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• Kerala’s Culture of Misogyny | Sukumaran C V

  22 January 2021, by Sukumaran C.V.

  A new generation Malayalam actress has recently revealed a groping experience through her Instagram account. She says in the post: “I am not the one to rant often on social media. But what happened today is something I can’t seem to let go. Two men walked past me in a generously spaced aisle in Lulu hypermarket which barely had people crowding and one of them not so accidentally grazed his hand on my back while walking past me. Because it caught me off guard I couldn’t react immediately.” (…)

• Gone are the days when stars of cinema had spine | Humra Quraishi

  22 January 2021, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS - January 20, 2021
  First things first. Where are the Bollywood stars and starlets who played the role of farmers! I do realize they were make-believe portrayals, more along the fairy tale strain. What, with them singing and dancing in and around lush green fields and meadows and forests, if not bathing in the various streams and rivers and village ponds!
  My logic is simple and straight: As those countless filmi characters gained popularity because of their farmer roles, so they (…)

• Whither the Paradise on Earth? It’s a freezing hell actually, courtesy State apathy | MA Sofi

  22 January 2021

  by MA Sofi At the very outset, let us get to the nub of the problem. Institution building is a vital component of nation building. The creation of such premier educational institutions as TIFR, IISc, ISI’s, IIT’s, JNU etc. and now the cluster of IISERs is part of such noble endeavours. Among the more recent instances, IISERs are surely doing well though, however, the same may not be said about all the newly established IITs and more so, the Central universities. Mainly because not (…)

• Citizens’ Commitment to Harmony, Mutual Help, Equality and Justice Will Provide Hope in Difficult Times | Bharat Dogra

  22 January 2021, by Bharat Dogra

  India has been passing through exceptionally difficult times. Millions have faced increased hunger, deprivation and disruption of livelihood. Many people are saddened more than before by discrimination and hostility based on religion. All this happens in times of confusion, uncertainty and fear created by a pandemic, increasing health problems and difficulties in accessing normal health care.
  In the middle of these increasing problems appear thousands of small but significant stories of (…)

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  Photo of PC Joshi - first general secretary of the Communist Party of India from 1935–47, who was removed in an ugly purge

  22 January 2021

  see also:
  P.C. Joshi: A Political Journey by Bipan Chandra https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article503.html
  Chakravartty, Gargi (2007). P.C. Joshi: A Biography, New Delhi: National Book Trust, ISBN 978-81-237-5052-1.

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  Review of Abul Barkat’s On the larger canvas of society-economy-state | Mizanur Rahman

  22 January 2021

  by Mizanur Rahman
  বড় পর্দায় সমাজ-অর্থনীতি-রাষ্ট্র: ভাইরাসের মহাবিপর্যয় থেকে শোভন বাংলাদেশের সন্ধানে (Boro pardaay shomaaj-orthoniiti-rastro bhairaaser mohabiparjoy theke shovon bangladesher shondhane) [In search of a transition from the virus-driven disaster to a decent Bangladesh: on the larger canvas of society-economy-state]
  Author: আবুল বারকাত [Abul Barkat] Publisher: Bangladesh Economic Association & MutoBuddhi Publishers Price: BDT 1,500; USD 60; GBP 40; EUR 50 ISBN: (…)

• Truth and Beauty | Sagari Chhabra

  22 January 2021, by Sagari Chhabra

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  In the deep forest By the gushing stream Two friends conversed, While they traversed, The woods. ‘It’s there in each flower, In the heart of the nectar, Within the pollen dust, unsaid; At godhuli time, This landscape of mine: Trees, plants and flowers, All turn divine’. Stooping to stop by a flower, Caressing her petals, he said, ‘Therein lies beauty, the fount of aesthetics!’ But the other turned and asked instead, ‘What about ethics? Good old-fashioned truth is stellar, It (…)

• Deshnayak | AK Das

  22 January 2021

  [Poem on the Birth Anniversary of Subhash Chandra Bose on January 23, 2021.]
  Deshnayak
  As the guns fell silent,
  bombers were taxied to the hangers,
  fire ceased to rain from the sky,
  marching steps of heavy squads
  returned to the barracks,
  passive resistance wearing out
  failed to weave its spell again;
  future course uncertain, uncharted.
  At that time of dithering came flashing
  the heroic deeds of freedom struggle
  waged outside the country.
  It electrified the (…)

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  Trump Era Ends | jayaraj Vellur

  22 January 2021
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  . . . But he is still grumbling & complaining - R.K. Laxman Cartoon (Dec 19, 2003)

  22 January 2021