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• Centenarian Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Corona trauma | Sankar Ray

  13 June 2020

  by Sankar Ray
  Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the US poet, painter and social activist, who crossed 101 years on 24 March 2020, who founded the iconic San Francisco bookshop City Lights that famously brought out Allen Ginsberg’s Howl in 1955 and faced the anger of American imperialism, is in a sanguinary agony. The publication of Ginsberg’s poems sparked an obscenity trial, although the court dismissed the charges. The poem became an anthem for the Beat Generation. Ferlinghetti used to say, " A (…)

• What the Novel Corona Virus Possibly Taught Us? | Amit Chaturvedi and Shashank Chaturvedi

  13 June 2020

  by Amit Chaturvedi and Shashank Chaturvedi
  When it comes to understanding the social and psychological impacts of a crisis of the kind that the COVID-19 pandemic is turning out to be, we see that science and research have made only preliminary advances in the field. About a couple of decades ago, Michael M.J. Fischer, the renowned Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in his groundbreaking book Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice, was (…)

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  Delhi Police’s FIR against veteran journalist Vinod Dua - Statement from the Editors Guild of India | 8 June 2020

  13 June 2020

  The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned by the growing tendency among police in various states to take cognisance of frivolous charges against journalists and convert them into a First Information Report (FIR).

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  India’s ’war against Covid 19’ - Statement by New Socialist Initiative 29 May 2020)

  13 June 2020

  Today, India has emerged as a new epicentre for the novel coronavirus in the Asia Pacific region.With 1,58,333 confirmed cases of Covid 19 and deaths of total of 4,531 people after contracting the virus, it has already crossed China’s COVID-19 numbers.

• Online Education, the Latest Stage of Educational Apartheid | Maya John

  13 June 2020

  by Maya John
  Given the rampant social and economic inequalities in our society, education has been seen by majority of the common masses as a tool for moving up the social ladder. Their aspirations for higher segment jobs and status constitute the largest component of the growing demand for higher education. Nevertheless, the opinion of the dominant classes that the state cannot pay for the education of allhas come to enjoy hegemonic status, resulting in the lack of adequate development of (…)

• Question Of Knowledge And Praxis | Vidushi Prajapati, Ekta Tomar and Sandeep Pandey

  13 June 2020

  What is the obligation of an academic community, especially in a law school, when sanitation workers on campus who have been working since its inception in 2008, are removed by the National Law University, Delhi, on the pretext of changing the contractor as required by an audit objection? Since the workers were initially hired on contractual basis rather than being kept on a permanent roll despite the indispensable nature of their invested labor to keep university functioning, a patent argument through which the institutions justify their acts is that they are “not responsible” towards such workers as they are not their direct employers.

• Do the stars still twinkle today? Impact of online teaching on primary school students of rural India due to COVID-19 | Sengupta & Pal

  13 June 2020

  In the developing countries education is already a tough choice for most students who are from socio-economically backward classes. Most of them are basically first learners of generation in their family. It is a pertinent question how far online teaching has affected this situation. This paper aims to study of impact on online education system of children who are the students of primary school in our country.

• Lack of Identity of Migrant Workmen | Chittarvu Raghu

  13 June 2020

  by Chittarvu Raghu
  The plight of migrant workers during the lockdown period has necessitated to examine the law prevailing relating to the migrant workmen. We have witnessed reverse migration and the pathetic conditions faced by the migrant workmen in the process. Thousands of migrant workmen started trekking hundreds of kilometres to their villages in spite of the tightened surveillance by the authorities to prevent people from crossing states amid fears that they could carry the virus. (…)

• The Marching Millions to Nowhere Villages | Manish Thakur

  13 June 2020

  by Manish Thakur
  The never-ending movement of the migrant labourers in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic has suddenly brought into focus the continuing significance of the Indian village as the last refuge for the poor and the vulnerable. Some observers have woken up to the idea of the permanence of the village amidst this crisis of extraordinary proportions. Seemingly, the village has turned out to be the ultimate anchor for the millions who were hitherto condemned to be the part of the urban (…)

• Lessons in Humanity | AK Das

  13 June 2020

  A Poem