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  Video: COVID, Capitalism, and Ecology - A conversation with Mike Davis & Rob Wallace

  6 February 2021

  A 90-minute online conversation with Mike Davis and Rob Wallace on the issue of the pandemic in the world

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  Film: La Jetée (The Jetty) 1962 by Chris Marker

  6 February 2021
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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Jan 30, 2021

  29 January 2021

  * Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 30, 2021
  * Faces in the mirror held up by farmers’ protest | Amit Bhaduri
  * Document: Press Release - Kisan Sansad | Jan 25, 2021
  * Document: Accept Farmers’ Demand, Repeal Farm Laws: CPI Press Release, Jan 27

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 30, 2021

  29 January 2021

  Tens of thousands of protesting peasants on foot and on tractors participated in a huge rally in New Delhi that took place on India’s Republic Day (January 26, 2021). This huge rally took place peacefully, but a smaller group of several thousand protesters diverted from agreed routes of the procession and indulged in violence …. they were instigated and led by some people who are seemingly close to the ruling party and had camped close to sites of the farmers’ stir but were never part of the (…)

• Faces in mirror held up by farmers’ protest | Amit Bhaduri

  29 January 2021

  by Amit Bhaduri
  They are showing how wrong we all were in our pessimism and giving the ordinary people a chance for all to unite and reclaim rights
  The decisive Battle of Plassey that gave the East India Company its foothold in India and established its rule was lost not for lack of battlefield valour but because of the treachery of a military general.
  An African saying warns: “An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.”
  The truth behind this saying is (…)

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  Press Release - Kisan Sansad | Jan 25, 2021

  29 January 2021

  Press Release - Kisan Sansad
  The Kisan Sansad, which was held on 23rd and 24th of January, 2021 at the Guru Teg Bahadur Memorial at Singhu, Delhi, had a wide variety of participants from different stakeholders in the agri-policy space. Numerous political representatives from across the spectrum, including very senior people such as H. D. Deve Gowda (former Prime Minister of India), Sonia Gandhi (President, Indian National Congress) and Bhupesh Baghel (current Chief Minister, Chattisgarh) (…)

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  Accept Farmers’ Demand, Repeal Farm Laws: CPI | Press Release, Jan 27

  29 January 2021

  Communist Party of India
  January 27, 2021
  Press Release
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (January 27, 2021) urging the government to accept the farmers’ demand and to repeal the farm laws:
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India congratulates the farmers and their unions for the successful tractor rally on January 26, 2021, the Republic Day. The ongoing farmers’ agitation has already acquired a Pan-India (…)

• Could, Jaya Could, Rajini Can’t | TJS George

  29 January 2021, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Rajinikant had publicly announced his decision to enter politics, a decision that would have changed Tamil Nadu politics drastically. He was set to reveal the name of his party on December 31. Then he fell ill. Seeing that as an order from God, he said: “I regret to announce that I am not in a position to launch a party.” Why did God ask him to stay off politics when God helped many other stars to get into politics and make history? By the yardsticks other stars (…)

• ‘Bengal sees a fight between ‘Baro Bhuiyan’ and the Hindu right’ - Ranabir Samaddar interviewed by Suvojit Bagchi

  29 January 2021

  by Suvojit Bagchi
  Interview: Ranabir Samaddar
  22 Jan 2021
  West Bengal is set to witness perhaps the most communally polarised election in 2021 since India’s partition and independence in 1947. Bengal’s society – known for its academic excellence, high cultural achievements and tolerance – is a divisive society today. Why? What polarised the society to this damaging extent or was the society as divisive always as it is in the winter of 2021? Prothom Alo spoke to eminent social (…)

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  Concerned Citizens Open Letter to the Chief Justice Regarding Delay in Listing/Hearing Important Matters Affecting Lives of Millions of People

  29 January 2021

  To
  The Honourable Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court of India New Delhi,
  Sub: Citizens open letter to the Chief Justice regarding delay in listing/hearing important and urgent matters affecting lives of millions of people — denial of justice through delay.
  Your Honour,
  At the outset, let us point out why common citizens do not talk about the Court’s conduct. Because they fear attracting contempt of court. However, some of us believe that we will be failing in our (…)