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• You don’t Know Anything About That Other ‘Religion’, Mr Minister! | Sri Ram Pandeya

  6 February 2021, by Sri Ram Pandeya

  A union minister tweeted the following a few days back: “Playing 109 balls to score 7! That is atrocious, to say the least. Hanuma Bihari has not only killed any Chance for India to achieve a historic win but has also murdered Cricket.. not keeping win an option, even if remotely, is criminal. PS: I know that I know nothing abt cricket”.
  The union minister doesn’t know much about cricket, as he confessed, so he was commenting as a minister or a general observer of how sports are matters (…)

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  An Inquiry into India’s Election System - January 2021 Report of The Citizens’ Commission on Elections raising questions

  6 February 2021

  The Citizens Commission on Elections (CCE), a civil society group of retired judges, former civil servants and activists, has called upon the Election Commission of India (ECI) to ensure foolproof counting of votes.

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  Book Review: Ram Jethmalani - A Perennial Rebel | M R Narayan Swamy

  6 February 2021, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Title: The Rebel: A Biography of Ram Jethmalani; Author: Susan Adelman; Publishers: Shobhaa De Books (An Imprint of Penguin Random House): Pages: 607; Price: Rs 550
  The legendary Ram Jethmalani, who passed away just before turning 96, was one of the most successful lawyers the Indian sub-continent produced. A legal craftsman, a part-time politician, a maverick of sorts, a quintessential Sindhi, an admirer of good looking women till the very end… Ram was all this and more. Just how did he (…)

• 131st Birth anniversary of Frontier Gandhi - Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan — Who?

  6 February 2021, by Shamsul Islam

  February 6 is the 131st birth anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan also popularly known as Frontier Gandhi and Badshah Khan. He was a prominent Indian freedom fighter, a die-hard opponent of the two-nation theory and the idea of Pakistan. He was totally committed to Gandhi’s idea of non-violence, enjoyed the same stature in the NWFP also known as Frontier as Gandhi had in India. He opposed with full conviction the inclusion of NWFP in Pakistan but failed. After the formation of Pakistan (…)

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  Cartoon Tribute to DN Jha | Jayaraj Vellur

  6 February 2021, by Jayaraj Vellur

• Lenin and Gandhi: A missed encounter? | Etienne Balibar

  6 February 2021

  by Etienne Balibar
  (This is a revised version of a lecture originally written for the Congress Marx International IV, "Guerre imperiale, guerre sociale", Universite de Paris X Nanterre, Plenary Session, Saturday 2 October 2004. It was published in French in Etienne Balibar, Violence et Civilitee, Editions Galilee, Paris, 2010. It is translated here along with a new Afterword.)
  The theme I shall address today has all the trappings of an academic exercise.* Still, I would like to attempt (…)

• Letter To the Spanish Anarchists | Nestor Makhno (1931)

  6 February 2021

  Dear Comrades Carbó and Pestaña!
  Convey to our Spanish friends and comrades and, through them, to all the workers in general my encouragement to them not to let their resolution falter in the revolutionary process which has been launched, as well as to make haste in uniting around a practical programme drafted of a specific ideological direction. At all costs there must be no let up in the pace of the masses’ revolutionary action. On the contrary, we must rush to help them compel (by force (…)

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  Street artist Jorit’s mural of Antonio Gramsci on a public housing block in Florence, Italy

  6 February 2021

  source: @rosagilbert

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  Video: State of India’s Economy Far Worse than Govt Admits, GDP Will Shrink 29% This Year - Economist Arun Kumar interviewed by Karan Thapar | Jan 30, 2021

  6 February 2021

  In an interview that will come as a shock to most people and will probably be strenuously refuted by the government, one of India’s highly regarded economists has said that this financial year GDP will shrink by 29% whilst the Central government’s fiscal deficit will cross 15%. Speaking 48 hours before the budget, Prof. Arun Kumar, the Malcolm S. Adiseshiah Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences and earlier Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, says that his calculations show that (…)

• Spokesperson of UN Secretary-General Calls for Probe Into Corruption Allegations Against Chief of Bangladesh Army Set Out in the Al Jazeera documentary, “All the Prime Minister’s Men” | Feb 5, 2021

  6 February 2021

  Stéphane Dujarric, the Spokesperson of the United Nations Secretary-General called for an investigation into serious corruption allegations set out in the Al Jazeera investigative documentary, “All the Prime Minister’s Men”, broadcast on February 1st. “We are aware of the reporting by Al Jazeera Investigations concerning allegations of corruption against senior officials in Bangladesh and the press release issued by the Ministry of Defence of Bangladesh,” he said. “The allegation of (…)