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  Lessons of 2020 Serve as 2021 Manifesto for the Indian Christian Community

  2 January 2021

  Year 2020 began, as every New year does with the promise of hope and possibilities. It soon turned into a nightmare. COVID- 19 ravaged our world. Even the mightiest nations on earth have felt the chill of 350,000 dead in nations such as the US. But with far fewer dead, India still suffered possibly its worst social impact. It ruined the lives and livelihood of over 1,000 million marginalised and vulnerable Indians. These toiling and exploited Indian citizens have a historic resilience (…)

• Chapter from Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society | Chaokang Tai, Bart van der Steen, Jeroen van Dongen

  2 January 2021

  by Chaokang Tai, Bart van der Steen and Jeroen van Dongen
  Astronomer and Marxist Anton Pannekoek was a remarkable figure. As an astronomer, he pioneered quantitative astrophysics and founded the renowned Astronomical Institute in Amsterdam that now carries his name. Before World War I, however, he was employed as a Marxist theorist by the Social Democratic Party of Germany, making him one of the leading intellectuals of international socialism. Because of his significant (…)

• Crossing into New Year | AK Das

  2 January 2021

  The end of the Year: pausing moment
  of the parting sun.
  Skyline changes into deep russet;
  the evening brings down
  a shadowy curtain;
  falling dusk obliterates
  the page of the day.
  Once again the train of time
  slowing down
  halts at the last destination
  of the Old Year.
  Another engine waits in the yard
  to take it to an unknown station.
  Corona, the spoilsport, at the border;
  yet no damper on the spirits, rejoicing;
  rolling pistons moving faster;
  smooth crossing into the New (…)

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  Peace - a Lithograph by Chittaprosad

  2 January 2021

  Chittaprosad Bhattacharya (1915-1978) was a painter, lithographer and a politically aware artist who stood on the side of the left political movements in India. He worked with watercolour and printmaking.

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  The United Nations at 75: Looking Back to Look Forward, Episode 3, with Noeleen Heyzer

  2 January 2021

  The United Nations at 75: Looking Back to Look Forward," host Margaret P. Karns and Noeleen Heyzer, former executive director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, discuss the role of women in the UN over the years. Heyzer speaks about the Beijing Women’s Conference; Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security; and the prospects for increasing gender equality in the UN system in the decades to come.

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  Video: Feminism for all | Kamla Bhasin (2017)

  2 January 2021
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  Video: Waltz Of The Eyes by Stavros Lantsias

  2 January 2021

  Stavros Lantsias: Piano
  Yiannis Papagiannis: Oboe
  Nikos Sidirokastritis: Tympans
  Vangelis Zografos: Contrabass
  Alfredo Shtuni: Violin
  Monica Dhamo: Violin
  Altin Thanasi: Viola
  Granit Camperi: Violoncello
  Haig Yazdjian: Oud, Voice
  painter and also photographer " Tadas Šlajus"

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Dec 26, 2020

  26 December 2020

  * Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 26, 2020
  * Feud in Ruling Communist Party Lands Nepal in a Crisis| Barun Das Gupta
  * Vajpayee The Mask December 24, 2020 Also Born On Christmas | John Dayal

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  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 26, 2020

  26 December 2020

  Letter to the Readers – Mainstream, Dec 26, 2020
  The Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly had been dissolved in November 2018 and then the Central Government abrogated Article 370 thereby taking away the Special Status of the State on August 5, 2019 and detained political leaders of all parties except for the BJP for a long spell of a year and more leading to a paralysis of political activity. People of the former State have voted in the recently held local body District Development Council (…)

• Factional Feud in Ruling Communist Party Lands Nepal in a Political Crisis | Barun Das Gupta

  26 December 2020, by Barun Das Gupta

  The unending feud in the two factions of the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) has landed the country in a first class political crisis. Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli, who lost majority in the House of Representatives or the lower House of Parliament did not resign, as is the practice in a parliamentary democracy, but prevailed upon an obliging President to dissolve Parliament instead. General election was due in 2022 but now it has been advanced to April 30 and May 10 net year.
  When (…)