. Bobde.
  Hon’ble Chief Justice of India,
  Shri Sharad Arvind Bobde,
  We the representatives of India’s women’s movements and concerned citizens, are appalled and outraged at the remarks made by you during the hearing in Mohit Subhash Chavan vs. The State of Maharashtra & Anr. on 1st March 2021, as reported by the media.
  You were hearing the petition for protection from arrest, (…)

• New Language of Politics of the Left | Arup Kumar Sen

  5 March 2021, by Arup Kumar Sen

  On the eve of the assembly elections, West Bengal has witnessed a new development in the domain of politics. The Left-Congress alliance fought the assembly elections in 2016 as a united front. The new development prior to the assembly elections of 2021 is that a new party - Indian Secular Front (ISF) – floated about a month back by a prominent preacher of a well-known religious shrine in Bengal (Furfura Sharif), Abbas Siddiqui, has joined the alliance as a third party. Reportedly, the ISF (…)

• Anandavalli Differs From Adityanath | TJS George

  5 March 2021, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Introspection has caught me. Week after week, I criticise our leaders. Is this right? After all, they are in power because they have the support of a majority of citizens. If I dislike them, it means I am in a minority. In the democracy that is India, the minority must yield to the majority. That is, I must swallow my minority view and submit to the majority view.
  But minorities also must have their place in the sun. That is why I feel good about Anandavalli, a sweeper (…)