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• What’s Become of My Uttar Pradesh!

  11 July 2020, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS - July 7, 2020
  Guns and gun battles! Land mafia ruling and overruling the political mafia, together with the police force! The latest, of course, the gunning down of eight policemen by gangster, Vikas Dubey. Violence and anarchy is spreading out in the State of Uttar Pradesh, together with polarization and divides. Decay and deterioration hits. Many of the mofussil towns described as living hells.
  Killings of civilians have been on, in recent years, by gangsters and also by (…)

• The NHRC’s report on Jamia Violence has relied on the Dominant Narrative of Delhi Police and ignored the Victim’s Point of Views | Badre Alam Khan

  11 July 2020

  by Badre Alam Khan
  Recently the NHRC (National Human Right Commission) has released its report on ‘Jamia Violence’ which took place on 15th December 2019 at night. The Commission in its report has largely blamed the protesting students (who were peacefully and non-violent manner against anti-constitutional Act like CAA, emphasis mine) and said that they were found being indulged in violent protests without permission from concerned authority. The report while doing some ‘soft criticism’ (…)

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  Table of Contents Mainstream - Lockdown Edition no.15 | July 4, 2020

  4 July 2020

  Contents: Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 29, New Delhi, July 4, 2020 Letter to the Readers – Mainstream Lockdown Edition No.15 | The Editor Tribute to Jolly Mohan Kaul | Sankar Ray Jolly Mohan Kaul (22 Sept 1921 - 29 June 2020) | Aditi Roy Ghatak Early India, Goats and Brahmins | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Russian bounty killing forces Trump’s hands on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan | M. K. Bhadrakumar The Escalating Crisis on the India-China Border | Achin Vanaik Page from History: Nehru and (…)

• LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.15

  4 July 2020

  Letter to the Readers – Mainstream, July 4, 2020
  Consolidating National Solidarity: PM Narendra Modi’s speech at the frontier post at Nimo in Ladakh yesterday has been interpreted in various ways today. Several press analyses have pointed out that it was an unambiguous assertion of India’s territorial integrity violated by China; even if Modi refrained from using the word ‘China’ in his utterances the implication was clear. Only days ago the PM’s remark at an all-party meeting had stoked (…)

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  Tribute to Jolly Mohan Kaul | Sankar Ray

  4 July 2020, by Sankar Ray

  Jollyda joined the Communist Party of India (CPI) in 1941 and started working among railway workers. His parents thought of him as a member of Indian Civil Service after he passed B A with first-class honours in English, but his life changed after he befriended Prasanta Sanyal, a bright leader of All India Student Federation, a frontal organisation of undivided CPI. He was elected a member of Calcutta district committee in 1943.

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  Jolly Mohan Kaul (22 Sept 1921 - 29 June 2020) | Aditi Roy Ghatak

  4 July 2020

  Jolly Mohan Kaul would have stepped into his 100th year on September 22. That he fell a trifle short of his century does not detract from the scintil­lating innings that he has played, nor the stout defence" "against death that he put up at Bellevue, where he breathed his last at 5.55 pm.

• Early India, Goats and Brahmins | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

  4 July 2020

  by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
  I met Tony Joseph, the author of Early Indians - the History of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From, first in Jaipur Literature Festival in 2019 and next at Mathrubhoomi Literature Festival in January, 2020 at Thivanthapuram. I had a lengthy discussion about his understanding of cattle like goats, buffalos, cows and so on, caste and race relations in ancient India and where the brahminic understanding of India went wrong and they became anti-animal economy and (…)

• Russian bounty killing forces Trump’s hands on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

  4 July 2020, by M K Bhadrakumar

  As expected, the controversy over Russia’s alleged bounties for killing American and NATO troops in Afghanistan is steadily snowballing. The New York Times has come out with more leaks such as bank transfers from accounts identified with the Russian military intelligence to the Taliban, “hawala” transactions as well as the Afghan government’s assistance to the US intelligence to zero in on the Russian-Taliban nexus.

• The Escalating Crisis on the India-China Border | Achin Vanaik

  4 July 2020

  In the last week, simmering tensions on the Indian-Chinese border in the Himalayas have escalated to open conflict, with fatalities on both sides. India’s foreign policy, and not just China, deserves much blame for the escalation.