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• Bihar faces the wrath of covid-19 | Nisha Mishra

  14 August 2020

  by Nisha Mishra
  With the legislative elections round the corner in Bihar, and the consequent transfer of two health secretaries within a gap of less than two months has raised questions on the health infrastructure of the state. COVID cases tally on July 1 was 10075 has increased to six fold in early week of August with 62031 positive cases. Recently the death of 12 doctors and the undersecretary to Home department, the government of Bihar, has brought to limelight the ineffectiveness of (…)

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  Killed and Wounded A lithograph by Chitto Prasad [No Date]

  14 August 2020

  Chittaprosad Bhattacharya was an Indian political artist. In 1943 Chittaprosad covered the Bengal Famine for various communist publications. His powerful sketches depicted daily life and events under colonial conditions in India

• Nasir: Depicting Subjugation As An Amalgamation Of Class And Religious Identities | Kiran Desai

  14 August 2020, by Kiran Desai

  Viewed “Nasir”, a Tamil movie screened at MAMI on 7th June 2020 on Youtube. Yes, it’s brilliant film. The director Arun Karthick has opted a technique of simple linear narration purposefully that entails mainly two inferences that will be unfolded as this essay moves along. The movie is apparently depicting a quotidian life for one day of a main character who is a simple, common person. The screenplay has very few dialogues as the protagonist goes through motions of daily life in the (…)

• Sri Lanka: The Rajapaksa juggernaut mauls Opposition | Apratim Mukarji

  14 August 2020, by Apratim Mukarji

  One-hundred fifty out of a total of 225 seats in Sri Lanka’s new Parliament---elected on August 5---has turned out to be a dream win few political parties can achieve in a democracy. This is what the two Rajapaksas---President Gotabaya, the younger brother, and Mahinda, the eldest of the four and a former President twice elected to the highest office---achieved on the voting day when 71 per cent of the electorate turned up to exercise their franchise.
  The Opposition has virtually ceased to (…)

• Presidential Election In Belarus-Authoritarian Regime Persists | R.G.Gidadhubli

  14 August 2020

  Lukashenka has been an authoritarian president emerging from his position as the head of a State Farm and has not allowed any opposition to his leadership during the last 26 years. He has neither promoted nor allowed democratic political institutions to emerge in the country even as the main objective of all independent states after the breakup of the Soviet Union was to bring about transition from the former Communist System to political democracy

• A Genocide Is Taking Place In Brazil | Frei Betto

  14 August 2020

  Brasil Wire, July 20, 2020
  Frei Betto is a Brazilian writer, philosopher, liberation theologian, and Dominican friar. Involved in Brazil’s emancipatory struggles for decades, Betto was imprisoned for four years under the Military dictatorship for helping its victims escape abroad. More recently he has been heavily involved in the battle to eradicate hunger in his country. He has made a personal and urgent call to friends of Brazil around the world about what is taking place in the country (…)

• ’Like in the Cultural Revolution’: Hong Kong’s educators fear being purged | Verna Yu

  14 August 2020

  Teachers and professors face crackdown as authorities fight for the minds of an antagonistic young generation

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  Video: Out of the Shadows, A Colored Solidarity | Anjal Chande & Nico Slate at Smithsonian’s CrossLines

  14 August 2020

  "Out of the Shadows, A Colored Solidarity" is a dance work on transnational solidarity across global social movements.

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  Video: A Life of Dissent - The Life and Work of E. P. Thompson | TeleSUR English

  14 August 2020

  E. P. Thompson, a British historian, poet, novelist and activist, was a voice of dissent in the dogmatic political environment of 20th century Europe. As a member of the New Left, his work and activism sought to bridge the gap between Marxist theory and practice, and to heal the fracture of the Cold War divide

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  Video: Dr. Ilina Sen: "We should keep up the pressure to repeal sedition law." | Repeal Sedition

  14 August 2020

  Ilina Sen an activist, sociologist, and academic who worked for over thirty years with her husband, the pediatrician Binayak Sen, with people in Chhattisgarh’s tribal heartland. She worked with Shankar Guha Niyogi at the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, and fought against the imprisonment of Binayak Sen, who was charged in 2007 with sedition and criminal conspiracy under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act of 1967, charges which carry a penalty of lifetime imprisonment.