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  AITUC Condemns the Deplorable Act Against the Dignity of the Supreme Court and the Office of the Chief Justice of India

  11 October 2025

  All India Trade Union Congress expresses unequivocal condemnation at the outrageous and abhorrible attempt of a lawyer of the Supreme Court to hurl a shoe at the Chief Justice of India. This toxic, vicious, volatile and intense incident has pushed the country into the nadir of shame once again. This incidence is evidence of complete crystallization of the multiple dangerous trends that assault the constitutional ethos. This incident is an illustration of the tearing apart of the social and (…)

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  Statement on Nepal’s September Uprising: Beyond Spontaneous Rebellion | Radical Socialist

  11 October 2025

  The September 2025 uprising in Nepal forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli from office and left nineteen young people dead in the streets of Kathmandu. This event requires serious analysis from those committed to real social change. While we stand with the youth who risked their lives against a corrupt and violent state, we must also honestly assess what this movement achieved, what it failed to accomplish, and what it reveals about the possibilities and limits of spontaneous rebellion (…)

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  Review of Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp Selected Stories | Malathi Suramanian

  11 October 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
  by Banu Mushtaq
  (Booker Prize Winner 2025)
  Translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi
  Penguin Random House India
  2024
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  Reviewed by Dr. Malathi Suramanian

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  A Report Card on India

  11 October 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
  A recently published book, To Kill A Democracy: India

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  Cartoon: speculation over Nobel for Trump? | Satish Acharya

  11 October 2025

  [Reproduced via Facebook page of cartoonist Satish Acharya]

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  Caricature: Congrats to Lazlo Kraznahorkai for his Nobel | Jayaraj Vellur

  11 October 2025
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  Photo: Trance or Desperation at 1947 Partition Refugee Camp in Punjab - Henri Cartier-Bresson

  11 October 2025
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  Jazz: Leave us Leap - Gene Krupa, Edwin Finckel

  11 October 2025

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  Leave Us Leap by Gene Krupa - Topic https://youtu.be/8KH9QaxeWqw?si=dViE5BP07BJShUT_

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  Video: Albert Hirschman Lecture with Jayati Ghosh (Sept 30, 2025)

  11 October 2025
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 40, Oct 4, 2025

  4 October 2025

  * Gathering Storm at Ladakh | Bhattacharya, Nag
  * Corruption, Privatisation and Workers