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• COVID and We, the migrants of India | Aashish K Shukla

  26 June 2020

  by Aashish K Shukla
  ’We’ are the framers of the world’s largest constitution and the pillars of the largest democracy. We have equally contributed in nation-building. We altogether have brought India to that level in the last seventy-three years, that even today in this crisis, we are saying with great confidence that ‘the world is looking towards India’. But we, who made this India are on the streets for the last several months and unfortunately no one is there to see us. ‘We, the (…)

• Covid-19: Building Resilience to Pandemics | K N Ninan

  26 June 2020

  If there is one lesson that the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us, it is as to how governments in the developed and developing world have been caught napping and unprepared to meet a disaster of this nature and scale. Even after the global community overcomes the pandemic questions will linger on as to why governments including the Indian Government failed to act in time such as closing its international borders even though first reports of the corona virus appeared in January 2020.

• Iran: Women’s mass protest in Tehran, 1979 against the new Islamic government’s compulsory hijab ruling

  26 June 2020

  8th of March 1979 women’s mass protest in Tehran to oppose a religious ruling

• Bruised Identity of Jammu and Kashmir | Gull Mohammad Wani

  26 June 2020

  After the abrogation of Art 370 and reorganization of Jammu and Kashmir state into two union territories, political leaders from both regions of Jammu and Kashmir adhering to different ideological positions were arrested or put under house arrest .Some prominent civil society actors too were booked. The vernacular media saw virtual «crackdown» and it still reels under it.

• Whither Agricultural Produce Marketing: Reform or Regression? | Rajinder Chaudhary

  26 June 2020

  by Rajinder Chaudhary
  On the face of it, no one can take exception to the goal of “Giving freedom to the agriculturalists to sell their produce to the buyers and at the place & time of their choice, to whom so ever and wherever they get better prices” as an official document of the Government of India puts it. Echoing this, while announcing the promulgation of three ordinances to further free up the trade in agricultural produce, the Union agriculture minister is reported to have (…)

• Covid -19 Lockdown and Plight of Transport Workers: A Study on Rural India | Asish Kumar Pal and Atanu Sengupta

  26 June 2020

  It is already acknowledged that massive losses in various spheres of our socio-economic system have been recorded due to Covid related lockdown. The workers of transport sector are in the informal in Indian economy. Many of these workers are now jobless. These workers are basically marginalised income earners. Most of them are from socio-economically backward families. So they are in a whirlpool of economic hardships fostered by their joblessness. This paper attempts to cover the misery conditions that ensure the cost of living status of these workers throughout the lockdown period. The study also suggests unravelling the impact of the government intervention in their life and livelihood. This is study is based on a result of rapid survey of a group of transport workers.

• Lamps in the Dark - A poem | AK Das

  26 June 2020

  An octogenarian, clad in his coolie’s uniform, working at the railway station, carries luggage of the poor migrants over his aging shoulder free of cost. An elderly woman, not charging extra money, prepares food packets with shaky hands, sitting, bending in her small kitchen for the distressed migrants. A school going girl, feeling an urge from within to return what society has given her, pays from her piggy bank the home-bound airfare of a few stranded migrants. These are no (…)

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream’s Lockdown Edition no.13 | June 20, 2020

  20 June 2020

  Table of Contents - Mainstream Weekly, 20 June 2020 1. Letter to the Readers 20 June 2020 | The Editor 2. Galwan: Culmination of Years of Wrong China Policy | Barun Das Gupta 3. Any Confrontation Between India And China Will Be A Huge Blow To Humanity | Bharat Dogra 4. Modi-bin-Tughluq - Narendra Damodardas’s second term as the Sultan | Sumanta Banerjee 5. Two Democracy’s | Badri Raina 6. DOCUMENT: CPI Press Release of 17 June 2020 on India China Clash 7. Corona exposes the dilemma (…)

• LETTER TO THE READERS - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.13

  20 June 2020

  Letter to Readers Mainstream, 20 June 2020 - Lockdown Edition no 13.
  Once again blood has been spilt in the High Himalayas, thanks to China’s activities stemming from its expansionist designs against the Indian republic. This happened on the night of June 15th / 16th in the Galwan valley in eastern Ladakh. It resulted in the killing of 20 Indian soldiers including the commanding officer of the patrol party. This was the culmination of the policy pursued by Beijing after the Chinese (…)

• Galwan: Culmination of Years of Wrong China Policy | Barun Das Gupta

  20 June 2020, by Barun Das Gupta

  What happened in the night of June 14-15 in Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh in which twenty Indian soldiers, including the commanding officer of the patrol party, a colonel, were killed, was the culmination of decades of the wrong China policy pursued by India since the first Chinese aggression of 1962. India-China relations have come to a flashpoint like it never did before Let us take a quick look at the sequence of events since 1962.