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• Kakori Conspiracy Case: 93rd Anniversary of the Death Sentencing of Members of Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) | Shamsul Islam

  26 December 2020, by Shamsul Islam

  On August 9, 1925 a group of Indian revolutionaries affiliated to the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) which included Chandershekhar Azad, Ashfaqullah Khan, Ram Prasad Bismil, Rajender Lahiri, Roshan Singh, Manmathnath Gupt and others waylaid the British Government treasury loaded on a passenger train at Kakori railway station (approximately 20 kilo meters from Lucknow) and captured the same. The then British rulers and their henchmen branded these revolutionaries as terrorists who (…)

• India’s military diplomacy is delusional | M K Bhadrakumar

  26 December 2020, by M K Bhadrakumar

  December 21, 2020
  The recent visits by the army chief General MM Naravane to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia generated some excitement among Indian analysts that a brave new world of ‘military diplomacy’ has dawned. Bombastic coinages such as ‘military diplomacy’ are largely our inheritances from the Americans but when they are bandied about, conceptual clarity is lacking.
  Let us not mix up military diplomacy with gunboat diplomacy and coercive diplomacy. In a classic (…)

• Match Fixing in Academic Institutions | K N Ninan

  26 December 2020

  by K N Ninan
  Match-fixing is a malady associated with sporting events such as cricket and football. But what is not known is that this is also true of the academic world especially in the appointment of faculty, administrative staff, Vice-Chancellors, and Directors. Though academic institutions are supposed to be temples of knowledge and excellence the manipulations and power games that take place within these sacred portals will shame everyone. Take the case of social science research (…)

• Towards a New Digital Rights Paradigm: Emerging Concerns in Europe and Response of the European Union | Aakansha Natani

  26 December 2020

  by Aakansha Natani *
  Abstract The 21st century began with an intensification of technological advancements in the internet based technologies and as history stands witness, the human race is bound to make further leaps in the development of the same through the passage of this century. Internet has become an integral part of the daily lives of billions of people all over the globe and this is only going to increase overtime. The new set of concerns is emerging all over the world regarding (…)

• Extended Report on Profits over Health - Track Record of the Big Pharma | Global Justice Now (Dec 2020)

  26 December 2020

  The report, The horrible history of Big Pharma: Why we can’t leave pharmaceutical corporations in the driving seat of the Covid-19 response, finds that 6 of the biggest corporations in the coronavirus market generated $266 billion last year, with profits totalling $46 billion. Judged by revenue, Johnson & Johnson is more wealthy than rich countries like New Zealand and Hungary. Pfizer’s revenues are bigger than oil-rich Kuwait or Malaysia.

• David John Moore Cornwell, better known as... | Sasha Simic

  26 December 2020

  David John Moore Cornwell, better known as the novelist John le Carré, died on the 12 December 2020. He leaves a remarkable body of work. Le Carré came to prominence during the great spy craze of the early sixties. But what distinguished his work from Ian Fleming’s James Bond or Len Deighton’s Harry Palmer was its authenticity, its humanity, and its relevance to reality.
  Le Carré was a British spy before he was a writer. As a young man in the late-1940s he put his fluent German to work (…)

• Being born working class is bad for your health | Lindsay Richards and Patrick Präg

  26 December 2020

  November 8, 2018
  Social mobility is seen as an essential societal goal – one that occupies most democratic governments. But moving up and down the social ladder can be very stressful, and it is well documented that long-lasting or repeated stress is bad for your health. Until now, though, no one has tried to quantify the health impact of social mobility. In our latest study we set out to redress this knowledge gap. But, before we get to that, a bit of background.
  It was a Russian-born (…)

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  India: Only Visible ’Vikas’ under Narendra Modi Cartoon Take by Aravinda Tegginamath

  26 December 2020, by Aravinda Tegginamath

  The Term Vikas in Hindi means Development

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  Video: Leo Panitch - Left Strategies for the 21st Century (Ljubljana, 10. 11. 2014)

  26 December 2020
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  Video(s): Janta Parliament on Agriculture & Peasants (Aug and Dec 2020) / Why farmers don’t trust Modi government’s word on farm laws / P Sainath on Kisan Agitation & Farm Laws

  26 December 2020

  (1) Janta Parliament: Session on Agriculture Aug 19, 2020
  (2) Explained: Why farmers don’t trust Modi government’s word on farm laws (newslaundry.com, Dec 13, 2020)
  (3) P Sainath on Kisan Agitation & Farm Laws - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=223376509419966
  (4) Janta Parliament Special Kisan Session of Dec 21, 2020 - Day 3, Session 1: Violation of Constitution and People’s Struggle https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=169330511554268